Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Height of Inspiration

College started at last! And there came an end to our seemingly never ending holidays. Now that classes have started in full swing, I did find it difficult to get back to the serious listening mindset. (in other words the tactical, repeated nodding of the head, irrespective of whether the teacher is making sense or not) My college campus is pretty good. Much better compared to Jain college anyways. The canteen is nice and the cup noodles bloody expensive. Other than that, this actually seems like a good place to spend 4 years.

Mr. N.R.Narayana Murthy was the chief guest for the inauguration function. It sounded as though BMS college had borrowed the old speakers from our very own railway station. The sound quality was horrible and I was forced to lip-read in order to understand what they were all saying. This was the only bummer in an otherwise pretty good program It seems Mr.Murthy had 100% attendance in his Engineering college!

The first two days in college were boring. We were introduced to our respective departments, visited the library and the sports dept. We had some Self motivational classes which were intended to inspire and motivate us.

The lady who talked seemed to be teaching us english rather than motivating us. She finally put across a few motivational points and one of them was asking all of us to smile at each other.

After enduring all that for a couple of hours, I say a classmate of mine (dunno the name though) grinning maniacally at me from across the parking lot. It was a very weird experience.
A bit of advice to all the "easily-motivated"... Please think a little before you try and implement all that people ask us to do.

Ciao

2 comments:

  1. well, we had an english class, which turned out to be one of those 'motivation' classes. It turned out to be so stupid that even an 8 year old would feel stupid doing the things she asked us to do(mainly smile at each other)

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  2. Smiling at each other is a good thing to do. But people should try and make an effort to actually get the right smile. It shouldn't look like youy are trying to hit on someone. That is the kind of smile I got. Creeped me out to say the least.

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