In our dept, good days are hard to come by. And by the time you smile to enjoy that momentary happiness, you fall asleep. I feel, and I think all my trical compatriots would agree, that batch of 2007-2011 EEE @ NITT knows the true definition of momentary happiness.
I’m reminded of the 2nd year the lab days . Back then, momentary happiness was when we finished writing the result of the experiment and then realized we still had the circuit diagrams, observation table etc to draw. After completing that, before we could heave a sigh of relief, we would remember that the graphs were still left! “Ah yes finally I finished the graphs! Now off to bed” we thought! Arey kidhar jaa rahiyo hai!? abhi obsi toh baaki hai be! :’( After scribbling whatever nonsense was written in the batchmate’s obsi, when we would write the result, realization would strike yet again! Forgot to write theory for the record! Damn! Abhi page phaado aur phir likho kaamchor ! “Phew!”, we exclaimed after finishing the obsi and record! And after all this we would get a “Jeero” ( the number 0) for not drawing a resistor between 2 parallel lines! If that wasn’t enough, further humiliation followed in the form of more “Jeero”s for viva. The welcome to department sem created ever lasting impressions on our profs! “Worrsssttt batch” was a title for our batch thrown around by every prof! And we did wear that crown quite proudly for some reason!
After 2nd year, people who actually gave a damn about obsi and record marks were reduced to only a handful. And right when everyone lost interest in labs, enter the no obsi no record sem! OOPS lab and LIC lab! This sem was more like a recovery sem for people wanting to keep CGPAs above 7 or 8 or 9 as the wrath of 3 completely hopeless subjects was unleashed upon our class in the previous sem. Back in the 5th sem, momentary happiness was having OOPS lab the next day. “Mast AC mein baith kar Kushal se copy maar ke nikal lenge.” ”Print out liya kya?” “Nahi be printer kaam nahi kar raha” and that excuse worked almost every time coz even Gram would play along! LIC lab! Pre-work and post-work were two really disliked phrases! Though this lab required some prep, no one really cared… No obsi no record no work! That’s what we interpreted! The dept was trying to say something but who cares! 
Then came the semester with CPCs as the don’t care attitude only intensified! And this just got our seniors worried! After every CPC session, we would get a lecture about how useless we were in tech, softy and apti! As the frequency of CPCs increased, so did our bunk score! Back then, momentary happiness was getting an evening off from CPCs! After-lab CPCs were the worst and we began to question reason! Also these were the semesters of shanky, who safely assumed his subjects were the only ones we had. His incomprehensible lectures and never-smiling face accompanied by his threats to flunk the whole class (in lab too!) haunted us for a year and a half! The way he stared in surprise at people not knowing something in control systems was a funny sight! And how almost all his lectures ended up with him showing off his supposed knowledge of F-16s!
Final year! Rang the happy bells in everyones head! We thought being final years would mean bridging the gaps of dislike between our profs and us! But we underestimated the impression we had created! Now they would go on to bitch about us to our juniors rather than seniors! :O who wudv thunk it! The 1st placement sem had us all confused focus-wise! Studies, placements or shanky’s lab?! what should we focus on?! Just as we struck a balance (after CT2), we realized we had yet to conquer 2 peaks namely Industrial Eletroncis and VLSI! What the F**k!! When do we get off the leash!!? No wait! That question was to be asked in the final semester. Final sem! and here we are still doing project work and giving reviews with utmost seriousness! This dept has taken every ounce of energy we had and now we’re dry!
5 IIM admits (A,B,C @meena, B @bear, C @fawas), 1 XLRI admit (@akshaya), GATE AIR 8 (@nithya), highest paid NITT B.Tech grad in India (@bodhi – ITC), highest placement record and double placement record set after many years by EEE 2007-2011 batch of NITT ( @casa- thanks a million), amazing MS admits (@shiva, @Gram, @kow, @Rahul and others) and after all this, we’re the wooorrrssstttt batch there was! Hats off to my classmates and profs for 2 very different reasons!
Superb Post
Momentary relief..working for nittfest.
FTW!! amazing post