FOUR STROKES (Last Part)

 4^th year – Exhaust

Final Year opened with a lot of confusion regarding electives and project groups as the summer had yielded irreversible reactions which were forcibly reversed. While most seemed satisfied with 3 courses per head, a few like MK and his son were hell-bent on finishing their BTech at the earliest. The placement season started with a bang with the most elusive and unseen members of the class being offered huge packages in COAL INDIA. Bajaj, TATA, Reliance and L&T followed suit and most of the batch was comfortable placed in ‘CORE Companies’ by the end of the semester thanks to the efficient PCs in A, A and A. We came to the sudden realization that the disastrous mock-GDs we had sat through in PC and club activities were actually quite similar to the real deal. Some exploited this loophole and got lucky quite early, while others waited a while to get their turn.

Classes were few and far between, and prompted students to take courses based on the timetable rather than interest. Nuclear Energy, bound to save the earth from impending doom and disaster, resulted in the teacher being more enthusiastic than the students.

The Heat transfer lab ended up making us gain more calories thanks to frequent outings during lab. This semester had us bid adieu to workshop where we had learnt a lot from the foremen. The industrial seminar presentations stayed on paper while the major project evaluations went off in jiffy without causing much harm. The BAJA team from class graduated to competing in the more formidable FSAE competition at Michigan, USA.

The final semester began before the penultimate one seemed to be over. However, not much improvement was seen in the confusion regarding credits, courses and requirements of the BTech degree. December was spent in fighting hammer and tongs for courses and often assessing losses from loss of courses. A brilliant suggestion however was to look out for open electives from neighboring colleges! The OR course made us efficient calculators and the instructor at the outset had optimized the number of students in the class for effective transfer of knowledge.  The class finally obliged to take CM and FM after they were offered for 3 consecutive semesters. Also, contradicting courses meant that we discussed about polluting machines in the morning and controlled it in the afternoon, both taught by the same ‘gendelman’.

The first admits trickled down into the hands of Chinta and he soon went on to conquer most of Europe. Paro put 3 in his bag and is awaiting a few more. Jhonny cracked the CAT with calls from almost all the IIMs. This semester also opened up multiple job opportunities with a lot of people having more than one to choose from.

With the exhaust stroke almost complete and the last drops of the mixture remaining, we hope to go out into the society as good human beings in accordance with the vision of the institute. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the HOD, faculty, teaching and non-teaching staff and the institute for their support.

Credits: Chit, Chaitu, Bhejafry.

Concept: Basu.

The Class: Kant, Chatto, Paro, Roy, Chinta, James, Smiles, RooOOy, Eddy, la HOTie, Bhejafry, Anil, Jhonny, G, Deep, Chit, Rastogi, Simone, ARao, Tas, Ayush, Basu, Fundananda, Siva, Chaitu, Kohli, Chintoo, Deboshi, Channa, GShah, Gary Potter, Harendra, Chintoo Khabri, JaJu, Shinde, Joel, Toma, KJ, Kaydee, Kella, Sahu, Kumar, Shengar Khan, Subbi, MK, Patel, Malli, Mojo, Cum-in, Mau, Lekha, Macha and Pach-aunty.