Monday, September 15, 2008

Battered, bruised and baffled!

That’s exactly how I felt, when the exams got over. Sometimes things just don’t work out for you. Especially during the exams!! I mean no matter how confident I was about my preparation, or how much study and concentration I had put in, there was always some damning thing in (eternally) damning paper, which kept me from sayin’....”It was easy!”.....
Let me take you through my misfortunes. It started with CS. Whatever little respect or whatever I had for that unfortunate lady....whom I can’t bring myself to call my teacher, when I remember Gadgil Sir or Sheela Joshi Ma’am, who had honoured the job so splendidly!...completely evaporated when I saw the paper. It contained 10 marks worth of sums which none in the class could solve completely. Though one may say that it’s the teacher’s fault, (?), I beg to differ. Actually, the sum was so complicated, that her very limited, poor brain couldn’t have solved it in a hundred years! I mean if she had even tried to teach it, wouldn’t at least one us cracked it?? I don’t normally swear, but I pay 26000 tution fees goddammit! Not spoon-feeding but don’t we deserve at least some guidance??
I should stop or I may go too far! The next two papers were good actually. Now when the subject is actually taught well in the class, its OK when the paper is tough. But then, the next paper again made me go pissed off! I mean it was so lengthy, how can you test students’ talent if you don’t give them enough time to show it? Same case with the last paper.....
Due to this, barring one or two, the rest of the papers weren’t up to my expectations. And most of the times, it was just bad luck on my side (for being “blessed” with such worthy scholars for professors!). So then I asked myself, what’s the use of studying then? If I get average marks whether I studied or not...but then I realize that I am not average....I will prove that to the world...and with such optimistic (though very filmi!!)remark, I brush off those “average” thoughts and get ready to experience the greatest adventure of all, Life!