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THE FIRST DAY OF AXIS '09
An Epiphany
It's finally over!! All those months of meticulous planning hove finally borne fruit, and the lsi doy has delivered everything it had promised and more . The incipient steps of AXIS '09 have been very encouraging ; AXIS '09 couldn" be more real or more radiant. The doy sow some old war horses and some new recruits working simultaneously to give AXIS a grand opening .
Two of the mosl populor and proven events in AXIS thol were expected to be the major crowd pullers, delivered and how! The entire YNIT auditorium roored and mooned in unison according to the varying stock markets and the news
flashes thol were being telecasted during Wallstreel and the mechanical bois hummed owoy am idst thunderous opplauses and quirky commentary in the Mechatron event. Aport from these traditional events, the day also sow the core events of RevENGG, Continuum, Cold War and Xplore drawing significant crowds and proving to be substantial successes. The day also had a lot in store for the technically not-sa-well equipped. Who's The Boss, the highly awaited management event (more for the organizers than the event itself), proved to be a resounding success with some outstation participants participating in it even without knowing what it was. Mofun, the most stressful event of all (ironical, it being a gaming event), somehow miraculously managed to exercise crowd control amidst confusion and controversies of magnanimous proportions. Also, adding to the glitz and glamour of AXIS were the two new but completely different from each other events of the air show and the hacking workshop. One razzled and dazzled and dared to flyaway into orbit, while the other threatened to turn on entire 120 strong audience into 'ethical cyber criminals'. As a slight deviation from the normal 'opposites attract' theory, this time the oppos ites attracted not each other but huge mobs of their respective enthusiasts. Moreover, the light graffiti event received on over enthusiastic response, resulting in an on the spot stampede. All in all, though the day lurned out 10 be a shade of its former self (due to obvious reasons), it has done enough 10 spur the resurgent spirit in organizers and participants alike and to make them look forward to a newer, brighter tomorrow strewn with fresher challenges and opportunities. The revolution has only just begun ..
Air show It was a perfect setting, dear skies, grassy grounds with a light cool breeze and the turnout for the air show was overwhelming. We had juvenile commentary by Utsav and a very enthusiastic audience chanting "Crash! Crash!". The reason for all the chanting is because we, at VNIT, appreciate failure more than success. The air show comprised of many plywood planes and motors, not to forget the 'special' lotus plane which was unfair judging by the foci it was congress who had just won the elections. There was a flying saucer too which looked like a plane in a large tutu . There were other more normal planes such as the electric delta and the eskido . There was a helicopter too which kepi continuously oscillating and spewing smoke, adversely affecting sentiments of spectators and environmentalists. On a serious nole, the remote controlled pieces of plywood performed a series of swoops and dizzy manoeuvres like snap rolls, barrel rolls and split S's .
Wall Street
The bull bear regime is bock! Welcome to the virtual world of stocks and dividends, a verisimilitude of what currently rules the world . A charged up dark atmosphere, with block shapes scurrying about, hurrying with registrations, while the ' brokers' brush up lost minute mathematics, cursing a shortage o f calculators. As the long queue of over enthusiastic participants (mostly first years) continued to budge sl ugg ishly, Utsav with a larger-than-self backpack, took hold of the mic to welcome everyone to the event. There was tension in the air and chaos spelled its reign, as one of the brokers, Rudula Meddy(name changed on request),broke' down under the massive build up of numbers and fjgures @_@. For once in the campus though, money flowed freely . Business aptitude unknown to most came forth in some of the participants, who were only too happy to discover them. With news videos, scrolls, updates, bulletins and 450 participants, all in one day, the first day of Wallstreet was without doubt, a success.
realization dawns ... • A TV with a remote control is more fun than a plane with one. A t least your neck doesn ' t hurt when you watch it for an hour. • Popularity is directly proportional to number of treats taken. No of treats taken is directly proportional to cheapness. Therefore, popularity is cheap. • Putting up posters is not as easy as it sounds . Pins are sharp. They hurt. • The best time to learn to ride a bike is
during AXIS. There are plenty of them around . • There's Newton's, Planck's, Kepler's and then there is Murphy's la w. If things can go bad, they will. You can never find a b ike when you need one. • The most popular place in a tech fest is where you can find food, even if it's not for free. • You truly realize the wo rth of someone or something once it's token away from you. Blocks 6, 7 internet, we miss you ... • The AXIS tee has replaced the dress code as the distinguishing feature to recognize a first year. • Any -one w ho is wea r ing an AXIS tee is certainly not an organizer.
Mech-a-tron
Industry Defined Problem Bubbling with enthusiasm, we entered the lOP event w hich had already begun in full stea m . We entered th e mundane seminar hall hoping to be back-benchers, but soon realized that there w a s on ly a back·bench. Since the topiC given was a bit too departmental spec ifi c, we saw a lot of in-house talent, w hich was basically a tripartite competition. It hod the highest external participation with a whopp ing 33 %. The event was judged by the prominent Mr. Millind
Everyone drew in their breaths as the robot dropped off a height and landed on the marbles below. 10 seconds later, the buzzer sounded and the participants picked their car up and left. Welcome to mech-a-tron, the robotics event that took place in the computer science stage in on arena portly mode by the archi deportment. Departmental harmony at its best. One can imagine the enthusiasm generated, as a result of which even the core graced the event for more than their ten minute ritual. It was a toast to the spirit of strategy and adventure as the heroic cars bottled their way through water, marbles and a 300 incl ine.
Chiltawar. CEO, SEE-Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Dr.
Sachin
Mandavgane,
Professor,
Chemical
Engg Dept, VNIT Nagpur. The judges seemed well versed in the subject and th e relevance of the problem statement was well appreciated.
Ethical Hacki ng 'Ethics' are deeply embedded in the ' human' soul and not quite so expected to be seen amongst the newsletter team. Surprising ly enough, VNIT's AXIS' 09 did its best to propagate the idea. And what a beller way to do it than holding on Ethical Hacking workshop? The first workshop taught the basics of hacking . People enrolled were taught to hock into accounts quite ethically. One would expect the presenters to have done a decent iob, for the entries rose dose to a hundred in number. It would toke more than iust a thousand bucks from our pockets to keep us rooted to those chairs. But thanks to the cosy inclining choirs of the PAH, the workshop catered to a few tired bodies. Preksha, one of the many hocking enthusiasts, after the very informative 8 and a half hour lecture was short of words(we wonder why) and could only say" Awwe-huh- some". What comes of the second installment, we sho ll see ... .