Winter Crash Course
Year One was complete; as always we were waiting for results. When
will the results get declared? Even God does not know! Only the university knows!
I am sure every student of our batch must have gone to and fro the IDOL
building and the Mahatma Phule Bhavan (more on this in coming parts!). Finally
results were declared and we took admission for Year Two. Many could not
continue the course due to reasons. The count reduced to half now.We expected
the PCP center list in October but there were no signs of it on the website.
The list was put up at Oct end and our college was Atharva College, Malad.
Minal and group started attending lectures. The once in a blue moon me attended
only one lecture of OR (Operations
Research) on 8th Nov. I skipped the practical session, which was
on the next day, covering all three subjects: from class to operator
overloading in C++ (Object Oriented
Programming), SQL queries in DBMS (Database
Management System) and simulation of networking algorithms in DCN (Data Communication and Networking). To
our nightmare, the practical exam of DCN was on 14th Nov. No
preparations, no hands-on, just go and perform the practical. The viva was like external examiner telling
the story of ISO-OSI layers! Many pendrives were caught during the
practical exams and for the first time we were fighting in the queue on who
will go next for the viva. Those who had taken half-day at office were given
preference. Travelling through the same train every morning has its side
effects. For the practical exams, I had to get down at Malad right! Some
commuters were thinking that I changed my job; some were thinking my company
location was shifted to Malad. Not just this; one lady even stopped me from
getting down at Malad saying, “Sleepy dear! You have to get down at
Santacruz; next station is Malad!”
We got the latest updates from our instant messenger Minal
Gupta. Mahendra Patil Sir, our course co-ordinator, had a good idea
for the assignments completion. There are 7 questions in each paper; so we were
divided into groups of 7 (my group had Mamta, Minal, Bhavika, Dhruvi, me and two
Mr. Invisibles who never turned up), each one to solve only one
question per paper. So the six question papers were indirectly solved. The question
papers were of both May and Dec from 2009 to 2014. Softcopies of the completed assignments
had to be uploaded on the Yahoo group. Now we had the complete Question Bank,
each student contributing one answer in it! It would have been so nice if only
the softcopy would suffice. But no we had to write the complete 6 question
papers and submit it on 23rd Nov. So many answers were written in
short, diagrams skipped, etc. On the day of submission, I got to know that we
had to prepare Case Study for SE (Software
Engineering). But no worries, Minal had already prepared one for our group,
so thankful to her for helping us all always. While submitting OR and MIS (Management Information System) files, R
Sreedharan Sir caught me and asked, “Do you know my name? Which subject I teach? Have you attended any of my
lectures?” There were many who have shown their faces for the first time
today but it was me in soup! I narrated the only lecture of 8th Nov
where three different students had to solve the same sum on Simplex Method. Finally Sir was
convinced.
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| VIVA College, Shirgaon |
Our (I, Nikita, Bhavika, Dhruvi, Sujata, Gitesh, Ankit, Diksha, Mohnisha)
exam center was Viva Engineering College, Shirgaon. It was too far from
station. We had to travel almost 25 minutes by an Auto or Jeep. The bus would
stop at the main road only then walk for 15 minutes more. The area was almost
village with no street lights, cows and goats grazing around, red soil and
stones, etc. The resident kids playing here and there and some of them even
threw stones on passer-by. Animals roaming in and out of the college without ID
cards! Since our timings were 3pm to 6pm, by the time we completed the paper it
started getting darker and colder. Gitesh and Ankit had their own bikes. We had
to run after jeeps. There was one evening when even these were not available. At
last we got lift from a school picnic bus; they charged Rs. 10 per person and
dropped us at station. This marked the end of the shortest Semester, kinda
winter crash course. A few clicks of exam journey....
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| Way to the college |
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| Lonely tree in horror movies! |
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| Bus stop where no bus stops! |
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| Right-side view from college |
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| Left-side view from college |
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