Lady Luck Shining or the Calm before a Storm!?

So today, we were to have our Operating Systems (OS in short) Mid-lab exam. And our teacher for one, normally doesn’t cancel or postpone exams so easily. So we reached there at 10 in the morning and waited for him to come.

Meanwhile, we were reminded of the problem at hand – none of the computers had a mouse. And the Graphical User Interface (GUI) won’t load without a mouse. The lab attendant (should I call him so) told us to talk to our teacher. So we continue waiting for him.

Tick tock tick tock….an hour passes – he doesn’t come. Loads of speculations flying around, “Maybe the lab exam is only for 2 hrs – he’ll come now.” “Maybe he’ll keep it next week.” And the sorts… Another hour passes…still no sign of him. Now the probability of the exam happening was below 0%. So we breathe a sigh of relief. But then, he finally makes his entry in the lab.

And he says very little and to the point, “Only two questions. (1)What did you do in the last 4 days!? (2) What did you do in the lab today!? Come according to your roll number, answer these and go.” Well, for the second one, everyone had only one answer – nothing!!! Most of the people didn’t even bother to log in. That was expected – he kept us on tenterhooks for two hours and now this.

All it did was add a collection of zeros in his register. Nothing else. But then – was it a lucky break or a start to a catastrophe!?
• Anyways, very few will get output no matter when the exam is.
• On top of that, we screwed our lab credits for a week.
• And we don’t know when he’ll keep the exam.

Too much to speculate – maybe he’ll surprise us later.

But as Jane Austen says (she happens to be my favourite author), “Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”

Keep your fingers crossed buddies...