AH!!!! Finally exams are over! For the first time since I started blogging, I didn't feel like posting anything today. Even though this was the ideal time for posting something and I have a lot to say this time, after all it's about all the events of the week, actually 2 weeks. Between this time I got nearly 660 views on my blog, all thanks to my dear room mate and some of my friends who actually read this blog.
When the last time I posted I asked my friends to see this blog and among those friends whom I messaged was my MOM, and in that I had written about my girlfriend and what kind of shit happens in the hostels. When she called me, she asked 'Is the part about your girlfriend true?', and my reply was obviously the same as would've been any Indian guy's reply 'Are nai mummy wo to bas mazak me likha tha' Even though I think that she's already figured it out. Well no worries even if she has, I think she's cool with it or
else I would've gotten scolded for it. And about the 660 views on my blog was all thanks to my dear friend and room mate. Well in exchange for the views I had to make him the admin of my Facebook Page. That's a price I had to pay. But it actually wasn't any harm, making him the admin, as long as he can get me some likes.
Now the interesting things I've got to hear from my friends, well not actually hear but I've drawn an inference from what I hear about them liking my posts, and what they liked the most was the part about my relationship. I guess everyone likes to hear about somebody's relationship, well mine was a really interesting one to hear about. It was like an Indian romance movie, but of course with a 'Not So Happy Ending'. And there I am doing it again, discussing my relationship, well at least it keeps people interested in reading.
So exams, it's the worst thing that happens in a student's life, it's like you have to prove your worth every time and that too 6 times a year. It's frustrating to do something that you don't like and it's not like you have a choice, they don,t force you to give exams but it's necessary and that's what's makes us go 'Awww shit, it's exam time!' But exams really do teach us some things. One of them is patience, because during exams you need a lot of patience, and I mean a butt load of patience. To prepare for the exams and then write so much and then wait for the result and hearing the teacher babble about how badly we performed in the exam, without getting frustrated, it takes a lot of patience. And then there are many other things that exams teach you. The week before exams is the worst ever, you have to prepare for the unpredictable and the unavoidable, and that's a tough job. But for me it's the most fun because when your mind is full of all the bookish stuff only then the real fun starts, the real 'Qutiyapa'. We start saying bull shit and then make fun of each other and then there is all that laughter, pointless and meaningless laughter, maybe it is because we know we're screwed and we can't do anything about it now. So the best way to get over your frustration in the week before the exam is pointless laughing. You might think I'm crazy, well some people believe that I'm crazy and then they expect me to give an answer like 'I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested', well I'm not crazy but my mother didn't have me tested, yeah, whatever, but this shit really works, you should try it. How can I forget the late night trips to 'Fauji da Dhaba' When it's 3 a.m. and you are just sick of looking at the book, you borrow someone's scooter, because bike is a little out of budget for hostlers, get your friends and then make that trip to the Dhaba, actually it's not the food that's worth it, it's the trip. It's just like some one said "Sometime's the satisfaction isn't in the destination, it's the travelling that makes it worth the while"
Then when this preparation week is the big 'fat ke haath me aane wala day' As the days pass, the more you feel like not studying. It's the day when it really comes down to the wire. Now when I'm writing the exam I look at the faces of my other friends and what I see is some troubled people or as we say in hindi 'Sataye hue log' and frankly I am one of them, but then that's the fun part in engineering. You are tortured for 4 years to be included into the most common yet the most exclusive and rare and intelligent race of humans alive "ENGINEERS". It's just like I said before, there is little fun when you become an Engineer but the 4 years of college is the thing that motivates most of the youth in this country to take up this stream. Now after the test is over there are kinds of people that laugh at others who studied hard and the paper was, let's say beyond our wildest dreams, and the there are the people who laugh because they knew that they were goig to get screwed and they didn't and finally there are people like me, no matter how tough or how easy the paper is, my only respone when someone asks me 'Paper kaisa hua?', is 'Theek hua'. It doesn't matter how hard or easy the paper is, my reply remains constant and yes, my GPA too.
And then finally the happiest moment in any student's life, EXAMS OVER! It's the best feeling but with it what comes, is most of us don't realize is the boredum that follows. Some of the people are the traveller types and they don't have that boredum part in their lives, but for most of us it's all about watching movies at home and sleeping. This time when the semester ends I'm going to try to change some things in my life, like for a start I'm planning a reunion, writing a book, planning a trip and preparing for an ethical hacking exam. Yeah I guess that is enough adventure for one semester. I've planned to do almost everything, let's see how much of it I can accomplish. This proves that exam time can really mess up your mind, pretty bad. I don't believe that I can accomplish all this but all this is definitely worth a try.
No matter how much we despise exams they make and shape us, test us under pressure and how well we can perform under pressure, they are actually preparing us for the real world out there and we should respect that fact. I know my previous statements are contradictory to these ones but we just can't disprove the fact that they play a very important role in our education system. Well now to end it with quote(self made), it's not even a quote actually.
When the last time I posted I asked my friends to see this blog and among those friends whom I messaged was my MOM, and in that I had written about my girlfriend and what kind of shit happens in the hostels. When she called me, she asked 'Is the part about your girlfriend true?', and my reply was obviously the same as would've been any Indian guy's reply 'Are nai mummy wo to bas mazak me likha tha' Even though I think that she's already figured it out. Well no worries even if she has, I think she's cool with it or
else I would've gotten scolded for it. And about the 660 views on my blog was all thanks to my dear friend and room mate. Well in exchange for the views I had to make him the admin of my Facebook Page. That's a price I had to pay. But it actually wasn't any harm, making him the admin, as long as he can get me some likes.
Now the interesting things I've got to hear from my friends, well not actually hear but I've drawn an inference from what I hear about them liking my posts, and what they liked the most was the part about my relationship. I guess everyone likes to hear about somebody's relationship, well mine was a really interesting one to hear about. It was like an Indian romance movie, but of course with a 'Not So Happy Ending'. And there I am doing it again, discussing my relationship, well at least it keeps people interested in reading.
So exams, it's the worst thing that happens in a student's life, it's like you have to prove your worth every time and that too 6 times a year. It's frustrating to do something that you don't like and it's not like you have a choice, they don,t force you to give exams but it's necessary and that's what's makes us go 'Awww shit, it's exam time!' But exams really do teach us some things. One of them is patience, because during exams you need a lot of patience, and I mean a butt load of patience. To prepare for the exams and then write so much and then wait for the result and hearing the teacher babble about how badly we performed in the exam, without getting frustrated, it takes a lot of patience. And then there are many other things that exams teach you. The week before exams is the worst ever, you have to prepare for the unpredictable and the unavoidable, and that's a tough job. But for me it's the most fun because when your mind is full of all the bookish stuff only then the real fun starts, the real 'Qutiyapa'. We start saying bull shit and then make fun of each other and then there is all that laughter, pointless and meaningless laughter, maybe it is because we know we're screwed and we can't do anything about it now. So the best way to get over your frustration in the week before the exam is pointless laughing. You might think I'm crazy, well some people believe that I'm crazy and then they expect me to give an answer like 'I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested', well I'm not crazy but my mother didn't have me tested, yeah, whatever, but this shit really works, you should try it. How can I forget the late night trips to 'Fauji da Dhaba' When it's 3 a.m. and you are just sick of looking at the book, you borrow someone's scooter, because bike is a little out of budget for hostlers, get your friends and then make that trip to the Dhaba, actually it's not the food that's worth it, it's the trip. It's just like some one said "Sometime's the satisfaction isn't in the destination, it's the travelling that makes it worth the while"
Then when this preparation week is the big 'fat ke haath me aane wala day' As the days pass, the more you feel like not studying. It's the day when it really comes down to the wire. Now when I'm writing the exam I look at the faces of my other friends and what I see is some troubled people or as we say in hindi 'Sataye hue log' and frankly I am one of them, but then that's the fun part in engineering. You are tortured for 4 years to be included into the most common yet the most exclusive and rare and intelligent race of humans alive "ENGINEERS". It's just like I said before, there is little fun when you become an Engineer but the 4 years of college is the thing that motivates most of the youth in this country to take up this stream. Now after the test is over there are kinds of people that laugh at others who studied hard and the paper was, let's say beyond our wildest dreams, and the there are the people who laugh because they knew that they were goig to get screwed and they didn't and finally there are people like me, no matter how tough or how easy the paper is, my only respone when someone asks me 'Paper kaisa hua?', is 'Theek hua'. It doesn't matter how hard or easy the paper is, my reply remains constant and yes, my GPA too.
And then finally the happiest moment in any student's life, EXAMS OVER! It's the best feeling but with it what comes, is most of us don't realize is the boredum that follows. Some of the people are the traveller types and they don't have that boredum part in their lives, but for most of us it's all about watching movies at home and sleeping. This time when the semester ends I'm going to try to change some things in my life, like for a start I'm planning a reunion, writing a book, planning a trip and preparing for an ethical hacking exam. Yeah I guess that is enough adventure for one semester. I've planned to do almost everything, let's see how much of it I can accomplish. This proves that exam time can really mess up your mind, pretty bad. I don't believe that I can accomplish all this but all this is definitely worth a try.
No matter how much we despise exams they make and shape us, test us under pressure and how well we can perform under pressure, they are actually preparing us for the real world out there and we should respect that fact. I know my previous statements are contradictory to these ones but we just can't disprove the fact that they play a very important role in our education system. Well now to end it with quote(self made), it's not even a quote actually.
"NO MATTER HOW DISPLEASING THE IDEA OF EXAMS MIGHT BE, IN THE END IT IS ALL WORTH IT"
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