The first year of my engineering, we studied generic courses, not specific to respective departments. In the first class in the second year, one enthusiastic teacher sought to introduce the naive students in front of him to the world of computers, and parallel processing. To give a perspective on processing, he asked the class, "How many neurons does a human brain have ?". The entire class of 60 remained silent [whether out of ignorance or intimidation, I do not know]. The teacher repeated the question. The class stayed mum. And then, the only 'surd' in our class, a certain D.S., raised his hands, stood up confidently, and said, "Sir, four". The whole class roared with laughter when the teacher cited the correct answer.
After the class, we exclaimed, "Sardar ne apne gin kar bata diye" [D.S. counted his own and gave the answer!!]
The story soon spread amongst the entire batch, and whosoever heard it laughed his head off. D.S. was a very soft-spoken, and likeable fellow; but for the rest of the three years we teased him no end about this incident.
P.S. I have not quoted the correct answer here on purpose. I challenge you to answer it! With no help from google!! [or from D.S., for that matter!!!] :-)
After the class, we exclaimed, "Sardar ne apne gin kar bata diye" [D.S. counted his own and gave the answer!!]
The story soon spread amongst the entire batch, and whosoever heard it laughed his head off. D.S. was a very soft-spoken, and likeable fellow; but for the rest of the three years we teased him no end about this incident.
P.S. I have not quoted the correct answer here on purpose. I challenge you to answer it! With no help from google!! [or from D.S., for that matter!!!] :-)
8 comments:
Ha Ha..
Tch Tch sardarji !! He had only 4,, I have at least 100 billions !
@Cuckoo: Lol! I know you are very "logical" :-))
lol!!
If I answer this will I lose my neurons in process....rofl.....!!
Knock Knock???
R u there..??
Bendtherulz
@BTR: Hadbeen away for a few days .... hopefully it will result in a brand new post on my travel blog ;-)
I love your posts on REC, took me down memory lane :-)
There is so much more to add - like the time Manju was caught by JC and then fainted outside and then JC asking us which girls are likely to faint and all of us raised our hands.
Or the time we all were made to stand of benches for not answering a question by some math or manufacturing prof ?
Oh! I wish you would write more about the college days.
@Pooja: I expected you to comment on this much earlier!! :-D
Oh yes!! Those were the days! And "the JC encounters" as I like to call it ;-) Somehow I seem to have forgotten that incident of standing on the benches :-D
Remember the time when it used to rain, and we used to go to college, three under one umbrella! And those hostel freshers' and farewells! And the last days in college ... when the whole class used to bunk the tutorials and go to Brahmsarovar!
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