Tous mes professeurs

I gave my last major test of the semester today. Mathematics, it was. I am quite sure that by now all of you know the phrase I am going to employ to describe the test. So I'm not going to use it. In case you don't know about the phrase then,
a) You haven't been reading this blog regularly, and
b) You'll find it on the top right corner of this window, right after "My life is an".

But that is not what this entry is about. This entry is to commemorate the end of the majors and the semester. And what a catastrophic semester it has been. A large part in making the semester catastrophic was played by my professors, and since I probably won't have the time to introduce them to you next semester, having a new set, I will do so now.

Meet my professors.

1. Prof. B.L. Sachdeva (Engineering Drawing, MEL 110)

Favorite Quote:"Showing hidden lines on this figure is a mast."

He is the only professor who has been mentioned before on this blog. He happens to be an extremely cool professor. He knows his subject well. However, he has an appalling memory when it comes to names. He just randomly assigns any name to anybody.Thus if I am lucky, he calls me Prasun. If I'm unlucky, he calls me Biswas.

2. Prof. S.R. Kale (Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, MEN 110)

Favorite Quote:"The world as we know it is going to change within the next 90 days. ____ is going to become obsolete. ____ is going to become archaic."

He is also one of the better professors I have. He also happens to be my course advisor (as pointed out by Arnav). He is an excellent speaker, and is very good at making students understand the intricacies of a subject. He has a PhD from Stanford. The only qualm I have with him is that he is too bent on changing the world. And he thinks everything will become obsolete by the time we graduate.

3. Prof. J.B. Shrivastava (Mathematics, MAL 110)

Favorite Quote:"If you don't attend classes, you won't get any marks in the examination."

Such a simple, logical corelation. No wonder he is the head of the Mathematics Dept. at IIT, Delhi. He is a good teacher, but he teaches at an abysmally slow speed. On an average we do about half a question in one lecture class. Maybe he'll be able to teach faster if he doesn't stress on the importance of good attendance 14 times in every class.

4. Prof. D. Bandopadhyay (Chemistry Lab, CYP 100)

Favorite Quote:"Hey!!"

He is strict and calls a cellphone a 'cellophone'. He addresses all students as "Hey!!" and molecules and atoms as 'guys'. So don't be surprised when you here something like, "Hey!! Can you tell me how this guy has three valence bonds at its co-ordination site." He is either in a very good mood, or in a very grumpy one. One can distinguish between the two on the basis of the tone of his "Hey!!" when he calls you.

5. Prof. A.J. Elias (Inorganic Chemistry, CYL 120)

Favorite Quote:"This topic is given very well in Huheey."

Excellent teacher, if you can make out what he is saying. He has a very nasal voice, which usually means that whatever he says just ends up as a set of incoherent wheezes. Which also means that he calls complexes 'gomblexes' and molecules, 'bolegules'. Huheey, by the way is a textbook which he pronounces as Uuhi.

6. Prof. B.R. Chopra (Drawing Workshop, MEL 110)

Favorite Quote:"You must do your latrine neatly."

Not much to say about him, except for the fact that when he says 'Lettering', it sounds like 'Latrine'.

7. Prof. O.P. Bansal (Drawing Workshop, MEL 110)

Favorite Quote:"Pleeease submit the sheeeets."

After the end of the 4 hours of allocated time we get to complete a sheet, he surreptitiously arrives behind you and says in a booming, zombie-like voice, "Pleeease submit the sheeeets.", which immediately causes you to jump about two feet in the air and drop your pencil. The voice is the key here. It is such that it wouldn't seem unnatural if you appended his favorite quote with ",or pay with you life!" He is Yamraj personified.

8. Prof. K.K. Chaudhary (Applied Mechanics, AML 110)

Favorite Quote:"This substitution is going to make life veeery simble."

He makes life veeery hard. He doesn't know how to teach. He comes to class in weirdly stitched safari-suits, and takes extra classes with more regularity than normal classes. And he weighs the same as all the students of the class put together.

9. Prof. J.D. Singh (Inorganic Chemistry, CYL 120)

Favorite Quote:"We are pre-poning the test due to some tachnical prablams."

He looks exactly like the guy who comes with Zayed Khan in the pizza hut ad. And by adding his weight to K.K. Chaudhary's and dividing by two, you get the average weight for a human adult.

That was about it as far as my professors go. They are a weird lot, but thanks to them, I am probably going to pass all my courses this semester.

A heartfelt thanks to tous mes professeurs.