The drudgeries of life

I probably would have ended with the formalities of bidding SEN a "fond" farewell, but what the heck! I'd as well mention my DP's completion. Sorry for the frequent use of acronyms! Actually DP stands for Design Project, a course we started in the second year under a faculty of our choice! The motto of the entire exercise was to help us come up with some rad design! Naive that we were, not to mention over-ambitious and a bit stupid, we somehow chose a project which is unheard of even as B. Tech. projects! And to top it all, we chose professor RNB as our mentor! So that was the beginning....

While many of our luckier, and probably wiser, batchmates caught hold of professors who let them off the DP hook just a semester or two after they began, we were stuck with the thought of probably continuing our desigining a CDMA-like system (Outrageous??) even after the final year! RNB is one guy who I respect with all my heart and there couldn't be a second RNB! He's a pro in whatever he's doing, is up-to-date on everything else, is a great professor, has unlimited knowledge, who strives for perfection in anything that he's introduced to, and is damn friendly on occassions when you visit him for a chat! But he can make you work for all you are worth! In the beginning, though nothing much was done except redefining the project statement and shrinking the project scope, work actually began in full swing last semester when in one meeting RNB pinpointed me and Amod as being fit for nothing and promising us that it was not necessary that he'd give a Pass credit to each and every group member! That was enough to get us working, atleast me, thank you Sir! Slogging it out in the electronics laboratory for quite sometime to get a wireless communication between two PCs finally paid off!

After almost 2 years of being tied to the DP, the great RNB last week freed us! He was really cheerful and helpful and protective! Kept reminding us of not making mistakes and stuff like that which he kept finding in the project document! He actually spent an hour teaching us how to correct our documents:D! God I look back on the times when we met him in the beginning, then the time we went to him after a long break and he refused to recognize us(!!), when he promised not to pass all of us, the time he offered us some sweetz before Diwali (yum!)!! But the last day was really special! The guy actually seemed to get sentimental! His parting dialogue that he never wished to see us again with a big grin said it all!

Sounds odd to me too, but somehow I feel sad that the DP is over! It goes unsaid that it was fun "working" with my best pals and teammates! Feels good to be able to be one of the rare DP groups which can boast of either passing their DP after doing work! And that too, a DP under RNB!!!

Now that SEN and DP are no more issues of concern, it's time to concentrate on much more important issues of life! Orkuting and Blogging.. here I come!!