The F List
It had been a long time since I have been away from this site .But the recent suicide pulled me back to this.Before I dwell upon the suicide issue,I would rise a point about an important point-a point so frequently being rised in many forums ONLY inside IITK-The F List
To those of you who are not aware of what a F list is,here it goes-The F list is the list of the candidates who got an F(fail) grade in the subject.A common list is prepared for all the courses and is displayed near the UG office.Its updated everyday,right from the day the first course's grades get submitted.As such,its a common phenomena of displaying the F-list even before the exams get over in the first place for many.
The issue rised is this-The public display of ones so called "failure" effects ones ego and blah blah blah.............First-Yes,I agree that the display of the F list during the exam time is not a good idea.Do it after all the exams are over.This is feasible,as the exam dates' range is fixed.Now,some poppers who project themselves as the sympathisers of the downtrodden section-namely the F awardees give a solution for this as follows.-Dont display the F list at all and intimate the students through councellers aka sgs(another bunch of assholes,more about this later).This is a complete stupid way of doing thisngs.These poppers need to be chopped off.There are very few things the administration if IITK does right ,and these poppers want to wrong those too.The reason why I oppose this stupid idea is precisely this- Not all students who get an F expect an F beforehand,or atleast fear of one.This is particularly rampant in the IITKanpur ,thanx to the professors who keep changing the weightage of the course contents according to their whimps and fancies at any time without even making a formal announcement.You might popup and say-Hey buddy,where are you-the IITK constitution says that the weightage of different exams and other evalutaions has to be disclosed in the first week of the course.Me-Welcome to IITKanpur.Rules are the tools for manipulating you ,vested in the hands of the profs by profs,not for you to sheild or yield.In such cases,more often than not,its the students friends who happen to see his name in the F list and inform him by some means.This would give time for the student to plan his next semester-which courses to drop and which to take-And beleive me this is not an easy process.This phenomena becomes more severe for the AP(Academic Probation) students and the warning students,who have many things to do.If the guy gets to know that he got an F,he could save his termination by appealing to the human side of the other professor.You could challenge this reason-but I stick to my guns.And in case he is terminated,he has gonna do a lot of things,convince the parents that this is not the end of life and so on and on.....A direct termination letter in the hands of the parents without prior informing them is definitely not a confortable situation for the mental state of the student.
Ask any guy who has ever gotten an F or is under a probation or a warning,and 99 out of 100 will concur with my viewpoint.
So,my appeal to all those self-projected sympathisers of the self-seen F-listers as downtrodders is this- Stop this stupid request of asking the adminstration not to display the F list.It has more harm than good.And if you want to do something for the well being of the F lister,go ask them ,dont just keep farting at will .
To those of you who are not aware of what a F list is,here it goes-The F list is the list of the candidates who got an F(fail) grade in the subject.A common list is prepared for all the courses and is displayed near the UG office.Its updated everyday,right from the day the first course's grades get submitted.As such,its a common phenomena of displaying the F-list even before the exams get over in the first place for many.
The issue rised is this-The public display of ones so called "failure" effects ones ego and blah blah blah.............First-Yes,I agree that the display of the F list during the exam time is not a good idea.Do it after all the exams are over.This is feasible,as the exam dates' range is fixed.Now,some poppers who project themselves as the sympathisers of the downtrodden section-namely the F awardees give a solution for this as follows.-Dont display the F list at all and intimate the students through councellers aka sgs(another bunch of assholes,more about this later).This is a complete stupid way of doing thisngs.These poppers need to be chopped off.There are very few things the administration if IITK does right ,and these poppers want to wrong those too.The reason why I oppose this stupid idea is precisely this- Not all students who get an F expect an F beforehand,or atleast fear of one.This is particularly rampant in the IITKanpur ,thanx to the professors who keep changing the weightage of the course contents according to their whimps and fancies at any time without even making a formal announcement.You might popup and say-Hey buddy,where are you-the IITK constitution says that the weightage of different exams and other evalutaions has to be disclosed in the first week of the course.Me-Welcome to IITKanpur.Rules are the tools for manipulating you ,vested in the hands of the profs by profs,not for you to sheild or yield.In such cases,more often than not,its the students friends who happen to see his name in the F list and inform him by some means.This would give time for the student to plan his next semester-which courses to drop and which to take-And beleive me this is not an easy process.This phenomena becomes more severe for the AP(Academic Probation) students and the warning students,who have many things to do.If the guy gets to know that he got an F,he could save his termination by appealing to the human side of the other professor.You could challenge this reason-but I stick to my guns.And in case he is terminated,he has gonna do a lot of things,convince the parents that this is not the end of life and so on and on.....A direct termination letter in the hands of the parents without prior informing them is definitely not a confortable situation for the mental state of the student.
Ask any guy who has ever gotten an F or is under a probation or a warning,and 99 out of 100 will concur with my viewpoint.
So,my appeal to all those self-projected sympathisers of the self-seen F-listers as downtrodders is this- Stop this stupid request of asking the adminstration not to display the F list.It has more harm than good.And if you want to do something for the well being of the F lister,go ask them ,dont just keep farting at will .
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