A University,which was in news for breeding a rare species of termites,with a nutritious diet of Under graduate answer papers,suddenly decided to mend it's ways.The axe fell on a batch of unsuspecting PG students enjoying the final semester in college.The prescribed 90 days for a semester,cut short to 75 and the dates announced for the final exams.A certain group of dreamy-eyed arts students who did their "Doctor Zhivago" in movie form,watched "Throne of Blood" with Chinese subtitles for Film Studies,slept through "Pedagogy of The Oppressed",and listened to"Chicken Soup with Barley" with a growling stomach(because the professor droned on past the lunch bell),found themselves with hardly three weeks for a recap.Then began a flurry of xerox copy sessions. Notes,prints,scraps,manuscripts,anything that came their way,now lie in neat piles on study tables,hot from the xerox machine.Some got carried away in the frenzy and ended up with two copies of the same text !
The study leave kicks off with the ceremonial preparation of the Time Table which makes things look like a piece of cake.Since most of the day goes by in deciding what to study,most of the action takes place at night.They soon realize that Kafka needs atleast two days to sink in.The time table already in disarray.Their sleep haunted by nightmares varying from turning up late without the hall ticket to mixing up the serial numbers.
Ahead are days of umpteen swigs of black coffee,frantic phone calls,and litanies of "Lord of the Lazy bones,Study (atleast) for us!" if you are caught lazing around(harmless but unsettling).
Hark ! I hear one!
In view of the decisive exams it's restricted creative activities(except, in the answer sheets) this month.Catch up with all of you soon!
15 comments:
Wish I had not read this post :( Bought back too many memories...of 4567 Book Reviews I had to do in two months, because I was too busy Interning and forgot all about submissions :((
Any ways you do well! Best of luck!! :)
LOL!
Just flooded me with the memories of the torture I had to go through barely a month ago!
What would we do if the Xerox machine was not invented?
Good Luck gal!
he..he..he..what about prayers for postponement of the exams? Offering candles to Edappally Punyalan and Unniyappam for Edappally Ganapathy helps. Try.
hey the post is too gud....u hav portrayed our situation too well....the creative sparks on the eve of the xam!!!!
Hope there wil b more posts before 15th....!!
mm..lot of memories coming up..i thought literature students would be more studious...hehehe..
I remember the semester end times, when we collected the syllabus in the first place and then get the xerox of all previous exams..since my parents were not at home during my college days, it would turn out into a war camp of sorts..It was fun because we would be like 10-15 guys and a collective despair of knowing zilch about the exam was infact soothing!! Basically the tension was diverted by group hijacking to nearby restaurants and end up playing cards..
Neways good luck for the exams..Am sure you would have a question from "Shelley's poems"..thats the only things I know about literature from my aunt who is a retired english professor!!;-D
@silverine
Ooh that was bad...but u were industrious all the time...that makes the difference...Thank u :)
@jj
True...long live the wonder machine.My mum tells me of her college days when they all meticulously copied notes.
@santosh
That's an idea too but it's to better get over the 'pain' as soon as possible.Long study leaves can be maddening.
@merin
Thanks buddy...hope so too.Expect similar sparks from u too.
@mathew
Oh yes there are a studious lot...not me,always the one to burn the midnight lamp...Guys do have enjoyable combined study sessions... and Shelley over in second semester:)
wow...brought back a lot of almost forgotten memories...of searching for textbooks and realizing that the money given for that was drowned in beer, rushing on exam eves to the homes and hostels of girls, getting their hard-prepared notes and photocopying, and then studying through the night ignoring frantic calls from friends for combined study bcoz it was a monstrous waste of time when there was hardly any time left!
good one!
I used to pray with question paper touching my forehead , before reading anything in it. Watch out for the confusion about who said what at which point of time.
Try recollecting stuff on the course of frantic mugup.
@jiby
Girls are lifesavers everywhere...:)...sometimes those calls give u confidence coz u might know everything the distraught soul at the other end doesn't.
@george
"I used to pray with question paper touching my forehead , before reading anything in it"...
They bless pens at churches before board exams...to give that Divine touch,i guess..."Than paathi daivam paathi"...:)
my hearty condolences..nice blog!
Hey nice post and All the best for your exams :)
@ursjina & deepti
Thank you :)
your blog wonderfully lit up a silver line around my dark cloud.
:). Those Xerox machines at the Zamzam bakery will tell you umpteen stories like these if this is the same university and college where I studied :).Engineers are at their creative best just before and during exams :D. You have captured the situation too well :P.All the Best for your Exams .
@misty miss
My pleasure....:)
@nariyal chutney
I don't know about that but guess it's a universal phenomena in universities in Kerala...Thank u!
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