Aint no swot!

""There's the tension and there’s the fear,

The panic, the worry, the untold fear,

The clock is ticking, it’s almost time…

I’ll surely flunk this exam of mine!!!"

But what am I doing? I am writing. What am I not doing? I am not solving the problem.

To be honest, the ordeal began some 3 months ago (Three months is such a convenient duration…fits both work & Trimesters in college) I had a problem; I had a solution in mind. Two months later, today came. And, I have the problem, I have the solution.

Once upon a time, I was a bright student! I used to spend reasonable hours studying! So what if they were not course books that I read? At least I had an objective…3-4 novels a week was good enough. After all I would have anyways forgotten whatever I did study beforehand. Of course…otherwise wud I not remember what I studied for my smaller unit tests when I went to write my finals? Sometime in those days, a unique theory entered my mind…that all chapters should be put to music! :D No one forgets songs completely; I don’t! But then, as one of my tiny friends aptly put it, philosophers who are broke cannot sell their philosophy…so the mug up that of others for survival (in exams)

School education is a unique experience! The bliss however is tarnished & marred by the unkindly lashes of expectations! Expectations to do well in exams, maintain a high score if already achieved, attain the cut off score to get into a univ of choice, & personal ambitions. The evils of competition & comparison also pop their meddling heads. Alas, children aren’t selfless. Another unique phenomenon is that by the time one is past an exam (even the one which he/she barely managed to pass) the exam looks so crazily simple. I for instance never knew that the sentences I used to read in standard II would become paragraphs in IIIrd, Chapters in IVth & subjects in VIIIth. (YES, I browsed through my univ scores a while back & wondered why I dint get an A+ in everything… :| :|) There was a thing we read about the Peter Principle…or was it Paul? Anyways, it said, everyone rises to their level of incompetence! The first time I read it, I identified with it!!! :D I knew I was there! But then, college selections happened. So I told myself maybe I was there now & not then when I thought previously I was…Alas, then happened placements, & finally 6 months into the job I think I am “there” now ! It’s nice to be lazy actually…even if u flunk or get a bad grade…you can argue you aren’t dumb, I dint study & still I scored better than X % of the dweebs&swot Inc.  :) :) :)!!!

I am too lazy to complete this now…I am…ahem…BUSY…!