Moorakke Mukthaya

Third semester!
Its over!
I have been in IIT for a year and half.... er!? A year and a half ??? I cant believe this !

Being in THE ELEC department of IIT Madras which is know far and wide for its "RODness", I knew what to expect and what not to. Or I thought I knew it, till the semester started to gear up and THE ELEC department started to show its ramifications in RODness. Only then did I realise what the ELEC EFFECT actually is.

The three departmental courses that I did in this semester were
• 1 Digital systems
• 2 Network System
• 3 CAD laboratory.

Digital Systems: EC104
It was taken by Prof. Vekatesh and Prof. Ravishankar. The course teaches you the philosophy of life. There are only two states in this world, 0 and 1, everything else is an illusion.
The course seemed all fair and fine till i held quiz 1. A ' (complement) completely complemented my life in the course. At the end of the day, knowing that the grading is binary too, huh!.... er.... there are only two states.

Network systems: EC204
Prof. Vinita taught us how to be punctual. I never believed that I, Ramya K V, can ever be "in time" to a class. Me?? er... I cant believe this! I am the kind who wakes up ten minutes before a class and barely manage to get inside the classroom before the Professor.
All through the semester we bulbed and bulbed and bulbed. Prof.VV had to give up on us finally. Can you imagine, a class of >40 odd ppl, all yet to be Electrical Engineers from IIT Madras, having done a 4 credit course on Electro-Magnetic Circuits in the previous semester, did not know what "Natural Frequency" means till almost the end of this course?
Finally we did manage to transforme almost everything on the way. Being non-causal, non-linear and time variant, I too finally managed to Fourier transform Laplace!

CAD laboratory: EC205
The Programming Laboratory. Its fun, yeah! fun, you see. Really, I did enjoy programming. But beware of this course!! This One Credit course can potentially take away all your happiness in life.
I got scared! Yes, literally I got scared. I never thought that I shall love Programming so much in life that I will pack everything else and sit crazily in front of the machine and become a machine myself. This is not I want to do in life, I knew it, yet this bloody thing was not leaving me. Thank God finally I did manage to pull myself out of the "Paapakoopa" (The Cursed Place) **.

Despite the heavy load, Elec Rocks!!

The "other" courses during the semester were:
• 4 MA205
• 5 AM110
• 6 ID120
• 7 BT101
• 8 HS509

Probability And Random Processes: MA205
This is one of the courses I thoroughly enjoyed, especially at the end of the semester. Prof. Natarajan was quite good. Though, he was not so audible, mike helped out.
Having no fundae on permutation and combinations, I had to start with the basic concepts of counting. Moving on from counting to Probability to Random Variables to the Stochastic Processes was an amazing journey. Also we learnt how to read any kind of handwriting :P

Engineering Mechanics: AM110
The subject so dear to me became the most hateful course this semester. Certain Professor V took the course , huh!! My hard luck. I never thought I could ever not like er... actually hate a Professor to this extent in my life.
I am done with the course. That is it. Period.

Ecology and Environment: ID120
Thanks to the Supreme Court of India. We had to sit and bare with this course for two hours per week and give two exams. Well, we need to be concerned with the environment. Yes. I agree completely, but does that mean that I have to sit in a class of ~552, spread across three rooms, with Professors and Teaching Assistants patrolling around in the class room? Well, its over.

Life Sciences: BT101
Thanks to the Supreme Court of India again. We had to again sit for two hours per week and give two exams. The lessons that we were made to study were all interesting. But why don't they understand that we do not have 48 hours a day to sit and read Campbell. I can potentially give a Medical Entrance test now.
And yeah, its over too.

Accounting For Social Sciences: HS509
The one and only course that I enjoyed all through the semester. Prof. Umakant Dash was GOD!! If it was not for this course, I guess I would have been insane by now. The delicacy of accounting, its intricate nature were made all so easy by the professor.
The only formula that we needed to know was Assets= Liabilities+Owner's Equity !
The Balance sheet, the Income Statements and the Cash flow statements seem so cute and nice now! The business news pages in The Hindu has started to make sense :)

**P.S: I have nothing against Programmers! This is my personal point of view.