After two posts about examinations, here comes one about post-examinations.
Examinations bring forth "toppers". These sect of people are unique. There seem to be many rumors about these people, most of which people think, are true. But are they really true? Let's see.
"They cannot solve real world problems."
Does that mean they can easily derive the equations for a double pendulum exhibiting chaotic behavior but do not know that a pendulum clock works by keying it?
"They know formulae but don't know where to use them."
Won't they know to use Newton's Third law when somebody slaps them?
"They memorize everything and have no creative answers for anything."
Even to the "What is the answer to Life, Universe and Everything?"?
"They are not the sport kind."
Solving Rubik's cube in record time doesn't count. Does it?
"They are un-cool."
Writing poetry using a programming language isn't cool?
Having the 'telnet song' as one of your favorites is okay?
I am not sure, but with the kind of toppers I have seen, I don't think much of this is true.
No, I was never "the topper". Guess that makes me koool automatically, does it?
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
whats in the year?
Having posted about examinations in my last post, I just realized that in the year 2005, I haven't written a single exam.
So far, every year I had written one or more exams and got at least one promotion, like Class 1 to Class 2, Intermediate to Engineering etc, leave alone the first 2, 3 years. Even during those years I have had improvements from crawling to walking to talking etc.
But, 2005 is the only year I've got no promotion :(. Is that good or bad? I am not sure which one is better - A year without examinations or a year without any progress.
Coming to how 2005 has been, at least during the later part of the year, I could manage some posts on this blog. I became a regular blogger, "regular" as in my dictionary. Hope this year, the "regularity" will be as per any other blogger's dictionary. No, that is not my "new year resolution". Coming to resolutions for the New Year, I follow the great advice given by someone - "Broaden your target so much so that you will hit it the first time".
In general, there have been great many significant events in 2005, like the discovery of the Chimpanzee genome map, the hurricanes, the success of google, completion of 100 years of Einstein's discoveries and many more I am unaware of. Bad news is there was none in the last 100 years to beat Einstein, 'beat' as in disprove/improve his discoveries. That leaves you and me a chance, I guess.
All the best for 2006, dear readers of this blog. Hope I find more questions to fill this space.
An excerpt from the book God's Debris, I have been reading recently.
"We don’t understand why electricity travels. We don’t know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns."
That suggests there are always "Questions without answers" in this world. Let's see.
So far, every year I had written one or more exams and got at least one promotion, like Class 1 to Class 2, Intermediate to Engineering etc, leave alone the first 2, 3 years. Even during those years I have had improvements from crawling to walking to talking etc.
But, 2005 is the only year I've got no promotion :(. Is that good or bad? I am not sure which one is better - A year without examinations or a year without any progress.
Coming to how 2005 has been, at least during the later part of the year, I could manage some posts on this blog. I became a regular blogger, "regular" as in my dictionary. Hope this year, the "regularity" will be as per any other blogger's dictionary. No, that is not my "new year resolution". Coming to resolutions for the New Year, I follow the great advice given by someone - "Broaden your target so much so that you will hit it the first time".
In general, there have been great many significant events in 2005, like the discovery of the Chimpanzee genome map, the hurricanes, the success of google, completion of 100 years of Einstein's discoveries and many more I am unaware of. Bad news is there was none in the last 100 years to beat Einstein, 'beat' as in disprove/improve his discoveries. That leaves you and me a chance, I guess.
All the best for 2006, dear readers of this blog. Hope I find more questions to fill this space.
An excerpt from the book God's Debris, I have been reading recently.
"We don’t understand why electricity travels. We don’t know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns."
That suggests there are always "Questions without answers" in this world. Let's see.
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