Sleepy Technology Classes

In this semester we have a subject called ‘Manufacturing Technology’… It deals with many manufacturing processes such as welding, metal forming, molding, etc… The subject will be full of theory… i.e. there will be no problems in the subject…

The classes will be mostly sleepy in nature… As the portion is very less, our teacher too, will be telling a lot of stories… But that will become the problem… I will just narrate the incidents from the beginning…

The very 1^st day of this semester, we had our classes’ right after the lunch hour… He came to the class and started briefing about the subject… He continued it for the whole 50 minutes… He was just saying about the processes, which we couldn’t understand… At last he said, “I know that u can’t understand, what I said today. It is enough if u were able to grasp at least 5% and each time we can grasp 5%”… We were shocked… We were able to do nothing but murmur “enna koduma Sir idhu!”

Then the 2^nd day came… This time we had 2 periods continuously, that too was right after lunch… He came to the class… He told that we shall discuss about the syllabus, so that we will know whatever things r important in the subject… He started from I chapter, in between the topics, he used to tell a lot of stories saying the manufacturing processes were carried out there. In that way he went to all places around the state including Trichy, Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem, etc…

At the end of the 2 periods, he finished the overview of just 1 and a half chapters… By the middle of the 1^st period itself, most of the boys went dreaming… The highlight was when a boy hit the desk unknowingly and produced large amount of noise… Finally, by the end of the next class (4^th class), he finished overview of 4 units… He skipped the overview of 5^th unit…

Then he started the I unit which deals with welding… He used to teach with an Over Head Projector always, since this subject deals with a lot of drawing… For each topic, he used to say some stories (some will be real, some will be unbelievable)… Finally, he will never finish that particular process… He will explain about the industry, say us to copy the drawing and the class will be over by then or he will skip to the next topic…

He gave away many classes to other staff members and didn’t come to the class for a week or so… He told that,”We unfortunately missed some classes due to many occurring.”The most amazing thing was that he finished the II unit within 3 classes (just before the day of internal exam)… Just took 4 or 5 topics and told us that lesson was over… We searched the book and shockingly found that those topics were only covering 3 pages of a 100 page unit…

The classes used to be so boring, that many boys will start sleeping just within 10 minutes of the period… They will be sent back and will be asked to stand and listen… Normally, we can see 4 or 5 faces, consistently standing in the back…

But, he has a lot of industrial experience… He will tell a lot about industry, market, economy… But the problem is his lecture used to be boring that we will sleep… If u can listen, u will be able to gather a lot from him…

During our industrial visit, he explained almost all the machines, parts of engine, everything beautifully… That day we gained a lot from him…

We were more shocked to know that we have a subject ‘Manufacturing Technology II’ in next semester… “Ippave Kanna Kattudhe!”