Its exam time and here I am updating my blog. This is my last post before the exams , so its got to be about the much dreaded exams.
In my opinion one can never have a good day and when its exam time bad luck and misfortune is all what you have to accompany you like you tend to fall sick a day before the exams, you lose some of the important notes, feeling a hell lot of sleepy, one just cant resist sleep even after gulping down numerous tea cups, forgetting the hall ticket, the most unexpected questions in the paper, or maximum questions come from the part one had left, hoping that nothing would be asked from it. The worst part is when you suddenly go blank during the exams, nothing seems to come in the mind.
Anyways, I think this happens with everyone, and not just with me.
Now that I'm blogging after so many days, let me write some more:
Ok so its exam time! We all have to do them at one time or another. Somethings I have noticed about exams and people around exam season that really annoy me.
* Those people who go to the library and sit there pretending to work all day wen in reality what they do is day dream about the holidays ahead.
* Those people who tell you that they haven't finished a single thing, didn't start revising etc but then ask you several in depth questions about the topic you have an exam in! oh yeah my friend your not a book worm! You are just trying to kill time by sitting with the books all day around.
* That guy that who always puts hand up 5 minutes into the exam to say he needs more paper. Seriously what the hell are you writing about when I'd just finished entering the details correctly on the front page! or that guy who requests for a supplement even after d warning bell. Well you already got 3 hours, and you have written enough, spare the last few minutes to recheck your paper. But no, these nerds would keep writing until the supervisor comes and snatches the answer booklet from them.
* The group of people that clump together after the paper and discuss what they wrote for each question trying to get over one another. Again its over! move on!
* Have you ever noticed those people who have 'I have exams going' kind of look throughout the year and like they are about to have a mental break down and are either only keeping it under control by diasapan or some other drug! Seriously I think that after nearly 15 years of being tested every summer you'd get used to it.
Cheating - Well its just as an integral part of exams as studying :P
After all one can never study everything, and the best option one can restore to , to get some decent marks is cheating.
Engineering exams are boring, firstly because of the vast amount of incomprehensible syllabus one has to study and then when you don't finish everything(or rather anything ) , you can't even copy ;(
But I feel copying should be encouraged. Here's why:
We see the teachers shouting and telling us the importance of team spirit. Well, cheating in exams is the best example of team spirit.
You see, Everyone gets to play their part. 5 students study 5 different subjects. And each of them, show others the answer paper of the one subject they’ve studied in return for seeing the answer papers of four subjects that they’ve not studied.
Besides the above reason, cheating also helps one to plan and manage, let me Explain how, In papers involving multiple choice questions,look at the mind boggling planning of few kids:
For (a) : Scratch head with pencil.
For (b) : Stare at the teacher.
For (C) : Yawn.
For (d) : Throw the pencil down.
Oh! I wish even we had MCQ tests,it would have been fun answering and cheating.
oh! god it has been more then an hour. I guess I really can't save myself any more. I gotta start studying soon, else like the last 2 times I would be again regretting at the last moment and wishing that I had not wasted time before.
Just praying that I answer the exams well.
Dear Lord,
Sometimes I feel a little strange praying to you because of an exam.
It doesn’t really seem all that significant when you consider the “big picture.”
But right now, the test looms so large that it is all I can see before me.
I pray to you for three things:
the strength to handle the pressure that I feel,
the confidence to feel secure in my knowledge and preparation,
and the ability to keep an appropriate perspective on it all.
Help me to keep in mind what is really important, even as I focus all of my time and energy on this test in the immediate future.
All the best to everyone.
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Yeah, you read it right. I HATE Fridays.
Earlier it was like Oye! It’s Friday and now it’s transformed to Oh No! It’s Friday.
There was a time when I used to look forward to a Friday, but now I actually regret when Friday comes.. Thanks to changes in the schedule - both in our college timetable and that of daily soaps. Our precious hard earned half day off (yeah, hard earned because we got it after enduring week long boring, mind numbing lectures) has been scrapped off from the timetable. I guess this half day off was hurting in the eyes of the teachers for long so they made changes in the time table to ensure that we were ripped off the last hope we had to escape from the monotonous college life.
This has thwarted the nice routine I had got accustomed to on Friday: have an ice cream on the bus stand with friends, buy another ice cream while going back home for me and my mom, enjoy it while watching a new Hindi movie…
Sadly now the ice cream is replaced by the cold chappatis in the tiffin and the movie by the lectures…
That pure indulgence and blissful Fridays are no longer there.
The other reason why Fridays are going to be boring again: Every Friday I used to watch the new movie premiering on HBO at 9 pm. But since the timings of the daily soaps have been extended to Friday, I will have to miss on that movie too. My mom owns the sole rights of remote control and she won’t let anything (even emotional blackmailing doesn’t work) stop her from watching the daily soaps.
Fridays are never going to be the same again….. :(
Some things get better with time like wine, while some (rather most) deteriorate or worsen with time like Happenings!
Happenings is the oldest and (was) the biggest college festival in Goa. Happenings is considered to be the grandest of all college festivals. But over the past few years it has lost all its past glory and grandeur.
This year’s Happenings represented a complete messy picture. It lacked everything right from planning and organization to execution. The atmosphere was dull and languorous. The crowd lacked the much needed zest and energy. With hardly any participation from other colleges the happenings ground looked like an empty battlefield. Lack of participation completely thwarted the day events schedule.
I still cannot fathom what went wrong – The organizing team had put in a lot of hard work and efforts to put the event together. They had taken much pain to ensure that the event was successful. But somehow none of the colleges turned up.
Let’s stop cribbing and concentrate on the (few) good things.
The Treasure hunt event scheduled at 11 am started at around 4 pm in the evening. This event brought many light moments. It was a real funny sight to see the participating teams running around the campus searching for the clues. The best part was when they had to do an impromptu dance. Here’s the video of my classmates. Ain’t they looking like doing some weird zombie dance …. Hehe Poor guys ! After so much of hard work, they had to be content with just the consolation prize.
With just 3 colleges, The Battle of Bands could hardly be called as Battle. It was just a mere formality of sort, to decide which college would get the 1st prize.
The only events that managed to get decent crowd were DJ night, and Rock show. For the rock show we had Reverse Polarity and Bhayanak Maut performing live. (click the links to see a snippet of their performance) Reverse Polarity were pretty good. The crowd whistled, cheered and enjoyed their performance. The music was loud, the lyrics completely crazy and the lead singer literally shouting and screaming at the highest level possible and the crowd happy and the more enthusiastic ones head banging. It was unlike the Indian Ocean concert at Waves 09, where the music was a fusion of rock, Sufism, shlokas etc, which didn’t go much well with the audience. Bhayanak maut were a bit disappointing. I had more expectations from it, as it’s a more established band . I hadn’t heard of Reverse Polarity before, but I had heard a lot about Bhayanak Maut. I guess we weren’t lucky enough to witness their best performance. May be they were thinking that loud English music, drums and bass guitar were enough for a performing in front of college crowd. That’s even true to some extent. Most of the people are comfortably numb to rock. They’re present because there’s a rock show in college and its considered cool to attend it. There are many who would have just one question on their mind “ are hindi gaana Kab bajega?” But that doesn’t serve as an excuse for taking everyone granted and underperformance.
Thus came to an end The NOT SO HAPPNING, HAPPNINGS 09.
Let’s hope that history doesn’t repeat itself next year and Happenings regains all its lost glory and glamour. I hope to witness the last happenings of my college life in all its grandeur and splendor.
