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The Fool's Journey
2001-11-10 01:26:53 (UTC)

Lab Experiments

I am in the lab now with students doing their lab
experiments. They are often quite unsure of the whole idea
of the experiment, but they do it nonetheless. Following
the steps clearly written out (at least for most of the
time, though at times it borders on ambiguity) in the lab
sheets, they are quite capable of plugging the wires and
turning the knobs. Then, they write down the results and in
discussion, they would simply state the obvious.
There are also some who would just attend the lab sessions
to register their attendance (in some cases, absence from
lab sessions could get you barred from the finals), and
who'd then just sit idly (if he can maintain wakefulness)
and watch his lab partner do all the work. And then, the
chap would do a little bit of copying his partner's report,
at times plagiarising it to an extent of a complete mess,
and get by doing that, amazingly.
So, bungling their way through countless lab sessions, they
would eventually graduate, some even with top honours. Life
is pretty much like these lab sessions too.
You come to this world hardly knowing what the heck goes
on, careening down the highway they call life. On this
highway of life, there will be signboards, showing you
directions, but sometimes like a lab experiment, the
signboards are no better than the label on your usual pack
of breakfast cereal. But you'd still pull through and hand
up the written report on time- sort of. Somehow you would
still make sense out of this upturned society, this chaotic
and often unforgiving world. And probably one day in May,
you'd be like me, strolling down the aisle watching the
students fumble at their attempts to measure gravity- you'd
realise that it actually make sense after all.




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