Endsems...

It happens. The nights get chilly. The days get shorter. In a far corner of India people begin to realise their worst fears. Teeth begin to chatter and it has nothing to do with the cold lithe wind blowing in through open doors. People begin to get closeted in their rooms that again having nothing to do with the chilly outdoors. The sports fields lie vacant. The doors of rooms refuse to open even for a minute of Bakar. There spawns an unholy chill inside people. It starts off as an emptiness in the bottom of the stomach, a hollow feeling of nothingness. It is then augmented by a flurry of gut wrenching quiz results. The hollowness rises into the head and the knowledge little as it may leaks out. The frightening piles of notes gathered over 4 months of lectures (taken down by someone else obviously) seem even larger (as if that was possible!!!). Illness seems to strike me just then (How convenient!!!). Desktops of some (read 327) have on a paused movie or soap which is promptly played as soon as someone knocks. " Yaar movie dekh raha hoon !! ". Some others (read 324) keep the doors of their room open while sleeping just to show the world " I'm sleeping .... so now dont say I am the biggest Ghissu!!! ". Why not just say yes sometime ?? Because after all everyone knows the chill that sooner or later creeps up into the head and makes you wonder " Why didn't I start this earlier!!! ". But then its generally too late to recover. But so what!!! Then comes the happy realisation of it being the last week of semester. You realise that 5-6 days more of saying " C**d gayi yaar aaj toh!!! " and you'll be ready to self destruct all over again next semester!!! It's a new experience for me every semester. The 1st sem was more of the try-to-dip-your-hands into-every-bowl-IITG-offers kind be it Techniche Manthan Alcher Inters blah blah only to realise you missed the one the professors had held forth. The second was more of a recovery mission involving a spirited start to sem only to find out that working in Alcher was much more fun. Once Alcher got over it was soaps all the way till the sem self-destructed. The self-destruction of the third semester was mostly niteouts and then sleep out the days. So as I realised I am not responsible for my semesters :D :D its the timing of these things that conspires against you. It just doesn't let you get a good sem in. Live with it!!! Its much more fun this way.

C**d gayi yaar aaj ke paper me !!!!

Alcheringa 09 ..... Its coming

Its coming to sweep you off your feet ....... MI08 its an open challenge :P ;)



Dreamtime is descending on the Northern banks of the mighty Bramhaputra.
Be there ......
Jan 29 to Feb 1

How I got to 4003 ....... a journey through my first year.

Its been like a whole week into the sem now. Classes are now very different. Gone are the days when 5-6 people linked only by the location of their rooms went to classes together. They knew not the others "really" . I mean beyond the others names and where they were from, there was not much they knew about each other. Probably, one more thing they knew about each other during those early days of healthy, good for the world in general fresher-senior interaction, was "frequency" ;) . More than that they knew nothing. They had just entered a world oblivious to the joys of DC++, of LAN gaming, of Techniche, of Manthan and of Alcher. When they came here they probably hadn't seen the varied hues of human nature. They got to see that in these very people, accepted their faults and now are the very best of friends. There is the pseudo-dominant soft at heart insecure guy. There is the one who feels he's always right and won't accept not knowing something even if its staring down upon him with the barrel of a gun pointed at his temple. There's the one who whines at the drop of a hat and yet he's probably one of the most cheerful guys too, Ironic!! There's the one who is too melodramatic in stuff he writes, be it status messages or be it scraps to a certain someone wishing her on her birthday. And there's me, insecure probably, a tad overconfident sometimes, maybe a bit outspoken and too sarcastic sometimes. There's the football, one track mind if I ever saw one ;). But thats all just perception. What counts is the strongest possible bond, that of friendship, the everlasting kind. And it's not that the bond has been untested. Late February 08 saw the bond being stretched to its limit. After that what has been established is that it not going to break. The year saw lots of stuff happening, some mentionables and many unmentionables :D . How some people used to being pretty much the best in anything even remotely related to academics suddenly realised that maybe thats not all they were made for. Some rediscovered the author in them which had been lost since about 6th class i guess. Many others discovered that they had amazing reflexes ...... headshot after headshot ensured that ;) . Some discovered that they could down 650 ml of a pretty dilute solution of ethanol pretty easily. Well all of them discovered that they aren't and never were the best academically. They accepted it and moved on because they still remained better than most. Or maybe they didn't give a damn. And then they lifted themselves up in the 2nd sem and got much better academically. So infact they all did give a damn even though none actually admitted it to the others for fear of being labelled "Ghissu of the Lobby". [This distinction lies as of now with the guy who lives bang in front of me!! ;) ]. And then after 3 months of absolutely amazing fun at home. They returned....... and I got to 4003

The Ruin of IIT's (The Story in Numbers)

There are 1.2 billion Indians

Approximately half of them are supposed to be in the 0-25 age group

that gives us 600 million young Indians

these 600 million are fairly evenly distributed among the 0-25 age group

so about 3/26th of them in the 17-19 age group

that gives us around 69 million indians on the cusp of turning adults

of these only 35% are educated upto the 12th standard level

that leaves 24.25 million Educated indians on the cusp of turning adults

only 40% of these are in the science stream at max

so that leaves 9.7 million Educated indians on the cusp of adulthood who study science

only half of them actually think of engineering as a career

that will give 4.85 million Educated Indian Soon-to-be Engineers on the cusp of adulthood

Only about 30% know their selected branch of engineering really well.

that will leave 1,455,000 Young Indian Engineering Graduates of real calibre

only about 15% go in for higher studies beyond their bachelors degree

that will give 218,250 Young Indian Engineering Graduates Who go in for post graduation

of them half pursue an MBA

that will leave 109,125 Young Indian Engineering Post-Graduates

At the Maximum 5% of them complete a Doctorate

That will give about 5,450 Doctorates in The aforementioned long long classification of Young Indian Engineering Graduates of Some Calibre who pursue and succesfully complete their post-graduation upto the Ph.D level

Of these only 10% will go into the academic field

That gives 545 teachers who are Indian Engineering Graduates of Some Calibre Who have succesfully obtained a Doctorate

But wait i haven't finished

of these only 20% actually teach in India

The Brain Drain is real dudes ..........

so that leaves only 109 blah blah blah ........Doctorates teaching in India

of these lets say 40% teach in IIT's (the "Brand" That's on its last legs thanks to a certain Mr.Arjun Singh)

so that gives us 43 IIT professors every year

Great!!

Problem is that there are going to be 15 IIT's plus ofcourse the All - Womens IIT

So 16 IIT's

That gives every IIT less than 3 new Professors every year

And of course my dear Mr. Arjun Singh do profs ever retire ???

Can an Institution of the level of an IIT (what level people will ask 5 years down the line)
survive on getting just 3 professors of high quality every year ?????


Whew that was tiring

Hope i made my point!!

Her...

The views expressed in this post are not figments of an well-endowed fertile imagination, they aren't even mindless musings as is typical of me...... they just might be true so if "you're" reading this, its for you .....



I feel it, I jest and leave it hanging,
But then, I get that weird choking feeling,
It seems to start with divine happiness,
Coz someone's found a treasure,
But it precedes an empty weirdness.

I can withhold, suppress and bury the pain,
But then it surfaces when I see you again,
Its that sinking feeling of losing something,
For which I have to search in the fragments,
What's left seems useless and false,

The draught of anguish seems chilling,
Because it was preceded by that warmth,
Warmth that can keep you going,
Can keep you glowing on your path of life,
But then the mind takes over and saves me,

What was not to be was not to be,
What is still there , is me………
I'm still there, all the way, whenever I'm needed,
I am not gone yet, I'm only down, not out [;)]
I will follow if not accompany, but I won't leave,

But don't look back, don't look at the road behind,
Don't look out for me, I'll just follow quietly,
I've gotten up after the fall, slightly bruised [:)]
But if you will ever look back later,
I'll be there………right behind, waiting,

Because what once was, was not skin-deep,
It was deeper than you might have thought,
One person's anguish should not spread,
Don't share it because it breeds on sharing,
Keep it to me, and move ahead with a smile!

This is to her..... ;)