Study well and you'll do well

Being our Sanscraintz birthday this week. Thought would share some of those mind blowing experiences that happened in college.. Somethings can only happen in college life... and somethings can only happen in my class :).. to write about all that.. i ve no idea wat it takes..this is just another one of them...

I have always had a tough time in all my exams. I have no clue as to why. But when I look around the people and what they have to say.. its very simple: "Study well and you will do well..." it s not as simple as it looks.. there are many assumptions and complications inside that one line. You may study well.. but not get what u studied in the exam.. or u may forget it. or not have time to complete the paper.. or misread a question.. i mean so many things cud go wrong.. but for me it was usually one thing. i dint study well.. so i dint do well in a lot of the exams. But luck was going to change for once...

What is a college life without having a crush on a girl from another department. That is one of the best time passes and best excuses to bunk classes.. get drunk.. recharge mobile and get lost in ur own thoughts.. i had one such crush in college.. i was so sure that it was not goin to work out.. just like any of my other crushes.. but killin time was a mind blowing experience. every girl who i had a crush on will ve a unique quality and this girl used to top her class.. i mean really a mindblowing cgpa she had..

My dad always used to give me something like 1500 rupees at the start of every semester for buying books. But as usual i blow it on smoke or drinks.. but just to avoid the guilt of spending dad's money like that I made sure to buy one book every semester. a random subject and made sure it was a cheap book.

Now here comes the connection between all the above lines. It was my sixth semester and that time I had bought a book called Microprocessor 8085 or somtehing.. and never had opened the book until a couple of days before the semester exam. but i get this wierd news from one of my friends that one of my classmates who i was not in good terms has the same book of the girl who i had a crush on.. all of a sudden i get really possessive before my sem exams. my crush had that same course a semester back and she had topped it.. so when taht guy is not there in his room.. i break into his room.. steal her book and keep my new book as a replacement. wow.. dad;s money wasted.. but i felt as if I had got a precious item in return.. the same book with her name written on it..

I came to my room.. decided to study that book well.. and top taht exam. she was my inspiration i said to myself. For two days I hardly got out of my bed. I read every page where she had marked it as important. and added comments near her comments. I was sure that book wud go back to her and this was agood chance to express myself i thought. Some of the comments I wrote were ;
1. in the front page next to her name, Good ppl buy this book.. smart ppl borrow it.. smarter ones dont return it..

2. in some places where she had marked as important i wrote why to waste time studyin abt some microproicesor that no longer exists..

and comments like this in many places.. i tried to be funny and smart at the same time.. in the end wasted more time thinking abt wat to write as comments.. but somehow.. i also used that book as a pillow and managed to finish studying for the exam. This time nothing could stop me.. I was too sure..

For those of you who have studied in PSG taking an exam is a really stressful experience especially if ur exam hall happens to be A310. Its like a hugeeeee rectangular hall with some 500 plus students.. and some 15 invigelators.. pin drop silence.. and even a breeze was a noise.. all u can hear wud be sounds of pen scratchin at 50 words per minute. I went there to race those pens that day coz usually my pen wud be sittin in my mouth acting like it is thinkin wat to write next and win a nobel prize.

Sharp at 2 the question paper arrives. We usually get multiple sets of questions papers.the first set has only long answeres and has some 4 or 5 questions in taht for 30 marks. if u dont do well in that ur probability of clearing the exam reduces by 50 percent. u ve to write that question paper for about 2 hrs and dont even the option of running out. and 2 hrs later then u get the rest. In many ways i felt PSG exams had been made fool proof and this was the one. I smiled.. thought abt her.. thought abt her book and opened the question paper. forward 30 seconds into the exam hall..

DAmaaaallllllllll. a sound of an explosion.. it was my heart.. the whole paper was greek and latin to me.. not one question i knew.. How can that theory of study well and u will do well not work for me.. i did study well.. but then I realised.. I was in EEE (electrical and electronics engineering) and she was in ECE (electronics and communicationss..) and they have two courses with the same book... all those places she had marked as important were of least importance to me all of a sudden..

helll.... i studied the wrong syllabi.. i dint even know wat was taught in class and wat was not.. how dumb cud i be.. Gone baby gone.. exam gone baby gone.. i said to myself.. and the worse part was sittin in that A310 hall for those 3 hrs.. it cud really drive anyone crazy and make u shout at the middle of an exam.. my pen went back to the mouth..
other hand started scratchin my head.. and felt as if my watch stopped running.. after 3 hrs.. finally it was over.. i wrote watever i had studied..

A monht later results come.. Just pass.. Escape da ...

Cheers!!

Nambi