4/5 going on to 7/8

Ahhh. Four down, one to go. The last exam will be over on the 18th. Then I'll be 7/8th of an engineer. Whoopi!! Just one more sem, 4 more papers and one project away from being a full-fledged Electrical Engineer(purely in the designational sense of the word, I'll be damned if I could distinguish between a motor and a generator!).

So 4 exams in 7 days, how does it feel? Tired to the bone marrow. Late nights, fighting away sleep, hanging out with books, talking on phone about studies, squeezing time for Indo-Pak test(not really, it was the other way round), even skipped dinner a few times because I forgot!! That's the gravity of the situation.

So anyways, the entire exam itinerary went as follows.

• Started preparing on the 31st because had prjoect and internal exams till 30th.
• Actually started on the 1st, you know how it is.
• Kept shuffling through the syllabus, deciding which one to do first.
• Left the most difficult subject for later(wow that's a surprise!!).
• Didn't actually do anything at home, not my faut though, India were playing so well.
• Went to friend's place to group-study without anyone studying the same subject as me. The trick was that if everyone around me were studying, so would I. Hahaha, well tried(not really).
• Went again the following day because had to do an easy subject. Ended up arranging a birthday party. Did cover 1/5th of the subject.
• One day before the exam. Studied actually. Lost interest just before the last few chapters. To hell with it, I'll pass anyways.
• Exam time. New Centre super-far away. Wrote crap for three hours non-stop. One down, 4 to go.

And now here we are, 4 down 1 to go. The next three were...well....on the same lines mostly. The "big one" was second and as always there's an element of doubt about passing that one. Third one was comparitively easy and the paper went well too. Yesterday, the paper was a bomb but I managed to scrape through. For High Voltage(2nd) and Power Systems(4th) I literally studied for only one day during the entire semester!! Entrepreurship(1st) and Switchgear(3rd) come in second at two days each, one earlier during the sem(yes you read it correctly, don't go back) and one before the exam.

Pretty good, that's like 1x2+2x2+1x3(for last exam)=9 days! Add a couple more for internals and project work etc. That brings the grand total to.......let's say 12....nah 14. Yeah 14 sounds good. So two weeks of studying in one semester. Hmmm...that's a lot isn't it? :p