115 Steps over 45 seconds and across six levels - thats how I kill my guilt on daily basis these days. Post shifting of our classrooms to the 4th floor, this formula has been a great tool when it comes to killing the guilt. Guilt, as it happens on daily basis, arises the morning after! And before it overpowers you, there you are, at sharp 0810h, climbing the floors and kicking the guilt out! And I repeat it, generally three or four times in a day and keep killing the guilt that tends to get back to me every now and then. By evening, therefore, I am free of guilt and ready for another round of indulgence. The guilt that would set in the next morning, gets handled in a similar way. One remains so grateful for such small, little mercies..... Merci!!
T-3 came to an end today, ie, as for as surviving long sessions and heavy doses of knowledge is concerned. Now is the time to perform or perish (latter being more likely this time, as far as I am concerned!) and the fun begins tomorrow.....Ni Hao! Looking back, it has been the most organised one till date, the trimester, ie. We had very few changes in the timetable (reminds me of one absent because of such a change + one because of someone sleeping over the issue!) and load remained more or less evenly distributed throughout the trimester. We (our own group) did have a presentation today too but somehow, it did not pinch. Students have small needs and once some compassion is seen on the other end, life becomes cool or as our BC faculty would like to refer to as something that is result of a positive psychology. This trimester, for the first time, also gave us a real good break during the festival of colours and herbal prasad! So, all in all, it has been a pretty fair one. If it is a sign of the things to come, we are maturing as an institute.
It is also the time to finalise our specialisation subjects. A session was organised yesterday to make us all understand the methodology and the way final year curriculum would be planned. That was a good attempt but sitting amongst my friends, I have a point to make. The choice of selection of the field(s) of specialisation has been left to us (and that is a positive step). But many of us, as I have realised over past two days, are deciding to pick up a subject mainly because another subject is not liked by us. To cite an example, many of us who hate maths (read Finance), are opting for Marketing/HR just to avoid Finance! My way of thinking is that one must opt for say Marketing or HR or whatever field NOT because of hatred for another subject BUT for liking for a particular subject. The difference may appear to be pretty subtle but it matters in the end. In such a scenario, students are looking at their weaknesses and trying to find a way around such weaknesses rather than identifying their strengths and working to further the skills. A shift in approach is, therefore, necessitated. A way to address this issue could be, and this is my personal view, that after taking in the options, faculty may like to relate the choice of every student with her/his abilities or aptitude. By now, we all know one another very well and faculty members know the best. So, in the interest of the future progression of the students as also that of image of EBS, such an exercise may be a step in the right direction. It can be further refined and fine-tuned by the experience that is available in the corridors of EBS and if found useful, such a system may be formalised for the future courses. In fact, looking back, I get a sense that had such a clause (similar to PPO clause) been there for us too, probably some difference might have been observed. But I generally prefer to use my windscreen rather than rear-view (unless use of latter is merited) and I am of the opinion that such an approach may prove to be good for everyone. It may not really mean a ceiling on the number of vacancies per field (that would be a retro-step) but people must deserve what they get!
Today, this blog completes 2500 hits and I am thankful to each one of you for being there and tolerate my musings! It has been a great journey and I hope to keep it going in future too. The very fact that instead of studying Mandarin, I am writing these lines, goes to prove as to how important is this log to me! Please do get back with your opinions and suggestions, as before!
All the Best Guys! Do well! As of now, Ni Hao!
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