http://theanksden.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/dtaquest-idc-survey-of-best-t-school-in-india/It is yet one of those stupid T-school surveys. I wonder who invented the terms "T-school" and "B-school", but in the days of English (SMS) one may say this was only imminent.Tucked away right at the bottom is NIT Hamirpur. Irrespective of the fact that these surveys are actually a measure of the propaganda machinery of the colleges and do not always reflect the actual quality, I am looking forward to the day when people would not stare blankly at your face on hearing the words "NIT" thinking that really out to have been an extra 'I' in between.

College is over.

Last Friday was the last working day, and the semester examinations starting from the 25th of this month will be the last nail in the coffin.

If there was anything called a carefree life, it had to be this. Apart from the obvious things that I shall miss, like friends, freedom and fun, one thing that I shall really lament will be the absence of cheap Internet access.

True, we had to beg with stupid system administrators, deal with brain dead rules made by the institute Director and his sycophants, and be satisfied with an occasionally overloaded 2Mbps connection, but it was still a costly resource which we received at a throwaway price of Rs. 1250 per semester and thanks to Razorblade many of these limitations were no more there for the better part of the last academic year.

Once I reach home sometime in mid May, I will be left with a dial-up connection through one of Reliance's WLL telephones. It is not the speed that is my major concern. It is the cost. Gone would be the days when we would happily download ISOs after ISOs and stay logged into IRC for 2 to 3 days in a row. No more mirrored Fedora repositories on the local network and it would be back to manually downloading and suffering in dependency hell with RPM.

What would I not give for a cheap, unlimited, broadband connection at home? Oh yes, the initial $500 from Google washes away all financial issues. But sadly money was the least of all obstacles I ever was going to had. My folks at home are given to believe that the Internet is one of the best ways to while away your time, while any form of instant messaging is the most useless enterprise in the world. The presence of self-styled computer experts within family circles aggravate the situation even further. How do I blame them when so-called knowledgeable professors know no better?

But why should I give a damn anyway? So let us see how good I am in showing the world the middle finger and do what should be done.