6th TERM XLRI

I don’t know whether this can be branded as a sixth term effect or it can be termed as indolence but something happens to students when they reach their final terms. I mean normally I am not a person who would disrespect a teacher, display any act of good student behavior (CP? ) or misbehavior ( attracting undue attention ). More often than not I would be present in the class almost as if I did not exist. On most occasions it would be a deliberate attempt to make myself inconspicuous by choosing to sit in the corner seat of the right corner of the class (that’s my favorite seat in any classroom). But cometh the last term a sudden transformation took place in me. I would go to classes invariably without a notebook because I never had anything to write in any class any way in the sixth term (the courses were selectively chosen). Now all the background of the blog is to mention a specific incident which took place in the final term

One such incident took place in the financial market course. The course instructor is a fresh fellowship graduate student from ISB so you could well imagine what respect she commanded from us. Any way one of the lectures this is how an incident unfolded. I was playing cricket in my outdated nokia phone, which has such disrespectable features that I am chided very frequently to be seen with that phone. In fact my phone is so outdated that I myself do not know its model having long forgotten the model make. But that day somehow I found the stupid game in the phone far interesting than the boring lecture imparted by the instructor. I was incidentally sitting in the second bench that day as the instructor made it a point to call people to the vacant first benches. Any way she spotted me fidgeting with my cell phone but somehow kept ignoring my act

Once when she was delivering something I actually asked a doubt to her raising my eyebrows, to speak to her all the while my hands fixed on the cell phone keys and after having asked the question I continued playing with my cell. My neighbor nudged me saying that at least pay attention to listen to the answer of the question you have yourself asked. I turned at him with a smile saying that the teacher did not mind because I was paying attention also (multitasking). The teacher however I guess found it offensive and directed her attention towards me

Teacher; are you listening or are you busy SMSing Mithun?

Me ; Mam I am …(hesitantly and very innocently ) not SMSing , I am just playing ( sheepishly with a grin :D )

The whole class got into a laughter obviously and the teacher felt embarrassed.

Finally of course she had the final laugh screwing my grade for the course, but as they say once you are in the sixth term nothing really matters apart from placements J