“Hi. I am Dipen Ambalia from VJTI.”
9 years have passed by since the time I first spoke this sentence. Till today I feel proud of the fact that I am a VJTI alumnus… and will be proud of that fact for years to come.
I am sure that there would be hundreds of VJTIans who would echo my feelings…
My stint with VJTI started in September 2000, when FE Electrical began. Kaustabh Chakraborthy was my first friend in VJTI.
I was a bit nervous on the first day because I knew that VJTI was known as a abode of scholars. We were made to sit in the ELR2(the ELR nearest to the Quad) on the very first day.The first day passed by just taking look at other classmates and trying to figure out whom to approach for friendship. Slowly and steadily I started interacting with classmates other than Kaustabh.
The whole FE was spent in the walls of MLRs. I guess it was MLR5….
We were lucky to have had great professors like Bhatt sir(for BEE), Mokashi sir (for Mechanics), Chaudhari sir( electrical networks) , etc…
We had some 8 subjects in the FE…Amongst all the subjects in the FE, Mechanics terrorized me the most… even after joining a crash-course for Mechanics, I crawled to getting pass-marks in mechanics… I had got 43 and 44 in mech 1 and mech 2 respectively….
The thing that bugged me the most in the FE was the submissions..i still wonder why does the system have submissions as an integral part of the system even when they know that the submissions are merely a copy of an original one!!..like in our class, Kaustabh, Prashant pande, Aniket mahulikar, shruti rangarajan were the OCOS (Original-Creators-Of-Submissions). If these OCOS made any mistakes, the same mistakes percolated through the submissions of the rest of the class.!!! So, while KC, Pande, aniket and Shruti created the original copies of submissions, the rest of the class prayed to God that the OCOS didn’t make any mistakes!
Otherwise it would be a re-work for all…!! By the way, no one ever copied my submissions. The simple reason being – I used to eat away many lines, paragraphs, formulas while writing the submissions, assignments, etc… I was an ultra-lazy person… and I knew no one ever cared about the content of the assignments, submissions, etc…
Quad was my most favorite place in the whole of VJTI campus. The simple reason being – it was an airy place..mast HAWA aati thi…and you could see a few beautiful faces…
Another place was the Canteen. I distinctly remember the times in FE (2000) when the canteenwala, used to give away snacks for free after 5 PM… Bala, Madhav, I and many others used to take advantage of this ThanksGiving offer!! The samosas were really good…
One more unforgettable place was Mhatre’s. hundreds of students must have bought sheets, floppies, pens, pencils, etc from shops adjoining Mhatre’s. Mhatre ka Samosa sahi tha…!!
I still remember the time when the results of FE were displayed on the near the entrance of the college. There was this huge rush to see kaun pass aur kaun fail aur kaun topper!!!
I was just praying to God to just help me get pass-marks in mechanics. And I did pass. That day I strongly believed that God did exist!.. I was more anxious about the results of FE than I was about the results of 12th std., because in 12th I had worked and I knew what kind of questions would asked (thanks to hundreds of questions papers that we solve in 12th) . under normal scenario, I should have been devastated on the realization that I had scored just 59 %...but there was this big relief that I didn’t get any KT… from that day on, as far as engineering exams were concerned, I knew that my target was first to get 40 marks..then then upar se jo mile wo BONUS!!! J…
I can never forget the electrical lab. To be very frank, I m lucky that I didn’t get selected in any Core-company while campus selection. Because, my electrical-ka-knowledge was so poor that I would have surely been fired..!.. Luckily I got placed in Polaris Software… living in the software world is very easy. Believe me.,. I have completed 5 years in IT now!!! It rarely understood ki current kidhar se flow ho raha hai aur kidahr jaa raha hai!!... I felt on the electrons!... MAN, don’t they get confused ki kidhar flow hona hai!!!
And I was not the only one… there were others too… and to my shock, those have survived 5 years in Core-Companies..!!.. I feel that they must have mastered the art of fooling clients and bosses.!!... I have thoroughly mastered the art of fooling bosses. In IT, I feel, its easy to get away by giving flimsy excuses like – “actually, I going through the whole code so that I come to know how much will my change affect the whole system “ or “ I am thinking of a better flow, I am sure I will come out with something which requires less time and effort and gives better results”…etc..
For more of perfecting the art of fooling bosses, you can visit my blog
http://dipenambalia.blogspot.com/2009/09/perfecting-art-of-fooling-bosses.html
I hope you liked my blog. It’s just that in every recounting of tales, we relate to those tales and feel “are ye to mere saath bhi hua hai”..!!!... I would urge every VJTIan to mail me his/her such sweet memories so that I can compile them in the “Memoirs of VJTIans”. As per my calculation, out of the 6000 people that I have reached through orkut at least 200 should care to mail me their tales and assuming that their tales are at least 5 pages each, we should have a PDF of 1000 pages by the mid-december. Believe me, reading others’ tales is as much satisfying as recounting yours.
this is the sample of "Memoirs of VJTIans"...
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1jy
If you are convinced about the idea of having a compilation like “Memoirs of VJTIans”, then please help me in spreading the word about this compilation that I am trying to create. If you have any doubt or queries, you can contact me on 9975420605. Or mail me at dipenambalia@gmail.com
Please take out time to recall those good old VJTI days and mail me your sweet moments. Every moment shared is like a moment lived again.. And I am sure that even you must have felt “Are ye to maine bhi kiya tha… mai bhi aisaa hi karti thi….maie bhi lecure mein sota ha.. Etc…!!
Recall a moment, recount a moment….relive those moments…!!!
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