The Last Looooong Mile

4 down, just one horrible incomprehensible son-of-a-bitch subject to go viz. Machine Design more popularly(fearfully) known as CAD(computer aided design). I'm on step 8 of the design ladder.

Today's exam(Power Station Practice) went better than I had expected. By my standards it was a good paper to give. For the uninitiated my standards are very low. I usually just pass in 2-3 subjects. So a good paper is one in which I pass comfortably and then score a few extra marks that help in improving my otherwise dismal percentage. Now my goal is to maintain a percentage above 60.75%. The exact figure because that is what it looked like when I got placed in Infosys. So to maintain my placement status to 2 placements(the other one being HCL) rather than 1, that figure has to be maintained or overshot(yeeeaaaah right!!).

About Power Station Practice, the chosen subject of testing for today's exam, I would say that I prepared well but not that well because after giving 3 exams, there is this natural tendency to ease up a little(in my case a little more) on the preparations for the remaining 2. The subject was not tough, but the only problem I encountered while studying it was being flooded with a number of ideas for alternate sources of producing energy which ate up most of my time. They just wouldn't budge! There is this particular idea which is still hovering and I plan to do something about it seriously. Who knows it just might work! Hoping for a Google Story would be foolish and way way over-ambitious, but I'm just hoping to be able to figure out all its details and maybe, MAYBE develop a practical working model for my final year project. Ahhhh HOPE. What a wonderful illusion.

Anyways, coming back to the harsh reality, dreams will have to wait till the day after tomorrow. That is when I get rid of this demon called CAD.

May the force be with me.