wht was tht again..err..on the bench i mean! *slap*

Droning lecturers and repetitious information, sitting through a Engineering lecture was a pain in the well..hmm..wrong place off course..! Even a serious attempt to concentrate in a subject as interesting as Microelectronics often resulted in my mind wandering off after the first nanosecond . A fun thing i used to do to kill time was write with my non-dominant hand in books,and to tell the truth i've got quite a lotta practice writing with my left hand in those 4 yrs.! If you happen to walk into a really exciting and thought provoking lecture like Chapter 5 of Microwave Communication you will find 10 per cent(those gugu geeky types) taking down notes, 50 per cent blissfully passed out and the rest 40 per cent doodling dutifully on benches and notebooks.!A sight to watch indeed.!

While writing this post i was reminded of my first few days in college and how i would walk around the classroom reading all the doodles on benches.Frustration,creativity,proclamation of love,they were all masterfully crafted on wood by seniors for the subsequent batches to read, and yeah every batch which passed out of a class left behind their mark. I'm sure somebody must be reading my left-hand scribbling right now. This timepass activity can take different forms like..

*personalized ones :: These are done by people who are very serious about the sayin "leave your mark". You don't ve to strain ur eyes to read it cos its there as a bold big carving "rahul sat here" . The not so egoistic ones scribble things like "viking-vikram" or "ravishing-raveena",colorful adjectives i say!Shucks! did somebody say whts in a name??

*romeo juliet ones :: ahhhaa.! this is done by ppl who believe in the sayin "don't let love interfere with crappy lectures"(well its not really a saying,i just made it up!) ,look closely(some ppl believe in maintaining anonymity) and you will spot small hearts with "chinnu loves chinna" or "rahul loves preeti and yes there will be an arrow cuttin throught all this which make reading it all the more difficult.


*aspirational ones :: Now every class will have dude's who aspire to get that magical 15 in internals or 35 in externals by just farting around,so before exams these screwballs take the time n effort to scribble the 150 page lesson on a 20 inch space.So you have all the important derivation,circuit diagrams and definitons neatly written down for further reference. I will be lying if i said i didnt indulge in this crime.!


*caricatures :: this is the part i liked.! academic deities depicted as constipated langoor(that's how most of the professors looked!).. boy some of the caricatures were just outta this world types! If lady luck is not by your side n the lecturer catches u drawing his caustic face u are done for ( i flunked in one my internals cos of this!)


*arbit art :: cars,beer bottles,dragons,nike(this was the most ubiquitous one,every third bench had it),adidas,jet planes,ninjas.. hmm.. knifes,nuts n bolts..*memory fading*, geometrical shapes,space ships etc etc etc..!

Some people found pleasure in this simple art form while some others found pleasure in bailing outta class.(i took pleasure in the latter,art has never been my forte!).