My Journey to the 6 Pointers Club (Part -II)
As I start worrying about what might happen next ,I heard a Knock maybe a Knock Knock !!!
I answer the door. I was expecting some miracle to happen but the CLEANTECH guys who were responsible for housekeeping of my hostel were at my doorstep. I mumbled something and drove them away. The IIT influence is pretty cool!, even the housekeeping guyz weren't spared, CLEANTECH housekeeping services was the name of the service provider, I never could understand why the word TECH was added , at first I honestly mistook it for a Software startup or maybe a New course that was floated in IIT ( u never know what courses are in vogue)!! Sorry I am digressing , so lets get back to my problem.
The first Term Grades were out.... I Stood in total disbelief that I had secured a BB in Financial Accounting and with the same disbelief because of a DD in Operations Planning , remember the prof whose quizzes were totally unpredictable and who could successfully deceive me , ( yepp : the man with a deceptive smile , Yes he succeeded yet again in screwing me in the end term as well), he had ruined my happiness.
The only thing to cheer about , somehow I had managed the HR subjects well. As I start thinking about a good strategy or for that matter any strategy to bail me out of this situation , I heard a sweet voice very much pained by the grief of securing a DD in Microeconomics ( No its not me again, Gimme a break )
Ladies & Gentleman : Kaustav Bandopadhyay ( Name not changed, for Strategic Reasons)
The Gentle Giant as he is called now, I am not sure about his Gentleness and am not the right person to comment on it either, but sure enough had become a Giant at the end of the Course. I call this Man as an epitome of True Value Addition at IIT's School of Business.He had gained 40kgs in two years ( He did survive to be called "Survival of the Fattest")
Then :
He was like any other 25 year old , roughly 5'9" , weighing about 60 odd kgs , wore spectacles and ambled across with a stance which very few could easily imitate. An Instrumentation Engineer from Bangalore ,but originally hailing from Kolkata , had a penchant for novels and dwelled in his own world. His verbal communication was flawless. That's all I could figure out in our first meeting.
Ofcourse He had topped the Entrance Exam ! But I would not dwell on that topic for long as It would hurt my Ego.
Did I mention his abilities to successfully land his cycle in a pile of ...... , I guess he is the only chap who learnt cycling after he came to the campus. On a couple of Occasions I did take some mighty risk in pillion riding with him and vice versa too.
What he had to say about Macroeconomics & HR (Inhuman Resources)
"Now Macroeconomics’ was one subject I was destined to crash in. I mean, its like those old forebodings u have and u know what’s going to happen but can’t do a thing to avert the disaster ..Macro was a bit like that only much worse. The classes were much worse than the subject could ever be.. however, latest I heard the Prof. is off tormenting some souls in Spain. whatever those Spaniards did, they never deserved this !
Anyway, the next term was again more of HR , the amount of buttering up one had to do to him in the next term, could have provided the daily dose of butter to the nation for the next year or so. But it had come down to be “survival of the PSYCHOPHANTS” and I had to stick it out…
Not that it was any easy mind u, u could never get that guy alone to yourself for a few minutes. .. He was always getting the old oil from the guys in the class, but it reached a flashing point when even the 8 and 9 pointers began their work on him." (Source : KB)
Lets Focus on the Exams !
Ok , so I share his misery and we walk all the way back to the hostel. We found happiness in each others miseries (In fact I started feeling a lot better after finding his state a lot worse than mine).( I should be stoned ..). But who cares , first term is all about survival !!!
So as we reach our respective rooms , I told Kaustav that our only chance is to "Study and Survive" Kaustav wasn't entirely convinced with the concept. But he partially agreed and he reiterated the "C2D ( Co-operate to dominate)" concept. I always used to wonder , what on earth made him think that we could dominate , not altleast by the sheer size or for that matter none of us was that good enough to single handedly take on with other study groups which had at least a minimum of 5 or 6 or in some cases 2 or 3 but rather very smart individuals. I had no idea , how this system might work. I had my own doubts , we started group studies , but none of those were effective ,because it eventually ended up in talks about our good old days and we also ended up getting drunk & nostalgic.
We discussed about how we will explore the entire campus , play all day long , read all the novels , watch all the movies , booze all day long , If , If only we were to be 8 or 9 pointers.
But destiny had scripted our fate. Only the Execution was left to us.
We had to secure good grades in the second term , what are our chances ....
As the results stand : I had an excess of 1 grade and Kaustav had just broke even . Any one of us loses a grade or two , the effects would be catastrophic.
we could see the entire scenario changing in the second term , people who were friends, had turned into enemies, and every possible combination of groups were formed to secure an edge over others.( Did I mention about Relative Grading , Its a simple concept , As one of my friend used to say, If u could succesfully lock all your classmates in the dorm and you are the only one attending the exam , then you are the topper) I guess we had given it a serious thought every once in a while , but could not execute it due to avoidable circumstances.
So the prep for Second Term begins, I am back to books , so is Kaustav and one Hell of a journey begins.
to continue (again) ....
I answer the door. I was expecting some miracle to happen but the CLEANTECH guys who were responsible for housekeeping of my hostel were at my doorstep. I mumbled something and drove them away. The IIT influence is pretty cool!, even the housekeeping guyz weren't spared, CLEANTECH housekeeping services was the name of the service provider, I never could understand why the word TECH was added , at first I honestly mistook it for a Software startup or maybe a New course that was floated in IIT ( u never know what courses are in vogue)!! Sorry I am digressing , so lets get back to my problem.
The first Term Grades were out.... I Stood in total disbelief that I had secured a BB in Financial Accounting and with the same disbelief because of a DD in Operations Planning , remember the prof whose quizzes were totally unpredictable and who could successfully deceive me , ( yepp : the man with a deceptive smile , Yes he succeeded yet again in screwing me in the end term as well), he had ruined my happiness.
The only thing to cheer about , somehow I had managed the HR subjects well. As I start thinking about a good strategy or for that matter any strategy to bail me out of this situation , I heard a sweet voice very much pained by the grief of securing a DD in Microeconomics ( No its not me again, Gimme a break )
Ladies & Gentleman : Kaustav Bandopadhyay ( Name not changed, for Strategic Reasons)
The Gentle Giant as he is called now, I am not sure about his Gentleness and am not the right person to comment on it either, but sure enough had become a Giant at the end of the Course. I call this Man as an epitome of True Value Addition at IIT's School of Business.He had gained 40kgs in two years ( He did survive to be called "Survival of the Fattest")
Then :
He was like any other 25 year old , roughly 5'9" , weighing about 60 odd kgs , wore spectacles and ambled across with a stance which very few could easily imitate. An Instrumentation Engineer from Bangalore ,but originally hailing from Kolkata , had a penchant for novels and dwelled in his own world. His verbal communication was flawless. That's all I could figure out in our first meeting.
Ofcourse He had topped the Entrance Exam ! But I would not dwell on that topic for long as It would hurt my Ego.
Did I mention his abilities to successfully land his cycle in a pile of ...... , I guess he is the only chap who learnt cycling after he came to the campus. On a couple of Occasions I did take some mighty risk in pillion riding with him and vice versa too.
What he had to say about Macroeconomics & HR (Inhuman Resources)
"Now Macroeconomics’ was one subject I was destined to crash in. I mean, its like those old forebodings u have and u know what’s going to happen but can’t do a thing to avert the disaster ..Macro was a bit like that only much worse. The classes were much worse than the subject could ever be.. however, latest I heard the Prof. is off tormenting some souls in Spain. whatever those Spaniards did, they never deserved this !
Anyway, the next term was again more of HR , the amount of buttering up one had to do to him in the next term, could have provided the daily dose of butter to the nation for the next year or so. But it had come down to be “survival of the PSYCHOPHANTS” and I had to stick it out…
Not that it was any easy mind u, u could never get that guy alone to yourself for a few minutes. .. He was always getting the old oil from the guys in the class, but it reached a flashing point when even the 8 and 9 pointers began their work on him." (Source : KB)
Lets Focus on the Exams !
Ok , so I share his misery and we walk all the way back to the hostel. We found happiness in each others miseries (In fact I started feeling a lot better after finding his state a lot worse than mine).( I should be stoned ..). But who cares , first term is all about survival !!!
So as we reach our respective rooms , I told Kaustav that our only chance is to "Study and Survive" Kaustav wasn't entirely convinced with the concept. But he partially agreed and he reiterated the "C2D ( Co-operate to dominate)" concept. I always used to wonder , what on earth made him think that we could dominate , not altleast by the sheer size or for that matter none of us was that good enough to single handedly take on with other study groups which had at least a minimum of 5 or 6 or in some cases 2 or 3 but rather very smart individuals. I had no idea , how this system might work. I had my own doubts , we started group studies , but none of those were effective ,because it eventually ended up in talks about our good old days and we also ended up getting drunk & nostalgic.
We discussed about how we will explore the entire campus , play all day long , read all the novels , watch all the movies , booze all day long , If , If only we were to be 8 or 9 pointers.
But destiny had scripted our fate. Only the Execution was left to us.
We had to secure good grades in the second term , what are our chances ....
As the results stand : I had an excess of 1 grade and Kaustav had just broke even . Any one of us loses a grade or two , the effects would be catastrophic.
we could see the entire scenario changing in the second term , people who were friends, had turned into enemies, and every possible combination of groups were formed to secure an edge over others.( Did I mention about Relative Grading , Its a simple concept , As one of my friend used to say, If u could succesfully lock all your classmates in the dorm and you are the only one attending the exam , then you are the topper) I guess we had given it a serious thought every once in a while , but could not execute it due to avoidable circumstances.
So the prep for Second Term begins, I am back to books , so is Kaustav and one Hell of a journey begins.
to continue (again) ....
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