And moving on....

Well, life just does not stop for breathers, does it? Just coming off a gruelling couple of weeks doing Aarohigiri, hoping for a week of total lethargy and devotion to Call Of Duty, somehow being a 6th semester student of tronix just escaped my mind. And here I am, cowering under a barrage of assignment, projects and journal completions to cope up with. What is more annoying than having to endure all this torture is the fact that there are people who are cruising through all this and are actually planning things way into the future. Well, I guess if I wre one of those devoted theists, I would be praying to each and every god imaginable to anyone to get me outta this mess. But till then, I guess I'll just have to survive....

Wy do we have journals?

Now it is really hard for any sound-minded guy (yes, it can be a girl as well. This blog, of all things, is not sexist) to believe that in the year 2011, and that too for a subject like microprocessors and interfacing, you are supposed to write and submit a damn journal. While nobody can give a shred of an argument as to why writing the same experiments which you have (supposedly) executed perfectly on paper is useful even to the tiniest extent, I can give you quite a few reasons why it (with all due respect to The Rock) completely, absolutely, undoubtedly and unquestionably, sucks.

1. It wastes a hell of a lot of paper. To hell with going green, people exist on this planet who actually discard an entire journal page rather than scratch a word.

2. It wastes time like nothing else does (A lot of people call 'em practical records and still expect you to write at least a couple of pages of theory).

3. It brings about a ton of otherwise meaningless mood swings and emotional upheavals.

(Day before submissions- - Last-minute attempts at arranging a mass bunk or making everyone else skip submissions

Night before submissions- Utter frustration when you can't find someone to copy from

Late Night and early morning-More frustration accompanied by some big self-promises regarding how the 'next' set of experiments will be written well ahead of time).

I am writing this post as quest to find out why at all we do what we do, so if you are writing any comments, please try to make sense....

Getting started

Don't know why I am out to write this blog. Maybe it's gonna be a place where I can say whatever I want and nobody (other than some jackass with absolutely nothing productive to do than stumble upon this blog) is gonna say a thing about it. Anyways, now that I have started off, let's see how things go....