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

Done with Exams

Pending Taskks after exams:
1)Update the blogs
2)Buy a new cube
3)Complete autocad home assignment-Radial Engine
4)See the APIs of J2ME and decide whether I can do the job in 1 week with such a great task mentioned just bove at hand! Quite a challenging task!

New Dell LapTop is with my bro at Dellhi. Hopefully I will be owning it by next week

EXAM RIEVIEW REPORT
1)MOS:-Attempted20/30. Hopefully around 50p.c. can be sccored. Pathetic performance but no repent. I learnt a lot from this exam.
2)FluidMech:- Attemted correctly 16/20. The only question I left was damn easy but
the idiot presemted it in such a manner to ensure least people understand the
question.
3)Philosophy:-Single question to answer in 1 hour. Wrote about 3 pages of material
on Pramana theory.
4) Materials:- The paper was too lengthy. I don't know what this popye wants from
students. He has this very habbit of giving lengthy papers. left  11/45 marks! Ain't
sure of th rest.

TODAY I LEARNT:
1) Be careful in PHI140. It might prove villian in your dreams of perfect 10.
2) To avoid repent after examination, here is the tip. Prepare as much as you can,
might be half prepared. But ensure a 100% effort so that there is nothing like" Oh
had I studied this rather than studying that chapter. Insted it should sound: "What
can I do if couldn't do this question? This was the best I could have delivered. I
couldn't have preapred any better. May be this effort is saved to show its effect in
future.
And after all how puch these trivial things matter in long run of life. Try to
remember a mid-exam of your 9th class that you had messed up. Or it might your 12th
board maths exam. And then you came back and wept and punched the walls and kicked
the doors in sgeer frustration. But think, today, how much they count in making of
Saucy(or whatever your name is). How much it contributed in your academic life. In
long run these things matter least in life. What matters is what you learn over such
times!

Naya semester

Suddenly realised that vaccations are over now and
Im back in IITK. njoyed a day with Matty. Watched a movie- Girl Next Door wih him. Walked around the academic area. Then left him to his bro's place.
Registered for the new semester today. All 5 courses in this sem look quite interesting.
1) Mechanics of Solids: I had an unusual liking fo mechanics ever since I first studied it. Hoping that this course is similar to that mechanics it will be interesting.
2) Material Science: Have no idea. But Bhatia told that itz a nice course for studying. Everythingis logical and related. And usually me and Bhatia have similar perceptions on hell lot of points. So this is gona be smooth.
3) Engineering Graphics: From the experiences of TA101 I can say that this might be a good course.
4) Fluid Mechanics: This is also one of the topic I enjoyed during the good old days of my life when I was preparing for JEE/12th class.
5) HSS: This part is still doubtful. Psychology of Philosophy. If it is philosophy then its amazing! I can safely say that it is like passion. I simply loveeeeee explofing those concepts about Karma, atma and parmatma and few other elements of Indian Philosophy. If it is Psychology then also it's quite cool keeping in mind that Im already familier with half of psycho dictionay. Courtesy: my elder sister*

So overall a smooth going semester in store.

*My elder sis is Masters in Psycho and looking for Doctrate. In five ys. of his study she was used to parroting all those things and kept saying words like amazing, interesting, fascinating etc. She is mad about this subject.