"The Heat Is On"
Both literally and figuratively, the place is slowly bearing a close resemblance to "Hell" as in Dante's Inferno .
Mid term exams coming up next week, and the professors have decided to bombard us with presentations,assignments and quizzes etc, all on a few day's notice. Survival is now on a day to day basis. Following an algorithm of first deadline first. Thankfully till now every day had only one deadline, I shudder to think what will happen if more than one is needed, the time management will require a PARAM supercomputer, as it is juggling time is tough, this is because in all the project groups there are 5-8 members, and each of the groups have different members, with a very small intersection set. So managing group meetings is a nightmare, on top of it people have other commitments, the myriad committee tasks, the Sikander sports etc. The scheduling arrangement is a nightmare.
Though miraculously things always fall in place before the deadline.
Yesterday I had a presentation on Input/output devices for computers, the slides were made by three, with the to and forth exchange of about 5-6 mails. Finally it was uploaded on the class computer. I was the first speaker, and when the slides started rolling behind, voila some of my stuff was missing and slides were in some other order, we exchanged some "oh we are screwed " glances, but as the show must go on, I improvised, started blurting out on a slide to slide basis switching from keyboards to mouse to trackball to joystick and back again, thankfully ordeal was over quickly as some slides were missing. Thankfully for the other two speakers, things were in order.
When we checked later, and gave the handouts to the teacher, the missing slides were there, dunno why PowerPoint played the joke with us. The class also enjoyed it, because it provided them some entertainment in such a drab topic.