my 2nd sem...!

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hmm...my post for 2nd sem will be relatuvely shorter than of 1st sem...primary reason being everything we did in 1st sem more or less continued in 2nd sem...even though this time it was a bit more subdued.owing to the prescence of laptop in almost every room and people discovering the wonders of our internal lan p2p software viz direct connect (dc for short) which has all the stuff you require to boast to your friends about any book you have read or movie that you have seen lately because dc has practically everything ranging from ebooks to movies to software tutorials to software

themselves to games...everything you can possibly think of!! we dont have to spend money on theaters etc which going by the look of things is pretty useful in college..(you will hardly ever see a person leaving even a 1 re tip anywhere..a penny saved is a penny earned after all)... still major point of 1st sem remained same...i mean classes,exams and our preparations (or rather lack of it) werent affected...apparently teachers were not amused by the fact that all freshers were experiencing a new virtual college (read dc) and needed time to absorb the fact that everything on dc can be viewed in 4 years (as many of my mates only spend their time on their laptops taking everything dc had to offer..unaware of outside world perhapsthinking that if he has to finish dc he will have to spend his every spare time on it)...so anyway the point to be considered was that teachers werent bothered about out lame excuses about entering classes late (that too in an unclean and just out of bed condition) because we slept late at night lost in the realm of dc.(i am mentioning dc too much aint i???)..anyway the new thing that happened in our 2nd sem were the fests...i know i talked about an inter hostel event in our 1st sem..but this was diffferent..it was national level..more fun,more events, more people (for use of a more appropriate word...girls) and more competition (ya like we cared!). so there were 3 fests in all held at different times of semester..they were (with time of occurence)...

1) a techincal fest QUARK (held 3 days before our 1st test)

2) a cultural fest WAVES ( held 4 days before our 2nd test)

3) sports fest SPREE (held 20 days before final exams..still better huh??)

btw quark is supposed to have a full form which i am dutifully not aware of ..i only know that 'q' stands for quest and 'k' for knowledge (and mind you before you draw conclusions about my attention in college affairs...this info is what less than 10% will be able to tell you)..you can come in with your entries of remaining letters bit noone really cares though i ike to call it "Quest for Upsetting All Remains of Knowledge ..i suppose spree must have a full form too though i am not sure..waves i assure you does not have any meaning behind it..!

right. soour first fest was quark...and our 1st expirience of a national level fest..well atleast my 1st expirience....one senior in my department had given me a small something to do..and make charts about it...and i remember moving about aimlessly in search of a person with better chart writing than me (i refer to it as chart writing coz its different from normal paper writing..those who have made charts would know..) aind eventually i actually had a girl from my dept make those charts in 1 day that too...and in th e process ended up giving my friends sketchpen box to those girls...but i was grateful..they saved some serious trouble...thanks to them! and 1st day of quark i mostly spent registring people for bitsmun (we dont really need to go into details.). and ya Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was apparently coming to innaugrate our event...though he arrived like 2 hours late and well after events started (which meant officially we were conducting events even before quark started..thus we were ahead of time for once). his speech was utterly boring which was hardly a surprise...! there wasnt much use of us in events as most were bagged away by seniors..as their technical knowledge was obviously far greater than ours...but again atleast we gained an insight as to what projects and ideas were our seniors working on...another thing in fests are the food stalls....a nice break from college mess food...specially the 'gola' which was the most sold out food item...but even apart from that were all the burgers and pav bhaji and stuff which was awesome really!!

waves was the next fest to come by....the awesomeness things such as food stalls and other feasts (read girls) kinda improved....and i for one had definitely more fun in waves than in quark....coz i definitely had more part in organinzing which involved me running around daily..which frankly speaking i thoroughly enjoyed...you know all the planning and stuff and then seeing the success of your event..it was brilliant! i am looking forward to it again...! but apart from that there were the special nights to enjoy...namely the dj nites and band nites and all..! and then there was sea rock...a semi professional rock band competition that demanded full stenghth of our neck muscles (headbangs in short) that too in the hot afternoon sun..though it was fun!! and our media coverage was done by mtv wassup team...i dunno maybe you people even watched it...but we had a chance to see Bani j work live! it was awesome and thus went waves!!

third fest was our sports fest spree....all we did during that entire fest was enjoy and rest in the 3 day break...and ate free food...not because of treats or anything...but there are other ways ..if you know what i mean...<>....and ya the highlight was basketball...girls basketball ...and the teams that came to participate...even though they hammered our college team we still cheered for them... for obvious reasons...<<>>...the best part in spree was the fuzz ball competions...which we spent entire days playing...that was about it from spree for us..

and thus with exams some 3 weeks later ended our second sem and 1st year of college...technically it means we are 25% engineers now...but thats no use as we all know...and frankly speaking we dont know anything in the name of engineering yet,...and i am really looking forward to our 2nd year...but letme tell you...everything i wrote for my 1st year and al the fests is very much in brief..(dont give me that look,,,i noe that joke...its way too old now)...there are many things i might have missed out...like our outings and all.. but you see...every day in college is worth writing a blog on...and thats what i intend to do from now on...i wont be typing annual reports...they are far longer than i tought.....so thats all from my 1st year!! i'll be coming back with my next blog soon (as soon as i get a topic!!)...!