2. 1st semester = 8 months

Our college was famous for postponing things. Actually we were lazy because of this reason. Anything our lecturers told would happen, it never did.

Due to our great seniors, our internal tests, classes were postponed. Sometimes even exams were postponed. We all were never ready for any internal tests because we knew they would be postponed. If by chance they did happen, we as always, could only score below average.

There were some classmates afraid not friends!! ( Gowda and Koppar) would mug up everything in the book and just vomit it in the tests. We used to make fun of them by saying that the Copy Write of the book should not be violated!!

Internal tests were for 25 marks. They got more internal marks, even 24 on 25 or out of out and still remain unsatisfied. We did not know how much more they wanted to pass the examinations.

If mugging was only the reason for getting more marks, we would not have minded but the “maska” that they applied to lecturers also had more part to play.

We would never do it!! at any cost, not even at the cost of internal marks!!

We just had coffee at Nandini and went to Lakshmi, Ankur mini theatres and had a wonderful time.

There were typical lecturers in the college.

Chemistry HOD (Mr. Durugappa) was one of them. He used to give notes in his organic chemistry class. It would include examples for insulators like green bucket, red bucket, rubber, etc, etc, “and finally this is used as an insulaaaator”.

Next was Manjappa. We called him “The Manjappa”, because he used “the” as suffix for everything like The Somashekar, the vidyanagar, etc. He had a typical way of asking time, used to say “take time”!!

There was a great computer lab in the college. Before entering into the lab, we had great expectations. It would have AC, one comp for each, color monitors, super fast CPUs etc, etc. But aadre alli nodidde bere. Five students per PC, black and white monitors, super slow CPUs with a table fan running all around. Fan was not for PCs or for students, it was for Netaji!!. He is an attender in comp lab!!

The lab did not even have proper seating arrangements. Everybody was sitting on stool and not chairs!! Once Pritvi was feeling sleepy in afternoon lab, he had a slip and fell down from his place!! Everybody started laughing at this poor chap. Even he started laughing. Then a dialogue from Netaji came as blow “Nee bidru paravagillapa , stool ge enu aagabardu”.

Exam time !!

VTU would finish their exams within a week, but in our college it took about 1½ months.

There were 15 days gap in between each exams. In this gap, we would start looking for text books and got Xeroxed, then went for a movie in Lakshmi or Ankur !! next day, all the portions for exams got marked for 100 marks. Then again for a movie. We spent 12 days like this. Last 3 days we spent studying the material. At last we would end up studying for 90 or 80 marks.

This is only our case !! not Gowda and Koppar ‘s . They would study for 150 marks which was maximum for sem.

After exams, there were 15 days vacations given. But we took 1½ months.