FACULTY EVALUATION

LET ME REMIND PEOPLE OVER HERE. THE FACULTY EVALUATION IS TO STATE WHAT HAPPENS IN CLASS, HOW CAN THE TEACHER DO A BETTER JOB AND WHAT IS THE TEACHER DOING WRONG. THIS IS BY NO MEANS A PLACE TO INSULT THE TEACHER. KINDLY REFRAIN FROM SUCH REMARKS IN THE FACULTY EVALUATION.

ITS SUPPOSED TO BE A SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE TEACHER TO WORK IN COHERENCE WITH THE OBJECTIVE NUMBER GRADING THAT THE STUDENTS DONT TAKE SERIOUSLY.

USE THIS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE. PRAISE TEACHERS WHO ACTUALLY ARE INTERESTED IN TEACHING YOU AND ARE NOT JUST READING OUT OF A BOOK. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD YOU CAN DO THAT ON YOUR OWN. A TEACHER IS SUPPOSED TO TEACH YOU BEYOND THE BOOK. THE BOOK IS JUST A REFERENCE TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND CONCEPTS.

MIDTERMS AFTERMATH

What happened after both the mid terms ended?

I was flooded with six submissions for six courses. It was hectic. i was not studying. i was making one project after another, co-ordinating with no less than eight people for four projects. and heading two projects on my own and giving four presentations. and the month just went by in a flurry. i didnt manage to study anything that was being taught. and believe me not much was taught.

and the last submission was four days before the finals start. and the finals..

(with the exception of IBA in Karachi)

this is an excerpt from The News article by Afiya Shehrbano. Refering to the previous post of IBA not in the political protest while the others clearly are upfront and blunt about it.

“The other two more exciting protests that reclaimed the public and private have been the ones observed resurgent amongst students and on the streets these past two weeks. There are two critical factors here. First, it has been the private universities that have taken an unapologetically political stand (with the exception of IBA in Karachi). Second, the street politics has not necessarily mobilized the masses or proletariat in terms of the romanticized image that a revolution presupposes. Instead, mainly the more experienced activists who protested through previous dictatorships and who are no strangers to police violence or jails have led it. At the same time it has included a new generation of the ‘coffee shop’ variety who are now also officially, children of dictatorship. The experiential gap between the two is obvious but as they discuss and learn from each other, a new space is being made“

the source

NO PROTEST IN IBA

IBA seem too self-engrossed  to take a peek at the country’s situation. Students well almost everywhere are protesting and we see no such effort from the IBA students nor the IBA faculty to actually lodge a protest, hold a vigil or even a hunger strike.

We just don’t really care if Pakistan goes to the dogs[which it is going to , by the way] we’d rather be more interested in who could be possibly going out with whom, or who got more marks in the paper or who broke up with who, or which teacher has reached first place on the “i hate these teachers list”

Time to rise up, and raise our heads, our voices..