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This is live from INGENIUM 2006 , a national (NATION: A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country) technical symposium.... so technically we are organized under the almost single, definitely independent BJP government Ipso Facto we are a nation... VOILA!! Descartes will be proud of me...Welcome to INGENIUM 2006, the biggest event in the history of this state.. am sorry nation ... since the day a leaf fell on a cow's head and it moooed... and Aaj Tak was there to cover it...This event AIMS to bring the best engineering minds of our NATION under one roof and synergise them for a greater good... and while at it, fill MESA's coffers green. Let me introduce MESA, it is a organisation that organises 10 events on paper and about 1&1/2 events in reality.. It's sole purpose on campus is to act as a cover for the institute's motto of all round development & to officialise the bunks of its members...but more on that later...Let's have a look at the event itself.. This event was conceptualised on basis of IIT's TECH-FEST but the plans got lost out in the way...While TECH-FEST(crosses fingers in reverence) has long gone and become a cult symbol, Ingenium has stagnated. Recycling the same old events, the same format and catch your breath the same speeches...this event is a mockery of a tech- fest frequented by people whose sole aim of coming to this event is to get a participation certificate... Common inhabitants of the organising team include bored college geeks (like yours truly!!) & the restless types whose sole aim of coming to college is to get out of the classes before you can say jack...During the tech-fest, participants pay 150 bucks (thats about 35 suttas...) to bake in the sun all day, wither away in Qs for food which they have rightly paid for & get a bag which falls apart as soon as they are handed over to them...But they never mind cause in the end they gonna be handed over a xeroxed scrap paper which bears the immortal words:"CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION", their ticket to success on the campus placement highway...The papers presentations witness the biggest plagaristic orgy under the banner of RESEARCH WORK & it never ceases to amaze me the way in which the participants & judges go about their work with an Orwellian-isque ignorance...And the robotic (ROBOT:A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.) events are well....robotic & involve two strips of thermocol with duct tapes being passed off as state-of-the-art machines... Lastly the event is brought to an end by a pre-historic ape who passes of as our H.O.D. and it seen sipping tea with his stooges.. Tool-Shank boy & The almost IIT-ian Man and last but not the least, the team runs off to a party which involve 100 horny & tired mechanical engineers under one cinema hall ogling at the nymphs(Read: any woman-like form) at the expense of the poor suckers who paid for this event. And as this event draws to a close a new shadow that is lurking, waiting in the shadows for it's share of unsuspecting victims arises.....

TECHNOFORA!!!!