Movies, Food and Acads

Two weeks, seven tests, eight assignments and two movies old at SCMHRD. It has been quite a ride!

Movies:
The schedules have been hectic, but we've already managed to squeeze in two visits to the theatres. Only, on both occasions, the movies turned out to be pretty sad. While we are yet to recover from the guilt of having blown money on them, I think being in SCMHRD should help us in getting used to paying for getting tortured...

Food:
The food has been decent by 'mess' standards. But if you have a good memory and happen to remember what you have eaten over the last couple of days, you are bound to find the food to be pretty repetitive. Sometimes, at lunch, there is an exchange of features between rotis and papads; rotis will need to be broken and papads, torn! The dinner desserts are invariably the show stealers...

Acads:
Sixteen subjects in the first semester. They could give us a surprise test and ask us to name all the subjects; we would collectively flunk!

Some of our professors are very good. Irrespective of how good a professor is or how interesting the subject is, we all begin lectures with tendencies of suspended consciousness. So you got to be really good to engage us.

Prantosh Bannerjee is a stud!

Being used to fixed time tables through my school and college, I am yet to come to terms with the dynamics of our schedules. The only kind of planning that I've been able to do here is to ensure that there are no screw ups the next day. I’ve not been able think beyond that. I've been aspiring to get organized for a long time. Let us see...