BENCHGIRIIII.........@IMS.....!!!!!!!

Over one and half years’ of my LIFE@IMS, one of the things that annoyed me the most is students’ obsession with the marks. Let alone everything, they are happy to secure marks which are paradoxical with their basic knowledge of that subject.

A finance student not knowing the meaning of market capitalization is a grim reminder of a battle between marks and knowledge where if one gets the former, he/she considers himself/herself to be equipped with every intricacies of that subject.

Ironically, a majority of students’ love the faculty who distributes marks in largess while hates’ the one who imposes strictness on them to make them ready for the corporate world. They take their self-respect and uncalled ego in between to market them negatively, just because that faculty is stingy when it comes to marking.

Now, as my annoyance faded away by the time since I presumed their obsession with the marks to be an attitude possessed by a “school-going” kid, another striking incident prompted me to laugh and stand in ovation.

As I entered into the classroom for greeting him/her a formal good morning on that Monday morning a few days back, I saw students’ including him/her involved in writing down important points of an answer on bench with a sharpened pencil. That was an internal day and as it was about to begin, he/she was assiduously penciling down the minutes of an answer.

Considering the stature he/she possessed, it was not expected of him/her to be indulged in that trivial act, but since everybody was doing it, he/she followed the footsteps’ of his/her mates. I astonishingly asked:

“What are you doing? Are you writing down on bench?”

He/she looked after me, half busy in noting down the points and nodded in agreement. Sitting on the chair, I started clapping on his/her act and in a moment, stood in ovation for the methods of making it to the top chart of the class. 

Clapping resonantly, standing in ovation, I curtly replied:

“ My 15 is much better than your 20……….” He/she was exasperated, wanted to kill me for the reality that he/she faced but couldn’t do that because the ball was in my court.

Well, to be very candid and not having any personalized wish to expose people around me, the method used was an injustice to the course we are in. From our younger days, cheating is inevitable but to use methods like this tells the standard of individuals and their values.

Why can’t he/she remain happy with a bit of less marks and not use tricks which was not supposed from him/her. Why they applaud movies like 3 Idiots and then acts opposite to the underlying message given by the movie? 

Ppphhhheeewwwwwww………can’t have an answer on their behalf because even they don’t stand by their integrity and moral values.

 NaMo has rightly said “Mind is not the problem, mindset is……..!!!!!!!!!”

(P.S: Proclaiming firmly that try to grab the message rather than asking me about the individual i mentioned above. I don't have any wish to be a WikiLeaks correspondent......)