“God is dead. Actually, He committed suicide. And the system swept the entire episode under a massive carpet before anyone got to hear of it.” -an atheist from Area51.
In our institute parlance, the word refers to someone outstanding, or someone who looks outstanding.
God. n. Someone who is outstanding or someone who looks outstanding. (syn. stud).
adj. god-level (syn. ultimate, too-much)
There is this legendary fellow, whose legends are unrivaled, at least not yet. History has decided to honor him with a new phrase attributed to his name, which for the nonce, shall be taken as K. As putting a grand-slam refers to bunking four continuous classes, putting a K refers to bunking all the classes in a week! (as of now he’s the only one who has done it). Our guy prefers to spend hours in the gym performing mental exercises, rather than getting involved in trivial pursuits. He has risen above the worldly issues like grades and classes. What are classes to thee for who quizzes and end-sem exams are, but a distraction? More bytes can be written on this guy than the entire rationalist universe has written on the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
This brings me to a pertinent issue. The unfortunate event that happened in Mumbai a week back has rung the panic bells in the establishment, and there are rumors of plans to cut down the internet hours to 8 hours a day (or night). The argument– a considerable slump in attendance due to heavy use (read abuse) of the net, and recurring cases of ‘sleeping in the class’. The students are too busy with the lan and internet at night that they miss classes the next day.
I have some points to make here.
1. Bunking classes and/or sleeping in class has no relation to having a comp or not. I personally know a guy who has 30% attendance and bunks classes because he’s too lazy to wake up. He doesn’t have a comp. His is not an isolated case. K, of whom I have ranted above, doesn’t have a comp.
2. Will trimming the surfing hours ensure that students won’t bunk classes for surfing? Those who have to surf/chat/play games will do it whenever they get a chance, whatever time it may be.
3. Lack of interest in a class is a liability of the professor and the blame should not be shouldered by the student(s) alone. There are profs who don’t crib about and don’t take attendance but still gather a sizeable number of students each class because the class is interesting. Profs should concentrate on making classes more palatable.
I guess it’s high time they ended this endless and relentless Taguchi simulation, with the students being tossed around as convenient golf-balls. (Anyone who gets this joke gets a gulab jamun treat at Dhaaba!)
#
Movies, movies and more movies in the last few weeks.
- Crash
- The bicycle thief
- Rouge
- Revolver
- The man who copied
- Groundhog day
- Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: No Quarter.
- Closer
- Googlewhack
- Secret beyond the door
- Waking life
- Fear and loathing in
- Run, Lola, Run
- The elephant man
A brazilian zillion thanks to
2 comments:
I have watched only Crash from the list.
this list shows amazing taste
Post a Comment