Friday, April 13, 2007

inhuman sessions

imagine you are in a class that teach stochastic.

Difficulty
Statistics < survival model < < stochastic.

And the official duration is 4 hours. First 2 hours lecture and last 2 hours tutorials.
However, changes were made and the session becomes a 4 hours lecture or 4 hours tutorial.
Then factor in overtime of 1 hour for lecture and half an hour for tutorial.
Can you take it?

Yes, my whole class (those that turned up ) go through a 5 hours lecture in the previous week. This week, it is a 4 and half hours tutorial.

Here is when you can begin to observe different behaviours. especially after the 3 hours mark.

Student A will eventually have a heavier head until it rest on the table. Then, the task of moisturising the table with saliva will begin.

Student B and C will demonstrate high difficulty action of sleeping while still in the position of copying answers on the board.

Student D and E fished out a whole bar of chocolate and start to munch away. And to increase the fun of eating, they bite off the chocolate and keep it in their mouth. Then, took a picture with tongue stuck out.

Then there will be the familiar sight of geniuses asking questions life no tomorrow. And fighting for a chance to do tutorials questions on the board.

not to forget the professor who is titanium built. He managed to give a 5 hours lecture (with a short break after first 2 hours). Oh, did I mention he was standing and at times was scribbling things ( that look foreign to most of the class except a few) on the board.

And there will be bullying of a pitiful guy at the back of the class....

Hahaha initially I wanted to write about how tiring and boring the class is.. Hm... it turned out to be interesting.. hehe... Ah well, thank goodness those decade long session has come to an end.... for now.....