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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..!!!

Race Track Episode

"Rascals..!!Do you think its a college road or a race track...?? You idiots.."- Courtesy Rvce staff.

This is one of those incidents i feel worth mentioning. We(Me, Kini,Karthik) as usual were late to the college. And the "Legendary Driver" Mr.Karthik was driving the car. It was the time where our college staff added one more stupid rule to their book of enquiring the late comer s at the gate and not letting them in. Luckily for us the college gate was wide open and the staff was waiting under a tree hiding to catch the culprits, he saw us coming he ordered us to stop..!! But the man on the driver seat(the self acclaimed Schumi!!), raised the accelerator and boom..!! and we went to the hostel grounds to be safe and parked it there. We got down from the car, and looked back.. There was a black swift came in rushingly towards us driven by Pavit Singh but on the other seat there was the guy who tried to stop at the gate..!! He got down.. and yelled "Rascals..!!Do you think its a college road or a race track...?? You idiots..". Then he took us to the Crazy Sharma but luckily he was not available, so we met the director who asked "Which dept. ?" We said "Computer Science..", And he replied "Oh..! then i can suspend you now..!!" Luckily we escaped with a warning that day.. The next day we were late again.. :)

Blah!

I'll have my first post with something related to CS fellows.

The one thing that associated me so much with them was sports. Playing with them, yes. But that was just a small group.

THE UPDATES. Yes, you got that. I was famous for sitting at home or starting really late whenever there was a match. Any sport, not just cricket. So I'd text them the details regularly. As Aruna put it, my updates used to be instant, detailed and free. Lol!

Watch this space for more stuff....