teachers ..

you hate them. more than that, you love to hate them.. you just dont want them to see you anywhere outside your coll/uni. you talk about them, gossip. you believe they're the dumbest and the most dull personalities on earth. you sometimes see people around you resembling them. you notice the eccentricities of their dialogue and try to imitate it. you try to copy their tone, their words and their expressions,too. Though you dont remember any informative talks with them, your memory is fresh with all the silly incidents and jocular observations you did about your teacher. you ARE obsessed about them. the more you hate them, the more they intrigue you.

You idolize them. o ya.. how many of you have actually had a crush on one of your teachers ? i know .... most of you ! someone which looked young, someone which had that style of speaking (for the girlies), someone which wore red's n blue sari's and looked out of the world (for the guy's). yes. you are just crazy about them. you just want a piece of them, know about them and try to imitate their style. you love them. you ARE again, sadly, obsessed.

there is no other feeling about any other teacher. you just love to hate them or just have an heartache. But what about the teacher ? the person is just a normal living being, with their own eccentricities, with an identity and more importantly, personality. probably they're no worse than you (or better than you) but u still idolise them. the reason, because he/she is you Teacher.
A relationship from which you expect to learn (the academic things) but you end up learning so much more, associating yourself and making them an important part of your life. As for the teacher, he/she is just his own self, unattached and he/she,sadly, doesnt love you or hate you (unless he/she wants to).

you expect so much from the teacher. you expect all the niceties, all the interest in you and all the knowledge. sadly, he's just another human being. He too has his own interests... which definately wont be you.

the final countdown....

The final week of the college (assuming final exams turn out to be a smooth affair) is turning out to be really unexpected, to say the least. have way down, we've had some nice suprises after the disaster of Open House held on saturday .. (thats a personal thing, so no more discussions)
now then, we get to know the busy schedule ahead.... Monday is the usual day having 1 or 2 classes where arun 'maaroes' some senti to make a point.

Trying to make us remember the bond we share with teachers and more blah blah about respect and not to say bad about them (which is definately true, but being truthful has never and will never be wrong). This makes me think about the 'political correctness' and praising everyone and not saying true things despite you feel that (just for the sake of getting more promotions or more people start liking you or all the things) they call that being practical .. yes .. that is .. being true may not make you rise high but remind you that you never bent low for petty rises in life.... thats what a leader is supposed to do cause when the opportunity beckons, the true will jump higher than the sycophant followers....

anyways philosophy later, its more about the final countdown .. well wednesday comes and so does the final departmental farewell, which is a sweet suprize, with a sweet saying written specially for us on the blackboard (reminds of the school rite ). then teachers inviting us for a snack with them and casual discussion over the cup of tea.. ... then comes a classroom discussion with a beautiful message by the teachers about the 'start' of the new phase of life .... a career and really an optimistism injection which everyone would never forget ...

then comes the dinner at director's house, a special treat by the college (imagine a govt. college with all the bureaucracy all the four years to get a single rupee holding out a lavish dinner for the final yearites as a farewell gift.... something totally unexpected and something really sweet)
such acts of exuberance shows the love the authorities want to imbibe in us for the college and rightly so... they deserve it..

apart from the technical glitches, the poor interaction and a wide gap between the students and teachers, the college has helped everyone learn a lesson or two.
those who wanted achievement got it. those which wanted acceptance among peers, too got theirs. people got what they wanted, be it friends, love, job, power, money (ahh yes, people got that too, by hook or crook or by winning some big competitions) and for more philosophical guys like me, learning... yes .. i got my share of learning about the world and how it is designed and how it works and how to live ....

so, there is something everyone got from the college. the final acts just remind of that and wake you up to say, start loving it ... now its the time what you can do for the college .. so dont forget it .......

academic learning in electronics engineering

its time i wrote anything (had my exams and am badly addicted to the stupid travian game(my latest rank was 547)). after giving my last sessional exams in engineering, i have been contemplating the 'academic excellence' achieved in our 4 years of engineering. Being of electronics and electrical communication engineering, electronics is an integral part of the course so i'll just elaborate how much exposure to electronics a guy may get if he's planning to utilise his 4 years in PEC, or for that matter, any engineering college in a chronological manner.

1st year
the only electronics learnt in the initial year is in the subject 'mechatronics', where i got to learn electronics is about diodes and transistors. it was wonderful to learn that curves of these devices are called characteristics. (for the people who have studied 11th and 12th NCERT books thoroughly, i guess its redundant, but hold on.. read more..)

2nd year
diodes and transistors rule the roost again. analog electronics was a subject of intense understanding, but it turns out to be a wasted chance because rather than learning, it was more important to crib about the teaching standards- the lack of it, for that matter. physics subject too helps us understand how the semiconductor physics make them work, while we wonder that had it not been invented, 2 years of our lives would have been saved .

3rd year
nothing really electronics was learnt, apart from diodes and transistors again (now the topic is how they are used in power electronics). people have just begun wondering is there anything except diodes and transistors in electronics worth worrying about??

4th year
the 1st semester teaches diodes and transistors (again) in the context of VLSI circuits now. and the 2nd semester teaches it in context of microwaves.

Now, the best (thats meant in a satirical fashion, ok ?) part has been learning the thing over and over again. while the 'characteristics' i.e. plots of working of these stupid devices have remained same (thankfully) over these years, everytime before the sessionals people provide different explanation to explain the graph over and over again, while everyone is now accustomed to make the stupid plot even in his/her dreams. What else, these bloddy devices keep on coming with different names just to mess up our lives.

so thats about it. 4 years of academic learning about 2 bloddy devices which even dont need any explanation at all.