Pascal Nunes

We had been told to reach thakur by 10:00 am. I was (thankfully) late. When we reached thakur, there was total dis-organisation. I had to first find someone from the college to give me a lab that I could use for the event. It turned out that none of the labs were free till 1:00 pm. So we had to wait. After 1:00 we did get the lab, but not the premission to install anything. The lab incharge wanted us to submit in writing a list of the hardware in the lab. I felt that this he would know better than me and so he should make the list. Still we did create the list. I needed only 8 PCs for the finals, but since I would be in charge of the lab, he wanted me to take charge of all hardware. After we finished this task and submited a detailed report of all the hardware in the lab we tried to contact him. But he was no where to be found. (It was not until later that I discoverd that he had a great vanishing skill). Since we had to install softwares we needed administrator privileges. He gave us two passwords, saying he was not sure which one worked. We tried both but none worked (I had some of my juniors assisting me). I asked one of them,Leslie to call him, and proceeded to try all the combinations of the Capital and small case variations of those words. After quite some wait Leslie came back saying he was no where to be found. In none of the labs and none of the students from that college too knew where he would be. After quite some hunting I spotted him at the end of the corridor. I rushed to him and informed him that he had given us wrong passwords.

It was then that he told me that he did not maintain that lab and would get the guy who did. After another wait that seemed to take ages they showed up. Now this guy just refused to give us the password. He insisted on entering the password himself on every PC. By the time we could start our work it was 4:15. The installation went real smooth. Having done this my college too earlier we were well to aware how to efficiently install on several PC together. By 5:00 we we were done. I gave a great sigh of relief.(But alas! my troubles had not yet ended). The person co-ordinating all the activities just came up and said, we need this lab for some other seminar, we will give you'll another lab. At,5:00!! I really went nuts at that. I refused to move to another lab. There was no way I could go through all this again. Regardless to mention that travelling back home from there would be quite a challenge.

Thankfully I got my way. I had to convince them that the other lab too was capable of handling the seminar and had all the software that the speaker would need.

It wasn't really tiring, but a real frustrating day.