The Class is over.....

This is from my earlier blog which I deleted...posting it again

Originally posted on April 20, 2007, After my last class at IIT Kharagpur




The day is finally here. The day for which we all have been waiting since we started our academic life at IIT, and some of us have been waiting for this day since schooldays! The day when studies finally come to an end.

Going for a class has always been a difficult thing for me. I am one of those 'satanic' guys (at least the profs think so ) who believe that classes are absolutely unnecessary in the quest for knowledge. Getting up at 7:30 AM after sleeping at 3:30 AM for a class in which you have no interest and listening to a professor whom you hate ( and he hates you too) is the most difficult task still performed by IITians for the fear of deregistration. It was fine in 1st year when the class had 250-300 students, but in a small department like mine, 'proxy' and 'bunking' is next to impossible.


But when I look down at these 5 years of my life in my department, its an amazing assortment of fun, acads, games, innovative thinking, friendship and whatnot.

Things I liked the most...

My friends in the department, the B.tecs and the Duals, without whom I could not have managed to survive in the department. I can't even imagine how life would be in the department without them.

The Centrally Air Conditioned department, it was one hell of comfort in classes and labs (One thing which in good in our department, and even that 'sucks', literally)

No matter how bad you perform in Grand Viva/Lab viva/Project Eval, you will get minimum grade of B (in some cases C, but they are rare)


Things I'll miss the most...

My friends, and all the fun we had in these 5 years. It was really AMAZING

Dilip ka Kaatna, Mall & Nishant ki Maarna

The fun we had in all the Labs, without doing or learning anything

The Coffee-shop discussions over coffee, cold drinks, cigg, and snacks

The never-ending Bakhchodi spree, non-stop, and our only means of survival during these 5 years


Things I'll always remember...

The masti we did in classes & labs

How we 'cheated' in the exams, and the ultimate copying algorithm between me and Dilip. No matter how the conditions are, we can copy from each other :)

The 'NAM' (Non Apping Movement), the 'DNA' (Dilip, Nishant, Ashutosh), and the NAM awards

Anish Kumar's crucial lessons at the eleventh hour to save us from the wrath of exam

My Guide, and how 'well' I did my project work, and how happy he was with my 'work'

Bunking the lab after just 1 hour, and going to coffee shop as soon as it opened at 2:30 PM

Never studying for a class test, and still scoring 'above-average' marks, obviously by mutual cooperation

The never-ending list of nicknames, specially between me, Dilip and Nishant

Taking a particular "magazine" in the classroom and reading it in between the lectures

AKD's class, when I raised my hand in response to a question without having any idea about it.

The "Doc" who came to our class in our 5th year courses



Things I didn't like...

Attitude of the Professors in the Department ( Sadistic and aimed only at harassing the students)

The type of education we were getting. It was just mugging 2-3 kgs of notes before the exams. No Brains involved, only memorizing.

The agonizing lectures of the profs, and not giving the slides/notes for some crappy reasons of their own

Over-emphasis on attendance without caring about how much the student is learning



Things I would like to forget...

The summers of my fourth year, when we had to stay in Kgp for the whole summers

My close brush with getting dereg in a subject