In the year 2004, Management Society produced 2 Bulletins...

1. TSEC Bulletin 1
2. TSEC Bulletin 2

TSEC BULLETIN 1

Society Speak IEEE
TSEC’s only international society has been buzzing with activity this year...The ‘Outstanding student chapter’ award-winning IEEE-Computer Society kick-started this year’s activities with a one-day workshop on HTML & ASP, followed by “Media Design and Animation” and “Visual Basic”. Six students were selected for Summer Placements, creating a website for the company ICON ANALYTICAL. MOSAIC, the Computer society’s annual intra collegiate technical & fun event included an AutoCAD workshop and fun events like LAN Gaming, Maze Ablaze and Quiz. IEEE-EMBS organized Cerebration, the annual Inter-Collegiate technical paper presentation contest, with 6 colleges participating this year. No less than eighty people participated in PULSE, a two day fest exclusively for Biomedical Engineers held in August this year. IEEE-IES organised TECHTRIX v.1 and SPARK, conducting well-recieved workshops and seminars on Robotics. IEEE-COMSOC conducted an insightful B.E. Fair which covered B.E. projects and career management events. Under the famous BITS program, COMSOC organized a visit to the Radio Mirchi radio station. COMSOC’s annual tech-fest, Techno, comprised of Seminars and fun events like the ever popular Stockmania, Junkyard Wars and Treasure Hunt. Watch out for COMSOC’s current in-house project-”Public Address System (PAS).Lots more to come with ISAAC 2004, IEEE-TSEC’s annual technical festival, going nation-wide for the first time. IE(I) IE(I) students’ chapter, TSEC, successfully organized the inter-collegiate tech-fest, QUANTUM LINX. The highlights were an aero-modeling & aerodynamics workshop and the popular ‘Junkyard Jung.’ IE(I) also has their annual industrial visit to Jalandhar, Dalhousie & Amritsar this September. TSF
TSF began their activities with a ‘bhajans’ session on 15th august with our honourable principal, Prof. Kranti Kumar joining the students to mark the occasion. TSF also organized a seminar on spirituality on 16th august, conducted by Swami Anubhavanandaji from the ‘Chinmaya Youth Kendra Mission’ empowering people to discover their inner selves. CSICSI’s “Workshop Mela” kicked off with more than 50 people attending the week long Java workshop along with a 5 day html and Javascript workshop. Along with Mumbai Police and Nasscom, CSI presented a seminar on “Cyber Crimes and their Prevention” on 27th August. Budding entrepreneurs were given a chance to learn from the best in the seminar on “Entrepreneurship” by Mr. Mahesh Murthy, President of TiE(Mumbai) on 2nd September.

NSS
NSS stands for ‘National Service Scheme’. However, it’s ‘Not just Social Service’. It is the development of your personality through community service. Last year the blood donation drive and the Bandra station project, received a tremendous response. NSS-TSEC is proud to announce its association with BNHS, with TSEC having just become an institutional member. Recently, NSS has established the Nature Club for outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers. Living up to their motto  “not me but you” NSS-TSEC makes a real difference in peoples lives. What say?

ISTE
The Ideal Society for TSEC Engineers, as they like to call themselves, held a 3-day Workshop on Java, back in July followed by an Industrial Trip to Silvassa on the 26th, 27th and 28th of August, thus providing an educational experience as well as a bit of fun after the Periodic Tests.

DEPARTMENTAL DIALOGUES….

Chemical Engineering Department
Well, it’s a combination of protecting the future as well as cherishing the past here at the Chemical Engineering Department. The T.E. and B.E. (Chemical) students of TSEC have been invited by German giant Bayer, to participate in a worldwide contest, to write an intriguing article on environmental protection with the top two getting a week-long, all-expenses paid trip to Germany. September 4 saw the B.E. industrial trip to the Herdilia factory near Belapur, to augment textbook learning by observing chemical processes in actual practice.

The Chemical Engineering Department plans to introduce a YEARBOOK from this year onwards, as a kind of a time-capsule for the batch leaving to record their memories. We sure hope all Departments follow suit!

Computer Department
Well, it’s good news all the way from the Computer Department here at TSEC…

For starters, we’re one of the five Mumbai colleges to tie up with software giant Infosys in their “Campus Connect” program, in which B.E./M.E. level projects will be given to our students by Infosys. They will also give our faculty extra training according to the needs of the industry.

In fact, one of our teachers Ms. Archana Athawale attended a three-week training program in Pune this July. To add to the big names, Reliance Infocomm also plans to offer projects to our students. Recently, the Department also organized a seminar on “Embedded Systems” which is an elective for B.E. semester VII(computer) students, on 11th September.

To top it all, Deepti chheda, a computer engg. student from TSEC was presented the ‘Richard.E. Merwin’ award from IEEE computer society along with a cool 3000$ given to 4 elite students world-wide for outstanding involvement with an IEEE student chapter combined with good academic record.

Electronics and Telecommunications Department
It’s been seminars galore for the Electronics Department this semester.
On 2nd April, they held a one day seminar on “Mobile Communications”, attended by about 100 students and teachers from various colleges, and co-ordinated by Ms. M. Mani Roja.
To keep up with the pace of recent advancements, a 2-week ISTE approved Training programme for teachers on “Communication Systems” was held from June 28th  July 9th. 43 teachers attended the program, including 23 of our own TSEC faculty. The speakers included experts from IIT, TSEC, and other industries.

Biomedical Engineering Department
The Biomedical students have outdone themselves this time, with 36 students securing a distinction and the remaining 3 getting a first class.
From the faculty, we’ve had the dynamic duo of Prof. Mita Bhowmick and Prof. Brinda Rajaram making waves, literally, with their paper on “Wavelet Transforms for Recognition and Compression of ECG Signals” at the Second International Conference on Medical Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures held at IIT Madras this April. Prof. Bhowmick had the honor to co-chair a session titled “Medical Diagonistic Procedures and Modeling” with Dr. C.F. Starmer(USA).

Besides this, Prof Bharati Ingale attended an STTP on Communication Systems here at TSEC this July, while Prof Gauri Paranjpe went to Ahmedabad that month to attend one on Enhancing Skills of Engineering at the Nirma Institute of Technology.

Information Technology Department
The IT department started with seminars on ‘Image processing’ and ‘Neural networks and fuzzy logic’. This semester, Prof.Archana Kale presented a paper on ‘Generation of critical sub-graphs for timing analysis of digital circuits using logical pruning’ at the 8th VLSI Design and Test Workshops, Mysore, India in August.

Prof.Arun Kulkarni gave talks on the ‘Design of Microwave Amplifiers’ and the ‘Use of Matlab Tools’ at the ISTE approved STTP on Communication Systems for All- Maharashtra Engineering College Faculty in July. Prof.Anjali Malviya delivered talks on Satellite Communications at the same event.
B.E. students as well as the I.T. faculty participated in a technical visit to the Khar telephone exchange this July. August brought a visit to the GSM center of M.T.N.L . ‘Tech-Ed Academia 2004’ organized by MICROSOFT was attended by some of the faculty members.

THE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY
...Education Beyond Engineering

Four years of engineering, and then what? M.S. will answer all your questions for you. Training you for Group Discussions and Personal Interviews, we build up your skills for job selections as well as for entrances to premier institutes.

In our first year of the MS membership drive, we’ve got a whopping 200+ members so far. Our year-round event M.S. Oratorium kicked off on 8th September, with more than 120 members participating in the Group Discussions. All events this semester will be free for our members.

With our intra-collegiate event Lakshya test your Emotional Quotient, explore new areas of Management and sharpen your oratory skills. In Carma, our intercollegiate fest, we will prepare you for any entrances on the engineer’s horizon, from CAT and GRE to Gate and GMAT.

Yes, and for those who didn’t notice, both this Bulletin and the college magazine, Synapse, are brought to you by the M.S.

Placements at TSEC
“Dad, I need 100 bucks?”
 Wondering when you’ll actually stop saying that? Odds are that it will happen only when you get your first job. An amazing 178 B.E. students are already on that road, having secured jobs with 14 renowned companies, including Infosys, TCS, Amdocs, Zensar Technologies and Patni Computers. The average starting salary this year is roughly around 2.4 lakh p.a., with substantial, performance-based increments generally being offered to most fresh engineering recruits.
MU engineers, particularly those from TSEC, are miles ahead of their counterparts in other parts of the country when it comes to communication skills. Most companies require students to have secured an average of 60% in all semesters, and also to take an aptitude test to judge the candidates reasoning and logical skills. The selection criteria is overall communication skills with a clear focus on technical abilities.
Placements this year have been phenomenal considering that in the whole of last year, 34 companies visited college, recruiting 168 students, a number which has been surpassed this year within the first 2 months of the academic year.
For any queries regarding placements, students can contact the training and placement officer, Prof.Victor in room no. 609 on the 6th floor. For the B.E. students not yet placed, there’s no need to despair as there will be plenty of job opportunities in the coming year, with Thoughtworks, scheduled to visit TSEC on Sept. 17th, with a pay packet in excess of 3 lakhs p.a.

Biotech:Making Sense of it all

It’s the next big thing after IT, the field of the future, and the focus of our environmentally stressed world. From ecological plastic bags, to enhanced veggies, BIOTECHNOLOGY is everywhere…

With increasing awareness and stress on healthy living and environmental protection, biotechnology is set to play a big role, and career options in it are vast.

Until recently, biotechnology was offered only at the post-graduate level. Now, with the sector emerging as one of the hottest around, the need for preparing the students for a career in this field at the undergraduate level is strongly felt.

And TSEC is leading the way, being the first college in Mumbai and amongst the first in Maharashtra to introduce Biotech Engineering at an under - graduate level. From this year onwards, TSEC will offer 30 seats for a B.E. in Biotech Engineering.
 
The B.E. Biotech course combines theory and practical training while covering genetic engineering technology and basic sciences such as biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology and immunology etc. 

It emphasizes more on know-how required to apply the newest discoveries in above areas to large-scale production processes. The students will be taught to solve problems related to industrial equipment design and operation for biological system. 

A Biotech engineer can expect a job as a Production Engineer, Research Engineer, Design Engineer, or a Business and Technology Consultant. The possibilities are mind-boggling, and the scope is endless.

And on the field.…

Our sporting champs are ready to do battle in Rajasthan, and the p(i)lanning is already underway.

It’s time for the athletic side of TSEC to bring in the laurels at “the MAA of all sports events” -the college Olympics- this year’s All India Open Sports Meet at BITS Pilani from the 16th to the 20th of September.

With an impressive performance last time out, things are only looking brighter for our sports de la crème. Our 45 member contingent includes the cricket, football, TT, tennis and swimming teams.

Hopes are pinned on the swim duo of Varun Divgikar and Sahil Bhatia, both of whom have taken to the water for India. An encore of last year would be great, but we’re sure they can go one better. Here’s wishing them ALL THE VERY BEST!

Your Department’s Getting a Report Card!

What’s happened:
TSEC has applied for accreditation by the NBA, where each program offered by the college will be evaluated in detail. Resources, qualifications and abilities of staff, performance of students, placements, teaching and learning methods will all be analyzed in detail.

What’s in it for me?
For starters, an accredited college can get international equivalence of programs. So, after two years in an accredited Indian college, you could even shift to an equivalent program in Australia, getting full credit for the courses you’ve already covered in your two years!

Also, you would know if an otherwise great college offered one badly managed program. Or if a mediocre college had that ONE great program. All thanks to program-wise accreditation!

To put rest to rumours: This has nothing to do with the regular grading of colleges, and the grade of our college will not be affected.

The upside: Accreditation is meant to be a positive step in improving programs at colleges. An institute undergoing this process would give itself a mental shake-up and re-evaluate itself.

The flipside: You may just find the eagle eye of our teachers getting even keener as they surprise us with tests and quizzes!

Editor: Juhi Parikh.
Asst. Editors: Mohnish Bhatia, Rohan Grover, Durga Bidaye.
The Editorial Board: Mahak Kewalramani, Hitesh Bhagia, Rishabh Natarajan, Pranav Kukreja, Chetan Ahuja, Manisha Parpiani, Sanjeev Rao, Amit Rohra, Rohan Maduskar, Divya Bhagwat.

TSEC BULLETIN 2

AVALANCHE 2004

Close on the heels of the Freshers’ Welcome Bash, raising the spirits of students and providing some respite from the academic humdrum, came our intra-collegiate cultural extravaganza, Avalanche’04, held from the 28th of September to the 1st of October.

This year saw the initiation of the new mascot, the very popular ‘SID’ (of Ice Age fame), snowballing through a gamut of events in the categories of Performing Arts, Literary Arts, Fine Arts and of course, the Fun Events. Spread over the entire week, it served as a launch pad to propel the talent and dexterity of TSEC denizens, be it in PA, LA or FA. Also this year, games like French Cricket and Mr. & Mrs. Masti were added to the Fun Events category, along with the new-and-improved Labyrinth and Fortunes.

Like every year, events like the Master Quiz, Sports Quiz, Hindi/Western Music & Film Quiz, Debates, etc. continued to challenge the intellectual in the Literary Arts arena. The artistic exhibits of the creative were brought out by events like Rangoli, Mehendi, Landscape Painting, Caricature and others. The Performing Arts segment, too, had its share of outstanding performers, in Hindi\Western Singing, Acting or Western Instrumental.

The Grand Finale, held at the National College Auditorium, hosted events like Visual Impact (Group Dance), Catwalk Dreams (Mock Fashion Show) and the Personality Contest. The latter being the only event encompassing all 3 categories, challenged the skills of the participants in all spheres. To make their task all the more difficult, a jeering audience, tested every nerve and stroved (in vain!) to make the participants diffident. Dhananjay Motwani and Riddhisha Prabhu stood out and were rightly crowned Mr. & Ms. TSEC’04 respectively, followed by Amanda Furtado and Kapil Bhasin as runners-up.

With Avalanche, Cultural Representative, Hardik Doshi, and the Deputy Cultural Representative, Vineet Tejuja, end their tenure. Overwhelming contributions by the Avalanche event heads/committee members, monitored by the Coordinators and the Overall Coordinators at the helm, saw this vibrant fest pull through with great zest.

True to its name, AVALANCHE ‘04 rocked TSEC, though sadly all good things too must come to an end, but the party will continue next year……

ISAAC 2004
ISAAC, or “IEEE Students Activities And Conferences”, the tech-fest of Thadomal Shahani Engineering College is arguably the largest and most comprehensive technical festival under Mumbai University. This year, ISAAC set yet another benchmark by being the first ever to organize a spectrum of workshops, seminars and contests on a NATIONAL LEVEL with a substantial number of participants coming from colleges out of Mumbai.
The seminars included a host of subjects, including Emotional Quotient, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and the very unique ‘Smart Homes’. K.P. Singh provided valuable insight and guidelines regarding the GRE, and scholarship opportunities for deserving students. One of the most exciting events this year was the ‘Aeromodelling Workshop’ in which participants built airplane models using balsam wood that could actually fly in a 500-metre diameter. There were also workshops on diverse subjects like Astronomy, PC Assembly and Circuit Design to name a few.
Robotics proved to be one of the most popular contests with hundreds of students participating in all 3 levels, having worked tirelessly to make their machines meaner and faster than the rest. Web Designing, Programming and Debugging, Digital Design and Tech Quiz also received a terrific response with a large number of On-The-Spot-Entries. The non-tech contests like ‘Who Wants to be a CEO?’, Game Theory & Management and City Building were a huge hit and added a that extra chutzpah to the tech-fest.
ISAAC ’04 had more than 3000 participating in the contests, and more than 600 taking part in workshops and seminars. With such daunting numbers, the ISAAC committee members and volunteers had to put in a tremendous amount of effort to ensure that the entire event went off smoothly. With contests in the new building, and workshops and seminars in the old, there was plenty of work to be done behind the scenes. The hard work and professionalism that separates ISAAC from other tech-fests was visible even to first-time visitors to ISAAC, with barcode scanners at the registration desks, and walkie-talkies for communication between the organizing committee.
ISAAC ‘04 was a hugely successful event, and hopefully will inspire budding engineers to fully exploit their potential, perhaps even be the apple that landed on Sir ISAAC Newton’s noggin, leading him to question and eventually understand the concept of gravity.

SPORTS WRAP
Guess who’s back … …
Yes, our sports contingent is back from the All India Sports Meet at BITS, Pilani.
They beat the heat in unfamiliar territory and gave us our all-time best haul, making us ever so proud! Here’s the report card 

Swimming
‘They came, they swam, they conquered’ is probably what other teams would tell you about our fab four. “Best Overall Swimmer” Varun Divgikar (who recently represented Maharashtra at the Senior National Aquatics Championships at New Delhi and won gold in his pet event 50m freestyle with a scintillating time of 24.00 sec beating many acclaimed veterans) snapped up all 4 gold medals in individual events, with Sahil Bhatia yet again winning 4 medals including 3 silvers and a bronze. Sidhant Bakhru too joined the party with 2 bronze medals and the 3 of them combined with Punit Mehra to win one silver and two bronze in the relay events. Quite a haul, isn’t it? But stellar performances from all 4 swimmers of SBM Jain College meant that TSEC had to settle for 2nd place overall.

Tennis
The quartet of Saahil Peerbhoy, Neeraj Doshi, Karan Raheja and Jaideep Singh won 3 out of 4 league matches, losing the odd league encounter, as well as the finals, to S.B.M. Jain College, ending up with an impressive 2nd place overall.

Football
Tournament top-scorer and captain Darryl Lowe’s team started with a bang in the league stages, thrashing MIT(Moradabad) 6-0, and again 5-0, which was more than sufficient to qualify for the final stages. But the schedule handed out by the BITS officials was less than friendly and meant that our boys had to play 4 matches in 48 hours. The insufficient rest took its toll on the players as they lost 3-0 to BITS (Pilani) and 3-1 to MNIT (Jaipur). Nonetheless, our football team earned a well-deserved 3rd place.

Table Tennis
The TSEC TT team led by Suketu Bhuta with team-mates Punit Mehra, Arun Sharma and Nitin Nair started promisingly,beating Jagad Guru College 3-2 but failed to qualify from their group after going down tamely to the home team BitsA.

Cricket
Playing only the second time in a tournament outside Mumbai, the TSEC cricket team failed to impress with an ordinary 94 all out in 18 overs, which enabled a formidable Jai Hind College team to land TSEC a first round knockout punch, scoring the required runs in a mere 12 overs.

WELCOME TO ENGINEERING!!
Behind all the heavy books and journals there are TSECites, ready to let their hair down.
And that’s exactly what the freshmen of the Class of 2008 saw at the Freshers’ Welcome Bash, a rocking party at the National College Basketball court, hosted by the Students’ Council of TSEC.
The evening kicked off with a Housie session hosted by our very own Principal Kranti Kumar. Trailing it was an awesome dance-dhamaal with our inhouse DJ’s, that had freshers and seniors alike grooving to the rhythm.

The stage was set for a perfect Saturday evening, witnessing the freshers foot-tapping and swaying to the enthralling sound blasts, along with their senior comrades, leaving academic boredom in the shack. The icing on the cake came in the form of rain showers, a welcome contribution from the Ultimate Engineer (God himself‘!) leading the future ‘engineers’ into a state of euphoria. Now its time to put away those dancing shoes, and hit the books, with the second periodics and semester exams right around the corner.
Welcome F.E.s…Welcome to TSEC!!!

SOCIETIES’ SPEAK

Management Society
Currently one of the most happening societies in college, with more than 250 members, the MS is riding high on the success of Lakshya, their intra collegiate event. Personal Interviews, Emotional Quotient and GD’s were the popular events taking place at Lakshya. MS conducted yet another Oratorium in the last week of September, and concludes the semester by bringing you this issue of TSEC BULLETIN!

NSS
It’s been a busy month for NSS-TSEC. There was an eye-opening seminar on Thalassemia Awareness, on the 20th of September. This was followed by the annual Blood Donation Drive of NSS TSEC, which received an overwhelming response from the students, the staff as well as outsiders, with 252 units of blood being collected. In tandem with the blood donation drive, a free thalassemia check-up was organized in association with the Red Cross.

TSF
After a great start of a hundred registrations in just two days of the membership drive, TSF was ready to rock. Enter Ms.Sharon Prabhakar who gave a very enriching talk on motivation and leadership skills. The surprise element, though, was the audience, which mostly comprised of inquisitive F.E.’s who were ready to Make A Difference.
TSF also celebrated Vidyasagar Prin. K.M. Kundnani’s Birth Centenary Year by holding a ‘Bhajan Sandhya’.Late Prin. Kundnani was the Founder of Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board, which manages our college.

IE(I)
 The highlight of IE(I)’s activities has undoubtedly been the industrial visit to Jalandhar, Amritsar and Dalhousie. The six visited industries included United Breweries and JCT Fabrics, coupled with loads of sightseeing. The Wagah border and the Golden Temple among other places ensured an educationally enriching and fun- filled visit. IE(I) has also announced an “FE Week” in the near future.

ISTE
After the exciting trip to Silvassa visiting JBF and HINDALCO, ISTE-TSEC kicked off its anticipated membership drive taking the total membership to above 130. Then, there was the much-needed CRO Workshop for the FE’s attended by no less than 65 students. ISTE now has it’s upcoming visit to IIT for the Electronics and EXTC people.

IETE
The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers’ Membership Drive received an overwhelming response from both SE’s and FE’s. To give the students handson practical experience, two workshops were conducted by T.E. EXTC students. The Scientific Calculator Workshop enlightened the students about the various functions of a calculator and gave them tricks and short cuts to solve various problems on the calculator. The Electronic Instruments Workshop aimed at familiarizing the students with the various instruments used during practicals, such as CRO, DMM, and function generator.

CSI
After the successful workshop and seminar melas, CSI-TSEC brought in their second set of events, grouped under their intra-college fest ELIXIR this September. Elixir began with Mock Interviews, giving T.E.’s and B.E.’s first-hand experience of a “proper” interview. A two-day C-Graphics Workshop, a fun event Kiss-n-Kick, and a screening of I, Robot followed.
A workshop on Fundamentals of Procedural Programming for the little kids (F.E.’s) was held from the 28th of September to the 5th of October 2004. The e-security cell has also been successfully established in TSEC under the CSI banner.

DEPARTMENTAL DIALOGUES……

BIOMEDICAL DEPARTMENT
A series of guest lectures were arranged by the department, on informative topics such as Modern High Frequency X-Ray Generators and Medical Informatics, the latter conducted by Mr. S. Pingat from Hinduja Hospital. Students also got the global feel with Prof. Sally Clift and Prof. Jonathan Chambers giving an insight on “Biomechanics and Engineering-A Digital Future”. Both of the eminent speakers were in India in collaboration with The Sterling Group, British Council.

Forthcoming event: a Technical Poster competition for SE, TE and BE students on emerging areas of Biomedical engineering.

CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT
The Chemical Engg. Department has a new I.C., Mr. S.J. Purohit. The former HOD, Dr. M.N. Bhave is now the principal of K.J. Somaiya, Vidyavihar.
On the 29th of September, a seminar was conducted on “Opportunities in Biotechnology”, by Dr. S.V. Ramakrishna, the Research Director of Reliance Industries. In the pipeline are seminars on “Industrial Automation” and “Industrial Case Studies in Process Control”.

COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
From the Computer Engineering Department, Ms. Tanuja K Sarode completed her M.E. (Computer Engg.) with an amazing score of 68.59 %.
Coming up is a seminar on ‘System Security’ on the 9th of October, conducted by Ms. Suchismita Das.

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGG. DEPARTMENT
The Department has announced a course on ‘Advanced Digital Communication’ from the 6th to the 18th of December for “career advancement scheme”.The course co-ordinators are Ms. Medha Somalwar and Mr. Rajesh Bansode. Hands-on sessions, special lectures and an industrial visit are to be a part of this eagerly awaited course

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
In the IT Department, 60% of final year students have been placed by campus interviews. Mr. Prateep Roy (I.C., I.T) has been elected as Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (FIE). His paper on “Envisaging Threats in Technology Applications in India by 2020” was accepted for the 19th Indian Engineering Congress.

Ms. Madhuri Rao, faculty of the Department of IT organized a one-day seminar on “Project Management”.

In their October cover article on the premier B-Schools, India Today featured Abhijeet Shetty, alumnus of TSEC, from the IT Department. Abhijeet is now a student of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS SECTION
Towards the end of this September, a workshop-cum-lecture was conducted on Voice Modulation and Accent Neutralization by Ms. Bidisha Banerjee, who is a certified Neuro Linguistic Practitioner from NFNLP

JUST JOKING
J”What’s one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?” To which the computer scientist replies: One “Hooray for logical operators”
JTwo hydrogen atoms walk into a room. One says, “I’ve lost my electron.”
The other says, “Are you sure?” The first replies, “Yes, I’m positive...!”
JIf at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
JAsked how his pet parrot died, the mathematician answered “Polynomial. Polygon.”
JTo steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Brain Teaser
On the island of Lineus, there are four roads, which are completely straight. Where any roads cross, there is an intersection, and on Lineus there are six intersections(as illustrated). No matter how you rearrange the roads, one finds that no more than six intersections are required. The neighbouring island of Lateralia has fifteen perfectly straight roads. What is the largest possible number of intersections you could expect to see on this isle?
Rs 100 reward for one lucky winner. Send in your answers quickly to [email protected].

Tired of writing journals, assignments and exam papers? Well, put those pens to better use! Use the vacation (and study leave!) as your passport to a little bit of immortality. Send in your stories, poems, articles, or whatever form of literature in, for the college magazine, SYNAPSE. See your name in print, voice your thoughts out loud, and be a part of the memories. Articles for the college magazine SYNAPSE will be accepted up to the 15th of January, 2005. Our e-mail address is [email protected].

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