An Exam Afterthought

There's a nice quotation that i want to start with "Education is what remains when what has been learned has been forgotten." . These last few days I have forgotten a lot of stuff that I have tried to learn and sometimes I have forgotten well before the purpose of learning has been fulfilled .

Its 3:00 in the night and I wake up to the sound of my mobile alarm . While everybody's still sleeping ,  I try to at least complete the selective portions of Entrepreneurship that I have decided to study . My eyelids shut for a split second  at regular intervals as I labour on for the next 10 minutes . I find that I am not able to concentrate on the text .... i find no meaning . 
The weather's so nice as there is a storm brewing outside .  A short nap I think would do not harm  . May be thats the tonic that I need to freshen me  a bit .  My premise for sleeping is proven wrong as when I wake up  , I want to sleep some more :P .
After an hour of sweet slumber I decide that enough is enough . I spur myself to study in order to save face  . So I struggle till 7:00 , trying to remember the points in the xerox note .  I know that my preparation cannot be worse ....  I  just hope that numericals will save my ass.
Its exam time .... and due to God's grace it goes far far better than I had expected.

So in this way I have put a second nail into the exam's coffin . Two more nails to go ......  I may hurt my hand in the process but I am sure that I am not made for them . I just want to get over with it .

I have a weak memory but such is the sorry state of affairs that during the Entrepreneurship exam when I went to the toilet to get some answers .... I asked Sid  the question "What are four stages of advertisement creation " and he must have told me the answer  twice or thrice and still when I went back to the hall to scribble it down I could just recall only one word for the four points .
1)Situational
2)Media
3)Creative
4)Strategic
The remaining part of the points were added by myself to the best of my knowledge . Its really funny .

In the ancient times it was prevalent for the shishya to repeat the slokas in unison after the guru and in this way they would be able to remember humongous number of lines of religious text . But the times were different then ..... now we have google and more emphasis should be made on " learning by doing " . This " learn by rote "  method is obselete in today's world .  The only reason that motivates me now is that I am doing this to get a degree .... some sort of safety net so that when I take risks to achieve my dream  I know  at the back of my mind  that I have something to fall back on .
 

And just to end the post on a more serious note here's a list of things you can do if you do not  feel like studying

• Simply turn on facebook and u can wile away your  time like anything 
• Eat a plate full of Pokhaal and chokha and u shall fall asleep like the great Kumbhakarna
• Get ur friends hard disk , u will surely get a new movie to watch and if there isnt a new movie left  u can surely revise some of the evergreen " Friends " episodes
• If you are a football fan .... start reading up all the football gossip or watch the downloaded videos again and again and bring back those happy memories
• Start gossiping with the guy next room as to how frustrating it is to study  and keep on talking till the task looks so difficult  that u don't even want to  contemplate studying
• Start researching on a abstract topic on the internet like hacking your friends computer , meaning of a poem etc and just get caught in the web of information
• And Best of the lot .....  Start writing a blogpost  :)

PS : Filhaal toh mera form bahut kharab chal raha  but I hope that the  saying  " Form is temporary , class is permanent "  is true in my case