Archive for August, 2008

College Professor

// August 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // Mumbai University

One of the big mistakes I made in my 18 years of existence is opting for a Graduate’s Degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from a Mumbai University college. Make no mistake, my college is grade A college, though having the college trust being affiliated to the current Maharashtra CM & father of popular Bollywood Actor might have had something to do with it, but that’s another issue.

I have grown skeptical of the kind of formal education in Bombay. This is not only because of what is taught but also a lot do to with who teaches. We all have our anecdotes of our college lives. Sometimes though, certain events just anger you to a whole new level.

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Na Ghar Ka Na Ghat Ka

// August 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // Mumbai University

The above lines may sound ridiculous to some, but these and many more such lines add laughter to the lives of the otherwise suffering Mumbai University engineering students. The saga of suffering continues this year as well with almost 15,500 of the 17,500 having failed in the first year (second semester) examination. Without being partial to the students, it may be noticed that an average engineering student has scored a minimum of 80% marks in his 12th standard examination. (The exceptions being the bade baap ka betas who make it to engineering colleges on the baap ki mehnat ki kamai and end up drop-outs). Then how is it these engg. students fail? The argument that students don’t study regularly is unacceptable, as a student who has scored 80% or 90% marks need not be told WHEN and HOW to study. So who is to blame?

THE UNIVERSITY
I)The term for the engineering students is supposed to start June end but more often than not you won’t even find a kutta on the college campus before the 15th August. Colleges start 11/2 months behind schedule courtesy late admission, court stays, medical entrance and so on. It’s already August and the students are expected to appear for the exams in the first week of December. Just two months to go and the students are expected to complete the following before the examinations -
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FE Revised Syllabus

// August 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // Mumbai University

Since there has been a change in the syllabus for FE since last year…many students don’t end up knowing the proper syllabus, marking scheme, topics, practicals etc etc.
And since I have a digital copy of the circular issued by Mumbai University, I thought I’ll share it with you’ll.
You can download it from HERE

When Companies Outsource Support…to Mars!

// August 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Life's Happenings


AH, 21ST-CENTURY SUPPORT! Thanks to state-of-the-art interplanetary communications, the person assigned to “help” you is always philosophically and sometimes physically located on Mars. When and if you reach a support person, the advice offered will be based on a script prepared long before the support company ever heard of your particular problem. Your mission is to avoid wasting time while gleaning possibly useful nuggets. How? Watch. When Outlook Express began downloading my e-mail a few days ago, Windows popped up the dreaded message, ‘Symantec Service Framework has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.’
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First Post

// August 19th, 2008 // No Comments » // Life's Happenings

Okay here it goes….so ive finally started a blog…i dunno what m gonna put in here…but yes…itll have stuff related mainly to technology and some engg stuff…and at a very rare few times other things too…

Anyways…its 11.45 pm and i jus created this page…stuff will be added regularly…..hope so…
watch out…