Latest stuff from class

Latest stuff from class

"The famous experiment of dog."

"we cannot frame any truth. there is no truth framework we cannot frame."

"He was exposed to poisonous trees or something."

New instructors

We got two new instructors and haven't yet for maly welcomed them on the blog. Oh! That reminds us that we haven't told the world who our instructors are. Here they are:

Giddy
Dizzy
Dicky
Al Cahol

Dizzy doesn't teach us any more except in practicality. But we have two new people.
Santa
Pracess

Trishul Sang: not an evaluation

The beginning of the semester saw us sitting in the hall os assembly in our institution yawning widely and sometimes loud at a session on how computers are good for depsyching people. The resource person was a resourceful and knowledgeable man who had done extensive research in the field and was humble beyond words. The only drawback was that he could not be heard. It's alright, not all of us can be heard out loud when we know that we have three days of talking ahead. Not noticing the obstructing factors to the smooth flow of his workshop, he was surprisingly determinant in letting the knowledge he had, flow to us. Some of us were persisitent. Most of us gave up after he introduced himself. On the whole, the three days went past like three years and at the end of it, what I have learnt are mail merge in MS.Word, changing the characteristics of charts in Ms. Excel and a new software used for depsyching data, called SPSS.

True. He didn't reach anywhere near Martin Luther King, Jr. or Hitler in terms of his abilities to put a message across. But that shouldn't have let our class direspect him by talking loudly or giggling like children. It was deeply disrespectful. At times he would counter that situation by trying to joke saying that he would cut marks in the assignments of the people who were talking. People continued. He never lost his patience. But had I been in his shoes, I would have felt extremely bad. True. He was not loud. He was monotonous beyond our patience. But that didn't call for disrespect. The worst part is that some of the people whom I respect the most were talking out loud and laughing right under his nose. Beats me.

Irritating Assessments and your disjointed system

Why do you want to continually assess me? Yes, I have paid the fees to you so that you teach me something so that I will reach somewhere in life. But why do you want to assess me? That too continuously? Can't I reach where I have planned to get in future in the place that is comfortable to me? Or do you want to label me dumb so that the ones who get higher marks than me are smarter? In what way?

If your vision is excellence, then please do realise that your excellence is not my excellence. What you have set for yourself should not be my life's standard or benchmark. That is a very authoritarian stance and you remind me of USA now - for all the policing that you are doing.

When I look back to the semester that has just passed, I am beginning to get depressed (for certain things). Half my time went in filling up pages of information which did no good to me. I was marked when I was not prepared for it. I was trying to complete assignments which gave me marks for how much I did, but not for how much I understood in what the topic was. Still I am not able to apply what I learn from those Continually Irritating Assessmant methods. It is very unscientific or perhaps too scientific. There is absolutely no qualitative analysis on how well I am on my way to become a Clinical Psychologist. That is where you lose the point. That is where you become just a scaling machine. A huge institution that measures a small part of me and labels the result as ME. You're missing other areas and aspects of my life. I do not want your label. I am just a student who is interested in learning Psychology and not a machine that wants to churn out pages of written or printed material full of last minute reading and copied information (because there were 3 more of the same assigments to do). I want to be a Psychologist, not a quantitatively smart machine who is able to march to the drumming of the existing system which thinks it has done the smartest thing by adopting assessment methods of some American University where the representatives happened to visit during their world tours. I am not any better when I get out of this college because I was continually assessed. Can we call it Surveillance? It is surveillance ( did you know abouth the secret Cameras?).

Even the teachers don't know why they are marking us for anything and everything. A teacher once threw her arms in the air remarking , "How else will I assess you?", to a protest by the students on the way she had decided to assess us for a PRACTICUMS. Can you believe that? A matter where the teacher should train us to get better at assesssments and diagnosis, we are being assessed continuously? For what happiness? Aren't we supposes to demonstate our abilities in the end , once we have learned the subtleties of the matter, instead of while we are learning something for the first time?
Where is Excellence there? It is more of a quantitative measure then. Student ABC is a smart because he/she has scored 99% on the report card. So you are stamped with the Institutions brand and sent out into the world to prove your excellence.

Numbers and figures don't make you excellent. To become excellent and at the same time, humble and of service to others there needs to be overall growth. And no my dear intitution (OR ESTABLISHMENT), I don't want you to give me overall growth which you have labelled into a a sexy brand called Holistic Development. I am not ready to take all the rubbish that you give me in the form a of a prescription to ensure overall growth - Library, Games facilities (for which we never get time to participate), or institutional cultural events... I don't want you for some time in my life. I certAINLY DON'T WANT YOU 24 HOURS A DAY. Don't play nosy parker and be every where. I want to develop myself in the way I think suits me, not the way you think suits me. I am unique. I am an individual. I paid you money so that I become a better person. So donn't be over concerned. It was my choice and it was kind of you to admit me. Agreed. But my life is in my hands and God's. I want to become what I want to become. I want to read.I want to take a walk without a tensed mind all the time. I want to watch TV for sometime. I want to read the news paper and the journals which you have provided in the Library. I want to meet friends in the interval time and have lunch with them at the break. And I don't want you to encroach upon my interval time and try to burst it out by giving more things which you think will make my life better. Because it does not. You are stuffing me up. I am choking and I want fresh air. Can you give me fresh air? That's all I am asking for. You will incur no expense for that, I assure you. Thanks for giving me every facility and making my money worth, but STAY AWAY from treating me like a baby and feeding me baby food every other minute. Give some more sense to our teachers and DE-SYSTEMISE them from the way you want the system to work. Please un-brainwash them from your ideology. Allow them to think for themselves and stop gettnig crazy ideas to make our life more miserable. I exhort you to continue believing in your ideals. I believe in them too. But your method does not suit mine or even that of the society. You are not any better than any other human being so be humble about it please.

I want a wave of change here. A change that will bring more sense into the system. Something that would make the sytem more human and habitable, rather than some foreign garbage that contradicts your mission and vision and clouds up your mind so much that you don't see that in actuality, you are killing the human beings in your students, who feel trapped.

laughter the best medicine???

dont think so....not when its fake. and other than that...its not just the laughter.
Aim: please Giddy
Problem: will giddy buy it or not
Hypothesis: giddy will! she's yung....remember???
Method
Procedure: when joke is flung into class and nobody wishes to respond....certain mentos's do laugh.
Step 1: pick right hand in air
Step 2: bring it down slowly onto desk or thigh
Step 3: slam on desk or thigh
Step 4: laugh like hyena
Step 5: repeat till giddy shows satisfaction by dilating pupils and staring...not to forget...grinning like giddy got promoted to ACH-O-D over senthil kumar

results and discussion: A VERY happy giddy....good sucking up mentos...and disgusted class

conclusion: confirmation of hypothesis...giddy bought it!

p.s.- mentos + sucking up + fake laughing = happy giddy!!

the shocker.

amt paid: Rs 60,000 and above( additional for photocopies)
this is what we get:
praktickall glazz "in this experiment we are not fully correct(this is after having completed the discussion) we have reached some level where we have some amount of sense"


krishna nee begaane baaro......