My Quantitative Methods(qm) prof is a funny guy. He used to take exams for us in this subject. For those exams he carefully designs the questions so as to make us laugh in the exam hall with the question sheet in the hand.
Most of his questions will be having an intro-story. The stories are most probably related to real events in the college or its current trends. Or he will be discussing terrorist organisations. These are his favourite areas of research.
I really appreciate his sense of humour and creativity and observation skills.
Some examples of his intro-stories are worth cherishing forever. These examples are from a recent test. One more speciality is that this is the first test in SPjimr in which i got full marks.
Here it goes:
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1. An interesting syndrome, called the ESYS (End-session Yawning Syndrome) has been recently discovered in PGP – I. The symptoms emerge only if a session exceeds its time limit by more than 3 minutes. As this is a highly infectious disease, participants who want to be in the good books of faculty are scared. Last week, one such participant invented a test called Apalascopy (named after the inventor) that can detect ESYS at early stage.
2. Requests have been coming to Admin for change of hostel rooms because of snoring roommates. Being sympathetic to the requests, the Admin conducted a survey to find out whether snoring is related to blockage of nostrils or high stress level during the day. Snorers were divided into two categories: (i) irritating snorers and (ii) soothing snorers. The study was limited to the GH only as it was impossible to locate a soothing snorer in BH.
3. Due to acute water shortage, many participants are developing a habit of not taking bath (except on Thursdays and Sundays) before coming to class. However, they do not want to be caught red-handed. Hence, they sprinkle water on their head and apply lot of body spray to create an impression that they take bath everyday, come what may. The SPJIMR Admin and BMC are happy as this saves water, money and time.
4. For most programs at SPJIMR the PG Lab concept is applicable. Apart from serving other academic purposes, participants unanimously agree that it brings the batch closer. Fortunately or unfortunately, every PG lab ends up bringing a few participants (without gender-bias) so close that they start sharing one soul. Hence, quite a few spare souls hang around as unidentified ghostly objects or UGOs without finding a body to enter for quite some time. An empirical data of such UGOs from the current PGP Batch over the next 100 hours of their PG Lab is as given below.
5. Participants are trying to finish their Abhyudaya visits before afternoons to avoid mosquito bites. Others, who do not have any choice, apply Odomos on themselves and their laptops, before the visits. Despite taking precautionary steps, there are cases of mosquito bites, as the mosquito community has developed an antidote for Odomos. The mosquito bites in slums are expected to follow a Poisson distribution with an average of 3.5. The statistics of mosquito bites on last Sunday is as follows.
Orkut's Today's fortune for today: Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Jo
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