After a long time ... but here it goes!
Quizzes ... they were like the constant sword hanging on us from the day we entered IIM L. They were the weapons in the hands of each professor to ensure that we were spending our precious nights studying .. not sleeping. Alas ! If only they knew that their happiness will last only for the first two or three terms (obviously now , I am not speaking about myself .. for me it lasted till the very last quiz we had .. which was in MIR - Managing Industrial Relations. Thats another story in itself!)
As it turned out to be .. our batch was called the ghissu batch by our seniors. The fault as anyone might have guess lay only with their batch. These guys (our seniors) had pissed off some of the profs so much that the profs had been forced to give dhakas and fuckas in wholesale. As a result a total of some 50-60 students were thrown out of their batch after second term as they had flunked! As they say .. no one can hide the truth ... the news travelled and it travelled fast. Even on our fresher party in Delhi (remember Ambassador Shounak?) people were asking all sorts of questions which they were not so eager to answer. Obviously .. our batch was scared as hell ... From day one .. each and every student started mugging up ... anytime in the night you go to library ... you could be sure to find it fully occupied .. the profs also responded favourably to our batch .. we soon came to be known as the best batch in years ....and this troubled our seniors to no extent.
As a batch, I would say our relations with our senior batch were rather not so good. I remember once having a discussion with Murgi (he was a hostel inmate and indeed a nice person to know who was unfortunate of repeating his first year at IIML) about relations with seniors ... Now his opinion was that our relations with seniors were excellent thanks to those 40 odd guys who had come back to repeat first year ... he said that they used to hate their seniors ... Pity i could not tell him we too :) ... as few of his best friends were from the senior batch and i am sure they would be anyday .....
There were more stories of friction between our batch and the seniors ... let me put down one here ... Suddenly one day we get a mail from senior batch that our batch is not really helping in maintaining cleanliness in the campus .. and that we leave cups lying on tables at nescafe shop ... and generally litter around ... now this speaks for itsef (I want comments from you Manish on this)
Had started writing about quizzes ... but it turned out to be something else only ... all for good .. more about quizzes and exams next time :)
1 comment:
u never know mail by seniors could have been a conspiracy hatched by murgi ....... did murgi watch 2 many K serials cud have easily liftd some ideas frm there
and as far as cleanliness goes i wud really appreciate if u could repeat wat i said abt u and iim junta in reponse 2 this comment or in nxt post
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