IIT first hand

Scene 1
At MSB 256. A process calculation course in session. Prof. Basak is distributing quiz 1 papers to the chemical engineering batch of 2007.

Prof : The performance is good. Students have done well. The highest is....
(pause)
Prof : Well, can you guess??
(The paper was out of 15 comprising of a 7 mark question and an 8 mark question)
Prof : The highest is 13. Ok. You know the lowest?
(A deafening silence )
Prof : 3 . 3 is the lowest mark.
(Silence gets louder)
Prof : When I call out your number, you shall come forward. Tell me the mark you estimate to get. Then you shall collect your paper.

The atmosphere is so tense you couldn't breathe without feeling noisy. As for me, I knew I had done miserably and the prospect of "predicting my marks" was choking me.

Suddenly,
Prof : CH 04!! (That's me)

I walk up to face the prof.

Me : Sir.. Sir.. (Sweating) .. I ..I did badly. I..
Prof : 3.
It came to me like a sentence. I had actually come The LAST in a class. As I turned to face the class now, I couldn't see anyone. My eyes were teary. I stumbled as I reached for my desk. I couldn't wait to sit down and just bury my face.

Scene 2
At CRC 205. A thermodynamics course in session. Prof. Srinivasan is distributing quiz 1 papers.
Prof : CH 04!!
I walk up to the front, feeling highly tensed, take my paper. I glance at my marks. 25 on 40!! I hide my marks in flushed embarrassment. I had done decently. I should have gotten more.

After a while, everyone has received their papers.

Someone : Sir, what's the class average?
Prof : I think around 11 or 12.
I sit up!!! Wow.
Someone : What's the highest?
Prof : 25.
My head jerks up for the first time in the whole hour.
Prof : I think Akila got 25. (He looks at me)
I stare back at him and show my teeth.
I didn't know what to think. But you know what really made my day?? When my friends actually clapped. God, I could have sat there and cried. I was so moved.

Now as I look back, both incidents are just memories to remember my first year by. I learnt a lot from both of them
From the former, I learnt how it is possible that your worst nightmares come true. I had always thought that if you come last, it would be horrible. But God was too good to me and put me in a class that didn't care. Hard luck strikes the best of us sometimes. We just have to survive.

The latter was a special moment for me. It was the first quiz in the institute. The big, great institute to which I, a girl from a small town had come, with a notion that everyone is smarter than me. That small incident in a classroom there might sound trivial to one who reads it. But to me, it was significant. It ignited a spark of confidence in me that is to come a long way in my life..

Tagged

Job description : Open the 123rd page of any book and type out 5 lines starting from the 6th.

I've taken a liberty to repeat an entire exchange of telegrams which cover the 123rd page.

Aunt : Come at once. Travers.

Wooster: Perplexed. Explain. Bertie.

Aunt : What on Earth is there to be perplexed about, ass? Come at once. Travers.

Wooster : How do you mean come at once? Regards. Bertie.

Aunt : I mean come at once, you maddening half wit. What did you think I meant? Come at once or expect an aunt's curse first post tomorrow. Love. Travers.

Wooster : When you say 'Come' do you mean 'Come to Brinkley Court'? And when you say 'At once' do you mean 'at once'? Fogged. At a loss. All the best. Bertie.

Aunt : Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It doesn't matter whether you understand or not. You just come at once, as I tell you, and for heaven's sake stop this back-chat. Stop being a fathead and come immediately. Love. Travers.

Wooster calls his butler Jeeves.

Wooster : Jeeves, What do you make of these telegrams.
Jeeves : I think your aunt wants you to go at once, sir.
Wooster : Do you get that feeling too?


I'm at a loss as to whom to tag coz i think noone will be as vetti as I am :P
But cheers to Lee , my inspiration to come up with arbit crap :)

The only Law that sustains

Murphy's one liner

Smile; tomorrow will be worse.

Murphy's poem

I never had a slice of bread
clearly large and wide
that did not fall down spread
on the buttered side.

Murphy's proportions

Grades get worse in direct proportion to the number of credits of the course.

Murphy in relationships

The best ones are taken. You are single.


Check this out for hazar such laws :)

(I'm trying to keep my posts short because ppl crib they are too long. Er.. i'm out of ideas :P )