It all started on 23rd and thankfully its over now and here i am celebrating its departure by opening my often-so-silent bloggers mouth and this time on a softer and a lighter note. The occasion being stated here refers to our “end-semester exams” which got over today itself and i am relaxed finally. The past few days surely have been tiring enough for each and everyone of us here at IIT-R but the fun quotient associated with this particular exam is truly unfathomable. For yours truly this time around these exams were a bit special, not because of my extraordinary preparation resulting in an extraordinary performance in all my papers or even few of them, but because it was an occasion when yours truly did few things for the first time. The first and the pioneering one from my perspective being watching a movie a night before the xam and that also not once, neither twice but thrice and i am glad that i watched them. Dasvidaniya was superb and undoubtedly responsible for me watching another classic in the form of The Bucket list and lastly it was Matt Demons action packed The Bourne Ultimatum (it was the 3rd time that i saw the movie). Second thing that happened was a drastic change in the comfort level during xams which i did by fixing the upper limit for the time i woke up everyday, 11’o clock it was, whether i slept at 12 or at 1 or 2 or 3 but 11 a.m. i had to woke up. Then the third one and i would like to thank GOOGLE for this one from the core of my heart. Google books, my only source for Operation research and hydrology when i did not have any book to refer and not even notes particularly in OR, though i got screwed up in OR but that’s a different thing, atleast some confidence is required before the exam, and the books provided me with requisite amount of that confidence.
The past few days were the time when i imagined myself covered completely by soil, coarse or fine grained i still don’t know, and the formulas and theories being compacted in my mind in a completely saturated environment but the permeability of my cranium being so high that everything used to seep away at a very fast rate. I saw myself sitting on a portal frame swaying sideways with a GPS receiver in my hand receiving signals from satellites above and then storing them in a vector or raster data structure in a GIS environment and then using the data stored to somehow calculate the rate of inflation or the net present value of a project or the supply and demand curve.
Ahhhhhhh...... but the exams are over now and finally yours truly gets some rest to recharge himself for the survey camp ahead. Everytime the exam comes it surely ends as a good learning experience for each and everyone of us, for the sole reason that we start studying just before the exams only ;-)......but yes its a mixture of hard work, a bit a pluck, some resilience and finally some fun that makes up this end-semester of ours.
Yours truly bids goodbye to the exams and is not-so-eagerly waiting for it to come again, for learning is a continuous process and i don’t want to miss even a bit of that.
Adieu End-sems :-)
