The Lonesome Road

It’s been a mixed week in college - and a period of change. There are two divisions in the final year of comp engg - division A and B. These divisions were made last semester on the basis of the electives that we had chosen. In order to reduce the confusion caused by reassigning roll numbers and restructuring the divisions, the powers that be decided that the divisions would be kept intact. Adjustments would be done to make sure that the electives for the students were not affected. Now, when we have Unix, it’s a mixture of the two divisions and at the same time, the other half has a HPN lecture. Works out pretty well.

Within classes, students are divided into batches for practicals. The mixed batch for Unix practicals were A and B, whereas those for HPN were C and D. Each batch comprises between 15-20 students. By virtue of my surname and my elective, I was in batch A. Man, it was great. Wednesdays were low load as we had no practicals on that day and no practicals on Saturday morning. Yesterday, all that went for a toss. Our class-in-charge made an announcement that effective immediately, A and B batches have shifted to the schedules of C and D batches respectively and vice verca. The problem is that we now have a break in the middle of the day. It’s basically three hours between lectures where we have nothing to do. Planning to use this time to work on our projects.

Our prof for Multimedia Techniques has been changed. The funny part is that she was our class-in-charge as well. We now have a C-in-C who does not teach us anything . Our college has also started a Guardian Professor system. Basically they have taken the load of managing the entire class off the c-in-c and passed it on to the different professors in the department. Pretty sensible.

We were supposed to have a project review on 17th and 18th. We had to show the ideas, requirement analysis, evaluations and timelines that we have come up with so far. Sample code (i.e a module) presentation was also a possibility. That has now been postponed by a week.

What else….The W32 virus and it’s variants are back in full swing. Beware of e-mails from known people with a subject called Information which have an attachment. Simply delete it.

There is more stuff that I wanted to write - but I think I’ll leave that for tomorrow.

Adios!