My First Paper Presentation

Hi Friends,

This time i am going to write about the experiences of my first paper presentation , that i went unexpectedly on friday (19/08/2011) . On the middle of the week ,about wednesday i think, i heard that my friend Saravana Kumar's paper was selected for a paper presentation conducted in pondicherry college.As i didn't attend any paper presentations before , i was thinking when i would go to such paper presentations. Next day Saravana said that he got selected for another college on same day for me and Karthik. i dont want to miss that oppurtunity, so i started doing works to get On-Duty for me and Karthik.E (another nice friend )to go to another college we got selected (because we were same team ).

Day Before Paper Presentations :

The College was a famous college in Tiruchengodu, Tamil Nadu. It would take only 4 to 5 hours travel so we thought we could start by midnight and reach by early morning 4:30 am.I and Karthik could not communicate frequently because his mobile was not in good condition.This time i thought about our grand father's who had no phone at all and how we were in kind of situation where we can't be without mobile.

I started about 11pm on 18/08/2011 to Aarappalayam bus stand ( A bus stand in madurai ). In few minutes we met.Karthik made an arrangement for alternative mobile so we can communicate each other.We boarded Salem bus on the advice of our class mate Sathish Kumar (whom we call M.L.A ) because his hometown was namakkal.While we were seated in a bus Karthik suddenly claimed that he has missed his bus. I don't know what to do. He got tensed and moved around the bus bending below seats and was searching for bus in bus stand also.He asked if i was having money for both of us to go. I said it will be enough for going alone as i didn't have much money.It made us tensed for about 1 minute then when we used mobile light for searching we found the pursue that was on right front seat where a women was sitting . "Thank God" i and Karthik said. He then went to drink Tea.     

Sleepless Night :

Then when karthik returned, the bus started by 11:30 i think.The Bus conductor came and asked for ticket we said we want 2 namakkal tickets.He said that it was a express bus and stops only at salem. We dont know the distance between salem and namakkal and thought we are not going to make it.The bus already ran 2 to 3 kms so the bus would not also stop. so with no choice we got tickets to salem.When i was about to sleep. They put with some Bakiya Raj (A Yesteryear tamil actor ) film. Ayyo !! Koduma da ( It was killing me seeing the movie ). I was seated in a seat above tyre so i cant freely keep my leg to full length.i was also near to window so no way i can't sit comfortably. I could not sleep also as the bhakiya raj film was killing me.i got fed up.I watched the movie with no choice. I don't know the title as it saw from middle. I had a half slept after the movie was over and they turned off the television. I could not sleep because of film and uncomfortability. At 4 am friday we reached Salem and learnt that we could reach that college by 2 hours. We boarded the tiruchengodu bus . Unfortunately this bus was more uncomfortable than the previous bus as we have to stand and the bus was crowded. Karthik managed to sleep while standing.But i can't sleep while standing. This went continously till we reached college gate. luckily the bus stopped at college gate itself. We reached there by 6 am.I was amazed by the campus because it was an educational village ,i would call . The same trust has Schools,Arts college, 3 enginering colleges, 2 management colleges and 1 Medical college (I Don't know exact numbers as we went the hostel alloted to us directly ) on the same campus and many buildings was in middle of constructions and don't know what are they for. I thought it was good college.

One day Hostel :

In this i have to appreciate the college hospitality. the students atteded call whenever needed and helped a lot.I was a Day scholar ( Non Hosteler ) all my life it was a first day and last day (up to date ) i had been in hostel. The room was quite like a typical hostel room and other participators where already there sleeping.

I smelled hostel for first time. The rest room ( toilet and bathroom ) was some what cleaner than i expected because i heard from many hosteller of my college and other colleges that generally rest rooms would not be clean.  Then we bathed and got ready and went to canteen for breakfast about 8.45am.Ate some tiffins and went to inaugral function.

Inaugral (Advisory)  Function:

We went to register our names and then we went to Presentation Hall.The time was 10am and till didn't start the function. Then all the dignitories ( sorry if there's any spell mistake ) came. About 7 of them were there. Principal , Director mech,HOD mech, professors and 2 chief guests. All saying the same thing in different ways and style. About 2 hours they were lecturing. As i didn't sleep last night i slept sitting in 2nd bench (karthik too).Then after that i thought there would be lunch as i was hungry but they said it was break. They  put  on some videos to illustrate power of mechanical engineers (We are Mechanical Engineering Students and it was Mechanical Engineering Symposium) . It had nice content but some flaws in editing.

Last Presentation:

In break they gave two marie gold biscuits and 1 cup of tea. It was OK.Then we went to presentation hall. We was Disappointed as we were the last team for paper presentation , as i would make us not to explain the paper completely and they would make us hurry to go finish.But karthk was positive and said that we could win prize in any circumstances.So i was also hoping we would win.It was a bad thing they gave mearly 3minutes for explanation.

Lunch????

Next after 10 presentations were over we were called for lunch. The Lunch was not as good i thought. The had provided the same mess food they would eat but in banana leaf with extra Banana.It was the worst lunch i have had in my life.

Last Presentation Continued....

After lunch we were then called.It was about 3.40pm It was as expected as i predicted earlier. They simply did not listen to our presentation and quickly said time was out we didnt get even 3 minutes.I was upset by that.Then i know that we would not bag any prize.

Design Contest.

We also registered for Design contest so we went for the same . First we thought i was a easy diagram give to us but unfortunately we didnt arrive at the result. We felt bad as we were learning design softwares for two months and we could not arrive conclusion. we later came to know that it was a different version that we learnt and in symposium it was different version software.Then we could not win design contest also. 

Valedictory Function (At last its all over )

Aappa da.... Finally we were going to home da . No advice this time. we got all participitation certificates and no participitation for design also. HOD asked to give feed back i thought of saying you must be puntual and time consious, dont put mess lunch for guests,give a nice video show but i didnt say anything as i was eager to get away from that college.

To Madurai :

We vacated the hostel and started to move towards gate. on the way we eat icecreams on another canteen and then we boarded namakkal bus and reached namakkal by 6.30pm. we then ate dinner as i would be midnight to go home.Then Started to madrai.We were lucky this time as we got nice seat in middle and i could not watch the movie going on . It was a nice tamil movie acted by Kamal Hasan namely Vasool Raja M.B.B.S i love that movie but as i could not see properly i slept. We reached madurai Arappalayam Bus stant madurai by 11.40pm. I got bus to my home so i bid bye to Karthik and boarded bus to Thallakulam (where i live ). I reached by 12.00 am and it was nice to see madurai by midnight as i never seen it before. Later i heared that Karthik got home by 3.00am as bus was not available at that time.

Thats all my friends and i ll write my experience time to time

Thanks for reading

Have a nice day !!!