The Hitchhiker’s Guide To symposiums
I am not going to speak about Douglas Adams here what I am going to say is what I have been doing all this month. September is the name synonymous with symposiums in the Chennai engineering college circuit. Although labeled as technical events they don’t offer much in that facet. Then what else is there….Loads of money!!!!! Here is what I have learned after attending lots of such events.
* Attending such symposia is one of the easiest ways to get pocket money.
* Every sympo will have a paper presentation event in which students tirelessly compete with their stolen papers from the net for the Best GOOGLER prize!
* The so called beautiful girls of that college are made to sit in the registration desk clad in saris the purpose of which still remains unknown.
* The inauguration ceremony will have some bald man speaking about communication through underwear and other such irrelevant topics.
*You get FREE FOOD…..yes you heard me right! Almost in every event free food will be served the taste of which is getting better these days.
*In some kind colleges like mine you can get On duty (OD) Leave which could also be used for watching the newly released film that weekend.
*There will be an event called quiz, in the finals of which 3 out of the 5 teams will normally sleep and unfortunately the event will have 2 cash prizes!
*Dumb C- one of the most entertaining event for the participants, but all colleges will not hold this event and so competition and tension would be pretty decent with unimaginable innovations.
* Ad zap-we have been ruling this event getting a prize in almost all the colleges. A welcome change in between the technical events.
* Don’t go to some third rate college thinking you could win all the prizes. They would have got things fixed and you would turn out to be a dumb ass.
The major disadvantage is all the colleges are situated in the extremities of the city and transport is one major problem. Although the college buses ferry the students to the colleges they start very early. I leisurely start from my home and I will be there just in time after the inauguration to attend the prelims.
What did we get?????
This has been the best season for us so far. We as a team got 45000 bucks in cash apart from various vouchers and coupons. My part till today from quiz, dumb c, ad zap, debate etc has reached 8000 9000 bucks I think with gift vouchers from Landmark, Pizza Corner, some dabba opticals, naturals beauty salon *ahem* *ahem* and some other chota items. If anybody there who is interested do give me a buzz 
The overall shield which we won…
My gang with RJ Balaji from Star Vijay…
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4 Responses to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To symposiums”
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Hi! I am Ramanujam. I am a grad student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
What da guiding the youth a wrong way.. dont give tips to others .. i hate competition with sottha pasanga.. more photos please..
Whattey haul!Congrats!:)
@raja
he he…summa pozachu pogatum!!!
more pics on flickr…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramanujam
@hamz
thank u,thank u:)