War of the Branches..

For those who came in late: I am a Chemical ( Not CHEMISTRY) Engineer at NITK, Suratkal.. Sept 5 is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.. Thats all u need to know as background..

So we at NITK have never had a student-teacher interaction on Teacher's Day b4 and our Director, Prof Sandeep Sanchethi, decides its time. All the branches are given notice of a student-teacher event on sept 6 (U figure!) and are told to form teams. The event is told to be a General Quiz but hey its NITK, anything's possible!

Let me introduce the Chemical Team:
1) Prof Gopal Mugeraya (Head of Dept): http://chemengg.nitk.ac.in/page.php?p=viewProfile&id=7
2) Mr Prasanna ( Lecturer): http://chemengg.nitk.ac.in/page.php?p=viewProfile&id=18
3) Varun (Myself)
4) Nikhil Rao ( Kaiyya to everyone in coll, quiz club member)
5) Kaustubh ( Another quiz club member)
6) Arbit Chemical Junta ( We couldnt find one person so we had that seat filled by many ppl at various times)

So there were 14 teams in total ( 8 branches- comps never showed up, and applied mech, maths, chemistry, physics, the Dean's Team and, u guessed it, the Director's team)
Fine let the games begin:
GAME 1: GENERAL QUIZ
Supposedly the quiz master wasnt aware of students also participating so had set the quiz level a little low in standard. In the end it was what made us all enjoy it more. A few arbit questions and the answers that followed:
Q- Connect the following: Atlas, Ursa Major, Indian Ferdinand Magellan
Answer given- All are Cycle Companies ( Chemical junta- Won funniest answer prize)
Actual Answer- They all have Oceans named after them ( No team answered this btw)

Q- What was the feat that Eugene Cernan did last?
Answer given- 10 CGPA ( Chemical junta- Won funniest answer prize again)
Actual Answer- Walk on the moon ( No team answered this, again)

Hmmm... i am seeing a pattern here!
The quiz was generally a success apart from the sloppy editing in the AV round (The media files were named after the answers!)

Standings after the quiz (Not in order): EnC, Chemical, Civil, IT, Mech
GAME 2: Tug-of-War
Now this was a fun event! Accusations flew all over the warzone about one side of the ground being more slippery than the other giving the other team an unfair advantage.. Many suggestions came forward including a friction control, sand bathing etc etc. None thought of simply shifting the area to an adjacent location!
Imp results: Chemical beat IT ( Ya baby), EnC lost to Civil, Director's Team beat Dean's team (Lol)

Standings after game 2 (IN ORDER):
1) CHEMICAL ( We rock or what?? )
2) EnC
3)Civil
4)Mech
5)Mining

GAME 3: War of The Branches
Basically a 45 min Group Discussion/Debate/Fish-market haggling to decide the top branch. The top 5 branches were asked to participate with the two faculty members and 1 student. Me n Nikhil had got a similar opportunity earlier so it was upto Kaustubh to do us the honours.

Random comments heard:
* The human body is designed so intricately that if God were an Engineer, He would have to be a Mechanical Engineer
* Consider an F-16 fighter: Mech ppl built it, EnC guys made the controls but Chemical made the bomb!
* Arbit EnC student telling this over 3 times: We arent here to find which is the best branch (WTF????)
*Arbit civil student to that: Fine does that mean u ppl are forfeiting?
*Arbit EnC guy again: U 4 branches are the base of the pyramid, we are the apex
*Chemical junta to that: Lets knock the base off, shall we? Lets see what happens!

Best one was from the Director himself ( he represented EnC now) to counter an incredible war between civil n chemical: Now now, let civil ppl be civilian!
I got to thinking: And chemical ppl be chemicals??? Or Chameleons???

In the end Civil won the last round, EnC came 2nd while chemical won a modest 3rd.. But the whole programme was brightened up by the present of a DD of ~ rs 40k for the family of a recently deceased Chemical staff member: May his soul rest in peace!

In conclusion, it was a great day sday and i was glad to be there.. Oh did i mention the Free lunch later? Hehe.. Cya!