8th sem
Swayamshri Mishra
8th Sem
Final semester...!
The placement stats bettered with coming of NLC and KPMG.Most were blissfully unaware of the subjects name and our subjects’ name were just known to be various permutations and combinations of the alphabets EMMPSHL...later it was sorted to as-EMM,PSMP,MHSE,ML.20 credits and 4 papers seemed a punishment!
EMM was taken up by the duo Dr VRS and the grand old man of the dept.Seminars became a daily thing with someone having a ppt in each EMM class...all presents to VRS sir were perfect and presented to YVR sir were perfectly imperfect.The word “case study” with a grin was to become the fear of everyone who was to present on some topic.We continued to get our dose of worldly knowledge about software companies and education systems.PSMP being taken by Dr MA and Dr VRS was as cool as these teachers.Though there were many slides to copy down,it was as chill as only an Aruna Sir’s subject can be.ML was the show stealer subject,predictably unpredicatable!We were read out loads of sections,sub sections,rules,regulations and were “told which is important and which is not” and “all were important until we were told not important”.Classes did (not) start sharp on time and ended before time.Bharat handled the acoustics and rap music of the ML classes addressing Murthy Sir every now and then in innovative ways.The first-bench-should-be-full was strictly adhered to,by force or by choice.MHSE was by Dr.AKT who gave us “very good notes” for studying.Mid sems had “only” 150 paged to be studies and by now the class and the teacher had mutually become more understanding as most of them slept through the afternoon classes and others chose cricket commentary,live score feeds,music on earphones,cards as there solace.Major projects were forgotten for the major part of the semester until the last.
Incident was of prime importance in the dept and largely affected the time table with “THE” secretary and 4 convenors from the dept working very hard (LOL!) for Inci! “Secretary!!!!” became more frequent than “Sho Narayana” until Incident.Gyan chose to dedicate whole and soul to Inci and was to become a rare sight in classes.Later chants of “Secretary!!!!” stopped to be replaced by the red listed “Mr.Tiwari!!”.All faculties question about who would go for higher studies were answered pointing to Mr.Shahi who for a week just updated his FB statuses about his admits!
The Vitruvian photoshoot was to be the first realization of the B.Tech actually ending soon.Photos were taken in all possible combinations.Truth continued to be the ultimate saviour of all the tests we had to write,and of course the semester exams.Soft copy of notes were essentially Bishop’s class notes’ pictures.
At the fag end of our B.Tech we actually realized how different the world of Mining was and it was actually interesting contrast to what we had thought as dreamy eyed 3rd sem students.By the end,the only girl in the class was as comfortable with the class as much she was uncomfortable in the beginning,though being a without choice first bencher for 6 semesters.It was a journey to remember and to commemorate it in the last class committee meeting the students actually asked for a trip,which otherwise would always be dreaded!As the end comes near,and the days left are few,it’s time to say Adieu!
Quotable Quotes:
Dr.YVR: (a skewed aspect ratio of the slides of the ppt) “Madam,u are in Wipro!!Can u fix this?”
Dr.ChSN:”Yes I know u are sitting this side,I’m just looking the other side but I know he is there.”
ML Classes:
Bharat:”Arey Bapp re!!”,”ayeee Murthyyy!!”,”okkkk okkkkk”
Murthy sir:”What Bharat???!!”
Bharat:”Sir I was asking Superintendent is head of rescue station?”