Well, another exam season is on and as always, I am doing everything other than studying.
I have heard most people(students actually) say that they keep on dragging the work on the next day but eventually they do work out a proper time and place to do it. Well, as a student, even I have loads of pending work but I follow just the half part what others do-I don't end up doing my work at proper place and time; I always do my work in a hurried manner, under pressure of the deadline which is usually the next day only though I mostly get plenty of days before the last day to complete my work. The reason is nothing other than the fact that I depend on the three favorite words of mine-"kal kar lenge."
After entering college, I have become an even lazier person. Just see what happened with the submission of a project given by one of my teachers.
I took admission in my college and was pretty happy about it. Our college has been strictly told by the UGC not to allow ragging in any form in or around the campus.Our seniors were careful and sweet enough not to perform ragging in any form. So I was pretty happy.My entire class, just like me, was still learning the various know-how of the campus among other things.
Our classes started. I was really enjoying.Then this particular class happened on the first Saturday of the session.This lecture was supposed to teach us a subject called 'reading gandhi'. We had to learn about Gandhian thoughts.oo! I just loved it from the very first day.In some other post of mine, I shall right about a few of the many things that used to happen in that lecture.
Anyway, that first lecture had happened in July.
The teacher for that subject has till date been one of the best teachers I could ever learn from.She introduced herself and then asked for our introduction as well.
After sometime, while explaining the course structure to us, she told us the big bomb.She said,"each one of you will have to choose any one topic related to mahatma Gandhi and submit a project on that topic to me .Tell me, what time would be comfortable for you?"
We all hardly Had any idea what to say.So, my teacher continued,"January...shall that be okay?"
"yes." we said.
"Okay then, 15th January is the date.That's ample of time."
Surely that WAS ample of time July to January of next year.But we were STUDENTS.
Time passed;We did nothing;15th Jan arrived;No project was ready.
Our teacher surely had had the intuition that we were not going to be ready.So she extended the deadline saying with a frown face,"I wonder what you all were doing all throughout the year. Yours has to be a project of not more than 25-30 pages and you still need more time. Every year I get to see an action replay of what you people have just shown me-zero punctuality.Anyway, This is your first time so I give you another 10 days.Go ahead"
We were all very relieved. but I took that for granted and wasted the next one week.
On the 8th day, I just STARTED to think of the topic. In the next 2 days of my college routine, I would spend all my free lectures at the library.Strange but true.Believe me, Once I started searching for the books on my topic, I found such a great collection that I could not resist myself from reading them. Books were few but all of them had strikingly amazing facts that I could use. But since time was less, I had to restrict myself to only a few aspects.I really regretted that. Had I given the project some more time, I could have worked out an amazing one.From the cover page to the content, everything could have been improved and that too to a great level. I was totally stressed during those last two days of the submission.(for me, those were the first 2 days as well ;) )
But Nothing happened and I presented a dull project.I had learnt a lot from the books which I got from the library.Unfortunately, I could pen down only a tiny fraction of my 'just learned knowledge'
What was even more amusing was that even on the last day of the extended deadline, my project was just on its verge of completion..Everybody else in my class except me and 2 of my friends, had submitted the project within the 10 day duration.Well, I always end up doing something that makes people notice me differently.I still had to write the foreword and bibliography(alright ...fine..its a lame excuse.Nobody notices!)
While my teacher was taking attendance, I was busy writing. She saw me and surely got annoyed.She said,'No extra work in my class please" I had to stop.After the class, I ran after her. But by the time I reached the staff room, she had left for home. I got really nervous thinking she would not accept my project. But thankfully, The next day, she did.
Well, All is well that the end is well.But all of that rush and burden on my mind could have been avoided had I just valued and utilised time.
But even after this kind of an experience, I continue to be the same.My exams are just a few days away and I have already started living my holidays routine.Throughout the day, I do nothing other than roaming around in my house like a freak and wasting my time.I still have those 3 words,"Kal Kar lenge"
P.S:If you are smiling after reading this piece, I am sure you surely are or have been a student.
Please do post a few comments to let me know if even you had any similar experiences so that I can know that I am not the only of my kind!
