Two and a half months since the last post?...Well, it has been some time. We've since progressed to the 4th sem and so have our juniors. Classes are going well and as a lot of juniors maybe aware, 4th & 6th sem students have to undergo 4-6 weeks industrial training. Not that many people take it too seriously, most have some or the other contact just waiting to pass them the certificate without interning even for a day. But as far as I'm concerned, a lot of head scratching is going on in my camp regarding this. After all, this is what prepares us for the outer world, not the school-esque theory classes and labs...
But anyways, a lot of time still has to go. Weather has been great. Too much great in fact. If I had been in Delhi at this time of the year, it would've been a strict no-bathe condition for weeks. But times are different. Brilliant sunshine and clear skies (A bit like Delhi's Feb weather) means that you could trouble the bucket everyday.
So, since the talk is after a long time, it has to a long one. I don't think I reviewed out 2nd sem performance. Well, 2nd sem performances of the whole college in general have taken a hit, courtesy shortage of time and exceptionally hard papers (Designed to fail I think), mini paper-leak scandals (which certainly affects your frame of mind) and bad to horrible teachers.
A few exceptions always exist, like Nirmal who pounded and impressive 838 to add on to his 826 in 1st sem. He even received a cash prize recently for topping the college in BEE. Vaibhav's was a bit on the downside as well, plummeting to 655 and mine was the worst hit and came crashing to 621.
As if that wasn't enough, I suffered a 2nd blow as our horrible maths teacher and the dislike I developed resulting from his bad lectures meant that I was handed the elusive-till-now Backlog (Failure) in Maths-II.
People are sometimes funny and inexplicable. Situations make them like that. Three categories of students - Engg. students especially - exist according to me -
1. The first are those who panic a lot and screw up their exams in spite of studying well
2. The 2nd are those who still study well but a cringe a lot about screwing up their exams after the exam
3. The 3rd are those who neither study well in spite of it being in their reach nor make a fuss about it after the exam and keep a good smiling face always.
It is the 3rd category that I belong to, though I'm trying so desperately to change it. If I screw up an exam, I know get a feeling that I wouldn't scrape through and that day the feeling was firmly in place.
But anyways, a lot of time still has to go. Weather has been great. Too much great in fact. If I had been in Delhi at this time of the year, it would've been a strict no-bathe condition for weeks. But times are different. Brilliant sunshine and clear skies (A bit like Delhi's Feb weather) means that you could trouble the bucket everyday.
So, since the talk is after a long time, it has to a long one. I don't think I reviewed out 2nd sem performance. Well, 2nd sem performances of the whole college in general have taken a hit, courtesy shortage of time and exceptionally hard papers (Designed to fail I think), mini paper-leak scandals (which certainly affects your frame of mind) and bad to horrible teachers.
A few exceptions always exist, like Nirmal who pounded and impressive 838 to add on to his 826 in 1st sem. He even received a cash prize recently for topping the college in BEE. Vaibhav's was a bit on the downside as well, plummeting to 655 and mine was the worst hit and came crashing to 621.
As if that wasn't enough, I suffered a 2nd blow as our horrible maths teacher and the dislike I developed resulting from his bad lectures meant that I was handed the elusive-till-now Backlog (Failure) in Maths-II.
People are sometimes funny and inexplicable. Situations make them like that. Three categories of students - Engg. students especially - exist according to me -
1. The first are those who panic a lot and screw up their exams in spite of studying well
2. The 2nd are those who still study well but a cringe a lot about screwing up their exams after the exam
3. The 3rd are those who neither study well in spite of it being in their reach nor make a fuss about it after the exam and keep a good smiling face always.
It is the 3rd category that I belong to, though I'm trying so desperately to change it. If I screw up an exam, I know get a feeling that I wouldn't scrape through and that day the feeling was firmly in place.
"A good teacher makes a good student"
So they say. And I couldn't agree more when I was preparing to give the exam a 2nd time a few months later using notes from one of the most highly rated teachers of our college. I had a positive feeling - and a sad one at the same time when the re-revaluation results came out - many of my accomplices in failure had passed having got fewer marks than me - which all highlights a bit of the ill-practices going on in our education system as throwing Rs.1100 can pass you in the re-revaluation when Rs.300 can't in the initial revaluation. Still, I'm proud to say that the back paper was taken care of on Jan 17, 2011 without a fuss - even though the results haven't come out.
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