"I don't believe in dinosaurs." he said.
Everyone was astonished, silent for a moment. I guess everyone, including me, never actually heard anyone disregard the existence of dinosaurs with such lack of interest before.
"But the bones..." "The bones can be made up, it doesn't proof anything." Everyone went silent. Then what does?
What
else there is?
Out of all my lecturers so far, the one who left the biggest impression is Dr. Hikmatullah (Sir Sharyar is a close second, but that's a discussion for a much later date), he wasn't particularly fierce, nor was he strict about anything. He's a pretty laid back person who is the islamic revealed knowledge version of dead poet society's lit teacher portrayed by Robin Williams. Well, kind of.
He gave no quizzes, no assignments, no midterms, final exams is just a formality for him, he would've excluded that too from the workload if he had the power (his words not mine), he genuinely has a strong belief in 100 pages assignments in groups he forms arbitrarily. It's good practice, but so so overwhelming. I had several mental breakdowns regarding my group members' nonexistent urge to feel responsible for their parts. It was so hard and tiring that I was determined not to take the succeeding subjects for the next four semesters, until I had exactly one left for each. But somehow I have ended up in a situation where I am registered to Dr. Hikmatullah's ungs2050 class section 26.
Is this the right decision?
I've been rewatching House and there's this scene in the first episode of season 6 where Dr. Nolan's father needs to be unplugged from his life support and he calls House over to see the charts whether it would be the right dcision, whether his dad has a chance of living or not. What's interesting is that the charts' results are so clear and it's obvious to any doctor that his dad doesn't stand a chance, there was no need to call the genius diagnostic doctor over to have a second opinion, he just wanted to have his actions justified. Needs to be told that it is the right decision.
Well is it?
I'm having another dilemma regarding schedule choices (this is giving me a really hard time, scheduling is the most important thing I cannot screw this up), Computer Architecture and Assembly Language is giving me a real headache. Computer Organization during first year was okay, I mean I had my episodes, but it was a happy ending. Digital System on the other hand was a different story, and Computer Architecture being a combination of both makes things worse. My initial plan was to just go to classes for the semester, but not register for them. So I won't feel the burden of understanding it, I'd have notes and quizzes and the experience enough so when I go to actual classes next semester, I am very prepared. It's the perfect plan.
But the thing is Prof Wahab might retire next semester, and nobody is ever more generous than Prof Wahab in terms of grading and rewarding points. If he's not teaching next semester's CAAL, this changes everything.
And I'm contemplating whether I should apply for niche areas, they'd probably be more considerate than public speaking I mean. but but, the procedure is so tedious /sobs/
I have a very unstable schedule. One 2 O'clock class on Mondays and Wednesdays, a fair amount of 8 til 5 classes on Tuesday, and a whopping 8 in the morning til 10 at night for Thurdays.
There's got to be a health code violation there somewhere.
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