Archive | September 2011
Good Morning, India…
Hello everybody, here I am back with my experiences at Pantnagar University. It’s almost been a month over here and still I haven’t been to the interior locations of the campus even once just because there is great terror of being ragged by seniors on doing so. The main reason of not going to the markets is very same. I had my exams in the past week and almost all of them went fine except for the “Thermodynamics”. It a course of four credits, and it sucked me inside out. The credit system is prevalent here at Pantnagar. A course of one credit would mean a question paper of hundred marks would be equivalent to a question paper of hundred marks only. But a two credit course means a lot more than that. A two credit course would mean a hundred marks paper would be equivalent to two exams of hundred marks each in the total. So we see, as the number of credits increases in Pantnagar, so does the importance of the subject. I thought a while and found out the exact amount by which the importance of a subject varies with the number of credits held. The formula for calculating the percentage of a student is (Total marks obtained by the student after applying the credit system)/(Sum of credit of all the subject). Which could be better explained with the help of an example.Let there be a student ‘A’ who has opted for 3 subjects
S1 of 2credits
S2 of 3credits
S3 of 2credits
Now ‘A’ obtains x1, x2 and x3 marks in the subject respectively. So the formula for the percentage calculation of ‘A’ would be
%age obtained = [{(x1*2)+(x2*3)+(x3*3)}/{100*7}]*100
which simplifies to [{(x1*2)+(x2*3)+(x3*3)}/7].
This was a unique system with unique capabilities. It gave lesser importance to Physics, Chemistry and Maths, while it gave more importance to useless subjects like Thermodynamics, and Solid Mechanics which are of no use to me.I don’t understand that what makes these people think that the subjects like Solid Mechanics and Thermodynamics would help in developing a good software engineer. I came here to be a software programmer and a successful website developer but all I am till now, is a frightened freak who is hell afraid of being ragged, not because they are frightening, but because my actions might lead to something destructive for the careers of my seniors. Right now, as I am typing this blog post, sitting in CCF, I’m all surrounded by seniors and while I go out, maybe someone amongst them might try to follow me, if they do so, it would be the limit. I have had enough respect for them even after their abuses, respect would only be given to seniors, who are capable of earning it. to my right is a senior Respected Shri Shabaaz Sir(that is the way of naming seniors here at Pantnagar and the Shri increases as the number of years increases at Pantnagar). He is such a good guy that even when I went to Patel for the room call, all he did was politely asked my name and that was it. Now, I wish him properly every time I meet him and I think that should be the way, respect only those, who deserve it. I have a proper formula regarding respect which implies to all “Give Respect, Get Respect”. Anyways, that is enough for now, and yes, one more thing, just ignore the password protected posts that I make because they are just the emotions which I have in me and would like to keep them as a memory as for the betterment and ease of my future. If the people out there can enjoy songs, keeping me frustrated, I can enjoy too.
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Life is stable, at last…
Life is finally back on track and finally I have some time to write something up here. so, the past month was exciting, frightening and full of surprises. Still, I made joy out of each and every moment. To start with, I got admitted into College of Technology, Pantnagar. It is like having a complete new place to start my education all over again. Now, the next and the most beautiful part of Pantnagar is the fields. There are long-long fields of grass and rice. I like greenery and plenty of it lies here. The faculty is depressingly under-educated, all of our teachers, except one, come with notes and start the lecture with “Note-down” and end it without even noticing what they are teaching the students. Study pattern in this college is awful, we are made to uproot weeds in the stadium in a subject of 100marks titled “Work Programme”. We are also made to study Chemistry. Physics and Thermodynamix, and I fucking wonder that where the hell would it be usefull for an IT engineer to study all those subjects. Well that was enough about college. Time to talk about other matters.
Personal life at Pantnagar, rocks. I go to the CCF(Central Computing Facility), and sit on the laptop otherwise. I have rarely done any programming since I’ve come here, I am feeling a bit empty without that but tthen again, I have my hourly exams coming overhead. So preparation for them is also necassary. That is what I pay my most of the attention to, these days. They start from 10th. I don’t have most of the books, and now its a damned condition. I have completed the syllabus in mathematics, the computer science would be covered in a single night and that would be just before examination day or “One night fight” as my room-mate calls it.
I couldn’t blog for a very long time, and I really regret that, so now I’ve decided that every saturday, I’m gonna blog.This would keep my life updated on the internet. Recently, I felt like calling a friend Priya Dubey to ask her “How come she was a topper of the University when a guy who secured 99% marks in the same university, is studying with me.?” But then suddenly I remembered that I did not have her number. Now I am stuck here with a new cell phone number which, nobody knows. Taking leave for now, will blog again soon. Love to all…
