Yes, this page is going to be updated only once a month hereafter, unless (confound it!) something I fancy should come up, uncertain as these things are.
The time finally came, for us to select electives that we wish to study in the semester to follow. There is some politics involved here. From about 7 possible electives offered, the class is allowed to pick 3, one that will be common to the class, and the other, a choice based on whether the paper chosen has at least 25 students wanting it. So, can you imagine what went on in my head when Operational Research received only about 12 responses? A sizable, limited IQ section of the class opted for a visibly mundane paper on Maintenance of Machines, which is best left to people wanting to become foremen or supervisors at a manufacturing unit. This abominable section of the classroom has the student representative amongst it and knowing what kind of people these uneducated leaders are, this person was volleying for Maintenance of Machines. I wasn’t able to tolerate this misguided utilitarianism, its the reason this state of Tamil Nadu and much of this country is what it is.
Temperatures rising all around, other folks that were for Operational Research needed the paper as an added advantage for higher learning. I went around the department speaking to staff concerned with allotting us electives and the effort has been well rewarded. Now, Maintenance of Machines doesn’t even figure in the list. Its me against the classroom. A classroom of 50% or more clots with no scope in Engineering and the rest of us slightly more passionate folks.
Meanwhile, I just downloaded several eBooks. “Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin, “The Special and General Theories of Relativity” by Albert Einstein, four Wodehouses namely “Love Among Chickens”, “My Man Jeeves”, “Right-Ho Jeeves”, “Mike and Psmith”.
Right-ho Jeeves is the funniest Jeeves story I have read, second only to Ring for Jeeves. I could send these to anyone interested.
toodle pip!
