Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

School!

So I used a stripper today. No, no, no! It's not what you are thinking about. This is what I call a stripper.
Basically, you use it to remove the outer covering of a wire to make connections...

Looking at the laboratories in college, conducting experiments, secretly helping friends out and lending solutions ended with me recalling sweet memories. I was hit with a wave of nostalgia, each water drop in it being a unique memory.

Every single time I sit to write about school, my thoughts get scattered. It's like they are in a frenzy. I don't know where to begin, I am at a loss of how to end it. Maybe that is because there is no beginning. Maybe there isn't an ending either. It stays in our hearts forever. School is where we made our first friends. We are emotionally attached to it. College is great, it has awesome people. But just like people say, 'Boys will be boys', school is school. It was like a family of 105 cousins and multiple parents. It's a place where we made our best friends, worst enemies, where pinky promises existed, a simple game of tic-tac-toe was exciting, eating food in between classes was (in lower grades) considered the epitome of cool, where each festival was celebrated less for itself but more to take pictures, where the whole class contributed for a cake and watching your friend fall off the chair while sitting down was probably the most hilarious thing ever.

To say I miss school would be an understatement. The mornings which were passed in convincing people to sing the prayers, secretly trying to see who isn't meditating and getting caught, organizing competitions and winning as a school are things you get to feel and experience only once! My school was a place were Michael Jackson and Doraemon talked to each other. (Code names for teachers is a different thing alltogether!) And I still haven't talked about the occasional water fights, arguments which reincarnated to debates and the boring yet ever imporatant soft board duty!

Thus, when school got over, everyone made a plethora of promises, one of them being a promise to stay in touch. It wasn't an oath bound by blood or on the river Styx. It was a simple pledge taken on friendship and trust. Floods of memories overflowed our yearbooks, well wishes were tattooed on our uniforms. We left school cherishing happy moments, brewing with curiosity at the same time. Curiosity of what is going to happen next, anxiety of a new life sprinkled with a bit of fear, mixed with tons of excitement. A longing to do something worthwhile as long as we live.

I wish I had taken permission to give a speech on the last day. I wish I, or at least someone else had been asked to. Reason being taking names now would become too personal! But I guess I just want to say, Good Luck! Dream and follow the omens. (Alright. This sentence is philosophical. Whatever. :P)

And for all those people who are still in school, remember, school is like a Cornetto ice cream. The whole thing is delicious but the last bit is something special altogether!

Kanksha :)

Interesting story..? : My friend accidentally tried dilute sulfuric acid mixed with FeSO4 and water. She said it tasted like blood. Another guy said it tasted like death. I was tempted to try it myself. Now what in the (under)world does death taste like? Hmmmm. ;)

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Homework.

So much has happened since I have last posted. The world of sports reached another galaxy, the
ugliest animal was finally crowned and chemical weapons were used mercilessly in Syria.
At my college we did something like a mini sign campaign for a holiday, in which we ended up getting the privilege of leaving an hour early…But hey! Something is better than nothing!

So while life keeps moving on, as chocolates reach a new level of scrumpulicious and gadgets brush against a new level of cool, here I am at home, studying for an upcoming test (as usual). Well, technically I’m writing this, but never mind.

“A research supports the '10-minute rule’, the widely accepted practice of assigning 10 minutes of homework per day per grade-level. For example, under this system, 1st graders would receive 10 minutes of homework per night, while 5th graders would get 50 minutes' worth, 9th graders 90 minutes of homework, etc.” - Wikipedia.

Who out here in their right mind doesn’t wish they followed this rule??? According to this, 10th graders should work for about a 100 minutes. Now let’s compare this figure to the actual amount of time students (10th graders) study at home. 4hrs? 5 hrs? Sometimes more. Then obviously this is going to affect them in some way or the other. Here is an example of the working day of a normal student. Wake up at 6:30 in the morning, try your best to not drift off to Disneyland in your dreams and pay attention in class instead, come home and either go for tuitions (or do self study), finish the school homework after coming back and finally go off to sleep (at 11:00pm?).

Now imagine waking up at 6:00, going cycling with a gust of wind getting adrenaline pumping, going to school and studying, coming home, finishing your homework in around an hour an forty minutes and going off to play with your friends in the playground or experimenting in the kitchen. You could also devour a book, let your fingertips dance on the keyboard. feet tap to the beat of the drums, have a 'June Fools' and challenge your friend to ice creams in summer and paneer pakodas if the weather is chilly! Just think! Life without homework (or lessened homework) would be so free, fUn, merry and lively....

On the other hand, at this stage, I might say that homework is now a part of me as much as eating, drinking and sleeping is. Maybe at the moment, I might even say that life without homework would become a bit dull and boring as you are left with nothing to do and no goal to achieve at the end of the day.

Human beings are lazy people. Most of them need a push, and without that push, they end up doing nothing. In that way, homework is a blessing in disguise. So basically, you could say that I just contradicted myself. But I haven’t. To put an end to the battle of thoughts that is going on inside my head, I guess I could say that we need homework. Just not in extra large portions. Just like small servings keep you hungry and larger portions leave you feeling tired and drowsy, the amount of homework should neither be less, nor should it
be too much. It has to be just right.

Kanksha :)

Enough about my thoughts! How you argue about the existence of homework, I think, depends upon your age..so the case will never close. Give me your opinion!