At the beginning of December last year, i saw many of my friend's status messages go up as 3/8 of an engineer. But, to my misfortune (or whatever), i became only 3/10 of an engineer :( Thanks to the dual degree program that I got, I have to content myself with one more year in the IIT system. Well, so far so good, but you never know when things will turn for the worse. Just hoping that Aal Iiz well!!!
So why this fraction? My friend, Jaichu, had asked me for a review of my third semester (quite sarcastically of course. In fact most people are strangely always sarcastic to me) at IITM. So here it comes. August 1st week: This was the best week of the entire semester. All I ever did was, wake up in the morning, go to class, come back, watch movies, bath(if possible), eat in between and sleep(you might say this happens to everyone, but the point is i thoroughly enjoyed myself with back to back movies). I was watching legendary stuff ranging from Fight club to Pulp Fiction to Lord of the Rings-3(the longest film I have seen till date). It was real fun to lie around lazily. Rest of August: Went off in a flash. It all began with our web ops coords meet where we discussed further things to be done to the Shaastra site. Things were given a major push and i gradually became busy day by day. Add to this the all coords meet of Shaastra happened, soon after which the Aspiring Coords Meet for Saarang happened. I squeezed in enough time to fill out applications. Yet, i missed the exam for web ops(saarang) selection, flunked the interview big time and was thrown out of a potential coordship. Later, I had my other application-newsletter-being rejected without even a glimpse at the application by the cores. And I had to start working with Jaichu on the supposed Hospi portal. Add to this my cell phone started bulbing big time and I had to shuffle two-three phones throughout the later half of the month(and till about the mid of the next). So the month ended with loads of disappointment.
September First half: I was wounded pretty badly mentally. I didnt get what I tried for-a coordship at Saarang. But my heart refused to give up. Later I put a hell amount of fight for a deputy coordship at hospitality, but the hospi core(i thank him again here, it was a great gesture)gave me an ambience coordship. I accepted it with glee. A moment of triumph. Soon enough I started working on ambience and related stuff. In between, I managed to pull off a good interview with the Institute web ops cores and managed to get a coordship there. Phew, september wasn't so bad(or so I thought).
Later half of September: Quiz
1-bombed. I got one of the lowest scores in class at Applied Mechanics
in the first quiz. Pretty moved mentally. Good shows in PMTs and french
kept me going though. And as Shaastra drew to a close I had to work
with Jaichu in close quarters to complete the Hospi portal. Needless to
speak of Jaichu's enthu, I slept in his room on his bed in the nights
while he put night outs just like that :D. The Meta freshie night came
as a solace amid the stress-but just for a day. Early October: Shaastra-bombed. I flunked big time. Was disappointed. Very disappointed. I even looked wretched those 5 days. My cycle also malfunctioned, adding to my woes. But i did get a new cellphone with a new connection-the only good thing that had happened to me in almost a month. Then arrived the crucial Quiz-2 exams. This time I managed to put up a decent show in Applied Mechanics while i maintained a position of comfort in PMTs and french. Late October: I got introduced to a bunch of people who were running a start-up out of the institute. I agreed to do my bit to maintain their web site. Another one in my commitment list. Then happened the core selections for Amalgam for which i was made the dual core-became more or less a laughing stock-thanks to jaichu. Early November: Conducted coord interviews for the first time in my life. It was a nice experience. Spoke to a lot of art college people to publicise "Dreams on canvas"(saarang art gallery). I managed to drive my one tyre cycle(quite literally, the other one was always punctured). Tried hard for a Meta project. Saw no movies till the end sems, had not read a newspaper for a full month. This period was one HELL of a period. And i was also at the cusp of uncertainties-end sems looming large. Late November: Tried to focus all my attention on the end semesters and largely failed to do exactly that. Most of my preparations were pushed to desperate measures. When the end sems finally went underway, i immediately felt a lump in my throat as math bombed. Then came two decent but uncertain performances in PMTs, and then the biggie-AM. I had prepared with Baby(another of my friends) the previous day, and I was pretty nervous considering my scores and my past reputations in this subject. But breathed a sigh of relief on seeing the paper as I knew 2 out of the 4 questions. Relief filled all of my mind as i gave in an above average paper. Thanked God almost a billion times for it. Had a weekend to take off-but couldnt coz I had to fix up a problem on one of the sites. Then came the icing on the cake with french being the most peaceful paper i came across. I finished the sem with hour long discussions on the way forward in Amalgam as well as Saarang. Finally I had seen off, what i thought then, to be the most painful sem of my life. Hopefully these experiences stand me in good stead for the tougher times to come.
PS: 3rd sem was not at all funny. No funny moments at all. Even the ice cream night and the sac races were not funny. So i threw away the previous title :x cheers, |