As a Freshman ( Part-2)

The inaugural function was really good(All the usual stuff, more and more and more of speeches and ………..) but the best part of it was the lunch that was served thereafter. After a really good lunch we as usual were asked to attend class. The usually lecture here to and then the introduction of each on of them. By then end of the day I knew most of them by name and really good part of all this was that I knew my entire batch mates in about two days time for the reason that there were just 220 students in the entire batch and the college strength totally put together wasn’t any more than 250. First year was heaven for most part. The journey on the solitary road from uttarahalli by college bus, the beautiful lake, the turahalli peak wow what a sight to behold. Classes were a lot boring but for those who manage to bunk it really doesn’t matter. But the worst part of bunking was not knowing what to do after bunking. No canteen, no GT, no KK Gardan Dhaba and family restorent nothing at all. But for my frame of mind there was always the solitary walk into the estate or gazing at my daring turahalli peak and for most part going home.

Classes were the usual stuff of writing records, data sheets, notes, graphs and the list goes on. Then there were the jokes of KSS with his Hello, Well you know stuff, NSR with his patented arrarrarareeee and a chemistry teacher who has left college since who used to scribble on the board illegibly cos he was really bad with spellings. There was a joke in first year about him. He supposedly submitter a thesis for his P.Hd which was rejected. Reason? Rejected due to spelling mistakes. This was how bad he was. Also there was this chemistry HOD who used to think in Kannada and speak in English and always say “ Remove first class” but then how should it matter to me of how his English was “ Whose father what goes”. See thinking of him spoils my English too. First sem was accompanied with the usual stuff of internals, assignments and the semester exams in which to my true reputation I fared to do badly. Second sem was fun with graphics handed by KRG of whom NSR was really scared of and still is and still refers to him as Professor. The best part was the physics classes and the lab with none other than our very own Pandurangappa. His theory classes were always associated with his notes with his poor English and labs always filled with the smell of incense sticks or of tea. The best part of the tea making was that the class topper was suppose to prepare it for him. This practice has since been stopped over the years. He once threatened us by telling us that he wont enter our class to take classes in the future for which our joy knew no bounds but soon this was washed away after he started taking classes in the lab. A real @#@$%&* character. He also ad the unique distinction of knowing the name of all the girls in the batch and an even more unique distinction of looking down their throat. Labs were associated with the usual experiments, Kerosene Xerox viva questions which I still suggest my juniors not to study cos for most part you don’t understand his handwriting and even if you do it really won’t matter a damn of whether you studied that cos it doesn’t matter. Also the best trick to answer his viva is to wait for him to ask a question and immediately ask him a doubt on that. Viva over. He made so much money in selling the viva questions and selling graph sheets that he built himself a house with that money!!!!!!!

The best part of the second sem for me was the Workshop which I thoroughly enjoyed for I had the reputation for finishing the models first and also have the distinction of having done two fitting models in one class. We had carpentry too which the juniors lack which was really good. There was also Keshava in the workshop who used to always say “Yen Raja” and him me on my back. With a few of my favorite subjects like graphics, SOM and workshop I managed to scrape through with a distinction my first of the only two that I have ever got.

AMEN