random updates
1. the LGBs (small greenish insects) are back in campus. these will be a big menace for the next 2 months or so. our lives will become a living hell. god, please help us pour souls.
2. this is also the PPO season. i thought that people will be happy after getting placed in the big investment banks and other prestigious firms. but now i find most of them discussing and cribbing about their pay packages. i don't know how these people think of so many issues at the same time and not just be happy for the time being with the offer. i am sure they will find it difficult to spend the full fat-salaries that they are getting right now.
3. looks like my stars are not right these days. few days back on my way to lecture, just as i crossed a tree, a snake fell from it onto the ground. 5 seconds delay on my part and it would have landed on me instead of the ground. today on our way to city in the metro, just before the Kalighat station, there was an uproar in the front coach. soon we saw smoke coming out of that coach and people rushing towards our coach and then to the gates shouting "fire" and "bomb". the three of us tried to maintain calm and got down at the stop. contemplating that it could be because of wearing out of brakes which will delay start of metro (i won't deny that we were afraid too in case it was really a bomb), we decided to catch a taxi. the incident was an indicator of how in actual mishaps, a lot of people die simply because of the stampede caused by the commotion. thanks god for your blessings.
4. a lot of B-school competitions are happening these days. people here are very enthusiastic about these. they try to form teams with academically good folks so that they could easily win the competition. online quizzes are most common in these. the usual scene during such quizzes is that the team-members occupy 3-4 computers in neighbouring rooms. then from the central room (where 1-2 members sit filling up the answers), the members will shout the question (multiple choice most of the time) and its available options and other members will try to Google and find the best possible answer from among the options. i know for sure that not more than 5% students attempt these quizzes honestly or for that matter out of genuine interest. for others whether it's a source of easy money or a good CV point (e.g. winner of this-and-that quiz at XYZ's business festival), i don't know and nor do i participate in such events, but i do enjoy the whole scene that transpires.
5. for a change, prof. sarkar is in good mood these days while talking to us. there can be two possible reasons for this exceptional phenomenon which is worthy of entering the record books of iim calcutta, (a) he has realized that we really did a great job as statistics tutor and (b) he has nobody else to look forward to this semester. we had a long discussion on friday evening (which at time turned into a bargaining session) where he tried to coax us in agreeing to his terms and we tried all our efforts to reduce the tutorship load. finally we agreed to design more problems with the purpose of improving the quality of statistics handout (given as reading material to students) and he had promised to include our names in the future handouts. so it would be something like "this handout is designed and compiled by" and the list will include my name also (hope so for the time being). wow, sounds great to me.
6. i watched spiderman 2 again last night. this is another of those series, where the sequel has turned out to be better. tobey maguire looks adorable as peter parker aka spiderman and the beautiful kirsten dunst also looks perfectly suited for the role of mary jane watson. further, the idea of sticking with your responsibilites come what may looks very challenging to me.
2. this is also the PPO season. i thought that people will be happy after getting placed in the big investment banks and other prestigious firms. but now i find most of them discussing and cribbing about their pay packages. i don't know how these people think of so many issues at the same time and not just be happy for the time being with the offer. i am sure they will find it difficult to spend the full fat-salaries that they are getting right now.
3. looks like my stars are not right these days. few days back on my way to lecture, just as i crossed a tree, a snake fell from it onto the ground. 5 seconds delay on my part and it would have landed on me instead of the ground. today on our way to city in the metro, just before the Kalighat station, there was an uproar in the front coach. soon we saw smoke coming out of that coach and people rushing towards our coach and then to the gates shouting "fire" and "bomb". the three of us tried to maintain calm and got down at the stop. contemplating that it could be because of wearing out of brakes which will delay start of metro (i won't deny that we were afraid too in case it was really a bomb), we decided to catch a taxi. the incident was an indicator of how in actual mishaps, a lot of people die simply because of the stampede caused by the commotion. thanks god for your blessings.
4. a lot of B-school competitions are happening these days. people here are very enthusiastic about these. they try to form teams with academically good folks so that they could easily win the competition. online quizzes are most common in these. the usual scene during such quizzes is that the team-members occupy 3-4 computers in neighbouring rooms. then from the central room (where 1-2 members sit filling up the answers), the members will shout the question (multiple choice most of the time) and its available options and other members will try to Google and find the best possible answer from among the options. i know for sure that not more than 5% students attempt these quizzes honestly or for that matter out of genuine interest. for others whether it's a source of easy money or a good CV point (e.g. winner of this-and-that quiz at XYZ's business festival), i don't know and nor do i participate in such events, but i do enjoy the whole scene that transpires.
5. for a change, prof. sarkar is in good mood these days while talking to us. there can be two possible reasons for this exceptional phenomenon which is worthy of entering the record books of iim calcutta, (a) he has realized that we really did a great job as statistics tutor and (b) he has nobody else to look forward to this semester. we had a long discussion on friday evening (which at time turned into a bargaining session) where he tried to coax us in agreeing to his terms and we tried all our efforts to reduce the tutorship load. finally we agreed to design more problems with the purpose of improving the quality of statistics handout (given as reading material to students) and he had promised to include our names in the future handouts. so it would be something like "this handout is designed and compiled by" and the list will include my name also (hope so for the time being). wow, sounds great to me.
6. i watched spiderman 2 again last night. this is another of those series, where the sequel has turned out to be better. tobey maguire looks adorable as peter parker aka spiderman and the beautiful kirsten dunst also looks perfectly suited for the role of mary jane watson. further, the idea of sticking with your responsibilites come what may looks very challenging to me.
posted by himanshu agrawal | 11:34 AM
1 Comments:
good yaar.. meri life mein to kuch bhi nahi ho raha :-(
Chamad singh kahan marr gaya?
Post a Comment
<< Home