The present value of a classroom bunk is greater than the future value. Hence bunk classes as soon as possible and exhaust your holidays.
P.S : Later if you fall sick and lose a GPA of 1, then please consider yourself unlucky, as this is the risk associated with the future value calculations.
I usually blog about things that I care about and give my personal opinion. I hope to read all these when I grow old and be able to laugh at myself :)
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The Ten Commandments of Classroom Participation
Me and a few of my fellow classmates came up with the ten commandments. I am taking this from a fellow blogger aka vishesh.
MBA education uses levers as class participation (CP) and relative grading (RG) for effective classroom experience. Both mediums are powerfully effective when used (by students!) in the true spirit of learning, but have quite distasteful outcomes when the same students indulge in what they call RG-giri, i.e. trying to portray each other in negative light to score some brownie points in front of the instructor; and indeed, often these brownie points do translate into grades :)
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Anyways, after one such session in a marketing course where the group presenting the case was massacered left, right and centre by an over-enthusiastic (Read: in the RG-giri mood) audience, yours truly too contributing with one question, we came out of the class laughing at ourselves...and then in the same lighter mood, postulated the Ten Commandments of CP.
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Only if Moses was alive, he would not have complained of hearing just the Voice of the Divine.
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(Some terms carry additional explanation in italics).
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1) Thou shalt not CP in the last 2 minutes of a lecture; especially if the prof himself is overshooting the class timings
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2) Thou shall not CP in XYZ course at all, the instructor already himself is a living CP specimen
(not mentioning the course to be, ah, politically correct)
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3) Thou shall not CP if thou art Rajamundry
(an over-enthusiastic chap who CPs, I guess, without any RG intention)
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4) The time between two consecutive CPs shalt atleast be 3 classes
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5) Thou shalt treat the whole class if thou CP more than once in a single day
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6) Thou shalt seek all CP-overdoer infidels and slay them in the name of God
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7) Thou shalt NEVER EVER put in a follow-up CP
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8) If thou art the last person to CP, thou get to be hooshed
(a popular physical torture over here in IIMB)
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9) All case-presenters are thy brothers and sisters, thou shalt love them
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10) Remember, thou shalt be CPed against the way thou CPed unto others
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Credits: Vishesh, Sudhakar and yours truly
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