What comes into your minds when you here this word? All of you who access porn online might have had to use this thing one time or the other. The word proxy to an Indian Engineer means two things, both of which are equally important. The first meaning is the internet one, ie, proxy websites which allow us to view those sites which are otherwise banned in an area by changing our IP address. Without proxy websites, an engineer's hostel life becomes very boring. I mean, how long can you stick to Youtube and Facebook? You can't chat with someone the whole night long. Yes, you can, but not everyone. Something is needed to spice things up. Enter porn websites. Usually, such websites are banned in University servers. If you have your own internet connection through a dongle, then you don't have a problem. Otherwise, you have to use a proxy.
Porn is not the only thing which requires proxy websites. The other thing which requires proxy is torrent downloads. Torrent for a student living in an engineering hostel is a vital pipeline which delivers movies, TV shows, games, more porn, music- you name it and it is there. But all this means huge data transfers, and after a few months, most colleges block torrent websites too. To continue to avail this wonderful source of entertainment, a proxy is hence used.
Enough about this internet 'wala' proxy. What is wala? It is a Hindi word, and you can hear it in India, used by the local population as if it is an English word. It is basically used to denote association to something. Anyways, the other type of proxy that I want to talk about is far more important than the internet one. This proxy is the one where students get attendance in class even when they are not present. In Indian colleges, attendance in classes is used to award some internal marks in a subject every semester. Hence teachers keep a record of students present in each class. Obviously, you can't attend all classes everyday. No one can. It is just not possible if you are studying engineering. So you have to resort to bunking classes. I will talk about that in later posts. So what do you do if you want to bunk and attend classes at the same time? You make clones of yourself. No wait...you are not Dr.Manhattan. So you ask your friends to respond in class when the teacher calls out your roll number. If you are lucky, then the teacher won't notice. If you are caught, then things can get ugly. Whatever be the case that's how things work in an engineering college in India.
Porn is not the only thing which requires proxy websites. The other thing which requires proxy is torrent downloads. Torrent for a student living in an engineering hostel is a vital pipeline which delivers movies, TV shows, games, more porn, music- you name it and it is there. But all this means huge data transfers, and after a few months, most colleges block torrent websites too. To continue to avail this wonderful source of entertainment, a proxy is hence used.
Enough about this internet 'wala' proxy. What is wala? It is a Hindi word, and you can hear it in India, used by the local population as if it is an English word. It is basically used to denote association to something. Anyways, the other type of proxy that I want to talk about is far more important than the internet one. This proxy is the one where students get attendance in class even when they are not present. In Indian colleges, attendance in classes is used to award some internal marks in a subject every semester. Hence teachers keep a record of students present in each class. Obviously, you can't attend all classes everyday. No one can. It is just not possible if you are studying engineering. So you have to resort to bunking classes. I will talk about that in later posts. So what do you do if you want to bunk and attend classes at the same time? You make clones of yourself. No wait...you are not Dr.Manhattan. So you ask your friends to respond in class when the teacher calls out your roll number. If you are lucky, then the teacher won't notice. If you are caught, then things can get ugly. Whatever be the case that's how things work in an engineering college in India.
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