The Dreaded 7th Semesters

To Start off, ill tell u what i did till today. First of all, as I am writing this, my 7th Semester Results are being made somewhere in the dark alleys of Mumbai University, Kalina, and believe me when I say, I am not at all excited about the results. If you ask me how my papers were, you are bound to get thrashed and lashed by my tongue becoz it was one hell of a ride, and by that i mean it was really like in hell, ekdum bakwasss.


I think what happened is, since we had 10 days holidays for each subject, the paper setter of Mumbai University thought that, we students are going to prepare the best for each subject, and take advantage of the number of holidays that were given per subject. But what happened was, instead of taking advantage of the holidays, I and a number of like minded dumbasses like me, got so much bored of the holidays, that we only studied in the last 3 days of holidays. So you can imagine our status, and the paper that was put forth, had questions so twisted that, after each paper we had a doubt whether it was the correct paper we have given (By saying we, I mean myself along with some other fools like me, It might not be you, dont worry).

For those of you who dont know let me specify once again what the University had in store for us. For us Seventh Semester Computer Branch students, who have only 5 subjects, had exams starting from the 5th of December 2007 till the 12th of January 2008. So you can imagine how much long our exams were, more than 1 month. Every other branch finished their exams by 30th of December 2007, except our Computer Branch, the reason is, "I DONT KNOW!!!". To top that, every single question in the question paper that was released for us this semester was new, was never ever asked before in the entire history of the university and whose answer could only be found in those huge 1000 pages reference books. Yes there are some exceptions, and I thank the University for that because without it, I think i would have handed over the paper as soon as I would have signed the attendance sheet. Out of the 5 papers only the last paper which had only 3 days holiday, was really easy. By easy I mean that all the questions that were asked, was either from previous question papers or its answer was present in standard textbooks.

I wish, I would atleast pass in all of the subjects, because if I get Pass Class in the final year result, then you can expect me to be unemployed and become some kind of criminal or something (PUN INTENDED!!!).

Advanced Microprocessor Paper on 15th December 2007, Mumbai University Engineering Course

Hey guys, its really been a long time since i have posted anything, I have loads of stuff to voice my opinion on, just didnt get the time and motivation (the most important thing), since my exams are going on. Not that I am busy studying for it, but I sure would love to pretend that way, makes me feel better placed while writing them papers.
First of all, I think Mumbai University wants us Engineering Students to get lazy, which is very much evident from the number of holidays (read: timepass days) given between the exams. If you are wondering, its like 10 days between each paper. I just gave one paper on 5th December and the next paper i have is on 15th December!!!

I agree its a gift, since i can score better marks with the holidays, wherein i can study better and all that crap, but people who have gone through their Engineering Course would very much agree with me that, no matter how many days are given for us to study, we are bound to get only 40 marks (there are pretty much many exceptional cases for this rule though, as it is for many cases in this world). Its actually, our habit, or should I say, our "Kartavya" to just get that magical figure in our papers. Here is something to think about. In the entire portion of "Advanced Microprocessor" a Subject that we have (which is the next exam on 15th, matter of fact), we have 5 chapters. The first two Chapters are all about the Pentium Architecture, the third one is about the Alpha AXP Architecture (another RISC processor), the fourth one is about SPARC Architecture, whereas the last one is about the various type of buses that are used in our PC, like the PCI, IDE, etc.

The first 4 chapters are so vast, i mean sooo vast that we dont know where to start from, and where to end, not to mention the stuff in the middle. You would tell me, u have so many holidays, then what the bloody hell are you whining about?? What I am telling you, boss, we are humans too, how do you expect us to remember soo many facts and figures and those block diagrams. And i just dont mean those simple facts like, processor speed, processor bitsize, etc, we are supposed to even know the Instruction Sets of all the 3 processors, which is a real Pain!!

Same is the case with pretty much all the subjects that we have, all of them have such huge scope of study, that its not possible for average people like me to mug it all up. I have an advice to the Mumbai University, esp. those who manage engineering stuff, Please Sir, introduce practical based studies for Engineering, just plain theory is, I feel pretty useless. Since we just mug it up, vomit it out in the exams, and later forget it like it was some kind of ex-girlfriend (Oops! wrong example, the latter part is pretty hard to forget about, lol!!).