After being so jobless in the 3rd sem there was a deep desire to be even more jobless in the 4th sem, and fortunately this wish of ours was totally granted. We just couldn't have asked for more. 2 namesake labs, 2 half days and the best thing of all : fridays off. Even the IT junta wouldn't have ever felt so jobless. Also this time we, or atleast the lecturers, were sure of the subject they were teaching. It so didn't happen that we started up with Information Security and ended up learning Information Systems [:P]. After a month long winter break, the minds were still frozen and lost. As the lectures progressed a dense layer of Haze used to engulf the eyes, which was strictly due to the chalk dust, cold weather and frozen minds. Lectures were so damn interesting, you never felt asleep and you understood each and every word of what was being taught :P For beginners who still haven’t caught on the habit of listening to lectures I would strongly recommend listening to HOD's lectures, they were my favourite when it comes to understanding stuff.
Well as mutually decided by all the NID's , 4th semester started a week late for all of us. It wz more like a NID mass bunk, which worked out well as nuthin worthwhile happened in the first week. The first day of 4th sem started with research paper submission by KC. That was the day I felt Oh Holy Lord...we are engineers, we've gotta be writing something much more useful and less weird unlike this crappy blog of mine. Theory of Computation taught us to differentiate between a greater grade human and a lesser grade human. It also meant no butter roti's in the mess on Wednesdays. Also we learnt a new word in his class- GoK, God Only Knows what it means, I guess Government Of Karnataka.. [:P] MPI sounded scary in its initial phase with BRC's latest seminar evaluation scheme. There were high hopes among all that this wont last for more than 2-3 days. But proving everyone wrong BRC went ahead with it and as an outcome the entire class decided to study and come prepared for his seminar sessions. Greater grade human's doubts provided tonnes of open discussions in the MPI class. PDC was more like Proxy Direct Connect. All that mattered was some reliable friend of yours sitting in the class n givin u a proxy. PDC classes were fun with HoD's small talk which used to make us feel proud of our department. His talks on departments placements profile and IT industries positive growth rate in India used to be really encouraging. We also realised that our department had the potential to track down IP addresses etc etc. Can’t say more, might lead me into a controversy!! :) Actually the entire semester was like a simple boolean expression which could be further simplified using a Karnaugh map. CG and OT were the “don't care” cases in that Karnaugh Map. Open book tests which were conceptualised by KC were actually implemented by Frieda Ma'am. Endless class cancellations and test postponements were the highlights of these subjects. Sudarshan sir was just like our peer. Guess he realised the hardships we had to go through in waking for the 8 AM class in the morning, as an outcome of which the 8 am class started at 8:20 "officially", which meant wake up at 8:20 and be in class by 8:30 :D
CG lab xam was more like a record breaker for the class- every single person got the output, thanks to various efficient data transfer and mass storage techniques :P End sems were the "one night stand with books "time. You get to see so many alien/foreign author books. But seriously it was fun reading Forouzan. It had so much of weird stuffs like traffic conditioners (revelon..???),leaky buckets (m-seal/fevicol..??),, Quality of service (ISI/BIS Hallmark..??),etc etc. CG endsem was the moment when I was so close to my first academic nightout. Damn the sleep Gods, I ended up sleeping from 3am to 7am. OT exam just exemplified the usage of "Bahut maara maari hai!!", wid ppl trying to mug as much as possible in an effort to get a AA in atleast OT. Governed by Nishant Statistical GPA Measures that was the only subject in which i could have got an AA, but thanks to exam time blank-out I screwed it up big time. After having bore the brunt of ruthless end-sems finally here are 3 months of glorious time chill and relax ..
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