the week has been so hectic… classes all around the clock, surprize quizzes coming outta nowhere… one minute the prof  is teaching and the next moment he does an ABRACADABRA(can never forget “beat this shit” expression on their faces when they do so) and swoosh- produces those question papers with all kind of eerie questions for which i give even more eerie answers… plus the labs which are interesting but the written work which has to accompany them is so so pathetic…, the lectures in which i fight against sleep, mostly losing… plus the only interesting class in the evening on alternate days… Moreover, the thoughts meandering in my head creating a fiasco out of the already messed up part… I am at a bit peace with the Nirmaan thing there to lighten me up on the other alternate days… but all this is keeping me busy and is the reason why i am no longer feeling bored…

a feel-good thing :)

I have always wanted to teach those who can’t afford education. This desire got fulfilled today when i went to teach some students near my college under an education scheme by NIRMAAN… and i must say, never felt so satisfied in life ever before. The feeling that i got after teaching them was one i had never ever experienced before. I came to know about this scheme through one of my frnds Rungta who has been doing this since a long time now. I felt inspired on seeing him do so and when he asked me to join NIRMAAN, i was really thrilled   thanks dude
there were children belonging to 3rd to 12th standard. Today i was mainly assigned to a group of 7th standard girls most of them were in Hindi Medium schools. And teaching them science in Hindi was so difficult at first. But slowly even i gained interest as reading science in Hindi is a thing i had not done earlier. The content was same, but i was getting to read it in Hindi, so was fun once i started(must admit felt hell wierd). Still, teaching science in Hindi was really ponderous, atleast from my point. Teaching English to them was another big job requiring oceanic amount of patience as they were able to read, but each sentence had to be explained to them separately as they couldn’t access the meaning it conveyed. But i felt awesome doing this, after all this is what i was planning for so long. One of them was so jolly that as soon as she came, she said that first she’ll be telling a joke only after which shall i teach. And she told 3 jokes(instead of 1 she had mentioned) which i must admit were good Another was so talktative that after every sentence i asked her to read, she would ask me something about me. This type of a conversation made me more interested

Some 11th standard boys also came to ask a few doubts in chemistry which felt less cumbersome as they had been recently done.
Now i am planning to teach them 2-3 times each week. The feeling experieced after teaching them has really left me craving for more. waiting to get to interact more with them and hoping of learning something new from them too  :) :)

today while i was attending a GRE lecture, a slide was shown depicting the difference between a normal student and a GRE student through a series of questions. I found it really interesting and funny so thought of sharing it with all… enjoy
(Note : after going through this, a common response can be WHAT THE F??? it is but natural )

A NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold.
A GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

A NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers.

A GRE STUDENT : Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

A NORMAL PERSON : Dead men tell no tales.
A GRE STUDENT :Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

A NORMAL PERSON : Beginner’s luck.
A GRE STUDENT : Neophite’s serendipity.

A NORMAL PERSON : A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A GRE STUDENT : A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

A NORMAL PERSON : Birds of the same feather flock together.
A GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian speciesof identical plumage tend to congregate.

A NORMAL PERSON : Beauty is only skin deep.
A GRE STUDENT : Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

A NORMAL PERSON : Cleanliness is godliness.
A GRE STUDENT : Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

A NORMAL PERSON : There’s no use crying over spilt milk
A GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.

A NORMAL PERSON : Spare the rod and spoil the child.
A GRE STUDENT : Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

A NORMAL PERSON : The pen is mightier than the sword.
A GRE STUDENT : The stylus is more potent than the rapier.

A NORMAL PERSON : U can’t try to teach an old dog new tricks.
A GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative aneuvers.

A NORMAL PERSON : Look before you leap
A GRE STUDENT :Surveillance should precede saltation.

A NORMAL PERSON : twinkle,twinkle, little star.
A GRE STUDENT : Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.

A NORMAL PERSON : He who laughs last, laughs the best.
A GRE STUDENT : The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

A NORMAL PERSON : All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
A GRE STUDENT : Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

A NORMAL PERSON : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
A GRE STUDENT :Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised
to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles.

A NORMAL PERSON : Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
A GRE STUDENT :Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

Familiar?

Sometimes it happens that when we see a face, we feel a familiarity associated with it… but no matter how hard we try to recall, we are unable to remember who he/she is and in what context his/her face appears familiar… this really is strange… the face seems so known to us and yet so hard to figure out… so why does it happen? Why does our heart try to make us believe that we know that person somehow even when our mind knows that we do not? Why does this clash between our heart and mind occur? Why doesn’t our heart follow the mind in believing that indeed, the person is unknown? The answer lies in the fact that we, by nature have been made to socialize as much as possible.. to interact with others.. to know about them… and to share feelings…  that is why our heart tries to make us believe that we know him/her so we are not left alone in the crowd.  Strange but true, the heart doesn’t want to be left alone when there are so many with whom it and hence, we may interact… That is why it takes such a step and often overcomes the mind’s thoughts for good… for meeting new people, for knowing more, and in order to be happy