First Series test for S1S2 students at MES CE started today. Series exams have great role in deciding the internal marks. Out of 50 marks in internal, 20 is calculated through two series exams. Internals is a major factor for getting pass mark in all the semesters. There are two exams with 2 hours and 50 marks each everyday, for 4 days. Today, It was Maths I and Maths II. Maths I was easier as all the questions were done in the class itself. But, for Maths IInd, only one among the questions were done in the class and the exam was tough for me. The condition is the same with almost all students.

After one week of strike, college reopened today. There was high police protection in front of the college gate in the morning, but by evening there were only a few. I found that a discussion is going about the strike in the Orkut community of MES College of Engineering. It is quite useful to get the present situation of college.

Also, today we heard from the teachers that the first Series exams for S1S2 are scheduled for 7/12/2007, Friday. Its too near and if we had heard it before the strike, we could have prepared much better for it. If its so, we couldn’t conduct the Free Software workshop on the date proposed by Mahesh. So, there are chances for post ponding it to January 2008.

The chats in IRC is now becoming a part of my daily routine. Today it was mainly about organizing a program at MES college of engineering to make the public and students aware about free softwares and its ipmortance and significance. Sub topics included booting problem with IT@School GNU/Linux in some mother boards, configuring GPRS internet in Debian and all. The chat log follows.

In the starting of classes itself, we are getting 4 continuous holidays and also, today classes for 1st years were let of at noon. There will be classes only on October 3rd – Wednesday. Since October 2nd – Tuesday is an holiday, the college has decided to give Monday also a holiday for the convenience of students who are from far away places. Krishnaraj had some personal engagements at 5.30PM at Valanchery. So, after the classes were over, we went to Fastech Systems and spent time there till 5PM.

It was today that the real classes started. In all the six periods, we got introductions about the subjects, the mark distribution details and so. There was a total of 58 students with equal number of girls and boys. About 80% of the students are staying in hostels. The class by Vijayan sir of Chemistry and Raghavan sir of Mechanical were interesting.

Also, from the panchayath library, for the first time after taking membership, I took 2 books. One of them was about Stephen Hawking, the great scientist. I think it ‘ll be interesting