When I first landed in the
I have also never enjoyed the experience of being a student more than I am at present.
Today was a good day because it reiterated to me why some people refuse to leave the world of academics, either as a teacher or a student. One of the young men I coached this morning was incredibly intelligent. There must be very few pleasures in the world that come close to the kind of satisfaction one derives from coming across an absolutely brilliant, untapped mind…the sort you instinctively recognize as capable of lots of good things.
And why do some people refuse to leave the status of a student? Because student-hood automatically implies a commitment to mischief. Such as passing notes during a lecture, because you and the person sitting next to you have just discovered and agreed on who fits the tag of “The Class Bore”. And what could be more enjoyable than passing notes to each other that discuss The Bore in more and more entertaining words, all the while trying to remain undetectable to the professor as well as to other classmates?
Dear G, it was good fun today. Thanks, let’s do this again in the next class, shall we?
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MF :)
u cant even think abt closing down KI....one of my fav blogs on net.....so better that u dont get thot again........
student days........aahh.....i wish i cud go back to them :(
have loads of fun :)
Excellent post again...... i can relate to every word of it..... I mean its easier to imagine what you are trying to say over here and connect with it..... i still feel that i shud have studied more..... and enjoyed mah student life
Chi chi.. Itni dur class mein notes pass karne gaye?
:P
Hahhaaa..thats a lot of fun, yes. How do you think it would be to click pictures of people sleeping in class and put them on college board? :P
Keeping busy is fine as long as the thoughts of closing the blog stay away. Aise thodi hi hota hai!
And passing notes is sooo much fun. I like writing on the desk too(yeah, I know I shouldn't be defacing public property but aapke blog pe to aisi baatein most welcome hongi considering being good isn't always the most exciting thing. :P)
But busier than ever sounds a little scary. Dhyaan se to reh rahe ho na? :)
Take care.
:)
i envy your students. It must be fun to have a condescending teacher like you!
@ D
No, no, not thinking of closing down KI. :) I love her too much myself.
Thanks.
@ Aqui78
Maybe one day you will be able to go back and be a student again...all the best.
@ Rohit
Tu to mujhe disciplining mat sikha!
And no one sleeps in classes here...so although your idea was brilliant, I can't execute it.
@ Richa
Haanji...not closing down KI. Not to worry. :)
And you got one thing wrong...yes, although being good is not something that I either advocate or practice all the time, it is never at the cost of harming/hurting/damaging something or someone. To tu bhi yeh sab desk mutilation bandh karde nahin to...
@ Kanu
:)
@ Kavya
Condescending??? How? What do you mean?
Ohhh...ok ok. Point noted.
But grafitti/weird attempts at poetry also not allowed?
no,please...this thought is scary..u cannot think of doing that to all of us :/..i made a new account on orkut just to reach here..this place is a world of its own,special to all of us..
the last pages of all my notebooks r so very beautiful..and i guess much more memorable than the former ones..:)
hoping to see a cheerful post very soon:)
@ Richa
Of course allowed but within some nice boundaries. :)
@ Komal
Thank you so much. That is so sweet of you. Although the post did end on a cheerful note...meaning, all is right with the world.
back to KI after AGES - and 2 yummy posts already!
i would love to be a student again - especially since i believe that i will be better able to appreciate and understand what actually went on in class... i really regret not paying better attention to stuff like maybe medieval poetry (the only thing i remember from there is the chaucer bit and that rats were called "ratoun"!! go figure!) and maybe the linguistics classes (i still am not confident abt my metonymies and synechdoches and what nots!)
excepting for the few profs i liked (and therefore worshipped), i guess i was a nightmarish student to the others - i did stuff like playing endless pages of cross and noughts and table football (u know that game where u just let yr pencil slide along the paper from 11 dots (yr footballers yaar!!) and sometimes just let it go just to hear that eminently satisfying clatter of it falling on the floor!! of course there was the mad scramble under the desk bit right after that!!)- i also drew sketches of all these teachers, i wrote poetry abt them, and while i didnt exactly deface my desk - i "decorated" it with my black marker, i even fell asleep on one memorable occasion, oh and we didnt just pass notes - we had a separate tatty diary amongst the 4 of us (since we felt that our gems were too precious to grace mere scraps of paper and we passed that around!!) we also sneaked in food and also sneaked out ourselves (very rarely! after all yr virtuous best friend refused to leave and all the fun was in class anyway!!) and hooted loudly during very inappropriate places...
somehow, at that time i felt that those profs "deserved" it - that it was my lot in life to make them realize what utter bores they were!!!!! hmmmm....
i dunno if i would still do the same...
hihihi - but i really enjoyed it when i was taking some evening classes in management early last year - it was nice being back to that listening to lectures mode and scribbling notes and all that... in a highly perverse way - i also ENJOYED giving the assessment exams at the end of the course!
and while thinking on that vein - i also remember something Aamir's character DJ from Rang de Basanti says, which i really liked - about how the campus breeds a sense of security and accomplishment in you, and once out in the real world, how difficult it is to realize that you are not really anything unique or special... or something to that effect!
@ Keka
Once again, I appreciate your long and detailed comment very very much. And the other thing I really wish to say is...Why weren't you and I ever classmates? What an utter loss for humanity! I drew my teachers too, i wrote poetry too (but of another totally unmentionable kind) and of course sneaked out too. And yes, I agree with you there...some of them deserved all that treatment so much, it was almost as if they were begging for it. But then again, there were other teachers, and you just knew that you HAD to pay attention for your own sake and for that part of you that enjoyed learning new things.
i love ur enthusiasm as a student. coolege was the best experience at that time, better than school...then was post grad the professors were amazing and arabic etc. Then now the post grad is the best experience till date. i guess its got a lot to do with memories fading, losing touch with ppl...so its really difficult to look back and say that now is better than the past cause of the time factor.
What i m typing is very different from what i had originally thought.
Sayan there are tow ppl who i know who always look at the brighter side in life, find fun in the most mindane things and life to the fullest. U r one of them and i really admire ur spirit for the same.
Enjoy n keep blogging
@ Sunshine
Your feedback always means the world to me. Thank you again.
And this was a very thought provoking comment...there will be a post on this soon.
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