A for AATANKWADI

at the end of my engineering life, i do like to remember those days where we used to do a lot of fun. i particularly want to express my views about my practicals batch.

i have normally always been in A batch. these were the original set of people in the batch:-

sharad, ashish, rajeev, harsh, anish, kedar, trupti, pranali, rahul, sumant, pavan, jinen etc... and ofcourse ME!!!

our batch used to do everything except for work. we were the laziest among the four but when it came to submissions, we were always the first to finish. we always attacked the printers and used to sit for hours taking all kind of printouts. this was done during other batches' practicals and turns. during our practicals we just used to gossip about all kind of things.

our practicals were always gossip sessions...we used it as a means to spread hot news, rumours,etc...we would always listen attentively to the profs when they came up with someting new (those were for people in front of the prof... those who were behind the prof used to laugh profusely) we would then use the google search engine to find something related to that topic...( some prof even advocated the use of such practices...for eg. dholay used to say - "do google na" ) we would make our prof sign on incomplete journals and printouts...whenever the prof appeared in the lab, we would switch from our gaming sessions to some website or the blue compiler screen of Turbo C.

i particularly remember a practical session in which D batch people (miten, pooja, hardik,etc..) were sharing the printer with us. we were 6 from our batch (sharad, harsh, anish, rahul, ashish and me). our practicals were going on and as usual we were gossiping around... sharad decided to tease harsh on the topic of neha narula...to which our outspoken harsh replied something related to ass... this shocked the D batch that they decided never to do anything with the A batch again...

our batch always had some stalwarts...

ANISH: he was the interface to the profs.. whenever we wanted to cancel or prepone any practicals, it would be so easily done by anish. i dont know what magic he performed but he mostly did it everytime...but thats not all...he also fooled the profs on many occasions...he would say that the computer crashedwhen the prof was not here or the PC is not booting and there is no other PC available...he always had one webpage of 'moneycontrol.com'...

HARSH: he was the one who would turn to the net for programs and other material...he would search any thing in a jiffy...from his brothers website to some obscure sites...he always had a solution to any problem that could screw us...ofcourse the solution would not be ethically correct always but then who cared...he would always bring out some new and interesting topics for the entire batch to discuss...

RAHUL : he joined us only in the 4th sem...but he has been one of our prized possesions...he always had the program ready for any kind of topic...ofcourse we converted him into one of us i.e. he also would hardly program in the lab...but he would definitely do it later alone or at home...he was very flexible and listened to others views as well...

the others were also a part of this great batch...we had SHARAD who hardly used to do anything but always was on the forefront when the prof was to be contacted regarding something...there was SUMANT who hardly attended any practicals...RAJEEV, JINEN, PAVAN, ASHISH who would be teasing TRUPTI and PRANALI...KEDAR would try to do some work sincerely but like us he would also give up...

the reason for writing this article was that i missed it in my last sem vey much...our batch got divided and i came into a batch which i would say was not happening...so thank all those who helped us create what was called the AATANKWADI batch

P.S. : please put your views and experiences in the comments if u were one of the jehadis of this organisation.