I submitted my Take Home Quiz today... yay!!... Phew...
Suddenly a thought crossed my mind, second month into my PhD and I already had written two exams and submitted an assignment... Wow!
Through out the day we had group meetings, meeting with a gas cylinder guy, meeting with hazardous waste guy, meeting for BIMBO, I actually ate at my 'desk' since I did not have time to get out of the office. But the thought about the number of exams was killing me. The minute I got a breather I ran to my desk and sat down with a calculator.
I began making a rough estimate of number of Exams I have written so far, including the assignments, term papers and meaningless presentations. Brace yourself the number is a whopping 591. Yes, indeed!!! It averages to 1.82 exams per month of my life up until now.
I cannot help but remember all my classmates from school and college who went through the same trauma.
Kudos guys, WE DID IT!!! Err...wait a minute... YOU did it!!!...
I still have a long way to go... I guess I will slightly fall shy of a "million" tests once I graduate and become “Dr. Sri Seshabhattar” : ) ;)
Hopefully all the pain will look worthwhile then...
Cheers
Sri, 19th February 2009
P.S: I draw all the cartoons on my blog on a Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet. Ideas for some of the cartoons are my own and so are inspired from others work.
Quantity is not important, quality is! :P chal chal nikal, past ka chodke abhi padhai kar. varna numbers gin-na bhi bhool jayegi :P
ReplyDeleteHe... He... Waise bhi PhD me sabi kuch bhool naa hee hain "Main kaun hoon... Kahan hoon" :P
ReplyDeletereally depressing observation, thanks!
ReplyDeletein the three years of my prep into IIT, I have written like a 140 exams. almost 4 exams in a month! and even after coming to IIT, ...what the hell! I am writing a blog of my own regarding this...
@g3.. I am dying to see your blog on this... :)
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