Thursday, June 30

The Ritual..

Another post about Engineering from VTU... and as I have earlier said, i can go on and on about them... :P
Waiting for the results for one last time in engineering, I get to see a ritual again and again...

Waiting for results under Vtu is an experience to be had, Esp. if your an Engineering student from Bangalore. The adrenalin level reaches its peak, the anxiety is unbearable and the amount of patience a student has to have is just immense..

Here goes the actual procedure...
1. U will get to know the results are announced.. but when u check it out only Gulburga Region results would have been announced... :P

2. Next day again when the results are awaited, promptly Belgaum region results will be announced..

3.This is again followed by the Mysore region results the very next day...

4. Then, when the students are sure that the Bangalore region results are to be followed and are eagerly awaiting, there comes a line in the website saying the Bangalore region results will be announced the next day...

And When students take a breath and try to get some sleep, the results would have come out at 2 or 3 in the morning... this news spreads so rapidly( i don't know how) but in around 30 minutes, the entire Bangalore region would be again in front of the computer, and exactly at this moment, the fragile VTU website breaks down...

I guess V.T.U was designed to torment students' life...

Anyway waiting for the final time for the results, at least this time i hope they give out the results without many shocks... :)

Monday, June 20

Engineering

Its been a week after i finished the very last exam in Engineering. When i stepped out of the lab after giving my project Viva, the first feeling that struck my mind was i had completed one of the most (actually when i think of it, i can find no adjectives to define it) Courses. It was freedom from all the bullshit i had seen for 4 years. It was a feeling of satisfaction, joy, ecstasy, a feeling almost orgasmic!
Not to forget the fact that, i now could add two important letters in front of my name...
"ANANTHRAM N S B.E., "

But what made engineering a course that everyone who took it, desperately wanted to get out???
When i Finished my P.U.C, i had no other option but to take up Engineering, and was pretty excited about entering a professional course. But, may be due to the college i choose or the university under which I studied or the course itself, there was nothing professional about it from the first day to the last!!
V.T.U is one THE MOST hated universities among engineers. Its the way they run the administration, or the Examination papers they set or the evaluation, There is always a blunder waiting to happen. (Not to forget the revaluation). And finally the student suffers in each and every instance.
Not to take away anything from our great college (S.C.E), its the most fucked up institution. I've seen students from other colleges say the same about their college, Every college is bad in the eyes of students, but our college just personifies the experience.
I can present a research paper on how screwed up a college can get using this college as an example.

But as people say, we can take out positives from every failure. These four years has made me stronger mentally. I can face a shock of any magnitude calmly. It has made me smarter, by making me think of smarter ways to deceive the evaluator while answering. It mas made me realize my potential. and obviously, the Sane friends and the insane memories attached is always a positive..

P.S: There is a common joke among the Engineers.
Engineering in VTU is like a public toilet. People outside are desperate to get in where as the people inside are dying to come out.. :P

Saturday, June 4

ME & MEGAPIXELS

A normal boy growing in the lanes of any city in India, his first and foremost hobby is playing Cricket! Even with me its the same. Cricket runs in every vein and artery of my body. But then cricket is not everything. In search of other pass-times, started reading books, then came writing, and finally photography.
All started with a camera phone i had some 4 years back. Sony ericsson K790i. Till today i feel its an SLR in disguise. Clicking photos with that, my perspective towards everything changed or the way i looked at things was different. Suddenly (as they would say in cinemas), the world around me looked better. there were a lot of things i had never even noticed came into my view. With photography i wanted to capture and store what my eyes could see and appreciate.

Now i use The Canon EOS 1000D. But the basic objective remained same! to capture what my eyes could appreciate
so in order to share the same, i start a blog exclusively for my photos: MEMORIES IN MEGAPIXELS