I hate..

I hate project presentations. More than that I hate..wait a minute I just want to get something out of the way just now. Some of my friends think I hate everything, despise everybody and am a certified misanthrope. I mean most of my posts do begin with "I hate ..". I hate regional politics, I hate caste system, I hate pseudo intellectuals calling Ingar Bergmann a bloddy fool, I hate whiskey, I hate private banks that treat every customer as someone who cant read or write, I hate people who speak in a language that I cannot understand, I hate the administration wing and I hate this and I hate that. But you see most of them are justified in one way or another and If I cant express my dislikings on my blog where else would I do it, not on my Curriculum Vitae not I think. So you see I also hate project presentations not because they make me nervous or anything (they dont) but because it always sends this obscure message that after 20-30 years of undistinguished career, I may also end up asking such idiotic rhetorical questions to my students half my age. I just hate this educational cum value system of ours (oops), wherein everthing is measured in throughput. You spend 2 hours writing a paper (googling etc) worth 12% of the grade and spend 4 hours to read for an exam worth 24%. It all just sounds so annoying. I think a lot of problems would be solved if our teachers started recognising talent in some better fashion. I mean you can see how wonderfully the present day system is working out for us (read NSUI incident).

Gosh this is by far the most boring topics ive expressed my anger on, but seriously dont you think that wrong people in life get ahead and make life difficult for other good people. Why cant instructors really make it their job to hunt and dig out the good people, but then human relations and butter has a very strong bond especially if theres a lot of butter. If I were to describe (and that I will because this is my blog and I hate people who tell other people especially me, whats worth the effort and whats not) the current value system of our country, I would take a slice of enacted interest, put some butter, take another slice of a respect look-alike and make a sandwich. You can eat it if you like the look of it, but what youd be eating would be something strongly resembling relationships. So yes most of the people around you are like that, but some are not. Some genuinely listen to you instead of waiting for their turn to speak, some actually care if you would like to listen to their ideas instead of simply lectoring about their research areas and some folks do take you for what you are and not what courses you take or what grades you manage.

If I ever wanted to change something so bad (including the burn mark on my left foot and the high speed rotating noisy blade of our Labs air cooler) its the current value system. I so want to study HR and Industrial relations want to really get into finding and searching good people, but then I also wanted to be an autorickshaw driver, so I dont know, how long before I swing some other way. I just hate this indecisiveness. I hate admitting that I am a part of the same decaying organic matter or the part of the same human compost (Fight Club).