Yessssss Sir....

With the attendance sheet doing the rounds in few of my grad classes , a blog on the woes of attendance deserves to be written. But ya i have never faced any attendance issues in my grad classes thks to the notion that grad students are supposed to self -driven mature adults ! ... but still i thk there have been quite a few instances where i have been too bored !!

But ya back to the days in SSN i thk my spurts of bunking have been inspired by the one and only ksh .. reverting back to the first semester i thk i would have exactly attended say 20% of the english classes .. thks to madam highness enthu to bunk classes starting from even the first week we very well landed into a one full hour of ragging opp the sports complex where she with all assertiveness claimed to proudly be from the Rann Of Kutch inciting the wrath and laughs of the seniors ..

bunking classes to go to the stores till the MBA for crackle lol ... half my cavities can be attributed to this..

and ya must mention Anjana who in the first semester was the proud bunker of a single class only - that too the English LAB class.. How the tables turned after that.. She was the one who always always had attendance problems after that .. No matter after that how many ever classes she attended , she always ended up as the one with least attendance and middle of the semester she will realize that her attendance was precariously balanced on that 84%, her attempts to never miss class after that were indeed applaudable. But the one who never faced any attendance problems were i thk appu and aishu .. the lucky ones who always managed that 98% , while the rest of us were the mere mortals who managed that 88% afloat ..

And ya the OD's a never ending joke .. the departments ever changing rules about that percentage to be awarded , that number of days .. rofl . to thk of it they made us go mad..

And worst yet were the so called report cards .. That made my parents wonder about the validity of the claims i made on class being cancelled and returning home early ..well atleast i thk they were happy that their kid came home straight after bunking college and not anywhere else . But what they dint understand was the strenuous effort it needed to go to any place decent like sathyam or inox or the beach from the rural village that SSN was in .. It was much easier to just go home.

Speaking of which have to acknowledge the fleet of 570's , 19B , 21 H , 119 and what not that catered to the remote Kelambakkam .. but they could have introduced the volvo buses much earlier and not in the final year grrr..

The proportions of classes bunked is directly proportional to the coolness of the prof... Some like ju were extremely cool abt it.. Lol still remember bunking in the class and still lounging in front of him at the canteen .. while some like the others would order a FBI inquiry into the issue and grill u to charcoals..

The art of proxy is the one i thk that was truly mastered during the DSP time .. lol he never realized it even when a girl answered for a guy .. An awesome prof he truly was.

And mass bunks .. Lol how much u attempt there are bound to be some remnants in the class .. Like that day when poor thalai was the sole person in that DSP class .. LOL still get tears in my eyes thk abt how she poor soul , alone sat in the first bench for an hour of lecture on DSP..

Also some classes like the ones at the end of the day and more importantly the one after lunch should be banned..

Still no matter what , those boring lectures , the truly horrid ones like ADC , Crypto ( which still remains cryptic ) and db ( for which i seem to have developed an uncanny hatred ) .. they are a part of the memories that were the four most unforgettable years.