Every Class has a….

Contrary to most people, I find the classes at IIITB very interesting. Because, it’s a class of 150 students(not sure, if all the 150 students are human only. I do know some vampires who do not sleep!!), there are a large number of samples whom you can observe to keep yourself amused!(According to a certain GNS Prasanna, increasing the accuracy 10% requires 100 samples.) Err, Before you draw your conclusions, I am not talking about chick watching!! None that way have arrested my eyes still..;)

While, our UG classes were composed of a more homogenous group of ‘kids’, this class can roughly be classified into groups with certain defined characteristics.

1. THE GYAANIS!

This breed of students is the “who’s who” of the class according to the lecturers. Typically, these folks have a work experience of 2 years working in a huge company..(That’s a different story that they got extremely frustrated there to return to academics.!)

How to identify them?

Their eyes are fixed either on the black board…err..smart board or the lecturer and there is an unfailing head nod for every brilliant point that the lecturer makes. They laugh, but only when the lecturer cracks a joke! The only time, they will be seen talking to their neighbor is when the lecturer has ‘explicitly’ asked them to talk to their neighbours.

2. The Wannabe Gyaanis!(The HeadBangers!!)

This is the most interesting breed of characters you can find in the class. This clan’s motive and objectives are as diverse as the methods they employ to prove their Gyaani quotient!

If you just had a glance at them, I wouldn’t be surprised if you mistook the class for a rock concert. Infact, Newton could well be proved wrong about the ‘perpetual motion machine’! Their hands are perennially in simple harmonic motion throughout the class, and I mean it. If you are unfortunate enough to sit besides them, you are also sure that you wont be able to sleep inside the class. These folks constantly have this “Oh!!”…”sss…..”..”Ok!!OK!!” reaction and the decibel levels are adjusted precisely enough for the lecturer to be able to hear it.Some of the other common characteristics in this group is laughing like it’s the first time they have heard a joke when a teacher is rebuking a student, having that *How can you do this!!* look when they see someone snoring in class??

3. Type Writer

This group theoretically, does not have an independent existence of its own and could potentially belong to any group, with a very high probability of belonging to either of the first 2 groups. Btw, I will better stop commenting on these people because on the eve of exams, the best thing to read is inevitably their notes..:P

4. The Sleeping Buddha

Now, this is my favourite group of people for the simple fact that unless they start snoring are the least annoying of all. For one, they do not make me feel guilty of wasting time in their class. That’s a different story about why they sleep in class. A couple of them because, I hear they were debugging a 2000 lined C code, a few after reading the research papers all night, and most of them because they felt the teacher was trying this best to put them to sleep. Did I mention someone dreaming about his gal?:P

Overall, these are the ‘nice’ guys of the class.

5. LiveWire

This is one of the rare breeds of students in class who are extremely vulnerable to being punished by teachers and being hated by the nerds. These noble souls do the yeoman service of trying to convert The Sleeping Buddhas into any of the other class of students through their occasionally witty jokes. However, on their off days, it is extremely tough to tolerate the various Pjs that they generate with such tremendous regularity.

Oops, Last but not the least, there is also a certain guy who is so jobless to ‘observe’ whats happening in the class, and not whats happening with the lecturer!