Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Studies.....

It seems I have left the foremost topic unsaid (unwritten lets say). With all the good intentions at heart, I and many other folks like me set out from the known to the unknown trying to learn the unknown ....with confidence unknown....did i make any sense here?
So, anyway, I arrived on campus and embarked on the perilous journey through the courses. Having taken two highly rigorous courses, it would be no surprise to know that even a non slogger like me has to rack her gray cells if she has any intention of completing her assignments on time. The assignments are not the (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V) tuple that we are so familiar with. In fact, each small exercise has a catch which has you wondering if what you finally wrote as the answer has anything plausible or accurate written in it. The lectures last for about an hour and are for about 3 hours in a week but if you think you are being let off easy, think again. I doubt if any indian professor could squeeze in so much matter in a month as these guys here do in lecture. A hyperbole i admit but just trying to make a point here.
However, if whatever i said sounded negative here, then probably you should overlook it coz, everything said and done, i am simply loving the courses here. The profs are terribly passionate about their work and are so dedicated that you end up getting equally enthusiastic about the subject and the assignments leave so many ambiguous points that you end up figuring a lot of things which i wouldn't have bothered about had i not been mandatorily given such a task.
The system here is simply fantastic and I am enjoying every single moment of it!!!!!

3 comments:

suchi banerjee said...

It is great - you have understood the technique of teaching there. It is to ignite the passion for quest of knowledge.
Once motivated you dig further & explore...

Sakharwade said...

You have started on a right note. Need to have perseverance.

Anonymous said...

Hey that is so true what you said about professors. I see it here in Europe too. However, I like to believe that there are some exceptions back home. Just that we dint see too many of those where we studied :D