As a simple matter of speaking, even though you make it to college, you cant rid your conscience of the fact that the ability to cram stuff into your head still rocks, no matter how lowly or how demeaning it might seem. Well same rules apply at NIT Trichy as well. This is targetted at all those hard headed people who refuse to believe that this is the only way by which you can get a decent GPA.
One such brilliant mind is my roomie. He has several nicknames all based on his characteristic traits of forgetfullnes, short term memory, his uncanny ability to screw up any win-win scenario and last but not the least his fetish for computers. One can imagine how the nicknames go.
Lets call him Bhatturam for now( dont ask me the reason behind the name nor try to make guesses as to the origin of the name).
Well there is no denying that Bhatturam studies as hard as anyone else does for their exams and there is no count to the no. of nite-outs he has done before exams. One can even be bold enough to say he surpasses even the top scorer when it comes to dedication and hard work. The poor guy has been found snoring or drooling over his text books on several occassions, i can tell you its because of the exhaustion. One can even observe bhatturam roaming the corridors finding a suitable place to study. He feels there is too much disturbance in his room because of the constant verbal assault delivered on him by his OTHER annoying roomies. Poor bhatturam isnt too good at retaliation, certain instances when he did loose his cool and tried retaliating, it only helped as much as to generate peals of laughter and giving the other guy a moral victory.
Coming back to his dedication, well he did manage to locate a 'quiet room', a room full of studious people who have pledged themselves to silence when it comes to preparing for the exams. All went well but for the fact that people kept making frequent visits to the room to have discussions with our genius who was too good with his concepts. This disturbed the tranquility of the 'quiet room' and well you can say bhatturam's membership to that room was soon revoked.
Anyway the guy figured out all the funda for the topics and even skipped bath and breakfast to make sense of all the uncleared 'funda'. Finally bhatturam was ready and marched towards the exam hall armed with pen, pencil, eraser, calculator and all the 'funda' which he was sure no one else understood.
...An Hour Later
Guy1: Dude the exam was too easy, its an easy 18/20
Guy2: I'd say 19/20
Well, with all that talk u'd expect bhatturam to get a minimum of 25/20
Me: Hey bhattu how was ur exam?
bhattu( cooly replies): I'll get a 6 or 7 (as if the top score achievable was just 7). Dude i forgot the formula and i had to derive it. I cant believe the others completed the paper so quickly.
...Reason for such trash talk. Well bhatturam had been studying derivations for his math exam and nothing else and hadn't bothered to see any worked out problems, neither work out any problems. He goes by the philosophy, " If u know the atom, you know chemistry" or "If you know the alphabets, you know English", well you get the picture don't you.
Actually the problem is Bhatturam is proud of his CBSE background. Well i tried to explain that so are many other people, but it wont do one any good when it comes to college.
Bhatturam never seems to think this as a problem. He ultimately did get 7, after writing 7 sheets and hence scoring an avg of 1 mark a sheet. He is of the opinion that true talent isnt being recognized. That is in fact true and many people know it. People actually have a problem initially in their work-life because they aren't thorough with their engineering.
To this day Bhatturam is still the same, he roams the corridors on the night before the exams and still gets 7/20. He feels that change is imminent and he feels that the fortunes will one day favour the likes of him( he still believes luck plays a major role and hasn't pondered the idea that he can make the difference). Despite all this Bhatturam remains my favourite roommate- one for this immensely lazy logic and two for the fact that it takes guts to have an attitude like his.
To this day Bhatturam is still the same, he roams the corridors on the night before the exams and still gets 7/20. He feels that change is imminent and he feels that the fortunes will one day favour the likes of him( he still believes luck plays a major role and hasn't pondered the idea that he can make the difference). Despite all this Bhatturam remains my favourite roommate- one for this immensely lazy logic and two for the fact that it takes guts to have an attitude like his.
