50 Minutes in Lecture Room

By Saman Hashmi
 
Being a true Kurian, you cannot deny the fact that, we, poor students have to spend our time enduring many stomach churning and mind boggling lectures in university. So far, I have observed (and personally experienced), no matter how intensely a lecture may start, it capture your interest at the beginning and then how hard you may try not to lose track, you will end up stretching and yawning within 10 to 15 minutes. So when nothing works out, students like me- the back benchers, take out our equipments (cell phones, iPhones, Game boys) and get started to keep ourselves away from yawning our jaws wide.

            A couple of months back, I "accidentally" got to attend my major course. Fortunately, I succeeded to claim the last seat in the last row. An advantage of having the back seat is that you can watch every single move of your classmates. So during the class I watched my mates engrossed in multifarious activities. Believe me, I have never witnessed anyone so smooth and efficient at multitasking, as my classmates. Let me share those attention-grabbing activities with you. 

            When I looked up to see what’s happening around I found majority of student busy texting and hiding their cell phones under desks, pockets or in purses to avoid getting caught by teacher. At the same time they kept their eyes on the teacher to pretend to be vigilant listeners. I also spotted two of my social networking-addicts-class fellows logged on to Facebook through their cellulars, just to have a look on the news-feed on their homepage, and to update their statuses. Few students took out their music gadgets to not to let their ears rust. Last but not the least, I and likes of mine were busy munching on a nutritious breakfast, like having fizzy drinks or a steaming cup of canteen’s favorite aromatic chai along with snacks.

            All in all it proved to be a productive class as it let us all have our way. Nowadays,the like of mine don’t bother to pay attention to what’s going on in the class even if we accidentally took the class. It’s all because of not having a healthy educational environment. I don’t mean to sound like an arrogant nerd  (because I’m not one anymore, anyway) but I had to blame someone or something for this hopeless situation,Ab yaarr kisi ko toh blame karna paray ga na . So again it’s administration's problem, you see?