Bunking classes

Bunking classes was my topic for a speech for english internals.. thought abt on the previous period... thought the teacher was gonna kick me out bcos of the topic, but she dint! maybe cos it was the class in the last day of coll Anyway here it goes...
Once we come to college we hear a lot of words like 'ragging' 'hostel' 'mess' and 'bunking' is one such word. Its a part and parcel of every college students life... When we were in school we were all very sincere students and never bunked a single class.. at least i dint! but now that we are in college we should definitely indulge ourselves in such activities. Bunking classes has many plus points to it.. one- u develop a sense of time manangement. when u bunk a class u should make sure u reach in time for the next class so that the teacher leaving doesnt see u and the teacher coming for the next class also doesnt see u.. all that requires prescence of mind, planning and foresight.
Bunking classes increases ur abilities to manage stuff.. like when u maintain bunk scores and calculate how many classes u can bunk and when to bunk so that the time may be exploited to the best etc.. all that goes into ur development and helps u in interviews and ur job as such.
Then bunking classes inculcates leadership qualities.. When u organise a mass bunk u need to know how to convince people and how to talk to them.. And of course that gives u a chance to interact with girls.. girls generally require convincing.. cos there is a theory which says girls are more sincere and studious than guys... but if u tell that to a girl she wont agree, cos there's another theory which says girls dont agree to any kind of generalisation..(claps from guys and raised eyebrows from girls including teacher so dint go on with theory of girls)
and thus bunking classes goes into developmant of personality and character.
So i feel instead of having compulsary 75% attendance, the insti should have 5% compulsary bunking.. hpe u all enjoyed the first sem. see ya

Workshop practice

More work done on the robot...I dropped the name ROBORAY.. doesn't look like a ray anymore.. had to cut it to satisfy size constraints.. I got a lot of experience in working with wood. First i had to cut the wooden plate to the required shape.. this took some amount of effort. Then i drilled in holes for the screws.. this was the fun part.. its fun operating a hand drill.. i was too busy enjoying drilling that i dint notice the drill had gone into the stone on the work table.. this resulted in me getting scoldings from mom!! ha ha anyway had fun

More of my robot!!!

Hey made a lot of progress today so gonna put in another entry. Today I managed to solve the big problem of extending the motor shaft. The problem was the motor was connected to three gears and all the shafts dint reach out of the box..so I removed the shaft from the largest gear in the end which was too slow to be used. pushed the shaft of the gear i wanted to use half way out and pushed in the other shaft from the other side.. its something like this
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------- ------- so now the shaft sticks out enough to fix the wheels!
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kinda crude but it still works cos the gear is rigid enough.
Next is the problem of fxing the wheels on the shaft.. i think im gonna use mseal to fix it. Will do that tomo..
This is wat i noticed my design and ideas to start with were very proffesional and to the point. Now after seeing the limitations of resources it keeps getting cruder and cruder.. hopefully i will stay to gether during the competition! And it should do the given task quickly and efficiently. thats all that matters!

Roboray - coin picker extrordinaire!!

Uhh.. its a flashy name for my first robot but anyway!!Robot making is really awesome.. it combines the various discplines of engineering. U need to know electronics u need to know how to machine ur parts u need to now mechanics u need to know programming to program it. It seems truly captivating and intelectually engaging project..Heres wat im gonna do. mine is a remote controlled robot that picks up metallic coins.. kinda very simple but its my first robot! but this should be challenging.. Right now i thought of using an electromagnet for picking up and a differential 2 motor drive for steering. Its crappy jargon for basically two wheels driven by two motors. one motor stop, one motor run, the robot turns. when both motor run, robo move forward. All the ideas are ready and i made a rough drawing and circuit design.








so i went and got parts.. i really dono wat will work and wat wont but i managed to get the motors gears wheels and switches.. have to assemble them on a plate.. and hopefully it will work.Ill put up another post once its built.

First sem is over!

Hey its been a looooong time since icame online.. and guess ill be wasting time online for the next one month to make up for it!
Sometime ago there were certain things i gave importance to in my life.. now they just dont exist they r dead.. and I dont care anymore..
I learnt it is indeed difficult.. but possible to get over it.. dono if i have done it myself though.
Dont bother trying to make sense.. my blog is crazy like me..
here comes the sane part

Hey exams are over. so is the sem and im back in chennai...
Dono wat ill do without college for a month..
It was sooooooo much fun there
Its literally amazing world inside NITT
I really like the environment and the peacefullness..
My fellow students there are truly wonderful and they help me in bettering myself

and my GPA is gonna come!! Im so tensed.. its like board exam results..
if my gpa is not above 8 i dont stand a chance with a good mnc..
hope fully ill make it above 8.. boy o boy o boy
Dono wat system they r gonna follow..

well i think i'm too lazy to write down more.. this is a bad post.. my blog is quite unpopular anyway.. no one comments..
anyway dont care.

Life at NITT

Hey all, Im studying in NITT, i finally went ahead and took cs there.. after a lot of confusion. Anyway thats history.. Right now IM A COLLEGE STUDENT! CHECK THAT OUT. When i think abt it i kinda feel old.. im in college.. hmmm i must be growing up. We all wish we were kids.

First year! the thing that comes to ur mind must be ragging... not much ragging only very friendly suff. Life at NITT? lets see its extremely lazy. let me describe a typical weekday. wake up at 630, look at the time, go back to sleep wake up again at 745 jump out of bed do ur morning stuf its 830, then u have a choice eat breakfat and cut morning class or cut breakfast and go to morning class eating a bun and tea in Bru. UR lucky if u have the first period off.. Then after u do all that its 1010 and its break time. U go stand outside in the corridors of the CLC and hear wat other boys comment upon girls passing by. And remember have a cell phone. u can msg all day! in class in break in the night. u need someone to msg though... dont be sad now. Then u go back sleep in class till lunch break. Finally the sddistic torture master the cs faculty will let u go. u go straight to mess to eat. ITs 1210 and very hot and the entire firsty is in the mess. the food is also very hot and u sweat like a pig after eating it. then u drag ursef back to hostel.. hang out in ur friends rooms playing or hearing music or sleep in ur room. cos the break is till 220. And then again if u sleep off u miss ur class, like that makes a difference, after 450 ur exhausted... u can do extra curriculars now. either visit library or go swimming or karate class or the gym. art arnd six 30 ur done. U go bak tak a bath. watch tv and go to mess. or go to mess and watch tv. Either way u end up watching till 1030. then u think if u have any thing to be done tomorrow. if u have ed then u r screwed. u have to sit up possibly till 3 or 4 in the morning. if u have an exam the next day.. just forget it last min studying dosn't help. jus go to sleep...
Wat abt studying?? unheard of! wat uncivilised country u come from??


Typical weekend at nitt u start with friday morning. all classes in the afternoon are either cancelled or massbunked or not there at all. u go into town if u need to buy something or maybe watch a matinee. its around 7 and u had a nice time doing watever u felt like. then u gather ur friends and go to snacky. hog to ur hearts content... go to the room play cards till 9. And remember to slip out before the watchman closes the hostel gate. remember to take ur headphones. then go to da octa the coolest place in NITT. flash ur id at the watch man. go straight to lab2. Its time to play!! warcraft 3 or cs anything u like. u look at da seniors who r playing. they barely notice u. after all wat first year will dare to come here at this time.. so u must be someone else. Anyway u cant join their game. u play among urselves if u have company.. play play play till 1. then come out for a walk. its very cold in the ac u know. go to bru have a coffee and some lays maybe. stare at the seniors who r smoking and boozing. if ur tired.. go back to coral thru the bak entrance, go past the room where nris r having their party smoke booze pondy n all, to ur friends rooma nd sleep. or if ur upto it go back to the octa, the watchman snores his approval, play till 7. at 7 u come out. go to the mess eat breakfast with the early birds. then go to room and sleep till 12. then u wake up and brush ur teeth and take bat and ur ready for the next day!! hows that??

Day at gandhinagar club

Hi today evening my friend murugan invited me to gandhinagar club in Adyar.
We were gonna go swimming there!
Its a long long time since i swam.. the last time was in a district competition where i got a bronze. after that i've never swum. I started swimming early in LKG, i used to swim almost everyday in school. I lost touch because of studying for exams in the last two years...
Coming back we got there and signed in.Murugans mother came with us. She went away and came back later. Then we changed into swim suits... the last time i was in one i was mostly a kid.. now that im almost 18 it kinda felt awkward... but after i got into the water the uncomfortableness was gone. we swam for a long time... till we were exhausted... the pool was empty at first but it started crowding up after sometime.. there were girls! so we decided to call it a day and get out of the pool. Outside in the cafeteria murugans mom was waiting with cheese sandwhich and water melon juice. Yummy! Then we watched TV for sometime, ate ice cream and left. On the whole the thing was very enjoyable and i had a lovely time...Im waiting for murugan to invite me to the club again!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh My life is ups and downs

Hello there...
My life is always ups and downs..
Ups and downs as i see them.. others may tell differently....
Its been like that in all aspects of life
take for eg. my entrance and board results- i was unfortunate enough to get all the bad results first.... or maybe they weren't but the first one i got was BITSAT- i got a mark way below than wat others who where with me in my classes had got... the mark was not good enuff for a good group even in goa...
with that my dreams of a good college started collapsing. cos i thought the rest of the results are also gonna be hopeless like this so wat am i going to do then?
moreover at home my father started of one of his pessismistic routines... saying i have missed the chances in life... i have to struggle harder and those who were with me will be flying high and all that crap....
even being complacement as i was, did no good... i was feeling hopeless... cos my father clearly stated that there will be no payment seats(coming soon- state of education in tn) so then wat will i do? will i even get a engineering degree?wats gonna happen to me? Am i going to be one of the million engineers who struggle to find a good job? Cant i get out of the rat race?MAybe i was wrong the whole time. maybe i thought too much abt myself
It was at this point that i hit an all time low...
If it was not for one person at that time, if i dint have that one person.. then I dont know wat i wud have done.....

then board results came... chem was a let down.. tnpcee was washed out with that... then thankfully aieee results came out the very next day
or i wud have had a tuff time... aieee was good results. got a good state rank.. good enough for compooter at NITT... whew! wat a relief! we are now going up the incline.... enjoyed my days for a while had a nice time...peace of mind! then came IIT results and amazingly I had managed a rank- a little less than 4000.. not much but still a JEE rank! wow! as it proved later on this will become the cause of more confusion later on... but anyway i was jolly... happy... bliss like days
tnpcee resutls went and came- was not at all bothered

then now councelling is approaching, i hit a wall again- hmm... i need to choose a branch and college... NIT is good i think.. but then the more i got to know abt it.. the less appealing it sounds
5 in a hostel room imagine that!! 5! omg that is so irritating...
then there is bachelor of design at IIT guwhati
the course is differnt than engineering has a lot of scope for creative work..kinda nice for me.
but wat job will i get afterwards i dont know
the guwhati campus is amazing- single room with balcony view, midst mountains there is scope for outdoor activites like trekking and climbing, great climate, great faculty everything better than NIT but i dont get cs there i get only Bdes. wat will I do afterwards? after Doing it if i cant find a job then im gone.. but the tag name IIT carries a lot of value.. i may be able to change my stream after first year or i dont know.... its frustrating kinda risky.... dont know if ican go ahead with it....
i need a job. a high paying and steady one.. only then i can say im ready for somethings later on...
so shud i go with the cs at NIT and forget abt IIT campus... Stuck inside with 5 in a room and not so good faculty.. oh boy wat do i do...

man now i dont like anything.. i dont like any of my choices!!!I dont want this! wat the hell!
there is a third option retry IIT next, year but i feel im too lazy for that. but if i study well i might get a good rank... wat do i do???Im on a down again
aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh this is killing me!!

Abt love

Hey ever been in love?
Can someone describe it? What is it all abt?
Personally i dont like the word 'love' that much.. it sounds too mushy. I would prefer calling it something else... i donno wat though. Love is love. Does it exist in real life or only in the movies?
Or does it exist in real life because it exists in the movies... hmmm which is correct.
Love is as different as the ppl who experiance it. Each one is will have a description abt it.
Joy - agreed we are all happy when we are with our special person.
Pain - we are unhappy and pained when we are or cannot be with our special person.
Which is stronger the happiness or the unhappiness.
We seem to be especially bothered if the person whom we love is hurt, physically or mentally. more so if we are responsible.

Is love just a part of living things.
Can it be explained by the mere cemical action of harmones?
Is it nothing but biology,chemistry and maths?

Is it just nature? a mechanism programmed into our genes?natural instinct?
maybe so. maybe it is the way nature works... If so are we above it?
Are we above the call of nature? Us with all this technology that can do wonders?
Do u know which is the fastest computer in the world?
Blue Gene/L ? or is it NEC Earth Simulator?
wrong! Its the human brain!
Nothing can match a human brain...
All the computers with all their speed dont match upto the human brain.
No one can explain how the brain works. the capacities of the brain are unmeasurable....
So which is higher? nature or technology?

Its upto u to decide. as for love.... those who havent felt it dont know wat it is. those who have felt it also dont know wat it is...

Hi
My blog page was a little dull, so I spent the day sprucing it up with java and flash....
Will do more soon...
bye

Abt me

Hi there!
i completed my 12th this year. Being in India i have to go to college. so i wrote half dozen entrances and my board exams...
half dozen literally... i wonder when will the day come when we will be admitted into college based on a single evaluating system....
I mean wats the use of writing so many different exams? writing just one exam makes more sense doesn't it? I save the rest for my next blog...
ya so i wrote half a dozen exams and finally the results came out...
the period i've been thru can't be described... i mean the wait... for the results..the uncertainity...the confusion....the doubt....the shattered dreams.....whew! glad thats over!
it cant be described. u need to go thru it to understand....
According to most of my friends im supposed to one of the most laid back types u can find... a happy-go-lucky chap is wat they call me...
even me when confronted with this succumbed to the tension....
Neway as i was saying the results are out
and i've done well i think..
dont want to bore u with list of colleges and my results....dont want to think abt it now
see ya

Hi im starting a blog

Hallo world!
My name is Mani
Im from India. My life is the life of a middle class student in India. My views of life, my aspirations, my dreams, my friends, my failures and my life are gonna be put up here.


Now that the formal intro is over...
I started this blog basicaly cos im jobless right now
and will add stuff whenever i feel like.
Will tell u more abt me in the next blog!!
ciao