The Sem-erillion

Disclaimer

The statements in this post reflect the thoughts of a typical student and has nothing to do with what the author thinks about the topic, unless of course, if there are some direct references.

Of the even semester, academic year 2007-2008

A not-so-short description of the courses:

PH102 :
One of my favorite subjects, but not exactly one of my favorite courses. We had one Dr. Murugawell as our teacher whose um… unequations caused a heavy amount of Brehmsstrahlung from the class… His unequations (hopefully) will now have an identity of their own viz., Mwell’s unequations which will be the harbinger of new research in methods of teaching in IIT…

CY102 :
We had two profs for this one… one was The ONE ( for digs only: can be expanded as Organic Nalli Exemplary)in teaching… He followed the best prevailing system of The chalk, The Walk and The Talk.

The other knew his concepts well but sadly his name gives a much darker image to his teaching. Most of the students thought that he was Destined to Kill the teaching aspects of Chemistry( does it ring a bell?)… but frankly speaking, he was not so bad… Infact, he was very good, is what I think

MA102 :
This time, all the plans of revenge that the muggoos were planning to execute on the teachers( for their worrssht grading skills in MA101)were singularly diagonalized thanks to the deprecated standards of “Enrique’s top ops”(guesses any one?) where a supposed-to-be two marks question carried five marks(and this is the tip of the iceberg, I tell you)… So, the muggoos were happy with the course(atleast with the grading pattern) and the non-muggoos had nothing to crib about(this was because the muggoos thought it was not worth their mettle to RG in a so-stupid-da course)…

ME110 :
Thermodynamics is not exactly my forte so I wont be writing much about it. Still for “exactness”, it was a course which required very little effort(not for me, but) from the students’ side( in other words,  ΔG_mug < 0). Atleast this was the general opinion of the teachers…

EC104 :
This was a very good course in which we learnt a lot about Digital Systems and Algorithmic State machines(more familiar as Finite Automata to the Computer Science student) with digressions to enamels in between .

ME112 :
More notorious as ED to everyone who thinks that it stands for “Exceptionally Demented”, this course was peaceful for me atleast( and everyone would have heard why it was so, NNNNN times). But, for most of the people out there, this was just one of the many courses where the motto is “No pain no gain”…

WS102 :
There is nothing much to be written about this course except that it falls under the category of one of those rare “No, pain, full gain” courses. But, as always, there are “fitting” exceptions here too …

Finally, PH104, The Undergraduate Physics lab.(To be precise: Undergraduate for whom?) :
As always, the TA’s were revising everything that they had unlearnt during their undergraduate classes, that too with the help of the undergraduate students whose main(only,I can say) aim was to put ice, butter(and of course pseud ) and get very good grade points… Grading reached a new high as some TA’s started giving out perfect 10s, 9.9s etc.,.

I think this covers all the “coarses” we attended during the semester.
Now let us see how the sem was, for different classes of people in the Insti….

Of the various people in the Institute

First and foremost, muggoos :

They rubbed their hands in glee,
so much that the others had to flee.
They mugged and mugged and mugged
until the others got really bugged.

Non-muggoos: Composing vetti verses such as the above one…

All people in the Institute : They cried and cried till they were fried(by the heat) …

Of grades and marks

Dont worry much about marks and grades,
coz they eventually lead to tirades
They always come and go,
But what matters is what you actually know.

Here ends the Quenta Semerillion

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