Maths Woes

I tried so hard (to study maths)
And Got so far (flipped the whole syllabus)
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter (abe yaar abhi kuch nai samjha, lagne wali hai)

With the Big, red Thick book of monsters (Engg. Students don’t require more hint to name the book) on my bed I am still trying to figure out what are the chapters in the course. It’s already two days since I asked Ashesh what’s the syllabus and his “thodi der” is still not over (According to someone, it’s the antaheen apekha!!). Sabya stated “the syllabus is from chapter 10 to 15”. My heart said “Manti just 5 chapters!! You can do it!”. But my unused brain soon figured out 5 chapters means around 375 pages!!! Even my never-say-die attitude remained unborn to at least start the course!
After convincing me that someday I have to begin and it’s the last time I will be studying maths I opened the book. The first topic stated “Fourier Series, Integrals, and Transforms”. The chapter sounded familiar as I had already read it in the 1st Sem (only because it was in the course and not because I am some geek who completes course of 3rd sem in the 1st one itself) but the familiarity ended there only. I could recall as much Sanjay Singhaniya(btw, he was using cheats) could in Ghajini about the chapter. Frustrated, I decided to move on.
The next chapter was “Partial Differential Equations”. I could recall some concepts which I had read some part during mid sem test. So I decided to move forward to the untouched part of the topic where I could see the words “Fourier series”,” Fourier Integrals”,” Double Fourier Series”(as if people were not satisfied to see the students suffer with Fourier series only, they formed even Double one!!!),”Laplacian something”, “Fourier-Bessel”(not again Fourier!!). I straightaway knew “Bahut buri lagne wali hai!! Kisi se samajhna padega!!”. The sight of Complex Chapter was smoothening in the next chapter and my heart elated with joy which soon was deflated by Conformal Mapping and etc.
Mr. Cauchy was waiting with his theorem and formulae in the next topic of Complex Integration which looked at least manageable (thanks to some excellent crash course teaching by Kushagra during mid sem). Theinitial names of the next two chapters looked cute (like Taylor, Laurent etc.) but their surnames were “Series” i.e. the sign of a skull with two crossed bones for me!! So I didn’t even dare to open the chapters as I knew all things there would be having everything alien about them (thanks to the numerous proxies in the maths classes).
I now slowly closed the book shut my eyes and said ”Bhad me jaye, kal dekh lenge!!” and started watching new episode of HIMYM.

I was so wrong about you NITRkl, I love you!!!

Disclaimer: I am writing this post after I have found a new love for my insti's campus and maintainence after my recent visit to NIT Jamshedpur.

Smell of cow dung was in the air, the trees were dry and without leaves, the mess was a really messy and smelly!! This was my first impression of NIT Jamshedpur where we arrived at 4 am in the morning.
We were put up in the common room of Hostel C above the mess. There was a cooler provided which when turned on produced this foul smell like I was in a zoo by the bull pits. A CRT television (can you believe, a CRT television in Common Room!!! Gosh!! We have LCDs in ours!!) was also there but can you imagine there was no water cooler even in the mess!! While exploring, I came in the vicinity of a closed door. The odor coming from inside almost did serious disturb to my olfactory system. Yeah, you guessed it right. It was the bathroom (I wondered how anyone can bath in that room!!) provided to us.

Skipping to the next day (I am not going to include our sleeping details!!!)

The morning breakfast was better than us and by morning the mess was less messy and smelly! There was also a powercut in the morning which lasted almost 7 hrs!! My friend wanted to recharge his cell phone. So we set out in the day to recharge his cell, see the campus a bit & visit the LH. They don’t have ‘Hex’ or ‘amul cool’ to recharge!! We had to go outside the campus hiring an auto just to recharge! The market was what you call, AWWEEEFFFFUUUUULLLLLLL!!!! Hell, why do we curse sector 2?? The campus area looked like an extended version of our “Backpost”!! We couldn’t find any canteen(no night canteen too!!)!!! Can you imagine that, and we curse “Rangcol” and “Calorie”! The huge barren area around the campus resembled a prison in a desert! The trees were dry and leafless and many abandoned houses gave a spooky feeling even during daytime. After lot of walking we found the LH. Most of the windows were closed. One was in the process of closing which was catalyzed by seeing looking at her (she seemed cute though?) . The other two, who braved the heat to keep their windows open, still looked better than NITRkl’s standard! The main academic building looked like a typical government office. The only Air Conditioned place is library like us where we don’t go.
Guys read the next line very carefully. The important “commodities” shop was around 4kms from the institute!!! May be that’s why the authorities have allowed students to keep their own bikes. Cattles were omnipresent in the campus but the good thing was that so were the thelewalas and khomchewalas.

Our stay was a two day and two night affair and we didn’t get any non-veg item (how can they eat and survive!!), though the quality of pulses and rice was certainly better and our 16 member squad had done 175 shots of nimboo pani during the period(i used 'shots' because it sounds cooler) !!!
BTW, their hostility was lot better and their authorities were very good compared to ours.

One interesting incident:
I went into the boarders’ bathroom to take bath. The guy who entered in the next shower cubicle was singing loud and all the time. I wondered whether it was because his door had no lock. When I finished my shower, I tried to find out the reason. And the reason was:His cubicle door was half broken with the lower half missing!!!


P.S. We were knocked out of the EZINCT after loosing both the matches comprehensively. We cut short our stay and returned back without seeing the city after we were informed that there would be no electricity for the whole night!!