Now my computer science teacher was a really smart guy. Leslie Godin was the kind of guy, who could deal you straight in poker, but you'd just fold in thinking it was crap. He taught me an important lesson in quite a funny way, I hope you like it.
It was our 12th board exams prelims and as my computer science teacher, he wanted to ensure we were well prepared when the real boards came in a few months time. So he set quite a difficult exam.
I was however supremely confident that I was going to beat his prediction that over half the class would flunk, me included!! Why, you ask? Well sitting next to me was a whizz kid Harkwal Singh, and sitting next to him the Danny Ocean of my class, me!! Perfect!!
Now during the exams, I knew only 4 out of 12 problems and I had to attempt at least 8. No problem, I got to work. Leslie invigilated the exam and to my surprise some of my brazen moves (cheating wise) just didn't register with him. Cool, I was too good for the so called "fox in the box"!! I had it so easy that, I attempted 9 problems, needless to say, so did Harkawal.
Come the day of the result, Harkawal gets 88% and I get 44%!!!!!!! WTF!!! I confidently walked up to Leslie believing he must have made a mistake. I told Leslie out of the 9 problems attempted I was certain at least 7 were spot on!
To my surprise Leslie looked up to me and said,"Son you're wrong, you didn't get 7 right, you got 9 right, well almost right. You just forgot to put a name on your answer sheet!" I replied,"Bu sir, I did write my name." He replied,"Yes you did, but it was the wrong name, had you written Kaushik Harkawal Singh Majumdar, you would have scored 94%!!" He continued,"son if you must cheat, then cheat smart!"
I knew better than to argue, just melted into my seat, loving every mark of the 44 I did get!!
So long :)
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