Mr. Parkinson to the rescue!!!

The Parkinson principle:
For those of you who want to read the actual theory, I can guarantee that its a good read. For those of you who are too lazy to google that (Im guessing almost all of you), a short summary -If there is a deadline at 6, start working on it at 5. Any time earlier is simply a waste of time.

To add a corollary to that, when you have the most F***ed up term in the whole b-school life, where every prof is intent in setting you ass on fire, somehow you sit back in the middle of the term, at one of those rare free sundays that you get (isnt it supposed to be a holiday??), and reflect back on how youve lazed around more this term than any other term in college so far (or the previous one for that matter). Really, Im thinking of all the things I did my first two terms (Not much, agreed, but still something is better than nothing).. and compare it with this term. So I came up with an exhaustive list of everything I did this term.. this is what the list looks like

Study - Are you kidding me
Assignments, prepare for exams - You are kidding me now!
Outings - Wish I had
Birdwatching - sadly seems the birds too have assignments :(
Hanging out with friends - same for friends
play a game - oh yeah.. minesweeper and solitaire anyone
call a friend - and what, transfer your depression onto them...

The list goes on and on, but I wont bore you further. So there you have it - this is said to be the hardest term in the whole 2 years and I am realizing more and more about how I flushed Rs 1million down the drain. Funny thing is there are 239 guys and girls around me in the same boat.

Hence whenever someone complains about difficult time, just remind them that its just the opportune moment to prove Mr Parkinson (God bless him) right. once again. after countless other. and looking at it that way atleast helps easing your feeling of guilt. I could go on and say that this is probably the greatest discovery made by man since fire and murphy's law(God bless him too). Because I find it deeply gratifying that even my amazing heights of laziness has an excuse and the next time I feel like lazing around, I need to see no further than Mr.Parkinson for reasons..

Adios, V

So heres the second installment.. coming after some time, and I ask myself what has changed.... well a lot, although the answer to the question still remains six times seven.........

Since Im pretending to study at a "Leading Business school in India" (wow! that sounds nice!!!)... ill share my 10 most important learning from B-school life so far............ in no particular order
1. People can be cut throat:- Not that I didnt know it... but never realized that people can be "cut-throat" cut-throat... I am not one.. but for how long?
2. All the good girls in a B-school are taken even before they come here:- All the about to be cupid struck nerds can still keep dreaming, for love does happen, but most often when a girl approaches a guy and bats her eye-lids, she is most probably thinking "How much can I possibly get the most benefit out of this idiot".
3. 24 hours a day is too little: - doesnt leave time for eatouts, booze parties, nightouts doing nothing..... the list is endless :(
4. The most efficient way to spend time in a lecture is to sleep through it:- understood best once the starry eyed kid makes it to the B-school........
5. There is such a thing as good global and a bad global:- going from bad to good requires a great deal of practice and an even greater measure of shamelessness.
6. B-school is a glorified placement centre:- simply because the students make it so, and I frankly dont understand why do people get so worked up about it...
7. The only thing you learn in a b-school is to manage time, and how to stay awake thru the night and act alert in class the next day..........
8. Most of the extradordinary stuff that people said they did is usually blown out of proportion.... and most of the extraordinary stuff people do barely gets a mention....
9. Life is cruel.........
10. And finally its a strange world... you quit a job, spend the next two years doing "effectively" nothing after paying some one some 10+ lakh rupees....... and still there is some one out there who is ready to recruit you again for more than what you paid............

Yes.. Hello and Welcome to the Uncoolfrood's second first post...

After an uncountable number of people had died from self asphyxiation after reading my first blog ( By the time you are reading this, the count for the second account might have started as well)... I thought hell wtf, lifes getting a bit boring.. lets get away from this blogging thingy for a while.

But having done that for an exact duration of 9 days 12 hours 45 minutes and 27 seconds as of writing this post. I felt myself drawn back to this just like a nicotine addict trying to give up cigarettes ( I must know this, after all Ive been everyday for the past three years.. only to get into the habit the next day)..

so good day to all of you and for those of you who do read this.. well kinda nice to know that Im not the only guy in this world without any work to do all day long.

PS. Salute to Douglas Adams, who wrote the greatest book that was ever written in this world, nay the galaxy. My new name in inspired from his books of course...