It's the last Compre :-)

Compre is a term in BITSian parlance meaning – exam. It actually stands for comprehensive exam. And like everything else in Bits, it has a nice convenient shortened version. What we are going through in INSEAD makes one feel philosophical. Sometimes, you lose focus of the end goal and get lost in the world of doesn’t matters! Well, I know I’m making no sense here – but I shall type where my fingers take me.

So, all but 1 exam is left. We’ve been doing bad and worse among us. If we thought that the previous period exams were bad, this one’s running at worse right now! So, keeping fingers crossed for now. An easy exam is bad because everyone cracks it and we make the silly errors. A tough exam is bad because we don’t even understand the questions – so in short I hate exams. We hope and pray that this will be the last of the real serious exams to be written in INSEAD and hopefully lifeJ.

Coming back to the last compre phenomenon - we had this thing in BITS wherein the last compre was always neglected in terms of studies because everyone’s excited about going home from a God forsaken desert. Back to the niceties of getting pampered by parents and getting some rest and peace of mind. And guess what, INSEAD is turning out to be exactly like that in those terms. But unfortunately we’re all grown up adults now and the break is over before you even sleep through it!

Hopefully, this will also kick start my ability to write down and document things. Like I’ve always maintained, it’s so important to that in life – I think that’s where we Indians lost out – we forgot to document. It’s the chronicle of experiences that’s nice to go to later and have a laugh over. I’m also going to be playing in a basketball game tomorrow. That’s also not happened for a while now!

Till then …. Back to studies!

Cheers
Duncan