Want to know how to incur the wrath of 130 of your batch mates? A perfect setting - an open book (book, notes, printouts, etc etc) MIS exam - basically something which you can survive without much prior input. But then Mr.I-am-so-smart sends a mail to the prof which says
"Sir,
As it is an open book exam, why don't you allow laptops? Otherwise students take a lot of printouts and paper gets wasted."
He goes on to give this amazing statistic
"Even assuming each of us takes 100 prints (why would you!), it will be 13000 prints. blah blah"
Now no problem with the intention of the mail. Except that games are not to be played at such critical junctures.
Pat comes the reply from the prof
"Mr.suddenly-conscious-of-the-environment (or is it Mr.you-just-finished-your-print-balance?),
No, LAPTOPs are NOT allowed."
so far, ok, but, it didn't stop there..
"But just to make things simpler, let's NOT have anything apart from the book i.e. NO printouts."
And this came at 10 in the night when the world was just heading towards the Computer Center to take prints! Needless to say, all plans go haywire. 2 sections full of angry people. The guy would have been lynched.
Fortunately, our CR's negotiation skills came to the rescue! And the prof agreed to the original clauses. Normalcy, you are most welcome!
PS: Just a note about the SCM paper - ctrl C, ctrl V :D
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