Man! My blogs are getting less frequent. There's a possibility of them becoming rare.

The last two weeks were a grind. We're almost halfway through the syllabus in Geography! Actually, it's weird. We're going to finish an entire discipline in three months. Sometimes I pity all those Arts students who spend four to six years in university learning Geography.

It's getting more interesting and more philosophical. Section A in Paper I is Physical Geography. That is what Geography is to many minds until they realize there's lots more when Section B i.e., Human Geography comes up. We start off with the philosophical part i.e., 'geographical thought' as it is called and then how geography evolved as a discipline, why it went through a severe identity crisis and how it is becoming an increasingly complex discipline, thereby finding fewer and fewer scholars and rapidly alienating financial support.

Well, sometimes it's a bore. Not really a bore but a strain on the brain. There are too many theories and contributors, starting from Eratosthenes to Immanuel Kant to Dudley Stamp (includes even Homer, Strabo, Ptolemy – the one who wrote "Geographie", Herodotus, Hipparchus, Thales, Anaximander!). Add to those a world of philosophical concepts, which have been applied to Geography, like Determinism, Environmental Determinism, Neodeterminism, Cultural Determinism, Possibilism, Neopossiblism, Behaviouralism, Humanism, Idealism, Phenomenology, Existentialism…. phew!

Every person comes up with his own concept. Basically, he identifies the limitations of a previous theory and tries to come up with a new theory to overcome those limitations and of course he picks up concepts from previous theories again and puts them in his theory. Now, some other guy picks up the limitations in this theory and moves on in the same fashion. In the end, you're left with a big cocktail. It's a spider web. It's like undigested food. The brain rots!

The third test that we had on Sunday was a disaster. After writing the tests, I've been realizing why this exam is so difficult. It's not about knowing. It's about presenting what you know well. Your answers must be needle sharp, concise and at the same time accomodate all required points and of course, there's the time constraint. Three 600 worders, three 200 worders and a map in three hours. That seems okay at first thought but it's difficult because as I said, the answers must be needle sharp, concise and accomodate all points. It's difficult especially because I come from an engineering background. I'm used to writing everything that is related and not related to the topic in the question ; )

Coming to General Studies, it looks like it's going smooth but I realized that's not quite the case. I finished a 100 question paper on Ancient Indian History in just over a half hour! I find History to be an extremely interesting subject. The classes were very interesting too and at times even entertaining with Mr. Sreenayya teaching us. But the problem is you have to remember a lot of names and places. That's where I lost it.

Oops! It's 12 O' Clock. Gotta go and study!