Commercialization

Since some time, it has so happened that I have ended up writing something or other during the long dreary hours of lectures. Today as well, when I have started writing this I notice a basic fact for the very first time. It is a very plain and simple fact that I have been writing things only during those lectures when some powerpoint presentation is going on.

Now, Mr. Bill Gates would definitely have had some idea of how large it is going to become when he introduced Powerpoint to the MS Office package. PPT files have become an important part of all kinds of business – teaching, marketing or otherwise. Things have changed before and things are changing now. But some things and some people still stick to the older methods. It was just yesterday when I visited one of the junior’s rooms and found her scribbling something on a transparent sheet with a permanent marker. She told me that they need to give a presentation and the only aide they’ve is an Over Head Projector. My – my, I was shocked and frowned at the technical prospects that a premier institute provides its students with.

People say that we’re developing and the net per capita income is increasing continuously. Now, looking at the mathematical aspects of this I find that though the increase is continuous but the distribution is surely discrete. People, who earn, earn a lot and those who can never get a penny across!

In this scenario, there ought to be conditions that people opt for weird things as a profession or rather a way to earn living. Recently, our class went on a trip to Manali. It is an awesome and beautiful place. When we visited Snow Point, the nearest possible place from Manali, where one can find snow in the month of April, I did get an idea of how can mankind commercialize some very mere ideas of joy in order to get the most important of all – money. Rs. 40/- per head to pose with a Yak, Rs.100/- for using a tyre tube to slide on snow… are some very weird examples of what I want to convey. How mean has mankind become? To commercialize or to sell all the little things in life that can give even a meager amount of happiness to someone, sounds so very unkind!

But guess this is how it all goes… who am I to say something against the world’s age old traditional atrocity!

TP in lecture!

OK now, what the crap all this is! This is supposed to be a class and professor is supposedly giving some presentation on "Wireless Networks". He has started from slide 6-25 "Avoiding Collisions", the head and tail of which I am unable to understand. And surprisingly enough, he has now moved on to 6-26 and probably will teach more. He seems to be a in a mood today, unfortunately not of teaching but of running through the slides and somehow very generously of singing a lullaby to the students. 6-27 no and man... he doesn't seem to stop at this too. Can't he understand that after getting all new Wi-Fi 802.11g internet connection in rooms, who the hell gives a damn to the crappy 802.11 frame structure.

This specific class was held after some very common but definitely dramatic sequences of reality. After the 10 minutes long absence of the instructor from the class i.e. we spent 10 whole minutes waiting for him in a dungy classroom in one of the non-lively corners of the department, we finally decided to leave for our respective hangouts (By the way 6-28 now...). We had barely reached the ground floor and Alas! out came a solid apparition from the dreaded alley (the professor's rooms) informing us that - "Don't go dears! Sir aa rahe hain!". :( All this and we were all taken aback by the wave of disappointment. With the dreary and foggy silence of frustration all around us, we walked to the second floor for the room S-308. (Ahh, 6-29 now!) After some good enough efforts and speculations and some knowledge of Combinatorics we adjusted ourselves in order to help us "jhelofy" the 40 mins long (10 more mins gone) boring session. And... wait for what is coming next... some fellow came and said "Class is supposed to be held in S-310 & not here"! My-my, all this occurs specifically when you are not at all in a mood to attend lectures. With some past 7-8 sleepless nights, one wants to finally give rest to the eyelids but the desire is fulfilled occasionally only.

By now, its is 12:45 pm now... 15 more stupid and eerie minutes and I will be a free bird to spread my wings to their maximum length and fly from the E&C tower rooftop. A daydream fantasy though, but it sure helps me each time I am stuck up somewhere in the non-sensible lectures for another 15 minutes. And yeah, especially when one know that the torture is going to continue for some more insane minutes (6-30 slide with couple of green circles and graphics).

I spent the last 10 minutes about strategically planning the end of this note, while blankly staring at the projector screen. The only conclusion I reached was that probably I have crossed the limits of running out of one's mind coz all I could think of was not an ending to this but somehow a start of another one. The only one thing that has crossed my mind till now & that too several times is the very popular, tangy and unforgettable song "Zabaan pe laga, laga re... Namak ishq ka!" :P So, all the dudes and dudettes out there, don't worry I know I am insane :D.