Evaluation Seminar

An evaluation seminar is a scary proposition.Firstly, it's got multiple professors all of whom look terribly irritated.Next,they somehow end up asking that one very question which you had no clue about.Thirdly, my M Tech specialisation basically involves 3 to 4 profs and 12 to 15 students, hence it is a pretty well knit community. You cannot take advantage of anonymity like B Tech students who average about 80 to 90 in my department. To be fair, a lot of time is given to you for producing a genuine piece of work which furthers the boundaries of knowledge in your chosen area, but the problem is that working on your project is not exactly the top priority of an average student, hence we come to that part where I said that an evaluation seminar is a scary proposition.It is that part of the semester when your accumulated sins come to visit you. You feel sorry for every minuite wasted.It is difficult to convince the evaluation panel that it has taken you three weeks to code the Java plug in, the same one which you knocked off over an extended weekend.It is even more difficult when the panel consists of the same proffessors who taught you last year.The evaluation seminar was a close one. It could have gone either way, luckily the gods were kind and the day was saved.No more late night movies during weekdays.So the new resolution is Early to bed and early to rise.

The Dilbert cartoon on top of the post struck a chord as coffee has been an integral part of my life in the week prior to the evaluation seminar.