Some of my friends think I hate everything
I hate project presentations. More than that I hate..wait a minute I just want to get something out of the way just now. Some of my friends think I hate everything, despise everybody and am a certified misanthrope. I mean most of my posts do begin with "I hate ..". I hate regional politics, I hate caste system, I hate pseudo intellectuals calling Ingar Bergmann a bloddy fool, I hate whiskey, I hate private banks that treat every customer as someone who cant read or write, I hate people who speak in a language that I cannot understand, I hate the administration wing and I hate this and I hate that. But you see most of them are justified in one way or another and If I cant express my dislikings on my blog where else would I do it, not on my Curriculum Vitae not I think. So you see I also hate project presentations not because they make me nervous or anything (they dont) but because it always sends this obscure message that after 20-30 years of undistinguished career, I may also end up asking such idiotic rhetorical questions to my students half my age. I just hate this educational cum value system of ours (oops), wherein everthing is measured in throughput. You spend 2 hours writing a paper (googling etc) worth 12% of the grade and spend 4 hours to read for an exam worth 24%. It all just sounds so annoying.