What I have learnt from this management course........

well we ( i mean myself and this course) do have a serious problem? somewhere. somehow.

I haven't studied so less for engg even. and i cant even recall let alone relate what i am doin in here!!!! what exactly did i get to learn here?
well thats a tough Q ( just as i was asking amru, the other day, as to why we guys live at all)

What I have gotten however is self realisation ( not the 'nirvana' stuff)

I learnt quite a few things (abt myself and the system here) after gettin here. heres how they go ;)

1. I have a proverbial starting problem with scoring in the " first quiz/test " i take in a given year, sem or a term. u can say " First quiz" syndrome .okay it kind of started from school days. and the first test results in all three terms here have only accentuated my grief. a look at my 'first quiz' scorecards will show how one can score literally obscenely low marks. i know its tough to publish such stupid marks so openly. but i cant help it. As long as the end of the day is fine, who cares?
class 11 - 2/(25 or 50)....dont remember exactly ( and that too in math 'vectors' - and these biology studs thought vectors infect only bodies) ;
college first yr univ - 67 pc ( amidst all that second jee attempt hungama)
first term here - 14/25
second term here - 1.5/5 ( started OR on a shaky ground)
this third term however has been path breaking - 1.5/9 (ops - damn this overconfidence) . whats worse, was expecting to get a negative score with negative marking scheme being applied. somehow ended on a positive note....err....i mean a positive score.

The truth however is, GOD pulls me up from such abysmal levels to some degree of respectability, in the tests to follow thus saving the day for me.

2. I have become a sort of expert in this word game- cow/bulls -( some ppl call it Black/White in madras). and I have Amru and sujay to lock horns with. and classrooms are the only places we play this game. cant afford to waste time in the hostel. where we have other modes of recreation. It is a word game where one guy will think of some 4 letter word. the other guy has eight chances. he must guess 4 letter words. if the letters in the original word is in same position as in the suggested word, we mark 1/2/3/4 cows ( or whites)/ if the letters in the original word is present in a different position in the suggested word, we mark 1/2/3/4 bulls ( or blacks). and then logicise the position of the 4 letters and find the word. our notebooks are littered with uncountable 4 letter words.( its really amazing to understand how many 4 letter words have been created by man). we are curently contemplating reducing the number of guesses to 6. and it is our earnest endeavour to spread this culture through out the class. ( we have deal with the stationary shop, that this word game really necessitates purchase of rough books....cant reveal the commission though)

3. I can handle Antakshari, in hindi as well. amrutaunshu gives company as ever. he has a gud voice, i shd admit. and yeah it happens in classrooms only. when too much of discussion happens ( most of it pretty useless, i am sure), one can afford to sing a bit louder. the voice is drowned in the din. yeah now and then there are obstacles, with surprise Qs, being shooted ( and for which we have no answers) . But i know we can still do it. What amru?

4. I am much more worse at music composing than I thought. My first attempt was not much of a hit. blame it on the staid rythm tracks of this synthesiser. and add to it , the absence of drumpad ( to get that human touch) and the recording quality( straight from keyboard to comp). With Kiran getting his electric guitar in place and hoping rohit to bring his tabla soon enough and amrutaunshu to contribute to this 'stuff' with his classical knowledge , i am sure we gonna go places.

5. I have this insatiable appetite for sleep. I sleep 10 hrs in a working week. and 12-14 hrs in the weekend. atleast if not sleeping, just lying in bed, dreaming of things i know i cannot accomplish (like music composing for instance). ( and we hear B-schoolers sleep for 4 hrs a day and other rotten stuff, well atleast i dont do. neither do my batch mates afaik). actually i misunderstood it. seniors told me they sleep for 4 hrs in a day. i realised pretty late that we actually had classes for 4 hrs a day. and it is this 4 hrs they were talking abt ;)

6. people dont respect frankness. We had a comm skills presentation. had to present on our passion. I ws the last to present. that after 4 hrs. class was almost dead. and when i started mine and told them that my passion was kids and ultimate happiness was in being a good father, the class burst into laughter. ( and even after confirming that i was a bachelor as on date, I didn't recieve any application for the same!!!!). pity them how do they know the difficulty of parenting................yeah....atleast i got decent grades for my presentation.

7. The first comers to the class always fight for the last benches. and whats worse, its not the work ex guys who do it, its these so called 'enthused' freshies.......

8. We all guys here, fully believe, in the infallibility of yahoo polls, as the custodian of free and fair demo'crazy' in making any decision that involves the interests of the whole class. we have different reasons for conducting such polls. like whether exams shd be open book or not, grps shd be random or self made. ( for eg, one such stupid decision made me mug 650 slides for a single paper,that too in a dry subject like MIS). Recently the class think tank (headed by me) is discussing on a framework for identfying the scope of this yahoo poll thingy. It is expected to extend this yahoo polling to crucial decisions like how much time we shd ask prof for breaking in between sessions, how much shd the topper score to make RG less painful for others ( by keeping the std deviation lower) , how many students at most can sleep in the same session, whether we shd come to class, fully prepared with the cases that are to be discussed by prof in the next class and many more..............

9. Taking the cue from my lil cousin sis pooja, i have also started this carrying out conversations thro rough book scrapping....in sessions that have no takeaways, only getaways actually......see what 7 yearolds can teach u....

10. We have more fun things to do in class than just sleeping the time away ( and whats more, we also perform 'value added services' like waking up ppl after class, that too free of cost)

11 . and If i gotta survive this term ( the most painful so far), I gotta stop this blog NOW.

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