TAS 1:Hey why was 8086 invented when 8085 was there dude?
TAS 2:Guess they were outta business
TAS 3:What does circular convolution do to a signal da?
TAS 2:Dunno da, they make them go in a round-about fashion, you say that convolution is the action of coiling or twisting or winding together, so circular convolution must be a redundant term, mostly a grammatical error.
TAS 2:How are pointers addressed da??
TAS 1:A 'sir' or 'miss' can do i believe.
So are the discussions that are prevalent just before entering the labs to take up our practical exams, all along sweating and struggling to get an 'o/p verified' on the sheet expecting the motor to atleast budge from its current position or to have an unknown/un-intelligible code of a processor working in the DSP lab. After which, sit through the viva sessions that compel a student to cook up the most interesting answer posed nonchalantly by the external. After this dose of trauma comes the ever favorite, most adorable aspect of Anna University- THE STUDY HOLIDAYS.
In my first year of study, I used to wonder why such holls were given as while we would have read all that during our course or during unit tests which we will sit through, only when they started did i realize the importance of these holls, they were meant not for study but to be spent in repentance for all the mistakes that we had done in our college life - I mean, repent for actually joining the college :P . Let me not digress, as to the intention of study holidays, they were created by a holy soul who might have thought that all the active college days are not sufficient to do away with engineering and the exams that follow them.
My routine during the study holidays : Get up early to see that everyone is sleeping and so as not to disturb their interest, i lie down and wake up when the crow is tired of cawing (there aren't any roosters in my vicinty!! ) , do the usual morning routine and then open up the syllabus just to stare it as anyone do upon a stranger - having xenophobia i hated the syllabus. I take up my notebook just in case I have anything jotted down relating to that subject and dismiss the note book as useless (by which some 2 hours would have sped past!!) and then to a siesta, then the evening befalls and I find myself stuck up in the same page so a message to a friend asking for the status in his side, when it sounds pleasing to me I go on to spend my evening in spiritual solace and sleep hoping to study atleast in my dreams!!
All this happens until i realize that there are just 3 days for the exam and i hurry through the time table just to make sure that only 3 days are left and start away with the first subject simultaneously worrying that there are more subjects (/battles) to face.....
Just as I got the taste of the study holidays in the first year, it happened to install a kind of setback in my mind that - I can do away with the exams during the study holidays and care not much during the college days, which I later realize is the biggest mistake of all that I have ever done. I shall not blame the system this time for it, but atleast there is much scope to improve upon which I am not gonna discuss.......for all the good reasons in this world :P .
Oh I forgot to mention-- this blog was written during the fifth sem study holidays :P.
And TAS in the start of this piece is an abbreviation of Totally Annoyed Student.
