UNT Home Coming!!!

Last weekend I went to a collage football game. UNT vs FAU. It was a home coming game. Never knew that the homecoming games are so much fun. There was a small size fair near the ground. There were games, food... and above all free t-shirts. (Well free t-shirts are like hot cakes.. ;)). Though I don't go to school at UNT but my brother goes to UNT and I was supporting his school's football team on their home coming.

This was the first football game I went to watch. The crowd was great. Though the game started at 7:00 pm, the celebrations began way before, at about 2:00 pm. There was a cool parade of cheerleaders, army trucks, vintage cars, scouts, veterans, cheerleaders, cheerleaders, cheerleaders ..... ;). It was a nice parade. Me along with my brother and his friends followed the parade to the fair grounds.

This is where the fun stated. The whole place was filled with people. Then there were fun games, food, people painting their faces. There were grills all over the place in the parking lots. It was like a celebration. I don't know what they were celebrating.. :) ... Well I too became a part of it. Spray painted my hair green, had a tattoo on my hand.. and went to the game.

For long time I wanted to go to a football game. Actually wanted to go to cowboys game but never got a chance. So finally went to a college football game. The kickoff was at 7:00 pm. The stadium was almost fully packed. So much noise. People shouting. I too shouted alot .... (After the game I had a sour throat..) .. Anyway the home team lost the game but I watched till half time only. Though I watched only half the game but still it was fun.

I had so much fun by just watching a school game. Now I am imagining watching a pro game... It will be a hell of an experience. Though I didn't had any knowledge of football before I came to US, now I love the sport. Though it hasn't reached the place in my heart that cricket holds, it is still one of the top 5 sports I like. Hopefully I will see cowboy's game this season.

♪♪ Engineering Rocks ♪♪

So after the school days then comes the engineering days.... well one more fun filled episode in ones life... Four years of engineering.... What wonderful days... Even though school days are the best... engineering days too constitute in the fun filled days of life... Once you are out of there.... The reality kicks in... Well I believe most of my friends are engineers and guess they will agree with most of the stuff in this post....

So well lets see .... The 25 common things in any engineering collage...

• 1. The lecturers don't teach. The students don't study. The only guy who benefits is the one who owns the 'dhaba' next to the college.. (S S S Hostel Dhaba).
• 2. Deadlines are made to be extended... (Always).
• 3. Promises are made to be broken... (Most of the times).
• 4. Guys always think the chicks in other department are more beautiful...(Kya pottiya hai rey CSE mein).
• 5. The nerds are the most pampered ones... (During mid-terms).
• 6. The lab assistants are the most respected ones.... (During the lab exams).
• 7. There is always a lecturer in the college who can't speak proper 'English'... ("Are you understand?").
• 8. There is always a lecturer who throws your lab report outside the window... ("Is that a transistor?").
• 9. The principal is the person most abused and insulted... (Of course behind his back).
• 10. Dropping subjects is the 'coolest' thing... (Really??).
• 11. Night-outs and one-day batting are the important tools to ace the exams.
• 12. Whereas the most important tool.... is the 'chit' in which the words can be understood only by the person who wrote them.
• 13. The freshers are the most sought after.... be it in the canteen, the 'free' periods or for completing the records, assignments.
• 14. The second-years are the ones with the 'I am the don-of-the-college' attitude.
• 15. The third years are the ones with the 'so-many-backlogs' feeling.
• 16. The fourth years have no connection with the college whatsoever... All they want is '1st-class' tag attached to their memo.
• 17. There is always a dumb fresher who asks a 2nd year where the canteen was, and even dumber one who follows that senior to canteen.
• 18. Practicals are mostly for 60-90 minutes in which a considerable amount of lab equipment is destroyed and finally the readings are copied from others.
• 19. The common dialogues after an exam are "70% of the paper was out of syllabus".. or "It was the worst set of paper I got".
• 20. There is always one girl in the collage who writes her cell number instead of the 10 digit hall ticket number.
• 21. Assignments are solved by a few and then... (Well you know what happens).
• 22. There is always 'Critical Calculation' after the exam to see if you can score 28 out of 80.. (The cut off).
  
• 23. The first three years are spent in cursing the college,the people there,the system.
• 24. The common feeling after completing engineering is....... "Thank God. Survived Engineering".
• 25. But on the farewell day, people tend to feel nostalgic about the pure unadulterated fun they have had for 4 years. Now the very system they disliked, the very canteen they cursed, the time that they spent there, the birthday bums they suffered.. all these seem like heaven.

To me personally, engineering was a fun filled 4 year holiday.. Though it had its ups and downs I had lots n lots of fun... Though the college was awful, but the memories that I look back to, the friends I made there and the degree that I obtained... will be cherished by me... always !!!! "Engineering Rocks" !!!

I dedicate this post to all my engineering buddies... Especially to 1999-2003 batch of SSIET.