Comedy of Errors Part-I

IWP (Internet & Web Programming) Term End Lab Exam

Date: 20^th April, 2011

When sixth semester was on the brink of getting over, the excitement permeated deep into me as vacations were fast approaching and I would be at home after a long period of approximately five months and it had been the longest one after I joined VIT. But before I could start off to my home, I had to go through the period which almost every student hates. Yes, it can’t be other than exams.  During exam time I always have weird and unusual experiences. It was a Monday, and I had two lab exams back to back, first being software engineering commencing at 2:15pm and IWP at 5pm. I had been good at both the subjects as far as labs were taken into account. Just three hours before lab exam, I found that my IWP lab record was missing. I asked maximum number of people who could have walked with my lab record, but every effort was in vain. I even updated on Facebook, in a ray of hope that someone would come and return it to me.

Nothing was working according to me and I felt clock was accelerating to make me meet my fate. It was around 1.30pm, when I decided to give IWP lab faculty a call and seek her advice. I thought she would understand my situation and award some points for honesty, but the tide was against me and she said “I know you have not completed your record and just to save your ass you are framing stories and I can help you only in one way by awarding zero for not having your lab record” and she disconnected the phone and condition was worse than before. I was perplexed, and a miracle occurred when Paritosh brought my lab record just 10 minutes before exam. I hugged him for rescuing me from my worst nightmare. And I had limitless smile on my visage and soon brooded on bed to wrap the lab record with brown paper.

I dressed up and left for my lab exam and as usual exam started 20 minutes late from its scheduled time. The bestowed 20 minutes helped me calm and relax myself. Software engineering exam started and I somehow managed to polish off my questions in time. The next exam was grandeur and now I had lab record with me and above all I was curious to see the faculty’s reaction. At 5:15 pm, the exam began and I had enough confidence that I didn’t even open my record to turn the pages.

I received my set of questions and got engrossed in coding them and thereafter a hoarse voice touched my ears, my faculty had been calling me for the viva holding the lab record. I walked towards her with smirk and a bolt from a blue came and washed away all my confidence that I possessed. And she said “do you think I am fool, you will wrap up and bring any record camouflaging it to be IWP and I will not come to know” and I was taken by surprise by what she has been chuntering. I saw the record and earth slipped off from under my foot and felt I am sinking down. I put forward my point and tried to convince her, I narrated the whole story in a single breath to her but she keeping on chanting one line “you called me around 2pm, right! and said you lost your lab record and were asking for the consideration and now you come up and say that you found it. Do you think I am a fool?” I was bewildered and she asked me to give viva and leave as she didn’t have time to waste. She fired questions on me and I somehow answered them.  I said “ma’am trust me, I am not lying and I can bring it show it to you” and she responded in very childish manner and said “don’t waste your and my time, it is for sure you will be awarded zero.” and reiterated “do you think I am fool?”

To be continued...