Disruptive Technologies, Education and Some Social Issues » cochin http://www.kenneyjacob.com Disruptive Technologies, Modern Education, Shrouded Social Issues and Dirty media propaganda Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:52:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 My Middle Finger and the MG University : A True Story http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/12/12/my-middle-finger-and-the-mg-university-a-true-story/ http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/12/12/my-middle-finger-and-the-mg-university-a-true-story/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:16:06 +0000 Jr. http://www.kenneyjacob.com/?p=807

If you go through this blog, what you’ll find is a lot of articles on the inefficiency and outright plain stupidity of the management at CUSAT..

This was so much so, that one time I asked Kenney, how come that MG University was never featured at all..

He replied that it was because he had no “first hand experience..”

Well, I have first hand experience, lots of it actually, and allow me to enlighten you… You Cusatians have it easy..

And by the way, I’d probably never have written this article if it wasn’t for what happened yesterday and today.. :)

I do the BA English course.. At SH.. It’s a conventional BA course, but when people ask me how many years, I say 4 years these days..

WhY?

Well, I’m into my sixth sem, and the second sem results came out only a week ago.. My juniors have it worse off, though..

Hopefully I won’t flunk any of my papers.. If I do, I’ll have to go around saying it’s a 5 year course from now on… (sigh)

They say that once the papers reach the University, they are just thrown into a godown, and then hauled back up when evaluation time comes.. If you’re lucky, the examiners would have got to your paper before the rats did.. If, you’re lucky, that is..

Here are some of the University’s most notorious evaluators caught in action..

“Who the fuck is Shakespere, Stuart??”

In the five exams I’ve written, three have been screwed up..

And this is what the exam co-ordination committee at MG looks like..

“Wonder what the VC saw in us??”

“More of himself, probably.”

One was my own department’s fault.. But the University would have none of it.. They had to outshine… :)

They had already messed up the question papers for our third sem History exam I think.. But, hey that was ok, they rescheduled it for next month, and we wrote..

But, this time it was even more hilarious..

So, they gave us the wrong question paper again, cancelled the exam and asked us to go home..

And today morning, we get the good news..

Not only has yesterday’s paper been cancelled, but today’s, and Monday’s as well.. And the revised exam dates??

31st December, 1st January and 2nd January..

What that means for me…

1. I missed out on a Bangalore trip that was supposed to happen yesterday..

2. I’ll miss out on a road trip that was supposed to happen during Christmas..

3. I’ll have to spend New Year’s Day memorizing Freud and his fucked up  psychoanalytic approaches.. And,

4. Since the exam has been delayed by a couple of weeks, now I’m gonna have to go around saying that my course is 5 and a half years long…

What I don’t know is why people continue to tolerate the University even now..

What we should have is a University for every region… I think places as far as even Pathanamthitta, fall into the MG University’s clutches..

And, as everything else, the power structure at the University is politicised.. I won’t be surprised if they use our answer papers to manufacture recycled toilet paper…

“MG Companies bring to you, the new and improved, printed toilet paper.. Read, and wipe, at the low cost of destroying a student’s life.. “

Whatever the case maybe, I’m sure our’s is the worst University of all time..

If you have a University that’s worse than mine, let me know in the comments.. Coz, then, you are officiallly the most tortured student soul in the universe…

Until then though, let people like me hang on to that honour..

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These are some of the highlights.

  • 56 lakh sqft area
  • 30 floors will be a 5 star hotel
  • Parking space for 22000 cars
  • Half a kilometer tall
  • 5 floors convention and exhibition center

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