Having performed a bit of GPS surveying for CE-321, I was smart enough to bring along a newspaper. We had to wait for a good half an hour at each station and ensure a PDOP less than 4. Amazingly, some points were so good that we got 1.9 in one case!
Sadly, GPS surveying, for all its benefits, is not as good as it's made out to be. For one, the amount of time you have to spend at a station is huge. Secondly, you need to be precisely over a station, which is not easy when you have seven PTs around you. And thirdly, the station must not move by a micron or you have to start all over again. After three repetitions at the same point, I was forced to shout down at anybody who came within a meter's distance!
Until you-know-who came along with some stinging comments. I've heard criticism before, but this was downright unfair. A simple mistake does not warrant a general condemnation of our IITian status, and most definitely not from some loser who everybody from his colleagues to the labourers make fun of! Yes, so we make good managers, better managers than engineers. So? We are being trained as though we live in the 1800s, what else are we supposed to do? Teach?
That two-minute long one-sided slandering event ended with a very angry partner, who was ready to walk away from the camp that very minute. Of course, I managed to convince him that its not worth wasting your time over such a big loser. We performed our survey at seven stations and terminated it at about 4:00 PM. And when we returned, we found that we (the GPS groups) and the TS groups were the only ones left! Presumably, they all left early to see that old lady's paper. Rumour has it that the other prof encouraged them to leave even earlier.
A few golden words that I was told of today - "Accha, aadha camp ho bhi gaya? Mujhe laga tha ki yeh toh halfway abandon karna padega. Ise kuch aata nahi aur bacchon se kuch karwana bhi nahi sakta." Yes, half (more than that for the UG students) of this stupid camp has ended and I learned nothing at all!
Most of us have already given up on this camp. Large contingent leaves for Chandi Devi Mandir and Rajaji National Park everyday and you-know-who doesn't even get a hint of what's going on. And he tell us about being alert! Presumably, he does realise that nobody is doing anything real (almost all the PTs are fake) and hence, he has agreed to let us to the colouring on Day 10 in the Department itself. Since I'm skipping Day 9 for Honda YES, I have just one more day to survive in this pathetic excuse of a camp site.
Phew!
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