A month after a thorough rest

The title says everything about what is gonna follow in this post.A month hence the examinations life's so cool that very thought of having to spend two more years studying frightens me.aahh..these days...what a nice time I am having..I envy the life which I am leading right now..absolutely no tensions..no one to nudge you.No sights of grading in the vicinity,staying a month away from the "continuous grading"mania of IITK has its usea I presume and of course we are making use of them to the fullest.People are supposed to pursue study under the guidance of faculty members which I suppose very few people do sincerely.As for me,speech recognition hasn't really taken off, but yes,the progress of the case study seems to be pretty encouraging.I have been busy most of this month taking my time off literally everything.

Here ends 4th semester..I can hardly believe the fact that I'm into 3rd year so soon..Some one had correctly said that "Time flies".Anyways this was a decent semester at the end of which I had managed to ameliorate my academics.For at least the next three months I can pursue whatever I'm interested in.After a two days off today I've brushed upon the white paper of Sphinx4 system.
We are supposed to build a Speech Recognition based automation system in Hindi for none other than IIT Kanpur which would pave way for the advent of speech systems on Indian Languages which aim at reaching out to the illiterate,the rural people and the physically challenged.Quite a noble cause which enthuses me.I hope to play my part well .

Yet another suicide..

It was the 26th day of april ..I was having my breakfast in the mess worrying about the Computer Organisation examination which I was scheduled to appear later that day.A mess worker who was serving water,told me"ek ladka train ke niche koodke sucide kar liya hai..aaj subah tin baje..aap koi bharadwaj ko jante hain kya..hall-5 mein jo bharadwaj tha wo yahin pe tha na pichele sal tak, ..gora sa..wo to padhai mein tej tha..".How could I possibly explain to the mess worker that all of the fellows at this world reputed institute are supposed to be the creme de la creme of the nation and it is indeed unfortunate that students commit suicides because of their inability to live up to the expectations of the people surrounding them.

I was surprised first to hear that yet another suicide had taken place in the campus ((though it shouldn't have been for since my first semster at this so called dream institution I have seen such an incident every semester during the endsem ).But this was a very disturbing experience.The person this time was a guy whom I knew very well and addressed "anna".I couldn't believe this and just hoped that it was not him but somebody else.(selfishness.. you know).I immediately rushed to my room to find out the details and confirm the identity . After contacting almost every senior I knew and after an hour or so ,that was confirmed.It was "him".
The reason behind this was stated to be academic deficiency leading to depression.I was very upset about it.
I still remember the lean, fair, childish ,soft spoken senior who did not know how to rag the juniors properly and hence took one of his senior's help and later on wanted me to recite some sacred hymns as a part of the same.
I had met him in our canteen about 3 days before the mishap and talked extensively for about an hour during which we counseled a junior .Never did I know that that was the last time I'd ever see him.

Oh ,my dear friend!! may your soul rest in peace.