Since the first semester, almost every semester we had a subject of the department where we had to attend a 3 hour lab per week. At the end of the lab course they would invariably take a viva and a lab test. Sometimes even at the beginning of the experiments they would take sort of mini vivas. In many of those, books flew, sheets were thrown out, F grades given, or students asked to go back to their rooms and prepare themselves for the viva before performing the DANGEROUS experiments. Our seniors used to tell us that the profs would throw the sheets out of the lab and would ask the student to “follow the trajectory”. Fortunately nothing like that happened with me.

This time it was the Grand Viva… supposedly the last Viva I’d be facing as an undergraduate student.

They tried to ask me a few questions and I tried to answer fewer. Fortunately or unfortunately, it wasnt anything like I had heard it to be. It was not by any means a grueling experience. It was calm, composed and in an air conditioned room! The professors were cool and while we were thinking about the questions they were busy discussing about pens, food, countries (note: USA, Japan and Korea). They also offered us sweet, aloo pakoda (common name: chop)… All in all it was a very different sort of viva for me, where I was guilty that I cudn’t answer much, but I dint feel that uncomfortable.

The fact that it is over now, is what keeps me happy. :)

The next few days, I shall be a bit busy… and I really don’t know when next I would blog after this. A lot of things to look forward to.

I’ve been updating my site lately to major extent and testing a new blog on another host. Keeping my fingers crossed till then.

This is my friend Yunseong. Very strong and good person. He ultra-mini laptop-like gadget is a Korean-English-Korean translator that is so helpful here.
Oh, and the two monitors, are of the same computer. Its called multi desktop. The mouse goes from one screen onto the other!

This is my desk with the computer (1.5 GB RAM, the minimum in the lab).

This is Jejuin. The third man. I dont seem the get the spelling of his name right.

This is the Power Systems Lab at High Tech Center.
There is a bed to sleep for those who work night out, basin to get fresh (not seen), room humidifier (green), projector, blackboard connected to printer (not seen), that prints whatever is on the board!, conference table, and computers for everyone with ultra ultra high speed internet. Yes 89 Mbps internet connection in a 100 Mbps LAN connection.