Baddu's Big Story

(This belongs to a series of posts that I intend to write about life in DAIICT.)

Saurabh Barjatiya aka baddu: There is a lot one can write about him but one quality of his that has direct relation with this post is his complete disregard of exams. He has had quite a reputation in the college after he left COP (communication physics) final exam on purpose. He just doesn't write the exams which he thinks he is not prepared or which are not worth it for him.

He repeated the same thing this semester, by bunking the DCS (digital communication systems) second in-semester exam. He did very well in the first in-semester exam though (by pure luck - let me assure you).

Now for the tale:

A few days before the end semester exams, it was evening I think, when baddu came to my room, gave me a letter and asked me to read it. He seemed extremely excited about something and I hoped nothing bad had happened. In the letter, he was requesting the professor to let him write the second in-sem exam again as he was sick when the exam was initially conducted. I thought WTF?! (He was quite fine then and bunked it on purpose).

He was hell excited and explained in broken phrases that he got an email from the professor himself. The prof thought that he must not have attended the second in-sem due to medical reasons (he did pretty well in the first in-sem and not many people are like baddu). So, the prof told him that if he could produce a medical certificate, he would let him take the exam again along with the final exam. Wow! What luck! He was so happy, he was dancing in my room explaining the whole thing to my roommate and in the end shouting "I'm gonna get 4 pointer this time!". He did well in all subjects and there was every reason for him to get 4 pointer if he did the finals well.

After about 3 hours. I got this sms from him -

I now have fracture..
Seriously..

My mind reeled in disbelief. So much was happening today. I went to his room fast. On the way I heard Parag talking to someone on his cell phone in English. I immediately understood that he was indeed fractured (it turned out later that he was talking to Prof. Lenin, requesting him for a car). And behold, he was there on his bed clutching his leg and began to narrate his tale. He went to the doctor, got the medical certificate (he was actually sick a few days before the exam and could manage the certificate quite easily), went to the faculty block and submitted it and the letter to the professor. On his way back, he fell from the last step in the stair case and twisted his leg. Miraculously, he seemed to have been in a similar incident when he was in 9th and could tell with certainty that blood had entered into the space between two bones.

Wow, now he really needs a medical certificate.

The final exams themselves seem to be in danger. After a while, a car came to take him to hospital and his diagnosis turned out to be right. But luckily for him the wound could be treated later and the treatment could be postponed till after the exams (if he was treated then, he would have had a permanent plaster and confined to bed).

What happened to his leg now? He went to Indore (his home town) to get it treated and he is fine now (on bed, without any pc).
What happened to DCS? The final exam was difficult and the in-sem exam he took was even more difficult. Still he managed to get a 'B' even after ruining them both
What happened to his 4 pointer? Well, his chance was lost after he got a 'B' in EBM.