I know the above maxim's true. Not only that I've also experienced it 'live'. There was this time when I showed up my ass at a viva session I didn't have any idea about. I hardly cared what the subject was. All I knew was that I had to impress the teacher somehow in order to get through. It was back in those days when I was trying to put two swords in a sheath by trying out my luck at AIEEE as well as cocking a snook at the textile engg. branch of MS university in Baroda wherein I had decided to try my luck out. My interest had gradually waned in MSU so I decided to give it a green signal while concentrating on the entrance exam more.
I showed up once during the viva of Civil out of the blue. Quite obviously I had no clue as I had never touched the book even. So I stood in the queue waiting for my turn carefree as I've never been, talking to strangers, making new friends, hardly caring for the tension that I should've taken otherwise. I knew during my earlier classes in the college that most of the teachers there were pretty lame in English. I wanted to take an advantage of their ignorance but I wasn't quite aware of the fact that the person who was questioning the students was actually a veteran in the field and a fluent nerd as well. When my turn came I decided to impress the faculty with a good interactive session with him. I decided to take the long route in answering his questions thus desiring to kill some time.
So when the first question popped up: What is dumpy level? (A piece of cake for the bookworms but hey not for me!)
My confident looks might've duped him for a second.... so I surmised .... when I began to make faces that would fool the most sturdy soul on the planet........ then ended up saying -
"Actually Sir, I am pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to answer that question of yours!"
The guy stared at me with a 'You are impossible' look of his and shouted at me, "If you don’t know the answer simply say I don't know!"
I at once corrected myself, "I meant, Sir... er ... I don't know!"
The next few words were his (naturally) which entailed him cursing me, swearing me like hell while I moved uncomfortably hither and thither on my chair.
Damn! Those words were harsh .............
A few more questions were answered with the assistance of the cliché offered by him (I don't know) and after that I was literally kicked out of the room.
When I stepped out I brushed myself and I swear I heard myself saying, "Well, That went well!"
While I brooded on how the entire Viva session went, I had an epiphany!
I realized I can't continue like that.... I could have at least seen the book for once but boy I was a busy guy back then. Rowing two boats at the same time is a Herculean task itself. So I decided to drop it off once and for all. I gave up MSU the very next day and decided to put some of the eggs in the empty egg cups I had.
Well that was quite an epiphany eh !
It was a mind-boggling, straight from hell experience for me and a day I can't probably forget for the fun of it! (:P)
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