Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Bullshit works!!

A Few months back i decided to test one of my professor's intellect.Although there are some time and tested methods of doing this,i took the safe route...i wrote crap in my paper and was expecting to get blasted.But LO behold!!Not even an admonition.Worse,i scored 3 on 5 marks for that particular question.

Emboldened by her apparent lack of attention while evaluating my papers,i decided to take it to a further level.This time i shall target more questions and atleast get a special mention.Guess what happens??I happen to be the topper this time round!!!As my attempts have been insanely useful and,not to mention,quite popular too,I plan to help some of the poor earthling engineers by giving some valuable advice on how to write those utterly irritating and greek-and-latin tests.

RULE 1:When you plan to write bullshit,make sure the first line is technical.Because the attention span of a pea-brained lecturer is generally abysmally low.Sample this,

What are Ghost images?How can they be overcome?

Ghost images occur due to the lack of synchronisation between the frame and line deflection circuits.(i have absolutely no idea what this means).They have been found to occur while watching utterly scary movies,because your mind starts playing games.You are affected subliminally(note:you can also practice some GRE words here) and you start conjuring up GHOST IMAGES.They can be best overcome by not watching such movies.Or
else you might have to go to a shrink.

RULE 2:It also helps to end your answer with some techie stuff.

What is a turnstile array?

Turnstile array is nothing but an array consisting of a single tile that turns.you can see that it is a misnomer.it should have actually been "turningtile" since there is just one tile,but these engineers have no sense basically.they happily screw around with names making life difficult for those around them(that helped!!!).I guess,it is an antenna.
The last line was supposedly technical.i actually got full marks for that question

RULE 3:Try writing answers that tantalisingly make sense

What is adjacent channel interference?How can it be overcome?

Adjacent channel interference refers to the interference from a neighbouring channel.It is an
eavesdropper's paradise.It can be overcome by keeping the 2 adjacent channels as far apart as possible or else asking nosy people to just let it quit.

These are just time and tested rules which have been repeated for the convenience of some readers.Hope these help.And as a bonus,i shall also include one other answer that i wrote where "flashes of genius" can be seen.

What is persistence of vision?

When an image exists for one-sixteenth of a second after it is lost,it is called persistence of
vision.Whereas if it lasts for a lifetime,it maybe called a nightmare!!!

7 comments:

Sridevi S said...

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....nice strategy...this is wht i followed in all my univ exams...atleast they read first and last line for u ppl...but for us they see only the no. of pages...so have to read lot of story books to bulid on storied for pages

Vijay Narain said...
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Vijay Narain said...

Machi,u stole the words outa my next post da.I completely endorse your ideas,but to put in ur "GRE" words,your post's left me appetent!! Howzatt!!

$uprema said...

cool...now u r blogging!!

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ravikiran said...

Sarcasm also works.