SJCE Mechanical : I can't get enough

It has been my passion to learn about the mechanisms that we come in close association with in our everyday lives. So, in school physics was my favourite subject. A good score in CET wasn't incentive enough to shift me away from this passion. Inspite of a lot of opposition from all round, I went ahead and chose mechanical engineering in SJCE, a decision that I will never regret.

Our lives as mech eng students wasn't all that great for the first four semesters, I would say. The usual mass bunking, proxy etc. Nothing out of the ordinary. It was in the 5th semester that I got to know more friends and realised what a fun loving and "koole" class we had. We organised industrial visits in and outside Mysore(but actually ended up doing more than just visit industries). Went on long bike rides. Started studying less, attended 60% of the classes and what not.

The next biggest binding factor was Dues Ex Machina - Incarnation 2005, a technical fest that we, the then 7th sem students took on whole new roles as event organisers and put on a fabulous show. Each and every student did his (I will not say her, coz there are only boys in this batch of 2006) bit to make it a success, so it would be unfair to mention any one or two. But I still feel that Guru, Sukhesh, Niranjan, and a whole lot of other guys were the main stay (please don't curse me for missing out any other names). The fest knit the class into one and gave us a sense of pride in belonging to SJCE Mech 06.

Another important part of the fest, something we wanted to be a crowd-puller, was the sweat-shirt we designed. Anyone read Angels and Demons (a Dan Brown thriller)? It says there that ambigrams can be made by only a selected few people in the world. And as it happened, we were those few. One morning Niranjan came to class [late as usual], sat beside GB and me and said "I want an ambigram on the shirt". I, knowing what an ambigram meant, said that would be very very difficult. GB was dumbstruck. Anyway, we got hold of ourselves and worked at it for precisely 13 min and 13 secs. I worked out a portion of the word and GB the rest. This was just the beginning! GB, the artist, took the sample sheet home to draw it on a white paper and get it the next day. [Well, this pic will show you how good he is at sketching] The modifications he made to the initial sketch was soooooooo amazing, my vocabulary limits me. It looked better than the ones in 'Angels and Demons'. I'm not kidding. See it for yourself!





That's not the end! Coming to the front of the shirt, we guys, Varun C, Varun S, Megh, GB, Niranjan and I, went to Varun's house with the intention of brainstorming for a caption for the sweatshirt. We instead ended up talking nonsense for 2 hours or so (during which Varun and I completed our practical record work). And suddenly in a flash, one of us came with an awesome brain wave - Screw You (something not very polite, but something that gave us food for thought for the final caption). It was later modified as: I screw you; We screw you and finally We screw... But our innovation didn't stop there. "We Screw" was further modified to something really ingeniously presentable and "blatter-worthy material" by the Varuns......
" Life has Infinite degrees of Freedom and n constraints, We Screw those n constraints"
So basically, we mechies, are left with infinite degrees of freedom.


And like I said, we wanted it to be the centre of attraction. It was! For months to come. And not only among us but also with other branches and other colleges! It was also featured in the Times of India.
College after Dues Ex Machina was like the way we wanted it to be. We, the students, were kings. So impressed were the lecturers by the show we put up, that they let us practically dictate the terms. The highest attendance that anyone managed was a 65%. We, anyway, managed to get away scot-free with medical certificate, that we could buy for a measly Rs.25 .
Come the final year, and we were all busy with our placements. Our batch of Mech 2006 made history by getting placed the maximum number of students in mechanical engineering ever. We are a pretty brilliant batch, to say the least. This, I am quoting from the horse's (lectures') mouth. They were overawed by our performance considering the number of classes we attended. Internals had lost their meaning by then! We bunked classes to go on bike rides. Classes; we attended the first one of the day. The rest of the day was for doing stuff like this.

In engineering, I did a few things that I can never forget, other than the blast of time I had in college. I got into the habit of reading novels! Writing blogs! Learnt French! Played basketball nearly everyday for 4 years! Broke my limbs! Made a lot of good friends! Won quizzes and many other events (only a few times)! Managed to get placed in a company I wanted!
It has been a lovely journey with these guys in mechanical engineering. We have made sure we enjoyed ourselves in the three years that we were together, and make it a memory worth cherishing!

Three cheers to SJCE Mech 2006!