Our college, being ranked among the best in the country owes that credit to some of the unparalleled teaching geniuses working among the staff. It was always noted and said many a time that MOST of our teachers were just out of the world beings, one’s who could just come to class and teach entire subjects at a stretch without anything as little as a glimpse into the text books. The following might tell you why.
We started the third semester two months ago. And like always, we have new teachers, and new subjects. One of these dealt with heat transfers and stuff, which a mere mortal like me still finds pretty hard to comprehend. I was trying to study it for the series exam tomorrow. And then this incident flashed on my mind. Since I’ve already officially given up hopes of passing the exam, I thought I’d just come here and put this much down, hoping to give life to my wheezing, dying blog.
So where was I. Ah yes Heat transfer.
So this Sir. Let us call him Mr. Z.(For the sake of mine sessional marks in case he comes across this post). So Mr. X is teaching us about heat. I’m as usually nodding off in class; my upper torso on the verge of falling over- thanks to another late night the day before, wasting time fruitlessly online. And it happened before I could control it.
YAAAAAAAAWNNNNNNNNNNN
Mr. X: “ Ellarum enthade oru ksheenam pole, orakkam thane” (
Some wiseguy: “Sir this is a BIT boring”.
Mr. X:
This might be boring. Let me make the class a bit more interesting. Let us talk about wider topics.
Another wise guy: “Term used for when a space vehicle returns to the atmosphere”
Mr X: “ Correct!. Now the speed at which the vehicle returns is approximately 20 thousand miles per hour. Due to the friction with air, that generates a heat of kakkathollayiram into ten raised to 5 joules per centimetre”
*Class sits up straight. People are definitely getting interested*
Mr X Continues:
“So proper heat insulation is mandatory for the space vehicle. The NASA has developed different substances for that. Example, silica tiles.
VSSC il insulation tiles research chaiyunan oru main character njan anu (
We have developed a new material and tested it for heat resistance and then plotted a graph
This is the graph I got *Draws a graph*
And this is the graph NASA got for their material *Draws a strikingly similar graph*
Iee subject ile RANDU international paper ente peril anu. Njan ezhutiyata. Ente peru google chaitu nokiya kaanam
*explodes*Basically njan ithrem valia oru sambhavam anu
Ah ente classilanoda neeyokke kedanu orangune ? ninakonum naanam illeda.
Itoke bhayankara interesting anu.. itonum arinjodate neeyonum orukaalatum pass akan ponila. Gonam pidikathilla
Alla pinne”
Audience: “blink blink”
P.S.
The complete posts may be read at this authors per
http://theloyolitediaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/s3-starts-with-a-bang/
-A.M.D.G.
