My MT viva:
Vivas have since long been a source of humour for many aspiring engineers, and well, here lies the paradox. Good engineering education is that wherein the ability of the student to deal with
practical engineering situations is tested and strengthened. Now this is the prime motivation behind having a practical course with a viva component. Big thoughts aside, the point is my MT2 viva was one incident that creates humour out of my shamelessness about my ignorance.
Here is how it goes:
Me: Hello Madam.
Madam: Hmm.. What is the significance of Change Point?
Me: Madam, change point is a station where you CHANGE, the umm..
Madam: Change what?
Me: Change the theodilite position?
Madam: OK.
Me: (OK? WOH! :O )
Madam: But I want to know why you change the position at all? What is the purpose?
Me: Well, Madam, you actually have a BS, then IS then a FS where you finish your round to change to another position. (In utter desperation, attempting to take the instructor for a ride)
Madam: Do you really know WHY we use the change point?
Me: (Blushing) umm.. No madam, Sorry :)
Madam: OK. (Expressin of pitty) What is the Least Count of Theodilite?
Me: You mean least count of the angle measured?
Madam: Well that is the only thing that the theodilite measures isn't it?
Me: (Is it?)
umm.. (Pause, uncomfortable, not wanting to say no, AGAIN, waiting for the instructor to write that zero against question 2... Suddenly:
20 seconds?
Madam: YES. OK.
Me: OK? (Yippee!)
Madam: (Stares at me) What is Chainage and offset?
Me: umm.. Can I have paper so I can explain perfectly?
(Generally, a piece of paper is an escape, where one can jot down loads of equations and other jargon, which is a desperate, final attempt to impress the instructor, or even confuse her)
Me: Well, ahem.. you have this square, like, all those ranging rods you have humped, I mean, punched the ground with, around the object. So you draw this line down from the point to the chain, and this length is chainage and this is offset.
Madam: What line are you dropping?
Me: What? umm.. I think its a perpendicular...
Madam: OK.
Me: (OK?????)
Madam: So you did the Bernoulli's theorem experiment, right?
Me: Yes Madam.
Madam: OK, so what is Bernoulli's theorem?
Me: (I know this one!!) well, ahem.. Well, its that P plus Ro V square by 2 is constant. :)
Madam: What? Where is gamma?
Me: umm.. What gamma is it Madam?
Madam: Its P by gamma right?
Me: umm.. (DUmb for 30 seconds, then something strikes me, yet again) Well Madam, I you divide the equation by Ro into g, and then Ro into g is gamma so you get gamma, I told you the equation in the most FUNDAMENTAL form... =|
Madam: (Looking cross) OK. (Looks into the labsheet) You have not done this well, the experiment.
Me: Uh.. well I haven't madam, sorry!
Madam: (Looks up, again cross, looks down, writes down 6.5 for viva, amazingly high, for the things I did, gives away the sheet) Please sign. You can leave. Thank you.
Me: Thank YOU Madam! :)
End.
Vivas have since long been a source of humour for many aspiring engineers, and well, here lies the paradox. Good engineering education is that wherein the ability of the student to deal with
practical engineering situations is tested and strengthened. Now this is the prime motivation behind having a practical course with a viva component. Big thoughts aside, the point is my MT2 viva was one incident that creates humour out of my shamelessness about my ignorance.
Here is how it goes:
Me: Hello Madam.
Madam: Hmm.. What is the significance of Change Point?
Me: Madam, change point is a station where you CHANGE, the umm..
Madam: Change what?
Me: Change the theodilite position?
Madam: OK.
Me: (OK? WOH! :O )
Madam: But I want to know why you change the position at all? What is the purpose?
Me: Well, Madam, you actually have a BS, then IS then a FS where you finish your round to change to another position. (In utter desperation, attempting to take the instructor for a ride)
Madam: Do you really know WHY we use the change point?
Me: (Blushing) umm.. No madam, Sorry :)
Madam: OK. (Expressin of pitty) What is the Least Count of Theodilite?
Me: You mean least count of the angle measured?
Madam: Well that is the only thing that the theodilite measures isn't it?
Me: (Is it?)
umm.. (Pause, uncomfortable, not wanting to say no, AGAIN, waiting for the instructor to write that zero against question 2... Suddenly:
20 seconds?
Madam: YES. OK.
Me: OK? (Yippee!)
Madam: (Stares at me) What is Chainage and offset?
Me: umm.. Can I have paper so I can explain perfectly?
(Generally, a piece of paper is an escape, where one can jot down loads of equations and other jargon, which is a desperate, final attempt to impress the instructor, or even confuse her)
Me: Well, ahem.. you have this square, like, all those ranging rods you have humped, I mean, punched the ground with, around the object. So you draw this line down from the point to the chain, and this length is chainage and this is offset.
Madam: What line are you dropping?
Me: What? umm.. I think its a perpendicular...
Madam: OK.
Me: (OK?????)
Madam: So you did the Bernoulli's theorem experiment, right?
Me: Yes Madam.
Madam: OK, so what is Bernoulli's theorem?
Me: (I know this one!!) well, ahem.. Well, its that P plus Ro V square by 2 is constant. :)
Madam: What? Where is gamma?
Me: umm.. What gamma is it Madam?
Madam: Its P by gamma right?
Me: umm.. (DUmb for 30 seconds, then something strikes me, yet again) Well Madam, I you divide the equation by Ro into g, and then Ro into g is gamma so you get gamma, I told you the equation in the most FUNDAMENTAL form... =|
Madam: (Looking cross) OK. (Looks into the labsheet) You have not done this well, the experiment.
Me: Uh.. well I haven't madam, sorry!
Madam: (Looks up, again cross, looks down, writes down 6.5 for viva, amazingly high, for the things I did, gives away the sheet) Please sign. You can leave. Thank you.
Me: Thank YOU Madam! :)
End.
5 comments:
You're becoming a blogger for them I see. the second phase.
Ahaa... 6.5 not bad!
Nice post..
@Pandey Ahem.. Well.. :)
@Raghav :D
hey,
I am Kaushal from BITS Goa( yeah, from down there...:P)
Came across your blog through a friend and really liked it. Especially this post and the GF one. Hats off. I'm a comparatively new blogger, but I'm pasting a link to a post which is, if not completely but a bit related to this one( and which was, btw, my maiden post.) See if you like it.
http://ofguitarsandpaintbrushes.blogspot.com/2009/02/5-point-someone.html
idiot,there r many more things 2 rite .......hard luck didn't laugh???try nxt time....
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