Locking horns with luck has been one of my greatest achievements throughout my student days and still going on. I always wanted to test my luck and my luck always went by the Murphy's Laws. My luck was so biased to Murphy's laws i sometimes felt that i don't carry luck with me but a well defined set of Murphy's laws. It did help out in a way that my expectations were pushed down to the zero level. I rarely took a chance with anything and whenever I did it ended up with dire consequences.
Here are a few incidences i remember. Most of them have happened in the final exams for Lab
Computer Communication Networks labs:
There are about 3o odd programs to learn for the Lab exams. I end up learning the logic behind 29 of them write the programs myself and test it out. i don't find enough time to test out the last one. I get into the lab praying "Oh god, please don't give me the 30th program" and pick out a chit on which the name of the program is written. Bingo, its the 30th one. I end up spending 1.5 hours trying to figure out how to get it done. Write the program in the next 10 minutes and end up debugging for the next one hour.
Digital Communications lab:
My lab exams were on the first day of the Lab season. My batch was the third one. Came to know from a few reliable sources that the optical fiber cable experiment is not giving proper outputs anymore due to some problems in the equipment. I never prayed i think but god just knew what i was supposed to be given. Bingo, here you have it. I end up trying out everything possible to make it work for an hour. No luck. Almost given up hope. I decide to read the Manual for the equipment for the first time. I do an in exam study for another hour (Basically Yuddadalle Shastrabhyasa). At the end of it figure out that one of the settings on the equipment had been changed by someone. Somehow i finish my labs in the last minute. All the time during this i get crazy stare from people in the lab who wanted to leave early.
Here are a few incidences i remember. Most of them have happened in the final exams for Lab
Computer Communication Networks labs:
There are about 3o odd programs to learn for the Lab exams. I end up learning the logic behind 29 of them write the programs myself and test it out. i don't find enough time to test out the last one. I get into the lab praying "Oh god, please don't give me the 30th program" and pick out a chit on which the name of the program is written. Bingo, its the 30th one. I end up spending 1.5 hours trying to figure out how to get it done. Write the program in the next 10 minutes and end up debugging for the next one hour.
Digital Communications lab:
My lab exams were on the first day of the Lab season. My batch was the third one. Came to know from a few reliable sources that the optical fiber cable experiment is not giving proper outputs anymore due to some problems in the equipment. I never prayed i think but god just knew what i was supposed to be given. Bingo, here you have it. I end up trying out everything possible to make it work for an hour. No luck. Almost given up hope. I decide to read the Manual for the equipment for the first time. I do an in exam study for another hour (Basically Yuddadalle Shastrabhyasa). At the end of it figure out that one of the settings on the equipment had been changed by someone. Somehow i finish my labs in the last minute. All the time during this i get crazy stare from people in the lab who wanted to leave early.
These are just a small part of the huge set.......:)
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