Exam Accomplishments

Well as the title says it, these are the things I have accomplished while my exams were going on (they still are, but what the hell, its almost over)

• Complete Max Payne 2 in 3 hours flat
• Complete Commandos: The Strike Force overnight, playing for the first time
• Watching 3 movies, one of them being Hindi
• Completing Quake 3 all levels at Hardcore in one sitting
• Realizing that I am still a kid, and I cannot not play games
• Never switching on my table lamp
• Having a bath everyday
• Doing actual physical activities like playing Football till the ball fell outside the corridor, and on the lawn
• Watching The IT Crowd, complete series
• Using a single pen for all exams up to now
• Eating more biscuits than my monthly average
• Finally being able to write in a perfectly horizontal line on the bloody blank exam answer sheet
• Taking an additional sheet for a paper like Principles of Management
• Knowing enough stuff to sit through the entire length of all my papers
• Last, and most probably the least, writing on my blog on consecutive days

Exams do hold a lot of importance in my life, is what I have just realized. Cheers to exams.

Engineering

You know you are a budding engineer when:

1. You’re proud to be in engineering but completely hate it.
2. You have a knack for math and physics but when in class you feel like its all over your head.
3. You hate chemistry and are pathetic at it.
4. You are awful at spelling and grammar or anything english related.
5. After about a month of college a C in half your classes dont seem that bad anymore.
6. You recognize all 4 girls in engineering.
7. Instead of studying you spend your week before finals doing something stupid like writing this.(This was a pending post since comprees)
8. You laugh when other students complain about taking 30 credits in a year.
9. You believe that your best friend is the FX 991MS.
10. It’s 2am and your computer has:-
    • 15 firefox tabs open 4 of which or wikipedia looking up some term you should know, others include all your orkut, facebook accounts, some blogs and such junk
    • Text editor open with some stupidly long lab
    • at least 10 different adobe windows open with your lecture slides/ assignments
    • amaroK/winamp open with metal playing
    • Gaim/Trillian running with 4 chat windows, the four being the 4 girls in engineering.
    • Download manager running with the latest movie/episode of 24/heroes/scrubs/PB.
11. You wish that your college would start giving out Arts degrees as well. (Or is it just me?)
12. You analyze everything you see without thinking about it.
13. You have exams that are 3 hours to do 2 questions, and still run out of time.
14. You know the whole Greek alphabet.
15. You have fun talking about maths.
16. Your average sleeping time per day is 3-5 hrs.
17. You understand jokes like “I would like to be your integral so I can be the area under your curves” and find them hilarious.
18. You forget everything you learn as soon as you get home.
19. You do every assignment at the last possible moment.
20. You can fill up a 200 pages foolscap notebook in 5 days or less.
21. Your computer stays switched on for 4 days continuous, at an average.
22. You have finally learned that you’re not actually smart, high school kids were just dumb.
23. Though you will never admit it, you know we’re all losers.
24. You would rather do mutivariable calculus than have to write a paper or memorize anything.
25. You might not know shit about computer but can write a 5 page C++ code with ease.
26. No matter how confused you are you’ll convince yourself a textbook isnt worth buying.
27. Only reason you’re passing is because of those engineering friends that are way smarter than you, or whatever.
28. You depend on a curve to get a decent grade.
29. You are the only person that finds those stupid engineering shirts hilarious.
30. You hate engineering.

PS: This has been part plagiarized from a facebook group description that caught my eye.

Compreecation

Well, it is here now, the most boring part of the semester, the end semester exams, or as they are called in my college, “The Comprehensive Exams” (Comprees in short).
There are a few things that I have noticed during the two Compree times that I have had in my college life. The college basically undergoes a very Compreecated Phenomenon which leads to the following things: (this is according to my data collection, if anyone has any other observations, they are free to tell me)

1. Excellent weather conditions, compared to the sad weather we have to face in daily life in Goa.
2. Frequent power cuts, especially after sunset and before sunrise.
3. Clogging of the library… This is one time in the whole semester that the library is occupied by not only couples/to be couples, but also other students.
4. Change of nick names… Every CS server will have someone who was earlier named X, named as X|trying to stop CS.
5. Increase in lighting in the campus… As hardly anyone is sleeping… all people awake in the hope of studying, ending up watching a movie or something…
6. Opt Ins… most people who have opted out of the mess/ are reluctant to come to the mess, suddenly start crowding the mess during comprees.
7. People cannot do regular stuff (That is actually the reason why this post is coming in when I have finished my comprees and am at home)