A toast to Murphy uncle

i had vivas for last three consecutive days .. and all those three days Murphy uncle made his presence felt ...

the first one was lab viva for Embedded systems ..

examiner was Shridevi .. she was RA few months back and then she became a lecturer .. i was in second batch (rno 34) .. so i knew wat are the questions she asking .. went there for lab viva .. was confident that will crack it ( obviously coz the only subject that i love and also the field i am goin to work) .. but something else happen ..

she asked me first question .. wat is POSIX ?? i just heard about this term .. knew that it is one standard .. so told her that it is one of the standard which is followed in UNIX , Linux or any other OS .. but she refused to listen to me .. then she went on to ask me some chaat question till i could not answer them ..

then one funny thing happened .. she told me to write one code to convert decimal no to hexadecimal no .. so i wrote the code and showed to her .. then she asked me what is the guarantee that the entered digit is a decimal no .. and she refused to listen any further and then sent me out ..

the second viva was our project one ..

in our project viva many things happened as we started with good introduction by our own sardar .. in his own words "we are goin for MEMS coz it is cheap " .. we digressed from MEMS to Mechanics and the external examiner instead of askin questions on our project asked questions on mechanics ..so our starting was 3 wickets down in the first over ..

then ET started his part .. after 10 min of introduction the examiner had no idea of our project and ET started with all tech fundaes .. and there was one this equivalent circuit diagram ..

and there was big trouble as they caught the fault that the direction of currents in the circuit is wrong .. at one node all the currents are entering and thats it .. not coming out from that node .. and we were now five wickets down ..

then baggu came ..as always tried to rescue from this mess .. but he could hardly do to save us from this condition ..mean time givin the presentation one page opened suddenly .. "Brontok Virus - Say no to Child Sex - Say no to drugs etc etc .. "

finally i came to end the presentation with conclusions of project .. started well .. but then suddenly my mobile rang( usually dont keep mobile with my self ..but that day had mobile also in ringer mode) one new message in middle of presentation !! thrown my mob on the desk .. and some how completed the presentation .. the only question the examiner asked was "What is ur blood group ?? " ...

thats it .. the thing for which i prepared for some 5 to 6 days .. ended like that .. our final yr project which has weightage of six credits ended like a joke .. the examiner felt that these are Cheel boyz .. had masti and done some chindi project .. btw after comin out from the hall .. i read the message and it was "Download songs of 70s and 80s .. Dial 646 Charges 6Rs/min"

on the third day i had compre viva .. basically viva exam in which they will ask wat u have studied in past four yrs of engg .. so they can ask on any topics ranging from sensors , control systems , computer science , electronics , humanities etc etc ..

for me i was confident that i could i answer reasonably in any topics other than electronics .. coz somehow i hated this topic .. i was more interested in seeing circuits from more larger perspective rather than just interested in one transistor and how it works ..

but sadly for me in the viva he started with MSI,LSI and VLSI .. then he moved to microelectronics .. optics etc etc .. could answer few but in most of the questions i was praying god that he please ask me some question other than microelectronics ..

i didnt thought in my wildest dreams that presentation could go possibly this bad or my lab and compre viva will be this much bad .. thought deeply on these ..one thing was constantly hitting me that was .. "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment"