MPMC (Microprocessors & Microcontrollers) was the latest subject in the 5th SEM, mostly conferred about this malevolent subject from our seniors. Well we have Mast P*** & Mast C*****, aliased by seniors.
When we started reading this we could see the mettle stuff present ubiquitously in almost all the modules. To add flavors to this bugbear we had our favorite teacher (HUH!), who was literally an alternative to nothing coz else her there was no one who could teach us. That was again so unfortunate about us bcoz she was no better than any other newbie to this subject, having almost null experience about this particular domain she was assigned the prestigious job of teaching us, the “EEEians” so then started the journey of a chore subject & we could determine our plight from the initial modules & the way she prints on the board, Ya! I mean it she’s no better than a Xerox machine, but on a board & that’s what she’s doest the best.
Started the series of mid-sems and as usual I scored a meager. In all the mids, I scored so less that I can’t reveal it but anyhow by mam’s grace I could manage to score 12/30 (just pass). So I was worried if this is my score then what’s gonna B my plight in the end sem examinations. GOD knows! Yaar!
The toppers remain to be the topper and they continued to score high pro-formally. But how about me? Truly speaking, ya… “I can’t take any one 4 granted” whoever it may B. I literally & disguisedly spurned her. I went to the class with a single notebook with all the stuffs of the 5th-sem in one jotter and more beautifully it contained the stuffs of more than 6 subjects; the leaf pad was a mere appendage of a magazine that was my favourite time-pass in the class, but man! I was not such a waste I did carve out something substantial & that was my new hobby ‘collecting words’ especially the Buzz words. Truly speaking if u wanna own a great vocabulary & improve Ur oratory then these magazines can quench & satiate you. I started reading different articles in the class itself & that’s the way I utilized the boring time out of the class study. Sometimes I needed to be very careful albeit the stuff that, “I m a professional back-bencher”, mam sometimes do visited the last row & just checked out what “I was cooking”. I was very happy, I read a lot of articles & hence collected a lot of words that were not usual then I stored it in my words loG & jotted down its meaning. This actually helped me to improve my vocabulary much.
But did all that affect her in any waY? Never yaar! & ‘Y’ should it affect her…she does her job faithfully by doing the Xerox on the board & then eyeing on a couple of her favourite students (guys). For every query then she had her own favourite quote & a cliché for us “Bohi Padha” (Read Books) how puerile? Even the message was conveyed to her that no one except some meritorious students was actually getting her. But still she was an ardent believer that whatever be the stuff she’s not gonna change & she continued in the same didactic way. So days passed, passed the mid sems & thus passed the 5 months.
Oh ! my GOD ! the routine is out only 20days left for the 5th end-sem & what about this exigency? It demanded urgent solution & that could only be solved by reading or u can say! getting by heart. This paper actually needs no concept but its something that U have to remember a lot. Here U shouldn’t ask why? Bcoz the stuff you have to learn is what that happens inside a microprocessor. Ya! The same that happens inside a computer & you must have heard about the Pentium processors, we had also studied that.
Honestly then started the series of study & I particularly studied MPMC it was cracking me nuts but again with no option left I tried to make myself comfortable & my friend helped me a lot in making things a bit easier for Me. ThanX 2 her for she wouldn’t have been there I would surely have been drowned. Whatever I really worked hard @ the end & guess what I became confident in that subject, at least the theory part & the problematic part was the programming that was not an easy stuff. Programming was actually a different one from that of a C & C++. It conflated the assembly level programming which was way beyond my reach & in the labs whatever the programming being done was all bouncers & I let then go safely. Who would take risk? Well the reason for such cognition was interest. I literally lost interest in that particular subject & thus every thing is lost if U loose the interest.
Whatever! The “D” day (judgment day) arrived on 22nd Dec, 07. I was reassuring my self, trying to be confident and I became a bit, but destiny in nexus with BPUT has more surprises in store for me and for every body else.
Won’t U believe what happened the penultimate nite. “Rumors spread faster than inferno” the cliché is very correct. God knows from where we encountered so many confidants around the state & the myriad of questions waved in the hostel & the boisterous crowd rumbled throughout the night with their billowing Q-set to every one. A lot were happy in disguise having the virtual dossier in hand just before the end sem paper. I too blinked on the Q-set after all I m an engineering student yaar, no better than other guys but a bit different. My rommie dint sleep the whole nite & this shows the amount of toil we put in for MPMC. But i can't complain & y should I ?
As it was my fault, i dint studied it earlier and the i faced the repercussions. I went to bad at 3am & got up at 6am. Then i preferred to revise the stuffs, i was not OK ! with the block diagrams, they were cracking me nuts and i had to actually carve it out into the paper and i took that with me all the way mugging upto the examination hall. I threw the paper & was reassuring my breath and in this process i felt that i gained some confidence but who knew that the life expectancy of this propitious confidence was so short-lived? Any ways next i was on my seat and was staring at the external and was wandering whats inside the chamber of secrets that he was holding. The secret was about to unveil in about a minute or so & This was again astonishing, the BPUT maintained its spooky name. The set was too tufff @ least 4 me...I would like to re-iterate that Toppers continue to remain toppers & they remain impregnable.
.
Programming & only programming , such high level programmings that its not even gullible 4 the teachers, but thats the way thing goes in BPUT...ultimately we are the ones who relapse.
Its not a new situation for me, as i have already encountered situations like this where I had nothing to do with the Q-set...bcoz the situation demands wat U know & not what the Q-is all about & thats the strategy I followed...lets C whats gonna B my plight, as I m really sceptical about clearing this MPMC paper...Friends its really pinching when after giving such an input to an arduous paper, U think ur on the track but @ the end the 3 suffocating hours when ur BIRO is paralysed gives U a feel that u were a waste the whole sem & that is the way U need 2 compensate when supplementary is out of the scene...hey I m getting Goose Bumps, i can't describe more >>> well its a real time experience, but it doesn't mean that its a bad paper or something like that, all what I wanted 2 say that at the end everything depends upon the Q-set & u need to be prepared 4 every surprise BPUT has in store for U....someday U ll realise that when ur mustured for any kinda situation to face U either get a cake walk set or even herculean stuff >> it all depends & the concept remains the same & true this time too "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"...!!!! BYE FRNDS ~~
So friends U must be thinking abt my result & ya ur absoltely correct this time i was really unfortunate & i dint mantained my neat & clean track record, I got a back in MPMC & with the GPA dipping as the share market crashes.....so i would jst foucs on clearing the papaer anyhow as there's no more supplementary xam.......& i need 2 appear 4 it with the juniors.........its a matter of shame & bete noire for me.....
Thats all for this time folks.......hoping U like this & i ll come up with the next part of ma life after this U-turn...........byee take care.......
