DynamiX ‘07… The Inside Story of Ramjas!
Posted by Uma Damle | Filed under Headshot, It's My Life, Quizzing, School Life
Note: This particular post is written by Prashanth on my behalf. I know its a bad mimicry of my writing style, but still… it pretty much says what I had in mind.
Adhering to the fact that each coin unfortunately has two sides, I am compelled to write something on top of Prashanth’s single sided vantage report on the making of this event. Despite being a small event, I know we are making it look like a making of a movie with a series of multiple posts coming up about the same thing! As Luminaries, its our duty to narrate the whole show to all those people who missed coming to the event. Before wasting more time of you future-IITians who couldn’t spare a few hours for the event off their package solving sprees, let me start off with the story.
The organization process started off with problems, and solutions to problems that do not exist, courtesy Prashanth! Ever since he came up with the concept of the Mouse Caramel (Its actually Mt. Car_mel, hidden so that Google’s dumb spiders don’t direct this page for some confidential stuff!) computer clan, namely GeekeD!, (which primarily consists of Varun Mishra, Gaurav Marmat and a few more) to help DX take this event off. Coming to think of it, it wasn’t a bad idea after all. DX, as you might have read in the touchy part of Prashanth’s post, has lost all its priceless alumni to Universities and Institutions outside Delhi. So a small group of technically sound people with great contacts in the geek community could help the event greatly. Prashanth hypnotically managed to convince everyone for sure, including the GeekeD clan that DynamiX GeekeD! would be a happening event. On second thought, he missed one person, and that wasn’t the DX incharge from Ramjas, Pandey Sir.It was Ramjas’s good old, respected but presently troubled Principal. With so many outlaws in the school, nobody in the seats of the Principal would be in a sound mind to listen, especially if the person suffers from a kind of reverse amnesia (a fancy term for incorrigible amounts of memory).
So that’s where the issues begin. Not with involving GeekeD, but involving Prashanth, who is actually a prized ex-student of Ramjas. As I mentioned before, Princi suffers from reverse amnesia, which means any kind of data in her head is as secure as it is in this blog’s Dreamhost servers. And Prashanth and his cocky nature finally made him pay after six loooong months of quitting school. Let’s move back in time… Prashanth wanted to quit school in style. He did it by giving the principal a piece of his mind about the school right in her face. For now, the Principal had a wonderful time ignoring him, lecturing him, refusing him, nodding her face sideways in front of him and scaring everyone who is for him to death. It almost felt as if it was easier to get GeekeD! in than Prashanth!
Prashanth and I finally decided that he would work for the event whether or not he is allowed to join on the day of the event . The hard point was to somehow send this message in the Princi’s head. Whenever this particular issue propped up in any DynamiX meeting, the others i.e the so called lions and Gothkings at gaming transformed into cowardly meerkats at the very thought of facing the principal, scared that she might whip her semi-automatic out and shoot ‘em up.
So it was me all alone as the only ‘Man in the Clan’ who trembled fearlessly into the Princi’s cabin almost daily making her mind up. And each time I came a step closer in doing so, some jackass sprays paints, someone bursts a cracker and loads bunk and disobey. With tons of law and order issues, Princi’s equilibrium was disturbed adding a whole lot of FUD, or Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about the whole event.
We were sooo sorry, yet helpless for ourselves as well as Geeked!, who were so excited about it and came up with lovely artwork for the event. Eventually, we did manage to boot Prashanth in, especially after she heard that he got the sponsors. Anyway, Prashanth was in, along with a new wave of problems with solutions to problems that do not exist!
I must really thank Tushar N. for taking care of most of the paper work, registration work and certificates and stuff, Sanchit and Anirudh for the programming paper, Shakti just for NOT creating any troubles on the two days and Sanchit, Tanmay, Tarun, Nisheeth, Kartikey and the rest of 11thies and 10thies for taking care of installation, refreshments, signboards and other stuff that from a distance appear to be pieces of cake tasks but in reality involve unbelievable amount of running from pillar to post. DynamiX was, is and will be a symposium planned, supported and executed ENTIRELY by students.
Ever since the sponsors finalized, a new surge of excitement made me give in my best yet work here for DynamiX ‘07. Yes, I had made quite a few questions and clues for last year’s edition as well, but this time… the work had something special. The next half of a week were spent with nothing but thoughts of anticipation, last minute reminders, invites to schools, query solving, and keeping both Pandey Sir and the Principal in good humor. The meerkats took away all the burden away of the critical logistics. Finally, the day had arrived. 26th and 27th… I guess Prashanth would be vela enough to blog about that!
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3 Responses to “DynamiX ‘07… The Inside Story of Ramjas!”
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Ankur Banerjee Says:
December 8th, 2007 at 5:43 amIs Geeked! the new Yahoo!? Only to be spelt with an ‘!’?
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Prashanth Says:
December 10th, 2007 at 11:20 am@GQ:-
Not really… it was only to trick those Google spiders… but well, I suppose we need to do more than just a exclaimation mark! for that…
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Varun Says:
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:35 amThe event was successful anyhow and that’s what matters
and Ankur, the geeked! is not new yahoo!, the old yahoo! is new geeked!
;P
