Thanks Google!!!!!!!
Being less than three years in the self proclaimed “premier institute of IT and management” has been compelling enough for me to get indulged in assignments which are not to my liking but will surely be beneficial in the long run. The projects assigned vary from coding a chat server , finding out case studies , laborious and extensive Data Structure write up ,developing a online tests system upto the mother of them all the OS assignment which will make us a shell developer alongwith cognizant of four journals atleast on paper.The whole concept of better marks and grades for the better project(is a better word than assignment) irrespective of the fact the person showing it has made it or not, sucks . According to me the notion of assigning the tasks should be to literally force the student to learn something(just something not more, considering the attitude of the students) about it and then proceed to complete the task at hand partially or fully. It should be made sure that the work given gets completed by the student himself rather than by the search engines. With the advent of the internet the search engines rather than student do all the effort and the best alternative possible found by google or for that matter any engine finds its way into the answer books.
But all is not easy even if google does all the work the problem lies in the fact that google gives the same results everytime so if the assignment is given to a class of 64 students most of them end up submitting the same work considering the expertise we all have acquired in googling or yahooing. Now how do students handle this problem of same results in answer books , they then google and find out more search engines where they can find out something different from others. The more search engines the person knows the better his project regardless of the knowledge he posseses. I myself when starting a project don’t like to ask about the project but want to know about the the search engine to be used, keyword to be searched and the link to be followed. You see it is easy , we here make work assigned to be completed as simple and algorithimic(even though we haven’t had a class of algorithms in this sem) as possible afterall we are IT engineers.There are three independent steps for completion of every project ( so our algo has the maximum cohesion).
1. Find out the search engine to be used
2. Keyword to be searched
3. Link to be followed
So we follow the OOPS top down approach as well as the laws of friction and make it a point not to start a project from scratch.
Now after the searching the link almost everyone ends up most of the times is US universities websites where the students have uploaded their assignment. Since blogs are a world forum I would like to take this opportunity (on behalf of the Indian student community,if Im allowed to) to thank all US students to continue up the good work so that we can survive .
We being in India(a place far from USA) don’t know that even US students completed it by themselves or not , so we all assume it must have its genesis in US by default (note the computer jargon usage) and we copied it down. The students here master in masquerading there expertise and feel that use of hi-fi computer jargons would hold them in good stead in life.
This is how the Indian universities are surviving or atleast engg. students subsisting? Doesn’t the faculty, higher authorities know bout the techniques employed by the student or they turn a cold face towards it , doesn’t the student realize that this would hamper him in future or student think that “all is well that ends well” and faculty ponders that “live and let live” because they themselves did the same when they were students.
God save the Indian education system.
But all is not easy even if google does all the work the problem lies in the fact that google gives the same results everytime so if the assignment is given to a class of 64 students most of them end up submitting the same work considering the expertise we all have acquired in googling or yahooing. Now how do students handle this problem of same results in answer books , they then google and find out more search engines where they can find out something different from others. The more search engines the person knows the better his project regardless of the knowledge he posseses. I myself when starting a project don’t like to ask about the project but want to know about the the search engine to be used, keyword to be searched and the link to be followed. You see it is easy , we here make work assigned to be completed as simple and algorithimic(even though we haven’t had a class of algorithms in this sem) as possible afterall we are IT engineers.There are three independent steps for completion of every project ( so our algo has the maximum cohesion).
1. Find out the search engine to be used
2. Keyword to be searched
3. Link to be followed
So we follow the OOPS top down approach as well as the laws of friction and make it a point not to start a project from scratch.
Now after the searching the link almost everyone ends up most of the times is US universities websites where the students have uploaded their assignment. Since blogs are a world forum I would like to take this opportunity (on behalf of the Indian student community,if Im allowed to) to thank all US students to continue up the good work so that we can survive .
We being in India(a place far from USA) don’t know that even US students completed it by themselves or not , so we all assume it must have its genesis in US by default (note the computer jargon usage) and we copied it down. The students here master in masquerading there expertise and feel that use of hi-fi computer jargons would hold them in good stead in life.
This is how the Indian universities are surviving or atleast engg. students subsisting? Doesn’t the faculty, higher authorities know bout the techniques employed by the student or they turn a cold face towards it , doesn’t the student realize that this would hamper him in future or student think that “all is well that ends well” and faculty ponders that “live and let live” because they themselves did the same when they were students.
God save the Indian education system.
posted by this is me at 11:00 AM
3 Comments:
Since I am also in the same institute as you, I must agree. I have undergone the same projects, same assignments and same case studies.
I know that we plagiarise our works, claiming what is not ours. Copy cats as some people termed. But we are not suppose to produce reports and write journals of our own. They are the works of non-sensical PhD guys who have no work but to ponder upon their exact one area of interest.
And about he coding thing, yes, it is expected of us to do the project, but what better way to do it then use reusable codes from others? We have been taught throughout our time here to use reusable codes. They say, don't reinvent the wheel. So, what better way to follow their teaching then reusing the whole readily available codes from the net!! That way we are fulfilling their wishes.
So search engines are like engines that reproduces wheels. So intead of reinventing the wheel everytime me do a project, we just reproduce a wheel from the search engine.
Ofcourse the teacher must understand it too.
It has been alwas taught to us to follow the tried and tested tradition. So we follow on those footsteps. Why make a newly own made project instead of doing what all the other people are doing? I had the painful experience of doing exactly that. I made a wholely different type of project while all the other students made it in the tried and tested common one. And what did I get? Less Grade.
Ofcourse, we must be thankful to those who make this possible. Those charitable US guys. I do not know what we would have done without these guys. Probably struct in our first project still now. God forbid such thing from happening.
We must worship Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, Altavista and all the other search engines with due devotion for they gave us life in this otherwise difficult world which is full of difficult assignment.
Without change there would be stagnation and decay. But then progress for progress's sake must be discourage for the tried and tested tradition often requires no tinkering. So a balance between the new and old, between tradition and innovation must be made.
I thank my Maker, that, in the midst of judgement, he has remembered mercy.
The immmense help that the copy paste program has provided us,I would suggest that the Allen Turing award should be given to the benevolent saint who first implemented it, both in hardware in software.
nice to be here
u have been writing for long n i never had a clue to it...hmm bad ;)
read ur earlier posts as well
for me this blog place represents nothin but a place where the "other" me takes over..the other which never comes out..which is there but just wrapped in covers
these blogs, if a person is true here, lets you know a lot about the person writing them. so for me its a way of knowing others better
as for google....its GOD...atleast for me
and not updated for a long time...do it right now
take care n forget the thesarus buddy
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