Laziness

I am too lazy to choose a topic and express my views on it. So I will just give a boring account of my life in the past month. After my fifth end-semester examinations got over on 7th December 2007, I have been shifting my weight from in front of the TV to the computer to the dining table to the bed mostly.

The end sems were an ordeal that the previous 4 semesters had not readied me for. Somehow, with help from friends, especially Akshat, I managed to give it a challenging shot. Some times I wonder why our professors(you-know-who) behave like sadists and how much easier life would have been had I enrolled myself in Mechanical instead of Computer Engg. The mechanical dept is a dream come true for students, with the thinking and attitude of their teachers. I remember sitting in the AAD exam and checking the question paper thoroughly over and over again and coming to the dire conclusion that I have read of only 4 marks out of 50. If I tell you the answers to the questions I have written, you might consider not giving me my degree altogether. But as my eyes scanned the room, I saw so many people in the same predicament and that boosted my spirits. You-know-who similar to his namesake (read Lord Voldemort) proved to be everything that is not right with the world(A bit of exaggeration is acceptable, with the emotions he generates among the students). Moreover this year, the answer sheets were shown to the poor students before they went home, and due to dismal performance, half the class is afraid of having to sit for atleast one exam again.

Since then though, I have not much to say for me. Next day Siddharth and I organized an inter school quiz and a game called "20 questions!" in our alma mater St. Xavier's High. It was a wonderful experience that made us recall the time we were students in the school. The kids, their enthusiasm, their sense of competition, the hymns sung by the father, all this was reminiscent of our time in Xavier's. This was the first time either of us had conducted an inter school quiz, that too in front of a huge crowd from all the participating schools. The initial nervousness gave way to confidence and immodestly, we were good enough to keep the audience engrossed and the participants interested. Abhinav was disapproving of Siddharth trying to flirt with a girl.

Two days back, I visited the other school I have been educated in, Kendriya Vidyalaya. Nilay, Chandru and I gave some tips to the XI and XII Science students how to approach AIEEE. Std XI was particularly unique because they took some time to get warmed up to talking freely to us. But once they did, they liked the discussion so much they very unusually used up their whole recess to talk to us. Hopefully, they absorbed the good in the advice and did not pay attention to the rest. KV was my first experience of an anarchist setup, without much rules. Going there and teaching the kids about discipline was a bit ironical.

In the previous 10 days, the only other thing of note is my teaching Std XII subject computer science to my brother and physics to a family friend. Teaching is tiring work, and I empathize with the few of my teachers who have tried to teach us but we have not let them.

Other than that, I have thoroughly wasted my time.