Rubik's Cube

Recently we had ANK'09 in our college. It was a technical fest organised by Maths 'N' Tech Club of which I am a member. Apart from many events we had flown in John Louis from south india, John Louis is sorts of authority in memory events in India, he has won many memory championships the world over and has held several records related to speed calculations and stuff. One of his most amazing skills is speed cubing which is solving a Rubik's cube as fast as it is humanly possible. It is a game where you solve the Rubik's Cube (that multi-coloured brick sort of thing you used as a paper weight till your 2 year old nephew dismantled it) using pre decided algorithms as fast as your fingers and hands would allow. The current world record stands at 7.08 seconds( approximately the time it would take a normal person to pick it up and decide which face looks the best).

So a few days ago I went and bought a Rubik's Cube which made my mom poorer by Rs.249(+1, I never gave her the change back) or 5.17 lts. of petrol( you will get the hang of it). It was made by funskool and thus followed the international convention the opposite faces colour combinations were the following - earth colours green and blue, fire colours orange and red, calm colours yellow and white. Then I went to youtube and saw some videos and approximately an hour later I solved it for the first time. Next two days were spent practising the thing and my best time so far has been 3:36, that is, in minutes. So I can go about telling that I can solve the Rubik's cube in minutes. Once you look at the algorithms to solve the cube you will understand that it is not really more difficult than brushing your teeth or driving in fact, with time it will become natural like sleeping, eating and routine like lots of other things.

So what's the use? It is better than many other things you will do in your time(which is usually free for me), at any rate it is better then attempting those YASFbQs( Yet Another Stupid Facebook Quiz, which are usually also broken) and is usually better than Omegle and definitely better than what you are doing right now.

So if you are finding it difficult to while your "time" away and want to impress people(I don't have any idea as to who that is worth impressing would be impressed) by a fast Rubik's cube solve, go to a shop and buy a Rubik's Cube and go to Youtube and search for Dan Brown's cube solving videos.

How to not get burned!

Shit Happens!! Happens all the time. Like wasting an entire day for a stupid driving test, only to find the camera is defunct.

But in NIT Durgapur and other allied national level engineering colleges, shit can happen in N no. of ways(that is an engineer's way of saying that it can happen in infinite no. of ways). Here are enumerated a few ways in which you can make shit happen in NIT Durgapur:

1.Start responding in class like a good student.. then the teacher starts expecting from you and when you decide you have had enough of studying... you are done.

2.You don't go to class thinking it is raining too much.. turns out you were the only one.. you end up getting an extra assignment.

3.You go to class thinking it is a bright sunny day...unfortunately the teacher thought the same and didn wake up.

4.You drink water from the aquaguard only to discover that the filter is in the dustbin..

5.You prepare to wash your clothes and find the water is too dirty to wash your hands. You end up wearing the same clothes and the rest for 2-3 days.

6.Some asshole doesn't return plates in the mess and you pay the fine.

7.You don't get your new ID card, cause you don't know where to pay the Rs.2 fee.

8.You go to take a bath apply the shampoo, open the taps only to find they have run dry. You are left waiting 2 hrs in there.

9.Before the exam the teacher tells everything is cool and you will pass even if you get 5. Turns out 1/3 of the batch fails the paper.

10.The junior thinks it is fun to make a prank call to the "National Toll Free Ragging Help Line", not only you get suspended your scholarship also gets taken away.

11.You cant use net cause some rodents have gnawed through thousands of worth of optical fiber cables.

12.You can't drink water cause someone stole a bloody valve.

add to these..