Know your facts.

Here are a few interesting pieces of facts which you might want to know. Please note that this is serious stuff and not at all intended to be funny, as any fact is.

Fact #1

Mid term examinations begin on 1st August. 6 exams are conducted over 3 days. When some students looked at the timetable, they were amazed, and for a moment ecstatic on finding that there was a holiday after the midterms. And it wasnt the weekend.

Later they found that there were classes scheduled on Saturday.

Later still, they found that classes were scheduled on every Saturday after that week.

Fact #2

It is probably destined that I'll never have good food anywhere except at my home. The food at BITS and at Oracle was horrible.

The food here is actually good. However quizzes are usually announced after the day's classes at around 1-10 pm, and are scheduled about an hour later, leaving the students some time for lunch.

Hardly anybody leaves for lunch, using the time to put in a bit of preparation for the quizzes.

Recently, they moved the quiz notifications to the notice board next to the mess, forcing the students to atleast come to the mess to check if there's a quiz scheduled or not.

Fact #3

Every dorm has a well stocked pantry. The pantry manager is an important position in the dorm. The importance of the pantry manager is well summarized by the following statement by our dorm rep, "The Canteen is open only till 4. What will you do after that?"

It is somewhat suspicious that after 4, sleep still wasnt considered as an option.

Fact #4

Blackbooks are confidential sets of question papers of the past few years, and are in general considered to be an indispensable tool for exam preparation. One prominent Operations professor declared the mid-term in Operations as an open book test, and said that students could bring anything.

He then said that in his experience any kind of material is useless.

He has over 25 years of experience.

Today he sent the students a mail with all the previous question papers attached.

Fact #5

The day before yesterday, we got a mail from the PGP chairperson.

It began like this.

"Advice to students who want to do well in exams: SLEEP!"

Fact #6

The most common keyword entered on Yahoo seach which leads to my blog is "Kamasutra".

Fact #7

Some bloggers refer to me in their blogs as the sleepless guy.

Fact #8

Its 4, and I just realised that the dorm rep was bloody right about the pantry.