Sanjay Nikalje|Blog: Electric current

Engineering First Year and charged current

I scored 86.67% in PCM, good enough to get admission in an engineering college and I manged to get admission too. I studied very seriously, I wanted to reach my ultimate goal my ultimate destination. I attended lectures regularly. Like others even I shivered for a subject called as Mechanics. Easy to understand, difficult, sorry 'VERY DIFFICULT' to solve those insalubrious questions. One such question was, speed of fly is 10 km/hour and train speed is 180 km/hour, so when the fly enters the running train, why it doesn't get dashed against the train-door or inner compartment of train? Who writes, these questions man, playing with the emotions of students.

Call, frequency reduced as day passed. My first semester exams were over, and results were out in a span of one month. Ohh holy, my heart sinked looking at my scores. I was just near the boundary line of passing marks in each subject, and just scored 08 marks out of 100 in Engineering Mechanics, which means I flunked in it. I don’t know where I felt short or where my efforts were less. I banged my head against the college foyer wall, and sat silently. It was not my failing or my low scoring disturbed me , but the deviation graph showed lot of variation from my aggregate 60% marks. Of course I called my chintanhar Chintu, on his college care-off number, as expected he asked me to meet in evening. But I was so desperate to meet him that day, I went to his college directly from my college. I addressed my concern to him.

I never flunked in any exam till now, how can I fail so drastically. The engineering ghost thawed. Chintu laughed again and again and...again!! I cant say, I just felt like Yamraj laughing mercilessly, in-front of an about to die person. Chintu said, 'Welcome to Engineering!!' It is not that easy to pass engineering exams, here your stereotype studying methods wont work, here proper time and study management works. 'But I studied everything I said, but meager material came from what I studied' , I said. He asked me to wait for a while and called a senior student from his college to explain me on so called 'How to study for engineering?'.

Good luck or bad luck, Alma called me that very same day. Though it was difficult to hide the score bruises I got that day, but the melody in her voice soothed my failure pain a bit. Well I didn’t inform Alma, that I took admission in computer engineering, wanted to surprise her, when I will be there in UK after my course. Yes, long-journey, sown a seed, waiting for fruit, long-term planning. I asked her, has she got admission in college? She replied 'Yes', I asked her 'When she will return?' she said not so soon. Well that's what I wanted, let me come to you and surprise you girl, my heart said.

Now I had a major over-head, total 6 subjects to study, five of second semester and one monster-bull, Mechanics backlog and also bringing the 60% average marks graph-worm back on track. I started studying not according to me but to what the senior suggested me of. For Mechanics my exam center was in different college. I was prepared and was confident. Though this confidence dilutes every-time after seeing the Mechanics results.

The exam center was an under construction building, there were many naked wires hanging here and there. Still there was bit of time for exam-rooms to open. I was standing with my back touching one of the walls, and accidentally my head touched a non-insulated live electrical wire. My head jerked and my body vibrated for a while, as if I had Parkinson's for those few seconds. Bell rang and someone pushed me while walking, to relieve me from that current. One more demo, its not that easy to pass 'Engineering Mechanics', the grandfather of all Engineering subjects. The job of carrying charge from one place to another is handled by electrons, but that day it was helped by my head also. Though the current was nasty, but while writing paper, I realized as if some invisible power sent that magical current in my head and charged my brain with 'Super Mechanics'. Exam was sheer-fabulous, wrote one optional questions answer as well.

The miracles were not too far, just after two months the results were out, Bravo!! I cleared all the subjects in next semester, well the percentage were not too great, but was happy with those 56% in second semester and clearing the big ghost ‘Mechanics’. The first year aggregate was 54%, far away from 60%. Now I have to score 63% in every year now to compensate.

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