To come back to college after a long spell of relaxation and Good food(read:holidays)is seriously an herculean task.To suddenly leave the cosy and luxurious confines of home..OMG... who am i kidding. Seriously a task in itself!
The first days of hostel are generally pure torture. Dusting age old dust, transferring stuff, cleaning up the silver-fish plus spider infested cupboards...seriously dread this day throughout the holidays.But once everything is in place life begins again, just the next day it is like I've been here all my life! Home forgotten(but thanks to our dear mess,not always forgotten)and life is back to normal.
But till now as in all these 4 semesters of mine I've seriously found the first few weeks seriously boring, with absolutely no work and sudden over dose of free time;), we always end up wondering what to do! But all semesters i tell you we somehow manage to find some pastime however dumb but some time-pass at least!
First sem i remember, as all of us were new the first few weeks flew away in getting to know other people chatting and about our life histories day-in and day-out!This was the time when friends were made, gossip begun and college life had started(oops... hostel i mean).
Second and third semester beginnings went off in our mad craze for UNO cards. Screaming uno at the top of our voices, laughing our head off for some people's charm of getting the maximum draw two's or draw four's ant then cribbing when the tables turn and we end with the maximum or losing out to a collector of cards..;) we had gone to an extent of even thinking of starting an uno club but as usual once the first few weeks get over, everyone gets busy in their busy schedule and the uno cards are left behind, long forgotten to gather dust.
Fourth sem, i could say we did have the most worthwhile of pastimes! We had got the craze of solving Hindu crosswords which was a way too tough in the start, but due to no other choice we just kept solving more and more day by day, till it reached kind of an addiction status, ad as all our old pastimes have ended even this ended with the same status. But this seriously made us realize how poor our vocabulary was and gave us an ideal opportunity to learn more!!Free time is something we always have but utilizing them is an art which i we'll never learn;) so lets stop cribbing and start enjoy the scores of free time!!
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
The woes of a non cs student in engg!!
Changes are the only stuff constant,
As life changes every instant,
Apt choices to be made at every fork,
And I don’t eat pork!!
This was a feeble attempt to put up a fancy few-liners at the start of a blog. I’ve read so many blogs where people start off with a small poem, which is very meaningful and fits like a glove to the writing. Tried finding one for mine but in vain.
After the end of 10th board exams I was terribly relieved as i didn’t have to study history geography and similar stuff anymore. Phew! Seriously a sigh of relief. But little did I know about the big decision awaiting me. It was decided to take up science group but not the elective. Parents happily left the decision on me. Man! Was in a total dilemma. One thing was decided that never would I take up pure biology as couldn’t bear mugging up all the bones and veins and god knows what else hidden in the body. So basically the option left free was computer science so thought I had nothing much to ponder upon so went and quickly enrolled for comp.sci but then did I know there was another stream ‘Biotechnology’. And it being not pure bio just the interesting parts of it. It involved DNA’s and all the forensic kind of stuff, which I did have a penchant for. Rushed back to school and re-enrolled into biotech, everyone around commended saying good choice and all that. All doubts about the elective disappeared once classes started. I just started loving the subject big time; it had just the correct amount of bio not more not less. Wow! Was happy for making a right decision (at least I thought so!).
Once into engineering college only did I realize the monstrous mistake committed. Everything at least almost everything here revolves around computers. What was I thinking! In the first semester there was the first installment of torture. We had C language. In labs sat and struggled for programs which other comp.sci freaks could chant even in sleep. It was pure hell those days. Couldn’t figure out anything why were hashes including stuff, semicolons all over, weirdo commands. God! I had enough; every lab session then been completed by a short trip to my mailbox where there were proper completed programs by other friends. But then how long could it all last, before the practicals believe me or not it was possibly the worst day for me. There were all cs pro’s roaming around gossiping, sleeping, messaging or doing something that definitely didn’t involve studying for the horror in store the next day. Only thing we non-cs students could do now was to start bitching about how senseless it was. Although I did nothing to life our gpa’s but it did make us feel way better, and if by mistake some cs student hears it, god! Those stares. If stares could kill don’t know whether even having a cats 9 lives would help me anyway. Thanks to all friends it was only under their combined support and late night tutoring before a cs exam was able to pass scot free with a decent grade!
Whoa it was just after the exam did I just realize that it wasn’t a bad subject after all. Was kind of cool but then it just is tough to learn it all of a sudden.
Ill have next course of cs only in 3rd year next. Till then relief…
But our close encounters with cs don’t end. Just then do we realize if you know cs and have a liking for it (duh! All cs students love it, but just put that clause) there are innumerable stuff you could involve yourself in. at a point I seriously felt almost all the inductions happening at that point were for stuff somehow or the other related to cs!!:(
Almost the whole hostel used to clear out those days and left were those cs illiterate ones…
A piece of advice for anyone in dilemma to decide which course to take in 11th and want to get an engineering degree take up the cs course without fail or you’ll end up being a member of the computer illiterates with the only pastime being bitching about computers and the plethora of code words in them.
As life changes every instant,
Apt choices to be made at every fork,
And I don’t eat pork!!
This was a feeble attempt to put up a fancy few-liners at the start of a blog. I’ve read so many blogs where people start off with a small poem, which is very meaningful and fits like a glove to the writing. Tried finding one for mine but in vain.
After the end of 10th board exams I was terribly relieved as i didn’t have to study history geography and similar stuff anymore. Phew! Seriously a sigh of relief. But little did I know about the big decision awaiting me. It was decided to take up science group but not the elective. Parents happily left the decision on me. Man! Was in a total dilemma. One thing was decided that never would I take up pure biology as couldn’t bear mugging up all the bones and veins and god knows what else hidden in the body. So basically the option left free was computer science so thought I had nothing much to ponder upon so went and quickly enrolled for comp.sci but then did I know there was another stream ‘Biotechnology’. And it being not pure bio just the interesting parts of it. It involved DNA’s and all the forensic kind of stuff, which I did have a penchant for. Rushed back to school and re-enrolled into biotech, everyone around commended saying good choice and all that. All doubts about the elective disappeared once classes started. I just started loving the subject big time; it had just the correct amount of bio not more not less. Wow! Was happy for making a right decision (at least I thought so!).
Once into engineering college only did I realize the monstrous mistake committed. Everything at least almost everything here revolves around computers. What was I thinking! In the first semester there was the first installment of torture. We had C language. In labs sat and struggled for programs which other comp.sci freaks could chant even in sleep. It was pure hell those days. Couldn’t figure out anything why were hashes including stuff, semicolons all over, weirdo commands. God! I had enough; every lab session then been completed by a short trip to my mailbox where there were proper completed programs by other friends. But then how long could it all last, before the practicals believe me or not it was possibly the worst day for me. There were all cs pro’s roaming around gossiping, sleeping, messaging or doing something that definitely didn’t involve studying for the horror in store the next day. Only thing we non-cs students could do now was to start bitching about how senseless it was. Although I did nothing to life our gpa’s but it did make us feel way better, and if by mistake some cs student hears it, god! Those stares. If stares could kill don’t know whether even having a cats 9 lives would help me anyway. Thanks to all friends it was only under their combined support and late night tutoring before a cs exam was able to pass scot free with a decent grade!
Whoa it was just after the exam did I just realize that it wasn’t a bad subject after all. Was kind of cool but then it just is tough to learn it all of a sudden.
Ill have next course of cs only in 3rd year next. Till then relief…
But our close encounters with cs don’t end. Just then do we realize if you know cs and have a liking for it (duh! All cs students love it, but just put that clause) there are innumerable stuff you could involve yourself in. at a point I seriously felt almost all the inductions happening at that point were for stuff somehow or the other related to cs!!:(
Almost the whole hostel used to clear out those days and left were those cs illiterate ones…
A piece of advice for anyone in dilemma to decide which course to take in 11th and want to get an engineering degree take up the cs course without fail or you’ll end up being a member of the computer illiterates with the only pastime being bitching about computers and the plethora of code words in them.
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