In my college life, the only thing i have learnt till now is the following-
Friends can get you marks, but marks can not get you friends.
Friends can get you marks in the following ways-
1) DIRECTLY
You don't know one answer in the exam. You ask your nearby friend. He tells you the answer.
2) INDIRECTLY
a)On the night of the exam, you can't understand one topic. You go to your friends, who make you understand the topic.
b)Your friends tell you about important/expected questions/topics for the exam. They also brief you about which topic is easy and which topic will take time. So, you can make a better decision on 'when' and 'where' to start.
On the other hand, if you don't have friends, the going can get tough. In the exam, you would have no one to turn to, if you are stuck on a question. If you can't understand a topic, then you would have to run to the teacher's office and wait for him to get into the mood to expolain that topic to you. Also without friends, you would have no chance of knowing a commonly known leaked question.
Agreed that marks can get you jobs easily, but what's the use of that job if you would have to celebrate that night's drink in your singlet, alone? In colleges like ours, almost everybody gets placed. So, a higher pointer does not guarantee a higher pay package..
When the times are tough and you feel like crying, you will cry on the shoulders of your friends, not on the face of your A-studded marksheet!
After all, in life, it is the friends who get the work done, NOT marks. eg. my trainings were all arranged by my dad's college friends. Though i regret that my friends' training couldn't be arranged with mine, the point is that had my dad not made friends in his college-time, i would be training-less! (Well my dad's an ideal case as he's got both marks and friends!)
Friends, remember that even in the newly induced Relative Grading System(RGS), our batchmates are not our enemies. They are not even our competitors. They are all our friends-friends only who can save our boat from sinking in the shitty sea of RGS.
So people, don't run after marks. Run after(and for) friends!!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
The unprecented Race !
dear blog
today, i was a part of a peculiar, unprecedented race! It was a race in which everybody had willingly participated, but no one wanted to win.
it was a race where there was no finish line, no time limit. it was a race in which the one who lost would be the happiest person on the earth. there was indeed a victory in losing, more so in seeing the other person win!
in the race, everybody tried to move the slowest. for this, they employed various techniques. one such technique was to convince the judges that the other person was running faster! another one was simply to threaten the judges to altogther not participate in the run than to be the winner. the judges desperately wanted to see a winner. when they saw each runner one by one passing by them and still not ready to lead the pack, the chief jury member could be seen banging his head in frustation. what a weird race it was!
here, the 'fastest runner off the field' was not convinced enough that he can lead the other runners. the more the jury tried to convince him, the more distant he projected himself to be from the goal.
another candidate, who had sacrificed his precious prime time to be in the race, too was reluctant to emerge as the winner. he too wanted only to participate and not to win!
however, there were two 'front-runners'. they certainly had an edge over the others in the minds of the jury.but, it was a race where each of the 'front-runners' had so much respect for the other that he could not get past the other. each wanted to see the other as the winner.
even after a long time, the judges were in a strange dilema. the results were fuzzy. all were ready to be equal but not above someone else.
it was truly an utopian dream...
today, i was a part of a peculiar, unprecedented race! It was a race in which everybody had willingly participated, but no one wanted to win.
it was a race where there was no finish line, no time limit. it was a race in which the one who lost would be the happiest person on the earth. there was indeed a victory in losing, more so in seeing the other person win!
in the race, everybody tried to move the slowest. for this, they employed various techniques. one such technique was to convince the judges that the other person was running faster! another one was simply to threaten the judges to altogther not participate in the run than to be the winner. the judges desperately wanted to see a winner. when they saw each runner one by one passing by them and still not ready to lead the pack, the chief jury member could be seen banging his head in frustation. what a weird race it was!
here, the 'fastest runner off the field' was not convinced enough that he can lead the other runners. the more the jury tried to convince him, the more distant he projected himself to be from the goal.
another candidate, who had sacrificed his precious prime time to be in the race, too was reluctant to emerge as the winner. he too wanted only to participate and not to win!
however, there were two 'front-runners'. they certainly had an edge over the others in the minds of the jury.but, it was a race where each of the 'front-runners' had so much respect for the other that he could not get past the other. each wanted to see the other as the winner.
even after a long time, the judges were in a strange dilema. the results were fuzzy. all were ready to be equal but not above someone else.
it was truly an utopian dream...
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