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I woke up at about 3am today sweating from a bad nightmare that I had been having. But even then I wasn't clear on what my nightmare was. All I could recall was a few blue laptops circling around in an endlessly black space, with some rectangular contraption at the centre of it all. Not knowing what on earth had got me awake, I just had a glass of water and went back to sleep, and quite promptly forgot about the whole business.

I woke again at 7am, this time to use the toilet. While there, slowly the fractured images from that laptop nightmare came back, and then, to my horror, I realized what I had been dreaming about. It was the 7th sem networks lab external exam, where that work of total absurdity called NetSim was the only thing that stood in my way of being finished with data sheets and lab records and idiotic windows software forever.

The more I thought about it, I came to view NetSim as both the best and worst thing about college. Best, because it was the last lab thing ever, you could not do it wrong, it was downright cheap, even a cat on the internet could figure how to use it, and it hardly took any time to finish up. Worst, because, the fact that something this cheap was taught to 7th semester engineers-to-be who were attending some truly challenging placement tests during the same semester, I had to draw tables and graphs, the syllabus book was totally wrong, and that the ridiculousness of the whole exercise didn't bother me in the least. On hindsight, that was a horrifying thought.

Nothing comes close to summarizing VTU academics like it. Here we have a software that according to the lab attender cost lakhs of rupees, (therefore we could not take it home on a CD), that required a user name and password and didn't save state beyond power off, and felt like the biggest insult to my intelligence over the last 4 years. It parallels the greater college ordeals perfectly (cost in the lakhs of rupees, no saving info after class is over, username and password become USN and name, and one inept lecture after another like NetSim experiments).

I feel as stupid as Bush just thinking about it. Especially whenever it told me that it's dongle was missing.

Clarification

Hi Everyone,

This is sad, real real sad, the so called elite engineers of the proud India can't spare few minutes to post a blog !!. This is not the official "Manoj Kumar Blog" This blog is for all the 2009 batch students of RVCE, to share their experiences on and off the college.. My humble request to you guys is don't make this blog as another orkut community, participate..!! Don't sit on your lazy asses and think someone else will do it, have some balls and take up the initiative and change something..!! This is Real Real Sad..!!!