THAT-WAS-THE-SEMESTER-THAT-WAS. >:-<


God, I can take it no more. Finally, I can see the light at the end of this tunnel. FOUR Months and innumerable classes later, I am on the verge of Breaking down. BUT I am not. It was an agonizing wait. It still is.

23 credits. This sem just sucked it out of me. I am glad, very glad that this Semester is over. I must admit the system sometimes just sucks up to you. You cant help but succumb to the pressures of the System. Classes. Labs. Assignments, Projects, Presentations, Term Papers, Quizzes, Submissions, Deadlines, Contests and Demonstrations. I am dead for all practical purposes. My mind is refusing any new connections, the server is not responding. Massive Shutdown is in progress. The Grey cells are History. The Processor has flared up.

Damn you Demon in the disguise of the Prof. You demand 75 percent attendance for that class of yours where its difficult to stay alive let alone awake. Your Incessant monotonous lectures are like the hum of the AC capable of putting to sleep even Lady Liberty in the US of A. That reference book which you refer, I have too. The library has n. So why bother dictating the same shit in class, neither you like it nor do I. Why teach the whole Root Locus method for months when a simple rlocus command in MATLAB7 can do it in a couple of clock cycles of my Dual Core. 8085, Yes that archaic Microprocessor my grandfather thought was old, why do you force me to mug up its Processor speed, Pin-out, Registers, Stacks, Pointers, size, weight, volume, density and its Gestation Period.

Why the f**k do you Mr old-bald-dickhead-IELab-Incharge call us to your lab? Just to say GET OUT? To give us a ZERO after the four months of fingering and fondling your Cathode Ray Oscilloscope. Five to Seven Thirty every Wednesday we were at your mercy, scared to part our lips for we feared your scathing remarks. Only If i could VETO, Veto.

Dynamics of Machinery, Enh?? The sort of enthusiasm that you show with that piece of limestone in your hand!!! I would radiate more energy while I sleep than you on the Dias. I know the Whitworth, I know the Pantograph and I know the IC Engine. I know not how you could radiate negative energy to shoo me off the class. THANKS for not taking Attendance. By the way, I know the CRANK, I know the CAM and I know the GEAR too.

Yes Ma'am. Charpitt's Equations. Simpson's, Gauss', Siedel's, Newton's. Everyone's Ma'am. UP THEIRS. I forgot to add Euler. Ya but you were a motherly Prof. You actually cared for the student's knowledge more than his attendance and grades. And SO did we Ma'am. Thanks for everything except the Math.

I can rant on.. endlessly. Thats because I have been there, done that. Better put - Thrown there, Forced to do that. This frustration had to come out somewhere. I could not go and tell the prof all this for he is gonna take 3 more credits next sem. I could not tell my peers for they had better versions of the same. It all boils down to this day. I will never have to go through the fourth semester of IIT in my life EVER again. Am I glad or what.

4th Semester. **Gun Shot** Happiness all around.

Curtain Closes.
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PS: The Author of this post is a frustrated IITian who had 8 full-course exams in 10 days. Slept exactly 29 minutes between 6.16 am and 6.45 am everyday. He also got a ZERO in the aforementioned lab. He has made full use of the 75 pc attendance rule and was having 75.00 in two subjects, slightly less in a couple and he loves the two profs who dint take attendance.

I was in awe of her. I always wanted her. I would long for her day in and day out but she was elusive, she would not be mine. Whenever I saw her with others, my heart skipped a beat. Her very thought would liven up my mood and my passion for her would be uncontrollable. I tried and I tried. I failed miserably. My peers told me that the time was not ripe enough for me to have her. I would have to wait. The wait was excruciatingly long.

Time was moving at its own pace. The day of reckoning arrived. After all the wait came the jittery moments, one which I could see but not control. It went to my parents, there were heated discussions. Ultimately they said its my decision. I stood firm, told them everything that I had to. I had my way. It ended the way I wanted it to.

I got engaged to her. I had to shell out 50000 bucks but I knew that the returns were immeasurable. Her parents had readily agreed. In fact, when I went with the proposal to them, they were more than happy. No questions asked. Only the formalities had to be completed. But there was a catch. They would get their daughter engaged to me but would not let me touch her till we got married. There would be no Marriage ceremony. She would come to my hostel room as and when the new Semester began and stay with me in my room forever and move around with me whenever I need and wherever I want her to. Although it was difficult for me at that point of time to accept these clauses but I did. I know not why but I did.

The new semester began. I was more than looking forward to it. Then came she. Beautiful Elegant and Homely. The charm and radiance never had I seen and felt ever. All my passions came spurting out. She was mine. Only mine. I could now make her sit on my lap and make her dance to my tune. My fingers and hands all over her as her face lights up with a smile everytime I touch her. I love her and she loves me too. We are comfortably married and living a healthy married life.

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SHE is my laptop. Her parents are DELL inc.
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Rid The Clutter on your Taskbar.


I am a utility software freak and am always loafing around in the lanes of the internet to find something useful and new. Recently I came across this software called ExplorerXP. It is a wonderful File manager and one-of-its-kind. It allows Tabbed browsing of various folders on the system ( Yes, just like Firefox). It was exactly the kind of software i was looking for to clean my taskbar of the numerous folder windows that cropped up.

The best part about it. Small.. ahem Tiny 410 kb only. Plus its a Freeware. Not that it really matters in India at this point of time :)