VIT's T(h)anksgiving

Had my BEE exam today, for the non-engineers out there, its an acronym for Basic Electrical Engg. Now, the exam went well enough for me not to feel utterly depressed and hopelessly lost, so, quite surprisingly, I was in a good mood after the exam, which jftr, was not predicted, more on that later. What really marked the day was the presence of a real, yeah REAL, BATTLE Tank in the Campus. Picture this, you are walikng down the footpath, under the shade, one hand on the makeshift notes copy, the other clutching and squeezing the imaginary throat of your BEE teacher, and lo, you see a TANK parked in the middle of the crossroads!!! The first reaction is to look around for reinforcements or flankers, but the rust and the fungus accumulated on the flaky exterior of the armour kinda kept you from it. A very quick examination of the road surface around the tank forced me, sadly, to rule out the possibility of it descending (at 9.8m/s-squared of course) from heavens or of it being Ejected from Hell itself.

Anyways, it could wait, and by the look of things, I dont think the TANk itself had much of a choice, there was an exam to 'ace'.

Unsurprisingly, on the way back, the tank was still there, but the presence of 4 Huge yellow cranes circling it kinda gave the whole scenario another dimension to expand into. The TANK was initially parked right in front of the BioTech building, The 'hexagon'. So, when the cranes started to pulll/push the 'Thing' to a less obstructive location, I swear I saw many of the BioTech people crossing their fingers hoping one of the crane controllers might lose control of the tank and thus resulting in an unscheduled razing of the hexagon. but Alas! It was not to be, mostly due to the timely intervention of the uniform clad 'alledged' Army personnel, because honestly, judging by the momentum and the erratic movement of the tank sideways, an early cristmas for the Hexa-goers was quite a possibilty at one point of time......>