it was Praveen Raj.
13th feb, 11 - 12 class. don’t remember which.
soon. he’s going to announce membership rules to his new club. i hope to get in
here goes a bad quality video that was recorded. you only see the cube. it was Praveen Raj 
wishing him well, and his club, good membership ..
Cancel an entire lab exam. Mass bunk one lab, Gtalk during the rest. Restrict to getting one MTP assignment until now. Celebrate a non-existent birthday. Yell ’Proxy’ each time a Mr. someone ‘tries to’ answer his roll call. Have a preference for seats in multiplex style (last one’s the best one). Initiate a new RC club (read Rubix Cube) during the wee minutes between classes. Get free SUN goodies (asked for) and loads of SUN Advertising in group mails (mostly unasked for). Read all about the latest unsolicited gossip on ‘who crushes whom’ in yr mail. And when a quick attendance check is on, the lower your attendance, the louder are the cheers u get. What others would refer to as hooliganism. I’d call it living life in style! Cheers, guys! You all make class worth attending. 
Question paper for entrance into 05 IT.
Take IT…. at you own risk.
Q 1: Who has permissions to put food into a database?
A 1: Annadaata (Anna - Data).
Q 2: Which river flows through the IT department?
A 2: Gangotri.
Q 3: What do you need to fix Damien Demello?
A 3: DAEMON Tools.
Q 4: Who can teach Networks and Web Development the best?
A 4: Spiderman (Net-works and Web Development!).
Q 5: Which company sponsored the IT dept?
A 5: Nike. So they could write “Just do IT”.
Q 6: What base does the HOD choose for his pizza?
A 6: A Data-base.
Q 7: Why couldn’t Harjot convince the teacher to cancel the class?
A 7: Because he is Harjot Singh, Not Convin Singh (convincing).
Q 8: Why is it a nice sight to see Darshan and Sagar Trehan walking together?
A 8: Coz you get to see Sagar-Darshan. (Sight of the sea).
Q 9: What is the Operating System (OS) that Gandhi invented?
A 9: Raghuram OS.
Q 10: What MTP theory can we use to stop the MTP teacher Indraani?
A 10: Motivation! We just have to shout, “Moti, Wait!”
No IT, No fun. Know IT, Know fun.
“If you want a job done well hire a professional”.Well,that’s what the movie told us.So the HOD did.Hired a man,nay a hitman,who strikes terror in the hearts of the slackers,a man who distributes justice like a spread of jam over bread,a man who is the embodiment of professionalism.Sort of like Caligula is the embodiment of the mercy that Shakespeare spoke of.
So here we are.A bunch of nihilistic,disillusioned and extremely fidgety 20 somethings itching to spew forth our shrill rhetoric on to unsuspecting and uncaring bunch of other nihilistic,disillusioned and extremely fidgety 20 somethings.And Leon in his infinite wisdom says “No Projector”. Professional Practice without projectors?!!You’ve got to be kidding me!! The absurdity can be fathomed only by paraphrasing that silver-tongued orator,Laloo Yadav:”Jab tak samose mein aaloo rahega,tab tak PP mein projector rahega”.I mean,what total nincompoops people look holding cue-cards in their hands,when a perfectly serviceable projector is only a few metres away.
Leon,the Professional considered another title before settling for this.Leon,The Silencer.That’s cuz he silences people,you know.So,now we have a gag-order in place which bars honest,well-meaning students from airing opinions on topics of their choice.”Sentiments will be hurt” is his stock-phrase.Well,if I wanted to,I could let my sentiments be hurt in hajaar different ways. One guy insulted my browser,another called my chidhood-hero an “idiot”.But the whole point is to give everyone a platform to articulate,however controversial their topic.What price Free Speech?
But lets not demean Leon.He’s Professional.He checks for justified reports albeit he doesn’t cast even a cursory glance at the content.He wants people to practise a seminar of 12 minutes,fully aware that in a never-ending,tripping class of 3 hours 3 minutes can be the difference between life and death.He cuts off people after 15 minutes,not caring one whit whether they have something more to share with their friends.
After all he IS Leon,the Professional.
The other day our department finally got a floor for itself.
Standing outside the lab it finally dawned on me that the whole college was below us.We were on the top.We could crush anyone.
Did the HOD get this floor on purpose?Was it supposed to signify our utter dominance over the other departments?Was the cackle that i heard,when standing there contemplating life,AVS’s?Is polygamy legal?Will Mayawati become the next prime minister?
As these intelligent thoughts overwhelmed me something i saw really brought me back to reality.They actually have a room labelled R&DLab.Freaking R&D.WTF.research!NITK!IT!
Ofcourse the logical conclusion would be that the teachers instead of doing the research were the actual subject of research.Honestly,I think its finally time that they gave back something to the society.They need to be used as research subjects.
And the god forsaken thing is located on the 4th floor.Its not like they got new computers.We might as well have gone to the CCC 2nd floor.Atleast it was airconditoned.
It had been in my mind for a long long time..
I mean, something this obvious cannot be overlooked by anyone, anyone rational at the least. Look around you, all the operating systems ever written. and you got to understand english!! we are talking operating systems, not history, to be good - technically. You get it ? No, you don’t . Read it again, and again and again until your brain kills the thought because it spawned too many process. Does it look like a history question to you, eh?
Why do you think we are not given written question papers. Confidential intellectual property. yes, you read it correct. the second word is the crux of the matter.
With the quality of research output being produced, one can not risking having un-intentionally given away research secrets. Btw, for those people who have not really bothered to peep into those boxes in the research lab, they have got real-time hard disk encryption. 1025 bit algorithm produced in-house. Yes, you guessed the author right too.. you are getting too good in history..
Let’s look into the matter at hand. How many operating systems have you really seen. Few in the class might have seen more than two or three. btw,Windows rocks!! Even otherwise, who are these people who have written these. What about all the software that runs your phone, your washing machine, the bank ATM, the network router, and maybe also those systems that control rockets that intend to land on the planets far far away.
Next, look into them closely. Closer. More closer. You begin to realize the common traits these people had. Did they all have degrees in advanced English literature.The best in business, i believe had taken calligraphy classes..
Practical evidence suggests that good marketing of the available product will make up for the lack of either coding skills, or the understanding of the question itself.
We are learning about the real world(the hard way?).yay(why am i not excited?).
The point is, the competition is also doing the same. The whole market thrives on inept competition. wow.
Should we celebrate this era where operating systems is more about English than operation.
Or the time when only negligible parts of the course content is taken up,courtesy lecturer’s retarded brain(ahem,) The rest are left disguised as an honourable act of not over-burdening the students.
Or the time when their demeanor comes in the way of teaching !!
We continue to ROCK.
IT ROCKS.
Its been two years since this branch opened its doors to me.One year since the first freshers.Two days since the second.
Okay,lets all agree that everybody hates freshers.The indian government,the rwandan and so on.Come on when thousands of people are dying in central africa due to lack of water,food,cakes etc how can we justify freshers.I mean obviously freshers is so pointless.What did we achieve apart from getting the economics test postponed.Which was again a pointless exercise.
So what did we achieve.The juniors saw,well,the HOD(i.e the department),their seniors were all there(though we did show them DK,they probably missed the whole point anyway they were rooting for gangothri in that photo,come on,who won’t),and most importantly none of the seniors looked particularly depressed(though again yatien looked the part of a guy who had gone way overboard and was on anti-depressants,but again he is not depressed he simply has the mad cow disease-now,we know that,don’t we?).
Basically freshers are all about showing what we are,were,and will be.And believe me we did do exactly that.We showed them….well…something?
We had the same thing last year.Paper dances,food,speech,dept building,Assurances about how we would move in to the new building across the road,arbit schedules for the same.We love it,don’t we?.Cheered him last year.Cheered him this year.Next year.so on.We love being in the denial.Amnesiacs?Any takers?
We ROCK for some reason.God bless us.
