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ViiT's performance this past saturday in the Corean Social Center in Tijuana :D

I'm Minhyun. We worked really hard :D It was our debut performance and we decided that it would be cool to actually dress up similar to the members of Nu'Est so we tried our best and some of the things had to be handmade. We rehearsed for two months for this performance :D

Went to college today because I had some work in the office. The lady in the office said its not possible today etc etc. So me and a buddy of mine went and decided to have Iced tea. This 'nescafe' dude had some burgers so we decided to have one of those too. Biggest mistake of my life ever! In the remainder of the day I've just had the regular food and some soya bean as usual.

Problem is - I've not got a stomach which is upset ( insert very sad smiley face!). To make things worse I've even caught a fever.

People ask me - will you miss it all? My answer - No! Here's why.

To be entirely honest with you, I've always had a sort of love-hate with college. It was pretty easy to see the cons right in first year, it was far, fuel expenses were too high, public transport practically not there, there was no paint on the buildings(which is shamelessly photoshopped in the college brochure, btw). But they say you should look beyond the bad things, be an optimistic, I did. The college professors in first year were good, friendly, polite even. No hard feelings, they did their jobs well. Taught us the basics, things like that. Write-ups and all were fun too, we friends did them together in the college library and study rooms, so nobody would be bored. Made a good friends, for which I am thankful. This was the easy part, first year - simple. Move on.

Second year, this was big move from the FE dept to electronics and tele-comm. I was enrolled in elex, so getting the branch changed was pretty exciting. There the class teacher was Mr. T.R. Jadhav, good man, except that he was extremely particular about writeups, nothing bad there though. His attention to details made me realize, the devil is always in the details. Good man, gave good marks to everyone. People might sometimes think of him as rude, but he wasn't. The breaks in SE were loads of fun, always had good friends to spend time with. Got addicted to ice tea too. If your attendance was low - simple, you had to write a few papers, and that was it. Which was fine. All in all, it was good.

Third year, I must this was the year I got a lot of ups and downs. Our class teacher, Mr. Pol was a good man, he didn't care much about attendance either. Perception was fun, good times. Third year, I think was the toughest when it came to coursework, there was lot if it, and lot of difficult things. Signal processing, micro-controllers, communication, you name it. In the second semester, I'd planned to take the GRE, and apply for MS after that. Unfortunately, things don't go according to plan. As it turns out to be, I got my first backlog in engineering (for those who don't know what a backlog is, I failed in one subject). Disappointing, but not unexpected, it was a bad paper for me, and I wasn't prepared. Deserved it. Later I cleared the paper, and as it turns out, it was a blessing in disguise, it helped me score a distinction in the second sem, and a overall first class. Not bad. It was also during this time that I decided to apply for campus placements. I applied to patni computers, cleared the test, and got the job, it was fun. So third year ended well.

Final year, as it turns out to be, BE is the one year you get to try out new things, because you have a nice project to make, to experiment and test out your ideas (Or not?). Attendance we thought won't be a problem, we were wrong. I picked a project in NVIDIA CUDA, Signal processing (can't discuss specifics here, sorry.). It was a hard project, and I'd never worked with CUDA before, bappi, rrr and me worked on it for a long while, after a lot of work, reading documentation, forums, we got it running. That part was fun. But fun it seems, must always come at the expense of something else - lectures. Missed a lot of those, not because I hated them, but because I found them less useful, no disrespect to the lecturers, but once you've been doing 6 units per subject for 35 subjects over seven semesters, it's not very hard to do it once more. So we skipped them, focused on the project, got it running.

Today, the situation is something like this - owing to which I am extremely disappointed. BE has been suspended, owing to the low attendance, there is a talk of people going to be detained. Heavy fines due to missing lectures for everyone in the class. Should we have not done something new? or different? where is this innovation that we talk of? where is this importance to new ideas? should we stick to the books and the scripts, must be same movie be played again and again and again? When can we break free, do something we love? Forget appreciation. I'm heavily repenting doing a project like I did. Even if we file a patent tomorrow, I'll be disappointed this is the same reason I got taxed. Add to that they've taken away to opportunity to click good snaps with the people we spent the 4 years with. Farewell? Nope. Nothing.

It all seems like a dream now, which sometime drifted into being a nightmare. The party is over, but the desert was bad. It'll leave a bad taste for many years to come.

Now you tell me? Why would I miss anything at all.

Cheers,