Mastering via Distance: Part Five

End of Theory

Finally the final year! A very few of us could reach here due credit to Probability and Statistics. The few were Dhruvi Lad, Nikita More, Diksha Sankhe, Sujata Swamy, Mitali Pawar, Mayur Patil, Vrishali Patil, Jayashree Jain and me. We really missed others a lot. The PCP center for the final year was Niranjan Majethia College, Kandivali. As always I did not attend lectures. But now there were no instant updates from Minal Gupta. We had one foreign language in syllabus. Here it was French and I have already described the French a bit which I learnt in just five lectures. Again searching the college was a Google Map exercise for three of us, Nikita, Sujata and me. We used to get updates on the course on a WhatsApp group TYMCA IDOL. Shweta Kumar Ma’am was our course coordinator. We had to submit our assignments on 1^st Nov and as usual we were writing till the time of submission. We were sitting in one of the rooms on ground floor. Someone asked us, “Which year?” To this we replied, “Third Year” and even pointed that First Year was in adjacent class assuming that the very someone was a First Year student. Later we got to know that our assumption was wrong and that someone was Pankaj Sir. The written exams were postponed and also the practical. So we were happy because we got some more time to prepare. Doing Master's and also working in office was a task in itself. The theory papers started in Mid-December and continued till the end of 2015. We had to read too much of testing in ST (Software Testing) and too many desirable features and rules and principles in DC (Distributed Computing). Testing was anyway relating to our office work. Then there was AWT (Advanced Web Technologies) which had exhaustive syllabus starting from JSPs to Servlets and C# and .NET etc etc. The toughest of all was WT (Wireless Technology and Mobile Computing) wherein the different architectures seemed to be similar and it was bit confusing on what answer should I exactly write for IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 etc etc. The elective subject SCM (Supply Chain Management) was very interesting with topics of distribution to warehouse to transportation and many more just to give an idea of how the goods and products reach from one point to another. The practicals were conducted in the last week of Jan. ST was simply theory on writing down the test cases for different scenarios. AWT had C# programs so even that was a bit simple. WT was a difficult one because it had the emulators. I even gave up clicking photo of a cute kitten for memorizing the programs. The Photographer in me always popped up an hour before exams to take clicks (batchmates were used to this). Even they urged to take at-least one click but I had to take a tough decision. "Sorry kitty, I do not want a KT in WT" After practical exam, I searched the whole college but didn't find her at all, my bad luck. It was memorable having lunch with Sujata and Nikita in one of the classrooms after the practical exams. On 31st Jan, we had the last theory exam, French test. Though it was an exam, but we had a lot of fun playing pranks and trying to ask questions to friends and get answers. Some even opened notes on smart phones. The exam time fun remains the same, whatever age you are and even the supervisors know this! Done with the exam, everyone started clicking photos since it was the last day in that college and in some way of the course itself. The last semester was just project so we all could hardly meet again. Hence, making and saving the memories of the completion of the fifth angle of the hexagonal journey.

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