“I just
bowed my head so that the home minister of Ker ala could put a gold medal on my
neck for completing my b.tech without supply!!”. Unfortunately this things
happens on dream, for that reason I had to wake up . Passing out without supply
was the most adventures thing a human could do in Cali cut university, but I
think this greatest thing has neither carefully considered nor rewarded. May be
someday will come!!
But the actual thing is that,
I don’t need to think about “that award” anymore , but I have to think about
award for the largest supply scorer. I will think about it after, now the time
is 7 and I have an exam today. Don’t worry , nothing is so special about this
day , because these things are those things we have done many times before and
I have written more exams than others did (you know what I mean , ryt???....)
On the exam time everything else in
the world will become interesting than the material we need to study. Suddenly
on a row, creative ideas will bloom; we will be able to make sms’s which are
great and bestselling. Even the sleep on those days will be much better than
normal days. I still don’t know how to explain this phenomenon scientifically,
but I don’t like the very idea of people calling it laziness. Yesterday, I was
waiting to start at night; at night I thought morning 4 am is the best time to
start anything and slept keeping alarm. But what happened was when alarm rang I
got up and started studies and ended up with winning medal for full pass and
got up actually at 7 . Now the game is
fixed and I had to do nothing. Yet I took text and walked to and fro, as my mom
bought tea. I was like, I had completed this subject 1 year before and I was
revising it every 365 day waiting for this day. I had no worries, no tension,
everything ended yesterday itself. Still I just checked out two figures, hell
with that, I bet I will draw the great Picasso painting with less time than
this. Figure, formulae, and theory everything was freaking me out. I do agree
they are of great use but so cruel to study.
Anyway I reached college now; I
had a 2kg book in hand as if I was a great student of all the time in world
history. I bet no one (girls specially and a boy in ec , 2 in mech , 2 in eee)
could take such a book for more than 20 minutes , it raised my status at least
till the results came. Everyone around me was preparing like for a war not so
far. Just like the Pakistan army is 50 meters away from us and we are the only
one left to be conquered. There will be many groups here and there; ‘1 text
book and 5 around it” group, they will be people who had to pass ; now there
will be “ 5 library books plus 4 notebook” group…they are mark hunters , I
think they wanted more than 100 out of 100 , God such a show of !! We can see
some kind of high spirit and eager enthusiasm in them, the same we see in the
people who haven’t seen food for 5 or 6 days ( some will be like it is their
first time experience in life for food , they will run between groups , I think
they wanted a 500/100). Also there will be many people sitting alone with both
fingers deep inside ears, I always took a special care about them, coz I
doubted they will put a hole in ear and will touch the brain and die instantly.
They will have no interest to talk to us. Some will be busy telling , how well
they didn’t study yesterday; some will be busy with explaining about the TV
program or the last night match between
“ Chelsea and Liverpool” , or may be about padmarajan films that happened to be
in Asianet plus. Now that is also a showoff!!! But I will always encourage it
keeping the gratitude that they didn’t took textbook that time. Some will do
just opposite, they will blah blah about the program they missed , they didn’t
slept till 3 pm like that . There will be few who woke up at that time also!!
Some will stop studies by 9.20 pm , some will start by then , and will carry on
like a formulae 1 race ,hanging on the most popular 15 mark question , among
them there will be normal humans , who can’t read ,” cow gives us milk” without
studying English alphabets ,and they will fail to understand. But some will have a canon
scanner in their eyes and they will photo copy the entire thing , they are
superhuman with brains to memorize , and
brain that could prevent from logical thinking that you need to know what you
write.!
Now the bell will rang by 9.20 am ,
telling us like “time for action folks , am your full stop and am going to
teach you a lesson you never forget” , but the facts remains the same that we
are invincible for any lessons. Now next 10 minutes is known as teacher show
off time, they will shouting like to their pet dog to get inside, “jimmy, I
will kick you, get in, get in I said…ooohh you filthy dog
just get in!!!”…they will walk; they will stare and appear around the corner to
make us scream. But every one give less care for that and that will make them
more destructive. Then some will start begging for a single minute , such that
it will change the exam just forgetting the fact that they had such 24*60
minutes before. There will be some who will hide somewhere to study till 9.30
and they will get in at 9.30 in special consideration of..”i didn't knew
anything, I was not here” !!
Some will enter the hall with a
prayer, some will be already inside ,
they are “blending in with the atmosphere”!! Once seated some will turn around
or call the one sitting before and will ask “daaa , what is the 16th
pin of 8086???” ..then the reply will be “ txdi!!”....then the one who asked
will reply...”noooooo , it is of 8087!!!”...then the other one ,”8087?? , it is
not in my syllabus book...telll me about it plzzz”..the other...” there is no
need to study that...i just had a look only”...then other..”ooo god..i dint
even know the block diagram”. By that time , some of show off teachers would
have already noticed and they will shout like , be silent inside the exam hall
such that a bomb with a sound sensor is kept , above 118 db , it will explode.
Now one of the teacher will close the door like else all are going to escape.
And they will stand in attention , the tension will rise exponentialy! I had to
do something , but seriously I cant discuss about out of syllabus , truthfully
not even syllabus , so only thing to do is to give best of luck to everyone.
Now I think you remember the guys who were hiding , now they will try to get in
forcefully , when negotiation going on between them and teachers , some of
already seated guys will jump out of seat. They have forgotten something , and
will rush out with escuse to door keeper. We “nothing to do guys” will keep an
eye on them , we all will be expecting a hall ticket or a fx991 es , but she
will come back with cover of her apsara rubber.
There is more interesting things
in exam hall. There is a big girl sharing row with me. SHE is a good girl ,
well I don't know; she used to come like she was going to pilgrimage , a big
photo of God ,and there will be a “kontha”! I always thanked God in photo for
not giving her idea to bring in a candle,
she would have burned my exam paper. Now teachers will start
distributing question paper , I forgot to say , answer sheet will be given 10
minutes before so that we can save time for exam. All will be cailm and silent
for a short period , and then it beginssss!!!!!! just like in the film “127
hours” , titling is when we are in a trap
“3
hours”
the most inevitable “3 hours”!
The cold blooded dare to do “3 hours”!!
the most screwed “3 hours”
the three
hours of blankness sometimes , sometimes its wild , sometimes its satisfactory,
sometimes it surpasses the excellence , sometimes it will dig a pit and put us
inside it , sometimes it will be as expected , sometimes unexpected , sometimes
a mixture , as in engineering we have
pin point division of 4 modules with 25 marks each , that division is the real
reason for all the uncertainty.
( So the point I had to focus was that the
exam has just begun. So was trying to increase the pressure of situation and
want to make you sit in exam hall , then only I can proceed with the story. So
if anybody is still outside , read the para once more , if the result is still
negative , please get in !!! and take seat.
)
I just looked at the question paper. Yes
!!!...i do agree the that I can read , and am familiar with all letters too ,
but all together doesn't seems to make any kind of sense for me!! it simply
doesn't map to my memory! I just remembered my first day in school , we were so
innocent and unfamiliar with every thing , we used to blink and look around;
same thing happened to me then. At this time what boys usually do?? in boys ,
what about the cool guys?? did anybody think that we will pray to God for mercy
and shower answer to head from nowhere..never! The first and foremost thing
will be a five star rated bad word!! if it was a Hollywood film ,expect a four
letter word there , and if movie was in star movies or HBO , we will here a
“beep” sound and subtitle with “****” in it. In Malayalam films , shaji kailas
,may be some others also have successfully bought the critical combination of
words in the most apt moments. In delhi belly though there was no such apt
moments , the film is so rich! Yeah, “shit happens”! Ha! Ha! Ha!...so by now
you have got a clear idea why I haven't started yet. Its almost 5 minutes by
now since exam start.
Then next step was to find,” who was
real friend”!, the one who haven't started yet. I just checked the first and
second row , all are writing..i didn't lost hope , yeah, got it , roll no 3 was
smiling at me. Not only him , roll no 14, roll no 40 , 43 , 50 was smiling at
me. I was happy. But by chance , I turned to girl in my side , she occupied
almost 3/4th of table for writing and the portion left to keep photo
, kontha and all . There was hardly some apace left for me , I remind you if
there were any space , she would have kept a candle too. I tried reading
questions again , but still I have no idea , I had no chance to step out. The
day before exam we will have lot to think , lot to do and pass the time. But in
that three hours nothing will come. Then the only thing to do was , just to
design a script for fight back , on first year when I had a similar situation ,
I thought that time about hard work , using library...etc and to become
university topper. With all this experience I can tell you that was bullocks ,
“once thief is thief forever”! Half an hour was passed , and now I was
seriously thinking about taking pen , and I also feared if the girl noticed I
was not using the pen , she will plan to write for my pen too! So I took pen ,
but I don't know what was next?. Am not
going to debate on this , but I hope you will agree me by now I can write! And
what I did was to answer with all the exposure of my analytical intelligence.
The question will be about burj khaleefa ?? ,then my answer will be like this!!
“ Burj Khaleefa is the tallest building in the world. It is situated in Dubai;
it is also the tallest building in Dubai. Dubai is the place were the tallest
tower situates. It has height more than other tallest towers around the world.(
I don't know any other towers name , so we should pretend we know their name by
telling them together). Many Indians are living there. Many other nations are
also trying to make tall towers!!” and I will wind up with that. I know this is
totally weird , but there are situations which make us do those things we
normally never wants to do. The question was about Burj Khaleefa and the only
thing I knew was about it's height. I drew pictures, I haven't heard of! I had
no trouble to do so. By writing two 15 marks questions using same protocol , I
managed to complete first hour of examination successfully. I almost finished 7
pages of answer booklet and still a 1 and half an hour was left. Then I looked
back to my “friend” for a '”confident booster” , but shocking was the seen , he
was writing vigorously. Then I myself filled with regret . I was blaming myself
at least a 1000 times( I know blaming myself won't hurt me).
This are the times we do have lot of
philosophical advancements. I thought about the great BHAGWAT GITA, in that
Lord Krishna says , “its not the way that is important, but the aim , (here it
is passmark)”. That was made for the people who do malpractice , many fools
including me have thought like that , or act like that. So I attempted to peep
into answer paper of my friend sitting in my front bench. Actually she was a
nice friend ,funny and of coarse beautiful , she always liked to help ,but unfortunately
I couldn't tell her to help me before exam neither I could see her paper as she
was sleeping above that (I mean she was writing like that). With a hard and
almost thrilling try I saw a figure , I was so happy it had some peculiar
similarities with figure I drew , but I was sad that I can't drew it anymore.
“Life is like that buddy ,live life as it comes”, I said myself. Next 10
minutes I was busy with playing gimmick of rotating pen with 2 fingers. I bet
those who do this things , are those who had similar situation like this. Then
I again tried to do something productive in answering . I just made me belive
that I was participating in essay competition for youth festival . I was born
expert and very good in good for nothing writing. I decided to use this element
which was rich in my blood to save myself from a pothole. And I started writing
and writing , Liapunuv became my legend , microprocessors became treasure
islands of mysteries , diodes and
resistors became high voltage heroes and
cool ampere villains , likewise I wrote stories , thereby my future. Actually that really made my time was
not wasted , but it ensured my solitude will be far more creative and fearless.
I was sure when istarted this violent and wildest writing many of the faces in
the exam hall would have undergone a climatic change. I can even hear the
thoughts of one of my friends , mostly
some bad words. Let him do that I thought , because it was not an hour ago he
was doing the same thing to me. It was last half an hour. The tension in the
atmosphere increased. That was just like watching English action movies. The
last 30 minutes was the final lap , the game strategy will be entirely
different. Performing a 15 marks question very well will change to attempting
maximum number of question . Heavy load explanation changes to points and
figures . Thus the whole exam hall will be in the middle of a race not less
than 100m sprint. Now number of hands will rise for extra sheets , while many
other will look them with surprise and will murmur angrily that “what the hell
they are going to do with extra papers , dont they know for a sheet of paper we
have to cut a tree!”. This peoples will still have a 5 or 6 pages left in main
answer booklet. When some people will be eating the paper , or more like raping
the answer paper , there will be many kind hearts who will just give back the
answer paper and leave the hall , such that they can't tolerate it any more.
There will be girls whose eyes and hands will be super glued to paper , they
will ask answer sheet before their page is completed , they will not look
teachers or any other physical structures other than answer paper. They will
just raise their hands , the teachers have to come to them and they have to
hand the paper. Some will raise both the hands , while some other ,mostly girls
will be ready to raise their legs. The exam hall will be the scenario with full
of violence. Now many will start to hit the air ,as their hands are getting
pain. They will never give up as it is the matter of their life. The last 15
minutes will be nothing less than a war front! Now the chances for walk out is
no more available in the market. The examiner will close the door again , such
that by closing the door ,at this particular time will allign all the planets
in the solar system in such a way that , the cosmic energy will flow from
unknown sources to the exam hall , the students thereby will get magical powers
and they will get passed. But nothing will happen. Still I found this door
closing is meaning less as no change is going to happen , and all the
discomfort they feel is just what they felt. The examiners will start shouting
the by hearted words which has been passed from generation to generation from
the moment the concept of extra sheet and a twain to tie it was introduced,”
all of you tie your answer sheets”. This was just like “ this is the right time
, if you tie your paper now , you are going to win a maruthi swift else you
will only get a tata nano” . If we plot tension in Y-axis and time in X-axis
for the last 30 minutes and plotted the graph am damn sure it would have been
exponential. The peak of the graph in a range of last ten minutes , it should
be marked as “climax show off effect”. Typically this effect will be occupied
by the behavioral crisis of girls , and some of the boys. Specially those who
think that , this time calicut university may give them a 110/100. and that is
how its ends. Surprisingly the examiners will snatch the paper from us just
like it was their personal property. The point is I was already willing to give
them for free , then why should they snatch it from me(the gal who wanted
500/100 was still writing and begging for a minute).
“shit”
“shit” “shit” “shit” ….............................
Now the
time has come for the redemption , all of you please think about the “3 hours”
that just passed. Isn't it for this “3 hours” we pay our fees in
college??(22,500 rs,for juniors it was even
bigger). Wasn't this “3 hours” a race for marks?? to secure a job ,
status , high profile , degree???. We studied , wrote assignments , seminars ,
internal exams in a particular subject in the back ground of hard work and show
off was just to get a bigger digit in between 0 to 150( max mark) , just to write
proportionally and efficiently for this “ 3 hours” and never to think about in
our whole life?? after this exam, may be in later life we will face questions
regarding the same subject which we frighted well in last “3 hours” , how many
of us will be able to answer it?? Very few I think, if the question tests our
knowledge than our memory. Then what was the meaning of all this??what are we
gaining when we are doing like this?? we have been dragged on to being fools by
this system as we are focusing only on percentage. But there are many peoples who
don't even try , and by telling philosophies like studying for mark is
disgusting(including me, I was like that). That attitude is not justifiable
for any reason. This will not be a
question of your marks anymore , but how can you waste the money of your
parents by wasting an examination. So this “3 hours” means a lot than we see
what it was. This “3 hours” should be designed to be a stage to express
yourself to the subject , what knowledge you gained from it , how much you know
about it , and that should be rewarded by marks ; neither the similarity the
answer has with the reference text book nor the beauty of figures should be the
criterion for rewarding marks , but it should be considered as a positive
element for with weight age. Therefore the whole system should be changed to
something better , a system that ensures the students to be good engineers ,
more than the crap they are now. We should not study for just “3 hours” , but
we should study for whole life . We should use our knowledge for our society ,
nation , family , for science and give least importance for money , no matter
if we gain more after doing all this , and we will gain it.
So far in life I was a loser , I have
know authority to make this point , but this is what I know to do. My friends
know that I have improved at least a bit , as I stopped scoring backlog. So am
writing this. I respect my friends who score good marks by their hard work and
I feel sad about my friends and me who score less. Still I wish if this system
changes and a better one replaces , the attitude of teachers ,students and
university changes towards the engineering education , and engineers who comes
out becomes assets of our society. I wish this from core of my heart , am
dedicating this “3 hours” to my friends who had the spirit to challenge the
hollowness of the system and became good engineers.
This is
HRK ,still to become an engineer signing out.....
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