It all started in I semester only. The variety of sizes of Chemistry’s Jain & Jain was the most interesting part of our book shelves. The size of the books was proportional to our marks in exams. Like the healthiest book gave the healthiest marks, 20-30 out of 30. The weaker one helped to fetch 11-20 and we can expect the range of score from the weakest of that array. Fortunately or unfortunately I was around 10. So it’s simple, I never preferred the healthiest of the lot. The jugad technology of TOPO in Engineering Drawing was the most imaginative thing in my engineering life. I have no idea where you will find Engineering and where drawing, in our process of TOPO.
Still I am not able to figure out, how a future Electronics & Communication Engineer was supposed to learn that what the percentage of the materials in a welding rod 
is. Yes, the story of II semester. This curriculum drew a line between me and my best friend, mathematics. How on earth do they expect me to mug up mathematics? Thanks to C classes, some logic was alive but how it all flew by as soon as we entered English classes, GOD KNOWS!!!
Thanks to some extraordinary unity in our classes, we made a record of bunks in III semester in our college, OOPS!!!, as Kushal Sir says, Institute. Here was the starting of the mugging up of solutions. A simple but intelligent process:-
> Convince you teacher to give important questions from a specific book.
> Find out the solutions manual of that book from DC++ and MUG UP!!!
> Yes, the mantra… just mug up the solutions.
> If you get it right there, your luck, if you can’t, well again your luck.
IV semester, first encounter with the most torturous department of the institute, needn’t say the name, guess, Mitesh will find it out and so will everyone. First time in college life I had to open book after going from classes. The basic protocol of attendance is, you come in class and you get the attenda
nce. Who give this right to our “future builders” to change the provision of attendance? Give the answer of his question, and then only, the attendance register would feel your presence for the day. The rat race of torturing students to death among two “E”xtraordinary departments was only bad for us and had no effect on them.
Came the V and VI semester, where my belief from the process of examination just vanished into the photo-copying machines of our pedagogues. We experienced the taste of History in engineering, logic don’t matter, what counts are the facts, “LAST YEAR YEH QUESTION AAYA, ANSWER RAT LO”. And we said, “EXAM PHODH DIYA YAAR”.
Did I ever mentioned, that we did labs and had projects, well… as you guessed it right, they don’t really matter now.
This is the story of the turnover of the students who used to complete their syllabus weeks before exams, now have to rely on one-night stands.
Those who were never late for schools, now leave at 9:05 for a class at 9:00.
Those who use to “bath”, get properly dressed and leave as scholars, now…well, lesser I say, better it is.
And interesting thing is, still counting…..
Yeh to final year hain yaar…:P
