The new dawn approaches…its 5:30am , an HSC examine yawns, gets up from bed and awaits the inevitable….its Organic Chemistry exam today…. a subject that
has been the nemesis of many students for years..for year many have battled against all odds to master this epic subjunction….many brave souls have been lost in the endless vortex of its enormous syllabus ….so its judgement day for the dude from dystopia, today he rode for victory knowing there’s no certainty of having one….but at the end of the day I FREAKIN WON MAN!!!! heh heh…the questions weren’t as bad as i expected…but i had to help a lot of of my good buddies around..just for the generous oratory return of “Dost bohut bohut bachaili tui ajke amare….thanks man”….lets requiem for those brain cells who died a heroic death aiding my gray-matter in successfully dealing with the following hindrances:-
There’s still 4 more hurdles to @#$@ with. 4 more days of damnation and paraplegic morbidity. Then starts the season of doom…. the coaching for University admission in which applicant:seats=435:1
I cant seem to understand why the hell is there so much competitions…. from the day of gametogenesis , when a zygote developes into embryo we start competing with other spermatocytes….when will this end? Probably never…. as Rabindranath delineates:- “Mahakal…tui boroi bedonadaiye..”(Translation:Time…why do you cause so much pangs on thee?)
Until next time….next exam….next moment of truth..someguy bails out.
KhD HfJ
Antipode gives you more bhaab?? Bhalo bhalo.
Just going to answer the first half of your last comment. YES!! WE are wayyyy more advanced in High School science curricullum. But, I guess we don’t have enough resources to learn them right. Here these PhD’s teach you chirality and enantiomer and diastereomer, and have you run NMR in the labs(Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: did you cover that?) so on and so forth. That’s why Bangladeshi kids, when they get here kick people’s butt, just because they had already had the stuff. Like roughly first two years of university science classes are somewhat covered for HSC, maybe in HSC you don’t go into too much in depth. Here for organic chemistry, you spend a solid two semesters and they teach you a lot. But again, the questions are waaaaaaaaaaay harder in Bangladesh. For example, we would never expect to see transformation of benzene to salicic acid, etc. at your level. Maybe they will have you do that in labs. The final exam is given by the ACS (American Chemical Soceity) and all of it is multiple choice and not that bad.
Here is a simple comparison. (I did go to High school for a semester and then dropped out knowing that I ain’t learning anything new). IN 11th grade, in NYC, a regular math curriculum introduces kids to sin^2_theta+cos^2_theta=1. Now tell me when see it? right, 9th grade, 1st week. Maybe even earlier, not sure. They don’t introduce you to algebra until at least 8th grade. I guess you get the picture.
Comment by chiral — June 4, 2005 @ 8:17pm
Your absolutely right about resources…we are superior in intellect but its our educational resources thats doing the evil bids… I’m lucky to be a Notredamian cuz notredame is the only college where at least some lab-works are done…in other places you give the “lab-mamu” 250 taka and “Voila” you have the full 25 marks in your practical section..
Heh heh..though we havent run NMR tests…but we know why helium is used in the machines..and how the cooling process goes on…and “chi chi chi” i’m amazed to know that NYC kids eating slush combos at Bronx learn only so much in school….so i guess we Bangladeshis are master of theoretical knowledge…but its the practical perspective thats needed…NYC people use fancy lab cotes and precautionary glasses in lab sessions…do you know we use bare hands to pour deci-molar H2So4? We use our own hands to move benzoic acid, breath in toxic carbonile chloride,choke on accidentally produced tri-chloro-nitro methane…and this happens in the Best college in BD…so its easily understandable whats the condition in the other places
I guess its just plain simple irony of fate… no wonder my sis and cousins(and 11 of em) are so happy in USA now.And i guess this is why my dad sometimes goes paranoid over his good ole days in Cornell and texas NMA…saying ” We used to do this and that..blah..blah…and there were so many options to do this and that..blah..blah” (sorrows are for fools)
Comment by Administrator — June 4, 2005 @ 10:43pm