The Third Time Around
Ever wilted away hours being forced to do absolutely nothing ? Well then you know how it feels to be an engineering student in Mumbai.
You could say that there are some types of lectures that happen. There are good lectures and then there are some that are bad,now I wouldnt have a problem if only these were the cases around but there happen to be another type of lectures, the really really bad ones, the ones where you are sitting just for the heck of it.. not for attendance, not for studying(well thats hardly ever the case anymore), not for completing any assignments in peace, not for anything... just sitting there staring at the guy out there on the dias speaking whats his version of English.
Its times like these when i look around at the people around me and i find some very interesting personalities.
As in any class there has to be atleast one person (male or female though generally its the girls who are better at this) whos actually listening to what the professor is saying. He/She is generally the one around whom most of the people are sitting around or close to for the simple reason that he/she is the only one who can help them in case the professor catches them doing whatever they were up to and asks them about something he just "taught".These people are also the ones who write down every single sentence that the professor writes, draws,speaks in the lecture.Also at the end of the semester these people run out of space in their 4th writing pad while the rest of the class averages 1.
Then there are the "dont give a damn" characters. Every class needs to have a minimum of 2 of this variety around.This group is almost exclusively male. These guys have the guts to stand up when caught and instead of even trying to bluff an answer, give the prof a smile instead as if thats all they need.These chaps dont care what happens and with good reason actually since most professors simply give up and tell them to sit down anyways.
Then there are the ones who act as if they are listening what the professor is saying. Girls in my opinion form a major part of this group as well.Theres that occasional nod of the head that they give to the prof as if to say that they have been listing to him all the way from the start, this nod of the head generally corresponds to the time that they have to change the page of the assignment/ write-ups that they are copying from under the desk.The other activities that take place during this time is a game of cards or opening of some-ones lunch box or a biscuit pack.
Although they may seem to be a mismatched group but none the less if the clock strikes 15 minutes to the end of the lecture, they voice as one going SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR until the professor in exasperation gives up and leaves.They show quite an example of teamwork also when theres any assignment to be completed, noone in my belief can beat the distribution channel of a assignment sheet thats signed. It s quickly copied and truncated along the way until a time when the final copy is nowhere close to what the primary copy of the assignment was.
Sighhh....Engineering was no party but I am sure going to miss all this when it ends...Slogging day and night to get the assignments done, getting the journals completed in time for the submissions, hunting around for the last years paper solutions the day before the semester exams, the last hour cramming with the super scholars explaining in brief 3 months of a subject in a matter of 60 minutes. Xeroxing( or as someone insists photocopying) every single page of anything that resembles something that can possibly be important for the exams.
Life was hard but it was fun none the less.....
You could say that there are some types of lectures that happen. There are good lectures and then there are some that are bad,now I wouldnt have a problem if only these were the cases around but there happen to be another type of lectures, the really really bad ones, the ones where you are sitting just for the heck of it.. not for attendance, not for studying(well thats hardly ever the case anymore), not for completing any assignments in peace, not for anything... just sitting there staring at the guy out there on the dias speaking whats his version of English.
Its times like these when i look around at the people around me and i find some very interesting personalities.
As in any class there has to be atleast one person (male or female though generally its the girls who are better at this) whos actually listening to what the professor is saying. He/She is generally the one around whom most of the people are sitting around or close to for the simple reason that he/she is the only one who can help them in case the professor catches them doing whatever they were up to and asks them about something he just "taught".These people are also the ones who write down every single sentence that the professor writes, draws,speaks in the lecture.Also at the end of the semester these people run out of space in their 4th writing pad while the rest of the class averages 1.
Then there are the "dont give a damn" characters. Every class needs to have a minimum of 2 of this variety around.This group is almost exclusively male. These guys have the guts to stand up when caught and instead of even trying to bluff an answer, give the prof a smile instead as if thats all they need.These chaps dont care what happens and with good reason actually since most professors simply give up and tell them to sit down anyways.
Then there are the ones who act as if they are listening what the professor is saying. Girls in my opinion form a major part of this group as well.Theres that occasional nod of the head that they give to the prof as if to say that they have been listing to him all the way from the start, this nod of the head generally corresponds to the time that they have to change the page of the assignment/ write-ups that they are copying from under the desk.The other activities that take place during this time is a game of cards or opening of some-ones lunch box or a biscuit pack.
Although they may seem to be a mismatched group but none the less if the clock strikes 15 minutes to the end of the lecture, they voice as one going SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR until the professor in exasperation gives up and leaves.They show quite an example of teamwork also when theres any assignment to be completed, noone in my belief can beat the distribution channel of a assignment sheet thats signed. It s quickly copied and truncated along the way until a time when the final copy is nowhere close to what the primary copy of the assignment was.
Sighhh....Engineering was no party but I am sure going to miss all this when it ends...Slogging day and night to get the assignments done, getting the journals completed in time for the submissions, hunting around for the last years paper solutions the day before the semester exams, the last hour cramming with the super scholars explaining in brief 3 months of a subject in a matter of 60 minutes. Xeroxing( or as someone insists photocopying) every single page of anything that resembles something that can possibly be important for the exams.
Life was hard but it was fun none the less.....
posted by somethingsneverchange at
10:33 AM
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