Following the tradition of torturing the students to mental-numbness by the boring lectures and the extremely uninspiring academic sessions, our Dept. arranged for a seminar by a certain Indian professor settled in Australia. Although not totally skeptical, still I have certain reservations in accepting that this chap will fly all the way to deliver lecture to a bunch of intellectually retards. I don't know the specifics of how the authorities managed to rope him in, my best bet lies on that, he might be on a vacation here and grabbing this opportunity somebody from our College requested him to do the honours of paralyzing the hapless students minds for a couple of hours, as if the contribution by our esteemed faculty to this effect were not enough.
Thus after writing a test and hoping for some relief, we were lured into this trap of a seminar, in the name of attendance and getting to interact with a supposedly academic figure. As it soon turned out, we were boxed with a huge bore whose supremely entertaining idea of the seminar was to present us with some lame Powerpoint presentations. Within half an hour all the students were dozing off to his monotonous lullaby of a lecture. But definitely they couldn't afford to sleep it off, what with HOD and all the staff fixing their hawk-eyed gaze on all of us. We were given an hour's break for lunch and told to return to attend the afternoon session, or else forget the whole day's attendance. As most of us are totally attendance-starved, so we returned back with full tummies and eyes loaded with sleep.
The farce of a lecture started again and that Australian-imported-incredible-bore again started off with his perpetual grin. I was wondering throughout the whole session what he was grinning at? Maybe at the thought of getting so many scapegoats for audience who wouldn't buzz even when subjected to such lengths of inhuman test of patience, which I'm pretty sure all his Aussie students avoided, even if that meant chopping of their limbs.
The seemingly infinite session finally came to an end and everybody started clapping out of relief, at the thought of finally getting out of the same room, shared by one of the most intellectually-pathetically-bored person we ever came across. And thus ended our excruciatingly paralysing tryst with the Australian-imported-boring-specimen of a lecturer. Hope we never cross each other's roads again. PHEW.....
Thus after writing a test and hoping for some relief, we were lured into this trap of a seminar, in the name of attendance and getting to interact with a supposedly academic figure. As it soon turned out, we were boxed with a huge bore whose supremely entertaining idea of the seminar was to present us with some lame Powerpoint presentations. Within half an hour all the students were dozing off to his monotonous lullaby of a lecture. But definitely they couldn't afford to sleep it off, what with HOD and all the staff fixing their hawk-eyed gaze on all of us. We were given an hour's break for lunch and told to return to attend the afternoon session, or else forget the whole day's attendance. As most of us are totally attendance-starved, so we returned back with full tummies and eyes loaded with sleep.
The farce of a lecture started again and that Australian-imported-incredible-bore again started off with his perpetual grin. I was wondering throughout the whole session what he was grinning at? Maybe at the thought of getting so many scapegoats for audience who wouldn't buzz even when subjected to such lengths of inhuman test of patience, which I'm pretty sure all his Aussie students avoided, even if that meant chopping of their limbs.
The seemingly infinite session finally came to an end and everybody started clapping out of relief, at the thought of finally getting out of the same room, shared by one of the most intellectually-pathetically-bored person we ever came across. And thus ended our excruciatingly paralysing tryst with the Australian-imported-boring-specimen of a lecturer. Hope we never cross each other's roads again. PHEW.....
