Hard time fighting illness

Hard time fighting illness. Four days before I woke up at 12:30 in night due to acute pain in the throat. The very next day I couldn't avoid consulting doctor in HC (Health Centre at IITK), a place popular for its ill-treatments. The doctors are excellent in giving medicine but poorest in diagnosis.

So the medicine that Dr. Batra gave me suggests that I have a throat infection. Specifications: Roxithromycin, Ibuprofen, Cetirizine. All these include nausea as side-effect. That's what exactly I am suffering.

Now it's a helpless kind of situation. If I take the medicine Im sleeping like anything! can't concentrate. And if I don't then I can't even sleep because of throat pain!
Somebody save me!!

Can't study in all these. End-sems start from 13rd. It seems that this end-sem is going to be worse than ever.

The open elective Fight

Open elective is open only in name. Every course which you would like to do will have time clash or instructor will not allow you saying for fourth year only. Most of 'em which u would love are not offered. Or the instructor will not mysteriously reject your request saying nothing. Phew! whats open in it and what's elective in it. Practically I stand with no choice. And Virtually choices include few of my departmental (Mechanical Engg.) courses which are last to my likeness and few of MBA courses- no use to me if I don't plan to do anything in management. With all the future unpredictable, insecure let's hope for the best for the next semester.

The HSS I'll be studying next sem is tittled: PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS instructed by Proff. Boruah.

Overloaded students at IITK

Today's fortune:
Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.

Just now came from interview for AME council. Hah... come on was it like an interview. Prashant just asked what do I know and told what I was supposed to do. Not that big thing. The AME site is already there. I would just be supposed to update the data and forms on that site. Only data thing. Ohh. No deal, I'll do it.

Mom dad and didi were here from last evening till today. Khub sara khane ka saaman aaya ghar se yummm... (English:Lots of edibles came from home).

Options for next sems are open on OARS site. A heavy sem with 24 credits! Only 1 less than the maximum allowable. This may be 25 if someone takes 5 credit course as Open Elective! Now who will disagree that students at IIT Kanpur are overloaded with studied. I remember Dr. P Kumar saying in class that he accepts the truth of above statement. I too remember a guest lecture by an IITK alumni (he is a top-shot name in industry everybody knows. just that I'm missing it on my tongue) spoke about an incident about him in HBS. He met his dean for permission to take an extra courses. But it was never happened and never allowed for students to take more than that fixed credit in a semester. But as he came yo know the man is from IIT Kanpur, he at once allowed him to take the courses. See! IITK students are popular(not famous) for taking (or Bearing!) overloads!
Here is the course templete:
1)HSS-2

2)ME352
THEORY OF MECHANI. & MACHINES

3)ME341
HEAT AND MASS TRANSTER

4)ME321
ADVANCED MECHANICS OF SOLIDS

5)ME361
MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

6)OE-1 : Open Elective (Means choose one whatever course you like.)


And it's again a wake up call for end-sems. 13 days left. Let's start with the unlucky number 13. 13 days of preparation

Blood is thiscker than water...

See the last line of this post chhote chhote shehro se. Wah! What an analogy! Wah! It wud have taken time to understand that.

Blood is thicker than water, but modern life has made us all a bit anaemic. You don't want to be seen as a leech!

Hostel Blues after JEE07 and and a plain NO from CADES

As the second year comes to an end a restlessness is in air. With the quota bill almost clear(if not it will be very soon I bet on these politicians can go all the way to anything they want), and increase in strength of incoming batch of JEE-07 there is going to be an acute shortage of living rooms of allocated hostels. The whole structure of accommodation of UGs is on the verge of Revolution.

Earlier hall allocation was like this. Hostels Hall2 and Hall3 were filled with first and second yearites mixed. Hall 5 for third year and Hall 1 for fourth year. This was okey till now. But with a jumbo sized Y7 batch which is coming it isn't possible anymore. The total strength of Y7 and Y6 is more than the combined capacity of Hall2 and 3. There were many meetings and public poles. And finally few things are in air but still final word has not yet come.

Firstly there is one idea of Hall 2,3 and 5 combined with first second and third yearites. This is the minima which is going to be for sure. But this alone is not enough to hold all the student. So some students will be going to a newly constructed (under construction in fact) hostel Hall-9. Now there are many solutions in air that I've heard from different people but nothing final as such. Some say hall-9 will also contain all 3 batches combined. Or only third yearites will be going to hall-9. All those who will give their preference as Hall 5 might be sent to hall-9. An the scene of preference is as follows.

Hall 2 and 3 have double rooms as a disadvantage over other two halls. Also the mess of hall 2(my hall) is the worst minimum level in food quality. So no one would like to feed on it 1 more year after already getting harassment for 2 years. Most of the guys in hall-2 would like to go to leave it. Among hall 5 and 9 hall-5 seems preferable because of only ill factor of hall-9 - it is situated a long distance from academic area. But opting for hall-5 includes a threat of going to hall-9 if it has no space when your turn comes. So those who are too obsessed with the distance factor would like to stay in hall-2. And those obsessed with food quality would want to leave it at earliest, even at the cost of being sen to hall-9.

In our wing about 4 out of 22 are obsessed with distance factor and prefer hall-2. Rest all (including me)despise hall-2 for feeding reasons. So that's super majority as Ankur calls it. Hopefully we will be in hall-9/5. If it happens hall 9, cycling alone to academic area/Lecture halls would take around 5-7 minutes forget about walking!

All in all the situation is too complex with increasing strength of batch size every year. Also there is an urgent need for more and more faculty persons which deteriorates the quality of teaching and the level of IITs.
Anyways, it will be all clear in the next few weeks.

Called up the Cades people and got a plain reply : NO. no students.

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P.S.: This is a reply post to the Are you in love?.

Love is all we need here!!!I've written and read much on the topic.Thre's a movie tittled Anwar. Every character in the movie was sad. but all of them had on single reason. They all needed love!To be loved is such a joy that hides all reasons to be sad. Think of when you put ur head in ur mother's lap and u jst closed ur eyes. Thousand worries that were in ur minds would vanish for those moments. I feel this everytime I visit home.You might be intrested to read following

Recently someone made me believe some persons are never meant to be helped.
Helping is like a virtue. Help till you are at stake. I thought.
But I was proven wrong! Apparently it might not affect you but there are some people in helping whom you are always at stake. Somebody made me realize that.
But yaar. Fir bhi, sometimes, being a human, I can't follow!

Chance

It seems a very week chance I have of working with a hardware design solution company. CadesTech. Mamma and didi were in Banglore for did's m.Phil enterance exams. And they also had a chance to go to airshow where these csdes people met my sister. Was this more than just coincidence that airshow fell on the date when they were there; and my sister met those people; and that it was just a point in their conversation that my name was up and she told Im doing Mech. Engg. B.Tech.?
But the dark side is that I sent a mail regarding this to a person who gave contacts to my sister and it's about two days and didn't get the reply. Tried calling them but couldn't talk to the person concerned. I'll call later. What's in giving it a try.
Witrh all the fascinating things that Dr. Deb told us in ME251 class I can say I'will learn and enjoy if it happens.

Days Become Hotter

With days becoming hotter it's becoming difficult and more difficult for mugging. As soon as I take up a book sleep takes on me. Facing this problem from two days. In fact days are too hot to handle!

At last started FluidMech. Quite unknown things are coming forward to my notice. Had all this what the world has produced in Fluid Mechanics with all there efforts. It's a bevkufi type topic. All you need to do is to mug-up how to see the chart. Nothing like rule exists. Some idiot did some experiment and jotted down the data. Now bigger idiots see the data from chats and graphs and get marks in exams. Okey! I'll also try to be an idiot. That's the rule after all.

From two days sleeping like anything! slept for 1 1/2 hrs. in the day. Then in clases till 5. Went to library eith the books. But salted them with my sweat while sleeping. May be I'm not able to cope up with changing climate.

Currently reading the autobiography of Imran Khan.
That's all. These days i don't have much to say...