My malayalam post which came in this week's blogana (click on the pics to view the pages):
Friday, November 27, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
I will not change!
[Some said they did not understand. For their benefit:
For lab experiments, we have 2 records. One rough record for the dirty job - marking observations, drawing rough circuit diagrams, graphs etc. One fair record where after the dirty job is done, we copy the values, observations etc and draw neater graphs, circuit diagrams etc. During the final lab exam, we have to submit the fair record also. Typically the fair record carries 10% marks.
Hope that also clarifies some questions you may have had for my previous post.
]
Scene: 3rd sem lab. Betsy teacher is in-charge for our batch. She is the toughest teacher.
B: all, submit your fair records!
Everyone submits, except Santosh. He is smiling.
B: Santosh, why you are not submitting your fair record?
S: Madam, I lost it yesterday! (still smiling)
B: What??!! How coolly you say you lost your fair record. And you are smiling! No remorse on your face!?! Do you know what will happen? Do you know the weight your fair record carries for the final exam? Anyway, do you think you can enter the final exam without fair record? What is the proof that you have done all the experiments in this lab?
S: (says nothing. Continues to smile)
B (little bit settled after a few moments of silence [Santosh’s still smiling]): Anyway, I think you will have to re-write all the experiments and get it approved from any of us before you come for the next experiment. Do you think you can do it?
S (still smiling): Yes madam.
B: Ok, I think I will look at your rough record to cross-verify experiments. For now, you submit your rough record.
S (still smiling): Madam! Rough record was inside the fair record when I lost it…
B: (Looks at Santosh’s innocent smile in wonder for a few moments). Ha ha hahaha!!! (bursts out laughing)
PS: Santosh never laughs. He only smiles... as he did on that day even when Betsy ma’am was laughing….
For lab experiments, we have 2 records. One rough record for the dirty job - marking observations, drawing rough circuit diagrams, graphs etc. One fair record where after the dirty job is done, we copy the values, observations etc and draw neater graphs, circuit diagrams etc. During the final lab exam, we have to submit the fair record also. Typically the fair record carries 10% marks.
Hope that also clarifies some questions you may have had for my previous post.
]
Scene: 3rd sem lab. Betsy teacher is in-charge for our batch. She is the toughest teacher.
B: all, submit your fair records!
Everyone submits, except Santosh. He is smiling.
B: Santosh, why you are not submitting your fair record?
S: Madam, I lost it yesterday! (still smiling)
B: What??!! How coolly you say you lost your fair record. And you are smiling! No remorse on your face!?! Do you know what will happen? Do you know the weight your fair record carries for the final exam? Anyway, do you think you can enter the final exam without fair record? What is the proof that you have done all the experiments in this lab?
S: (says nothing. Continues to smile)
B (little bit settled after a few moments of silence [Santosh’s still smiling]): Anyway, I think you will have to re-write all the experiments and get it approved from any of us before you come for the next experiment. Do you think you can do it?
S (still smiling): Yes madam.
B: Ok, I think I will look at your rough record to cross-verify experiments. For now, you submit your rough record.
S (still smiling): Madam! Rough record was inside the fair record when I lost it…
B: (Looks at Santosh’s innocent smile in wonder for a few moments). Ha ha hahaha!!! (bursts out laughing)
PS: Santosh never laughs. He only smiles... as he did on that day even when Betsy ma’am was laughing….
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Gently lick me out, folks..
(This post is a bit technical as it involves an actual scene in an electronics lab in Engineering college. I am sorry, but I cannot translate the technicalities)
Location: Outside circuits lab, Govt Engineering College, Thrissur (Kerala)
Situation: S3 Electronics lab univ. exam
Smitha: Sunder… you look so happy.. are you not tense?
Sunder: No way! I have learnt all the experiments!!
Smitha and others: (wow, this guy’s so cool… and I am sweating…)
..
Smitha: We will step into the lab with right foot first. That way, we will have more luck.
Sunder: No way! I am a communist.. I don’t believe in superstitions.
Smitha: But Sunder, how confident are you on the experiments?
Sunder: I have studied all the experiments except UJT. UJT has not been asked for any of the batches who completed the lab exam till now (including A batch). So they will not ask today also. To prove my point, I will step into the lab with left foot.
Sunder steps into lab with left foot. Others with right foot. They look at invigilators – Sukumaran sir and Indira madam.
Sunder takes the sheet and slowly opens it… the experiment is.. UJT??!
Now comedy starts. Don’t know circuit diagram.
Sunder: Sir, I don’t know this experiment. Can you change this for me?
Sukumaran sir: Have you done this during class?
Sunder (almost whisper): yes… sir..
Sukumaran sir: Then it cannot be changed. Go and draw the circuit diagram!
Sunder goes back to seat… somehow draws a circuit diagram (how he drew, I will not explain). Takes it to invigilators.
Sukumaran sir: What is this?! Is this your circuit diagram?
Sunder: yes.. .sir…?
Sukumaran sir: This is wrong! Anyway, I will take your viva now. hFE of an npn transistor is 150. B-E cutoff voltage is set to 0.6v. E-C voltage is set to such-and-such and it is working in common emitter configuration. What is the base current in the transistor?
Sunder completely worried now. He looks at the calculator in his hand. Not very sure where to start.
After 3 min…
Sunder: Got it! Sir, it is 35A!
Sukumaran sir looks at him disbelievingly… “my dear, there is no such transistor in this world which can accept that base current…?”
(ok, for those who did not get the joke, the base current in a transistor never exceeds a few milliAmps)
[As though that explanation was enough]
PS: Sunder continues to be a communist, but from that day always steps for a new venture with right leg only.
Location: Outside circuits lab, Govt Engineering College, Thrissur (Kerala)
Situation: S3 Electronics lab univ. exam
Smitha: Sunder… you look so happy.. are you not tense?
Sunder: No way! I have learnt all the experiments!!
Smitha and others: (wow, this guy’s so cool… and I am sweating…)
..
Smitha: We will step into the lab with right foot first. That way, we will have more luck.
Sunder: No way! I am a communist.. I don’t believe in superstitions.
Smitha: But Sunder, how confident are you on the experiments?
Sunder: I have studied all the experiments except UJT. UJT has not been asked for any of the batches who completed the lab exam till now (including A batch). So they will not ask today also. To prove my point, I will step into the lab with left foot.
Sunder steps into lab with left foot. Others with right foot. They look at invigilators – Sukumaran sir and Indira madam.
Sunder takes the sheet and slowly opens it… the experiment is.. UJT??!
Now comedy starts. Don’t know circuit diagram.
Sunder: Sir, I don’t know this experiment. Can you change this for me?
Sukumaran sir: Have you done this during class?
Sunder (almost whisper): yes… sir..
Sukumaran sir: Then it cannot be changed. Go and draw the circuit diagram!
Sunder goes back to seat… somehow draws a circuit diagram (how he drew, I will not explain). Takes it to invigilators.
Sukumaran sir: What is this?! Is this your circuit diagram?
Sunder: yes.. .sir…?
Sukumaran sir: This is wrong! Anyway, I will take your viva now. hFE of an npn transistor is 150. B-E cutoff voltage is set to 0.6v. E-C voltage is set to such-and-such and it is working in common emitter configuration. What is the base current in the transistor?
Sunder completely worried now. He looks at the calculator in his hand. Not very sure where to start.
After 3 min…
Sunder: Got it! Sir, it is 35A!
Sukumaran sir looks at him disbelievingly… “my dear, there is no such transistor in this world which can accept that base current…?”
(ok, for those who did not get the joke, the base current in a transistor never exceeds a few milliAmps)
[As though that explanation was enough]
PS: Sunder continues to be a communist, but from that day always steps for a new venture with right leg only.
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