So, as it is, VI Semester at IITM began inconspicuously with me beginning to take on more work primarily for Amalgam 2011 (hope I chronicle Amalgam 2011seperately- it required quite an effort!) and also for the year's edition of Saarang. I expected the semester to be a tough ride, but I didnt quite forecast what was coming!
January:
First week of January was filled with meetings- both at Saarang and at Amalgam level. But the cash resources in Amalgam was drying up and we still had not got most of our sponsors! So we (myself and my co-secretary) had to step up real gas and pursue all ends possible. Meanwhile in Saarang, the ticket sales finally started in the outlets and before that on the net. The course work apparently had no work. Most of my friends at Meta had taken up this course "Finite Element Methods" under the Chem department (taken by the one-who-must-not-be-named) and tragically we also had the worse Meta core course in this particular semester (taken by a particular woman who had in previous years started the "Iron and Steel Making" course with a peculiar "Iron and STEAL making" writing on the board-- from here on referred to as 'femme-fatal' (no, I have not spelled that wrong--she is more a deadly woman by conventional means than a femme-fatale)).
But the one-who-must-not-be-named (chuck it, writing with all the hyphens takes too long, will hence forth be referred to as 'Tan sak') actually appeared a chilled-out guy (despite all the hype and warnings that had surrounded him previously) and took the classes pretty well in the first week. He did not send anybody out, did not ask any questions in the class, allowed people to ask him doubts and primarily did not send anyone out of the class. All this changed when a particularly loud mouthed hyper-active-super-computing individual (ok da-- will refer you as Ram itself) added on to the course in the second week.
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