Thought Overflow

Back when I was in 9th class (or was it 10th?), Hyderabad witnessed furious rains that flooded a small open drain (the best English translation of nala I could come up with) in Begumpet, which caused school to be shut down for about a week or so. This happened very close to exam time, and we ended up getting an unexpected vacation right before the exams. The anti-climax arrived in the form of the results; I ended up doing pretty badly in those exams (and so did most of the class, if I remember right). At that point, I remember a teacher remarking that had it not been for the break before the exams, all the students would have probably done better.

I thought it strange at the time to think that a refreshing break would have resulted in a drop in performance, but it seems to make sense now. There’s a certain inertia to performance. For the past week, classes in XLRI had been suspended for a major event, and we’re back to the normal routine from Tuesday. I have mid-terms scheduled on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (WTF, literally). I tried reading for one today, and I found it close to impossible to get my mind on my studies. All I wanted to do was chill out. Because that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing for the last couple of days. It’s not so easy to break a habit.

Anyway, this is just something I noticed that I thought I’d blog about. Have you ever felt anything similar? Let me know by leaving comments!