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A day I cannot afford to forget…

Anoop Sankar — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:54:11 +0000

Yesterday was officially the longest day in the year… but that was not what made it special for me. Yesterday was my last official act in college, my last exam. The day I bid goodbye to some of my best friends from college… Also the day in which we had our high school re-union… where too I said bye to some of my buddies. We might never see again (I hope not) but you people will always be there as my most cherished memories. A day I cannot afford to forget :)

The Last Day of College

Anoop Sankar — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:06:28 +0000

Here ends four years of my college life. From today no more classes to attend. And pretty soon I will cease to be a college guy.

Hmmm… Four years! I seem to remember my first day like it happened yesterday. The mixed emotions of excitement, fear and happiness of entering into a new world, all seem so vivid. And now when everything seemed so settled, its time to go.

College presented me with a lot of good memories and off course a few bad ones. I’m just glad that my good memories heavily outweigh the bad ones. The two class tours, those countless “unofficial” tours, the onam celebrations, the films during strike days, painting ourselves during holi, getting fired by our teachers, running around taking print-outs for our lab records, copying assignments just five minutes before submission, those wedding trips, sending SMS and missed calls during class, learning together during the series exams, those birthday treats, giving lift to the girls on my good old 800, those sleepovers, the heated debates on each and every small thing, the public “paradooshanam” times, the song and dance sessions during the final days…. oh god! I’m going to badly miss these happy days! :(

To the princess who tagged me… This is my “Painful Pleasure”.. thinking of those days that’ll never return :)

Rang De!

Anoop Sankar — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:02:45 +0000

Some snaps of Holi celebrations @ college. Holi is not really celebrated here in the south, but which idiot will waste a chance to paint your friends red, yellow, violet and what not! Hehe. We did have a great time, as is very evident from these pics.

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And true to the spirit of holi, we all cut the afternoon hours and went for “Rang De Basanti” :) Nice movie, by the way. So sad couldn’t review it earlier.

For all the details, jump to Akshay’s blog :)

How to evaluate an Engineer?

Anoop Sankar — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:15:43 +0000

My semester exams are going on now and I have been (supposedly) spending most of my time studying for it. Not really studying, its more like mugging up. That makes me wonder how good an evaluation system our B.Tech examinations are.

From what I know, an engineer must be someone who applies his knowledge to engineer some ingenious things. Does that mean he needs to remember every theory in the world word-by-word? Hmm. Our University of Kerala seems to think so, unfortunately. The whole model and structure of their examinations makes us not want to apply anything anywhere!

We had this subject called “Information system for managers” this year. It was a rather interesting paper, but somehow the univ guys have managed to spoil it. You ask anyone in my class what the paper was about and I’m sure not one of us would know anything more than you do :D . The question papers seem to be testing our memory and not whether we have actually understood what the good old proffessors had written in those textbooks. I thinks its time that the whole written exam thing is scrapped, atleast modified. I mean wouldn’t it be better if an engineer is evaluated on how many useful things that he can do rather than test how many bytes of information he has stored in his brain. I know its not something that will change overnight. But surely its doable.

Then you might ask me.. How to make that change? Hmm.. I’m just a poor engineer from the University of Kerala. How would I know! ;)