Final B.Tech exam!

Sigh... I know I will get a lot of flak for this but I am already missing yesterday's test! Dont get me wrong- Its not the studying (Well cramming actually!) but more the atmosphere that we guys create before/during/after the last test of a semester. I remember and have written about how the PE exam last semester was and this time too the feeling of experiencing the very last exam in NITK was huge..

It didnt help that we had probably the toughest subject of chemical engineering as the last exam for most of us (There are about 10 people who have 1-2 more tests) and anyone who disagees with me should know that Sir had mighty pity on us when setting the question paper: CRD IS TOUGH!!

We also had to run around preparing the project thesis report in a matter of 2 days and getting it approved by the guide before learning of numerous little technical details, after incorporating which, to take printouts and take various signs before finally submitting to the department.. All this with 1 week of college life left for 90% of the people! No wonder we didnt like to prepare for this test...

With this mind frame in motion, we even tried to call sir before the test and try to get him to "not correct our endsem answer scripts and award grades based on internals & how he sees fit" but with a major flop as it never actually materialised! Preet finally got the balls to call sir to ask him about "possible important topics wrt exam" only to hear this- Everything is Important!

So I arrived at 1:30 pm yesterday to the department to see the M.Tech guys (with whom we had this subject) slogging galore and so quickly went over to another class room where we eventually all wrote the test and had a blast! The next half hour was spent mostly talking over how we are gonna get screwed and why we had studied very little & remembered nothing... At 2 pm come the invigilators and the test begins...

All was going as usual with the now-common water drinking session of people in continuum but then came the episode of "Manish and his Chits!!!" For reasons yet unknown to all of us, he decided CRD was best served with micro's and was caught by none other that Dr Rajmohan who took great delight in denouncing him to everyone around. But the faculty was good enough to ask him to give up other chits and asked us all too lest the "Flying Squad (Lol@name)" catch him and send him out of the exam hall. That was the first time I had ever heard of any such squad and luckily we got the chance to finally meet this infamous 5-man team whose sole responsibility is to apprehend mischief-makers in exam halls- How sad is that??

Shreekumar sir calls out Manish and gives him his half hour Gita version while the F.S made its entry. All mobile phones (mine included) were being threatened to be confiscated when they realised close to 75% of the students had their phones with them: Clearly we were not in their NITK zone of comfort! Nothing happened and they departed but later in the evening I heard of tales where F.S took their time having fun with 2 students who had got their mobile phones/had brought the library card instead of the ID card- Big deal! Most of us come carrying a single pen, not even a calculator, and well, WHO THE HELL WILL VOLUNTEER TO WRITE A TEST FOR SOMEONE ELSE??

So finally chymes the clock at 4:55 pm (Actually it didnt, the bloody clock hasn't worked in a month!) and the last 5-6 who were staying back just for the heck of it (Except Ra-gay-esh) came out finally to the delight of everyone waiting outside who couldnt stop smiling at having come out Graduates of NITK informally atleast.. It was a great feeling which I cant do justice by expressing in words.

At the end I recall a most hideous PJ by Dr Saidutta yesterday to Mishra on observing the class T-shirt: "Oh it has the names of all the subjects on it? Hopefully the info will finally diffuse into yourself now!" You shall not understand if you aren't a chemical engineer at NITK- Thats what we are now :D