I was munching on some parathas and some sev with mundane tweeting about random events accompanied with  thinking about someone gazing at the spectacular mystical weather outside and suddenly i was punctuated by a professor asking me aapka dhyaan kidhar hai??? Is question ka answer batao!!  I was like….what subject is this?? What topic is going on?? I was clueless as always. Nevertheless I reluctantly stood up and blubbered something which was obviously wrong. I was forced to forfeit my  last bench and was called ahead. Waah!!! Like that was gonna compel me to listening to the lecture. I was mocked with a comment ki aap toh attendance ke liye baithhe ho!!!  Free mein de du aapko 100% ??  Duhh!  I get the sarcasm. Also I was told by the prof that they have back to back lectures and they get tired and fatigued at the end of the day after teaching. Like come on!!  As if we students enjoyed a short trip to Vegas and came back!

I looked at my haven-my last bench which kept me away from incessant pestering  of teachers with respect to checking notebooks and asking questions. Only we backbenchers know the value of a last bench and how instrumental it is to evade an active lecture.

I love to  rant about the system and many a times try to change it at a small level  by  convincing a teacher that I study at home despite not being attentive in the class and to leave me alone but *sigh*  never works. A friend of mine is right about the slavery and the conventional functioning about this system. The professor will continue to torture you despite the fact that your score is good or not. The “paying attention” thing  never ceases to haunt us. Defaulter lists are put up periodically by which students are judged whether they are sincere or not. Not being sincere wrt attendance does not imply you are worthless. Rather I would say studying on your own irrespective or attendance issues is much more meritorious and worth boasting of.

Practicality is what we lack. If a dude/dudette wants to sit for lectures, he/she will otherwise he/she wont- Simple as A B C. Why 75%? Why not 76%?  77%?  65%??  No logic right? Attaboy! You got it! Attendance should be scraped off totally and please do not care if we sit for lectures or not. Teachers should understand that 20  year old ‘kids’ have enough intellect to decipher what is good and bad for them. If a particular student sits merely for the purpose to scribble a signature let him/her do so. It’s their life and 20 yr old ppl are mature enough to deal with their career issues-be it attendance, tackling examination or being attentive in the classroom. Keep in mind a very simple fact that no one will sit for lectures that don’t interest them. There are some professors who have the chilled out attitude-Baithne ka hai toh  baitho!. Such teachers are the ones actually respected by the students. 

Some folks have extremely false premises that ATTENDANCE guarantees good marks. PROFESSOR PLEASE! I am a living example to prove that’s a fallacy.

*sigh*  still  attendance continues to be a prioritised parameter-U hate it or Love it cannot ignore it. The typical scene in classrooms is struggling to get  the attendance sheet to sign it as if its some federal document with your signature being a worthy scribble. That’s the reason of sitting and tolerating an hour of the content u find repugnant. The pride in signing early and relaxing later cannot be described in words! Well I got to go for nw! Assignments to be written. I have belted out enough Frustration ! Folks spread this around. Probably in the next 20  years you may  tell  your kids that its because of our practical rebelling that attendances are now scraped!