Persistent Bunking: A retrospective

Republishing a 3rd year blog post

January 14, 2008

Hard to believe. There had been days when the attendance were 99% or more, when even a thought of bunking a class didnt cross my mind. Those have been long past. Now traversing a U-turn, havent thought a day to attend the classes. The college has changed it all, even if it is a medical college which according to many are homes to studious & punctual book-worms. Mornings are colder, afternoons are drowsier and walking to the college is more tiresome than before. Perhaps a 3rd year syndrome.

The attendance now drops to about 1 in 13 days for the gynaec posting, to a complete 0 for radiodiagnosis. And they are saying the postings for bunking are yet to come like dental etc. "You all are the ones who are increasing the suicide rates in this state"- this was what we heard after a brief bunking of 5 days in Psychiatry.

But nothing reaches near surgery where the professors themselves make you understand that staying in hostel or home will make you more brilliant than wasting time and space in the operation theatre. For that, could anyone scold me for attending a whole lot of 3 days in 3 month posting.

A persistent dialogues from the professors "Sit in the class only if you want to hear the lecture. Otherwise better get out, I will give all of you attendance" (but never happened). Moreover those departments having more female teachers and having no other job at all such as the non-clinical subjects like anatomy, physiology, pharmacology grill the students for attendance.

The final destiny would be University itself, where you have to pay some pretty good amount as Contentation or contemptation(Actually i dont know its spelling) fee. And if its for more than one subjects, thorough study in the same semester for one more year would satisfy them...