Dilema and Dewali Holidays

It all started about 10 days back.There was a news that the hostel  would remain closed for about 10 days due to dewali.Rumors were that it was officially from PTU,which was lately confirmed by a notice in the hostel's notice board.

Initial Feelings

Firstly,we were all surprised,it was welcomed by some and criticized by many including me.
This news came at the time when we were sucked up from our hectic schedule and still it's the same....
much greater work load..!!!
but for some,it was not the case.

The main reason of discontentment among the students was that the college administration took this opportunity to save money,they also issued a notice notifying that the hostel will remain closed during the Dewali holidays.
That meant that we were not allowed to stay in the hostel after 24th October,that is today's date.
Some took their tickets(waiting) others planned to stay nearby the college,few went to their relatives in Delhi,NCR and other places where they seemed to find their accommodation.

 Change and how did it occur

I'm writing this post today on 24th,and this day was supposed to be our last in the hostel,we are now allowed to stay,and avail the major facilities.
Till now i suspect that all students must have realized the fact behind this.The main motive was to send as many hostel students away from hostel as possible.In the end of the day they succeed to much extent.
Today,there are hardly 20-25 left in my IET boys Hostel,having capacity of over 400 students.
Previous year,many students celebrated their Dewali in the hostel,exploding crackers,bombs,here and there,damaging hostel's property,last year they also organized a feast on Dewali.This year it's all reverse,it seems the college authorities have planned to cut down their expenses.

My thoughts

Starting from the day this notice was issued i was sure of myself of staying here during the holidays,if not possible in college then else where.There are lot of things incomplete,say it assignments,Machine drawing sheets(2 more sheets to complete out of 23),others in spite of lagging(less than 15 sheets complete),happily went home including my room partner.Moreover our 2nd Sessional exams begin from 8th November and Semester exams from 21 November,so i am not in a mood of wasting time, there is no gain without pain

entry as seniors

Few days back at home,5 days before reopening of my college and stareting of the 3rd semester,finally i decided  ,so on 5th august i ended up at patna junction at 5:30 in the morning to get m,y tatkal ticket ,i had to wake up at 4:00 in the morning for that.Got my ticket at 7:55 after going the troblesome to be in a line of about 80-100 people.
Peace

An unusuall day at Workshop

to be contiinued

Sony Vegas Pro Vs Adobe After Effects

Recently i came across Sony Vegas Pro 10.0

It is a video editing software made by Sony Corporation.
About a month back i downloaded from torrent,and about 3 days back i started using it since i needed to edit a video desperately.
Previously i used to edit on Windows Movie Maker,It is simple in design,user friendly for noobs,and efficient for basic editing.
Now its major demerit is nonavailability of comprehensive features.This problem was solved bu Adobe After Effects and lately Sony Vegas Pro 10.0

Here we go,now i'm gonna make some quick contrast between the above two on non technical grounds.

Adobe After Effects CS5 is far more superior to Sony Vegas Pro 10.0

• After Effects may appear to have a complex user interface in first look and so do Vegas Pro.

• After Effects focuses on advance motion graphics,animation and composting whereas Vegas Pro is for professional video and audio production, as company's tag line says.It has HD rendering capabilities.
• we can efficiently edit videos and audio easily with the help of interactive tutorials on Vegas Pro also it can run on computer having minimal hardware.
• After Effects requires system configuration above normal,by this i mean to say Ram above 2 Gb, processor having good cloak speed and a graphics card of adequate memory as per the video to be edited.

Further discussions: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110602103436AAWaLAZ

what a drag....!!!

It's been two days now,today was third.It is now clear,yeah i'm targeting end semester workshop training.It's no less than a crap and waste of time.
It is even worse than the normal workshop training that we had in the 2nd semester.
This end semester training is about a month long.It is quite hectic for us considering this scorching summer heat.
many students have already planned o quit it before it's scheduled closure,about a week earlier.It doesn't bother me much.I've decided to leave after training gets completed as i have already made my journey ticket to home.But as said earlier,this training is beginning to appear as a big fat drag.

main reason

From 3 days now we are having machine shop training .There are about 26 students(group 1 of our section) working an a single lathe machine.This way no one is gonna learn properly.I believe this whole training session is just a formality in our college.These are things one has to face if he is not in a reputed engineering college.

There is a solution to this.The only way is to lead the group. 

Enhancements

It came about a week after,i posed the above post.
They are making us to make simple jobs,which i think is futile.
In carpentry shop,we completed 3 jobs in just about 2 hours(usually we are given 6 hours to complete a single job),so as to learn the other techniques as well.

This post was supposed to be posted yesterday but wify network broke down around my hostel room region,so i am posting this post now.....

It is not much time left for the final showdown,it is just a week after from now.Today we had our last day of internal viva's we are free now,and just need to concentrate on our studies.

Our (M.E. - B) last viva was of Communication Skills.We weren't sure how the external examiner would conduct the Viva.At the last moment it ended with the news that we would be facing each other in Group Discussion. It was group of about 15 students,sitting on chairs arranged in semicircular pattern.I was supposed to give my viva in the second batch after the viva of first batch gave over.It was being conducted on Univ. Roll no. basis.

Our subject of discussion was on: India's talented people who don't get a chance to show their talent (here i'm missing of the proper words which Arif sir told).We had a healthy discussion.I started the discussion and it also ended with my words.

After GD, we answered to Viva questions,which were missiled towards us by both Dr. Mohammad Arif (Our C.S. Teacher) and the External teacher.Although i didn't prepare for the viva,it went nicely overall.I answered to their questions on my knowledge attained from the Lingual Lab and Lectures (Having 100% attendance in both).The bottom line is i made them captive with my Vocabulary and sense of perception.I often resented to other student's opinion as some of them were out of subject of the discussion and to more extent wrong. I think, my loud audible voice did it for me.

At last, i felt that external examiner and our teacher was quite impressed with my way of discussion.After all I had a piece of icing left to put on the cake, my C.S. Project Report, it was submitted by a group of five students. I had to put my best knowledge and hard work to complete the Project,the other 3 members out of 4 only collected data on their respective subtopics.

Our Project was divided into four subtopics: Mine was Economical Section followed by other three, namely Political,,social and Historical.
Finally here is our project,that came out....

Approaching 2nd Semester exams

It's about 12 days from now and our second semester exams will start.This Semester was supposed to be "Change" for me after dismal performance in the 1st semester.There isn't time left,but i need to utilize and manage my time adequately.I have a lot to study in M2,perhaps it is the subject which can get  ugly for me.I don't understand why i don't study those subjects of which i have books.For instance i have books of M2 and C.S. but hardly used them for my studies, instead i laid much emphasis on BEEE, Physics etc, having no books......!!!

My 1st paper is M2,are 12 days sufficient?

That's the question which i keep asking myself now and then....

Whatever,i just need to concentrate,prepare well and perform well.

Finally  ** cheers  **