For those of
you who have done their Engineering under VTU, you all know the fact
that the most horrific thing about this university is viewing the
results. We all have to sit in front of the computer and log on to
the website and enter out University Seat Number and keep pressing
the “F5” button to know whether our results are out. To describe
the whole experience, it's like a coma patient who could die anytime.
One guy from BMS college of engineering, ended all our woes and found
an awesome solution. Here's how he did it. Let's refer him by the
name “Mr Geek”.
During his
third year of Engineering, Mr Geek fed up of the result woes, decided
to write a piece of code which would check the result page and
refresh it by itself and notify him when the results are out. It was
a simple thing but it had a clear cut sign of ingenuity. He was a
hostelite and this news about his masterful invention spread like
wild fire in the hostel. During the time of the result, “Mr Geek's”
room would be flooded with other students waiting to find out their
results.
Everytime, the
results were out, people would flood “Mr Geek's” hostel room and
his phone would be buzzing every second with calls and texts from
everyone. This was literally a pain in the a**, so he decided to take
it to the next level and making this idea into a full fledged website
which would help people in reducing the anxiety and also relieve him
from dealing with a flooded room :P. He came up with this site,
http://vtu.shaan7.info/, where
you click on the link, enter your University Seat number and your
mail id, you get your results as soon as the results are out directly
to your mail id. It worked great!
During the
time of my results, I was not in station, but I had access to the
internet via my smartphone. I was on my way back to Bangalore, me and
my friends had been to coorg. While we were returning back, everyone
around were hooked onto their phones, constantly checking if the
results were out or not. I was a little nervous too. But, luckily
thanks to “Mr Geek”, I had subscribed to the above mentioned link
and I knew that as soon the result would be out, I would get a mail.
The digital watch indicated it was 7 PM and we were almost nearing
bangalore, I got a beep on my phone and I checked out what it was.
The phone told me I had received a mail, I opened the mail there were
the whole list of marks, the class I had obtained. I was happy to see
the results and I was happy to know that “Mr Geek's” inventions
worked flawlessly, I shouted to my friends, “Guys Results are
out!”, they all started checking out the website, which would take
an eternity to load, while I sat there and enjoyed the music that
played on my headphones. Mr Geek was the hero of the day for me, he
made my life more Liveable and Enjoyable and most of all “anxiety
free”. I went home and forwarded the mail to Mr Geek and as a mark
of thanking him, liked his page,
and shared it
on my wall,
If you are
interested in taking a look at how to do it, check out the link
Mr Geek is my
long time KDE friend, Shantanu Tushar, his blog roll
So, the next
time you want view your results stress free, you all know what to do,
just register at the linkhttp://vtu.shaan7.info/
and stay stress free during results and of course do like its page on
FB,
Thanks
Shantanu, we owe you!
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