Sem 6 and one thing I' ve understood viz. the meaning of the word "Eventful"- .
I can quote 3 such eventful days (till now!)
Day1: Thursday-the last day of our IInd internals, it was Operating Systems paper and I bunked it! Though nothing special about it, all those who wrote(that is the entire class except me!) made me feel that my idea of bunking O.S flopped as the paper was easy! I did not feel much though. I went to college by 11 and others came back from the test. We had an assigment in DSP to be written and we started writing. Even while we were writing there was a plan that few might go to Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya bunking the noon classes. And don't know why I was also in those 'few' even though it would be my second time to go to the same movie! Assignment work done, we felt why not bunk and spend the half day in Embedded lab to do our project. And eventually, our(mine and Sridhar's) minds tilted towards the latter. But our project hero Santhosh would never fall for the second plan! Attendance matters to him even though he has a plan of bunking 150 hrs of the total 600(His calculation!) to maintain 75%. I trusted him and had asked Vimal to book 2 tickets for me and Sridhar. Thus done, we started from college by 2 and with Sridhar's biking talent we reached KG. The movie got over and we were there again in college! I swear none would have expected us to go to college again!We went again to greet our dear batch mate Santhosh who had been waiting in college for us to do the embedded project.Thus joined him, we started giving the impression even-we-do-project! It was another such day in our 1-crore MPLS lab. And trust me, we never expected anything unusual.But our expectations went wrong, and the sensor worked! Our dear guide Sivaraj Sir(referred as SS here on) was called upon immediately(fearing that the output would just vanish before he could see :P). And I don't know what each one of us 3 felt like but i definitely know what SS was thinking.He was elated! He went and kept saying everyone that the colour sensor started working. He even asked us to go out for a celebration. I never knew getting a square wave output from an IC would call for a celebration?! And we stayed there till 8 30(last to leave the lab) waited for our most esteemed Venky Sir to return back to his cabin for handing the lab keys to him.Folks, that definitely felt eventful!
Day2: Tuesday-The day of Yukth! With Yukth(ECE department's annual project presentation event) date approaching, our-honourable-SS kept on insisting the importance of doing that PRODUCT with which each one of our Embedded students could(actually it was more of a 'should') get placed. He even insisted on presenting the same in Yukth. And our colour-sensor had shown the face of a square wave just 4 days back. We had the fear 'what if SS asked us to present this square wave for Yukth??' and fortune turned away from us as SS did say that! We were asked to take readings and do some coding for LCD to display the colour. I started feeling negative for having got the square wave! We took readings on saturday(3 days before Yukth) and asked SS if we definitely should keep it for Yukth. He then offered a compliment saying he himself would do the coding for LCD exclusively-for-us! Should I tell 'what a great compliment?'.Period. We never felt like our project meant for such an arena as Yukth. But nothing-against-SS goes the saying. Sunday, and Sridhar managed to mail the abstract and it was selected immediately the mail was sent; because no abstract was denied! Monday evening and still we felt like we had plenty of shame in store for us on Tuesday! We reached college on Tuesday morning by 8 and were expecting SS to turn up and make miracles happen for us. And SS turned up only by 8 45.Wow! What an opening for everyone to strip us naked for presenting such a worthless project! 8 50 and I and Sridhar were discussing on dropping the idea of presenting this project(in the hardware domain) and concentrating on our most hyped software project VoIP which was also to be presented. But then again nothing-against-SS. We took some readings and burned the MuC with the ineffective LCD code and took some genuine videos(:P) to prove that the whole system works in MPLS lab conditions and modifications in the code are to be done for it to work elsewhere and set out to the lab where all projects were to be displayed. We said to each other- 'Come! Let's enjoy getting embarrassed together'. The ribbon was cut and the first person to see our(and everyone's) project was our HoD. She same to our table and saw ours. We showed her the videos, told her that the IC was imported from the U.S and her comments were 'It is indeed a new idea. Imported from U.S uhn? Smart boys!'. Did we manage to avoid embarrassment? I thought we managed well. Staff members,juniors,ME students came pouring in and we explained as if we had done so much hardwork for this to work. Whatever it be, everyone was fancied by those videos! We were fighting for comments and teasing other projects but all that was in pure envy. Results were to be announced and I,Sridhar,Siva and Susan were expecting a prize for our software project. We never had this embedded project in our mind when they were about to announce.There were preliminary words before announcing the results followed by hardware results. When she was about to announce I heard Amalan anna whisper into my ears congrats! I was happy that my software project was going to win a prize. I even asked him 'software dhanae anna?' and he said 'NO! hardware..'. I thought he was kidding. But he is not of that type. III place to our class batch,II place to robot batch of g1 and..here we go.. 'Ist place to Balakrishnan and team for their colour sensor without the use of camera!' (even the project title din't sound good!) But that was like it cannot happen not only to all but even to ourselves! Nevertheless i preferred being numb till I left that place. I managed to get a glimpse of what all people felt like and Omg.. people were glaring at me! I managed to say everyone I had teased "definitely we never were worth this prize. You deserved the prize!". Even I can be modest :P. But actually speaking, none accepts that I did mean it!
Day3: Some evening(don't remember the day),scene shot in MPLS lab!(sounds like a movie uhn?? :P)
Having won the prize in Yukth we now very much belonged to those elite members who do embedded projects staying for hours after their classes.We were again there trying out our best to bring out the PRODUCT. And this day was special. I call it special because the only people present were g2 students! Usually it is the other way around. g1 students do a lot of work(it even seemed like the lab was all theirs!). But today there were only 5 students,all from g2, and those 5 included we 3idiots. We were there sorting out the problem of that ineffective LCD code(after the project won the first prize!) and we never were near solving the problem. The added specialty was that SS was also there(probably waiting for we 3 to come up with some miracle again :P). Our hardware hero Santhosh left early as he had headache(after all he missed to be a part of this yet-to-become-eventful day).It was 8 30 and I went to SS to report him this issue of ineffective LCD code and wishing him to come and sort out the problem. He did come and instead of finding the bug in the existing code he started doing all from the first. Typical SS way. He then asked us if we knew how the LCD code works and we had a big 'no' for it. He went to board,took the marker and started teaching LCD from scratch. 8 30 pm and we were sitting in a class of 4 learning LCD. I thought we overcame sandwich students that day. He finished teaching and again sat for coding it and seeing the output. He did the code and the output came as expected. 9 10 ! I got a call from my mom.I couldn't pick it up as I was sitting just beside SS. He began modifying the code and showing wonders on LCD. We were seeing the code and my mind was in my watch. 9 25, he finished showing all wonders he could think of and seemed like the end of the scene.Mind you, it just seemed! 9 30, and our web designer Joseph came up with a doubt 'Sir, why do we use a diode in a driver motor circuit?'. Except SS, who seemed seriously enthralled by this question, I could see everyone else( including me) had a bloody rage against him. He started taking a class which brought me memories of my 11th std physics tuition. 9 30 and I got a call. This time however it was Siva's mom. His mobile was switched off due to low charge. And I was able to imagine how it would be for a mom whose son din't return home till 9 30 pm with his mobile switched off. 9 45, and SS was saying something about electrons and positive charges get attracted towards each other the way boys get attracted towards girls. Was this humorous? Never seemed so. 10 00 and SS at last realised it was getting late! Yeah, late night. The moment he asked us to leave I ran for my bag(so did others) and we removed our project setup in MPLS lab and locked the lab. While handing the keys to SS I heard him sayin 'this kind of learning should have been started the 2nd year itself..'. I can't stay in college till 10 00pm everyday! We ran towards parking lot fearing they would have shut it. Fears allayed! it was still open and the only 2 wheeler in the whole lot was a Gray Apache which was supposed to be mine. Run to your home was the call from my mind..
That ended Eventful Day 3
