In the final semester we had a paper on Biomedical Engineering which consisted partly of biology and we being electronics engineering students, had our own versions in understanding the human physiology. There was a topic called “EEG frequency bands” which discusses the different types of waves produced in the brain. For example, alpha waves are produced in the initial stages of waking when the eyes are closed; beta waves, when there are high states of wakefulness; theta and delta are indications of sleep.
After the exam, we went to Vipin’s house to take some photostats for the next exam. An exhausted and sleepy Vipin closes his eyes and says to Priyadarshan,
“My brain must be producing alpha waves now”
Sanil overhears that,
“No no, you got it wrong; you should be running with your eyes closed to produce really good alpha waves”.
Vipin: What?? Get lost!
Sanil: Yes man; walking with your eyes closed can also produce alpha waves, but weakly.
Priyadarshan: You mean only somnambulists produce alpha waves?
Sanil: Exactly.
We all disagree with Sanil but he relentlessly argues; says he had read that in his reference text and had written volumes about alpha waves in the exam. And he takes out the text from his bag and gives it to us. It says,
“Alpha waves arise from the posterior brain in the waking person with eyes closed”.
Guess what, “waking person” was misread by Sanil as “walking person”. We all began laughing hysterically while Sanil remains perplexed as to what was going on. We explained to him the mistake while still trying to suppress our laughter; wondering about the plight of the examiner who has to go through volumes of pure “gas” in his answer paper. The difference one letter can make!!!
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6 comments:
hey man...read ur blog..
and i got a pleasant surprise..pappanamcodeile purathaana kalaalayamaaya SCTyile strikeinte aa poster kandappol. Nice to see an SCTian here.. Well, I passed out from there last year(2007)..
pretty cool blog u got..
the experiences from college and all..made me pretty nostalgic..Missing SCT a lot now.
loved the quotes also. especially my fav one from fountainhead.
blog on bro! hope 2 c more..have added to my blog roll..
hehe I so identify with this...what a let down when you realize that what your expounded on so a passionately was not what you thought it was! :p
ROTFL!! You specialize in this, bro!!
Btw, I think Sanil is goanna score 75% plus for the paper, you bet. After all, he's a KU student right? :P
And yea, I'm blogrolling you! Couldn't resist!!
@praveen: Atheyathe njaan aa puraathana kalaalayathile oru jeevi annu, i mean aayirunnu, waiting for results now. Nice to see you too.
P.S. You must be missing strikes too right, hehe.
@silverine: May i please ask you to elaborate on that; or you can put in in your blog. ;)
@hari: That depends man, sometimes you get marks like that for writing crap; but on the flip side, you might flunk even if you write all 6 essays, you know what i mean. KU follows the same motto of Adidas - "Impossible is Nothing".
I had bio-med in final year too .. nice post , evoked college memories when we were asked to take an ECG as a part of practicals .. By the way tag is done :)
@deepti: :) And thanks for doing the tag!
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