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.

Math+Programming=Disaster i.e. Math Lab

Let me first tell to all those who haven’t heard about such a lab and think that how a lab is possible even in math is that in this lab we are supposed to write C codes(no idea how I even got a ‘C’ in C lab!!!) for numerical methods( I still dunno what are they……….just got through with a ‘P’!!!) in maths!!! Seems like our “dear” insti had better plans to torture us by unleashing the mega monstrous forces of both the topics together as if getting a “chamatkar” mentally individually by them was not enough. And by the way, what the hell are either of mining and civil engineers are suppose with both the topics in their respective fields??.
Somehow we have been escaping this fateful day since the beginning of this semester as no professor was turning up (no no………dont think that they were kind and understanding but because they too have “awesome” relation with computers, leave alone programming!!!). But thanks to our very own “dear” classmate, who dragged their ass over to the lab, our 3 hours of free time each week also came to an abrupt end like all other good things.
It was though relieving that the net was on there as we could check India inching towards an innings defeat. The prof. kept on muttering some alien language(it was something related to math I believe), I was busy on following up with the wagging Indian tail on cricinfo. My brain though kept filtering the meaningful words uttered by him like “question” ,”bisection method” ,”attendance” ,”F grade” etc. but I heard the most important line of him that attendance won’t be given to those who won’t show their working program(what the f***! It’s the only reason that we cross the boundary of classroom with our evil feet). So I tried to figure out what should I do n the answer was easy “take community help”. The help was almost instant as I got a code but sadly it had to be debugged. After investing some precious time of mine, I managed to compile the program successfully. But alas! It would go in an infinite loop. I tried a few more times but the computer was still happier to go into an infinite loop rather than what I needed! I tried searching it on the reservoir of knowledge (the internet) without any luck. I tried to ping some friends on gtalk, the smarter ones won’t reply n ones who replied quickly went offline on learning the type of help I needed! Thankfully my reliable friends(talking about ones present in class and who too had their asses on the line) would arrange a code(which was as believed working on some systems) which too won’t work for me. Finally after many attempts we could get our hands on a working code (which accepted us too!) just minutes before the class ended. We quickly jotted it down along with its output and went up to the prof. proudly to show him our effort. He asked me that if I had done it on my system or copied it, I replied confidently that I can show him working on my system(and hoped inside that he would not give himself enough punishment of going over upto my system to check). He signed on my paper and thank God the period was over!
But the worse may be is yet to come because “ Semester abhi baaki hai mere dost!!!”.