ExpertDabbler

For the past one week, I was updating my blog regularly, responding to mails – personal and officials promptly, going for long walks etc, all the while writing my final sem MBA exams. Yesterday and today, I decided I should focus on my studies and guess what, these two were my worst performances so far. So much for focus!

Now that I am done with it, I wanted to jot down some stuff that struck me this one week. My university study material sucks. All university study materials, except those that I’ve seen from ICFAI, totally suck. In fact we should do away with study materials. For the kind of fortune these universities charge, they should give us standard text books.

This being the reality, all our universities and their professors strongly oppose the entry of private and foreign universities citing ‘decline in quality of education, education becoming a business’ blah blah. Believe me, it’s worse than DMk calling ADMK
corrupt.

Actually it is the UGC accredited universities who have made education, especially the distance education, a huge looting avenue. It’s not even business. Ethical businessmen will turn in their graves if I call it business.

One of my study material talks about the ‘newly introduced economic policy 1991’. It’s like reading Dondu sir’s blog in English. I am sorry I can’t help if you don’t get it.
Agreed I joined this course like five years back, but still can 1991 be new enough in 2003?

Then why am I doing this crap? Home ministry pressure. My mom thinks her son getting an MBA is cool, even if it takes 5-6 years. Lot of beautiful young women of marriageable age think being professionally qualified means what you have as degree. They want only BE or MS or MLA err MBA etc degree holders as grooms. My neighborhood aunt who is also a family friend had passed some snide comments about me not being educated et al to, of all people on earth, my mom! So my MBA has far more significance than the Indo - US nuclear deal in Velachery area. For once I am giving the excuse Kollywood directors are fond of giving – Makkal idhai dhaan edhir parkaraanga!!.(This is what people expect!)

Now I understand why my friend paid that passing fee.

Anyways, my employers have not rejected me for the past seven years and that’s a comforting fact - helped me finish some of my financial commitments. And it’s good to get introduced to networking concepts and so on which I otherwise would’ve missed. I am not even sure if I will ever finish this MBA, but more likely I will figure out more about some of the subjects I liked in the course. Sh!!! Please don’t tell this to my mom