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I hated Chemistry. I still do. I loved Math and Physics, also Geography. So, there was no way I was going to pass my 10+2 (last school year) without cheating an

I hated Chemistry. I still do. I loved Math and Physics, also Geography. So, there was no way I was going to pass my 10+2 (last school year) without cheating and I am lucky that I somehow managed to cheat. I wish I could have cheated better so that the meagre Chemistry score couldn't bring my total % to around 75. Anyway, bygone is bygone. The matters were made worse by the uninterested, unintuitive and unqualified teachers (no exception), outdated and idiotic curricula, arcane books written in an ad-hoc manner, uninteresting tests. Everything was showing just one solution - rote, which I am pathologically allergic too (though sometimes I wish I had just done it like everybody else and this what I told my younger brother). The result is I didn't study Math, didn't study Physics either and certainly didn't study Geography. I took up Computer Science - just because it has the jobs. All along knowing fully well that you end up being a clerk or a daily wage worker (or a teacher which has a similar pay; professorship is rare) in this country if you try to follow your passion in studies and study anything other than a course that gives you a professional degree. Another path was to have rich parents who can send you to The Fancy University of UK/USA/West to study psychology/political science/geography and what not. This was certainly not under my control. Well, that's my reason.

mwfunk 13y ago
Those are excuses, not reasons.
- anon4 13y ago
  What's the difference?
  - Pacabel 13y ago
    "Reasons" are merely statements of why something is as it is. Justification isn't used. "Excuses" try to put an unjustifiably positive (or perhaps a less-negative) slant on the explanation of why something is as it is. balladeer wrote things like, "So, there was no way I was going to pass my 10+2 (last school year) without cheating and I am lucky that I somehow managed to cheat." and, "I wish I could have cheated better so that the meagre Chemistry score couldn't bring my total % to around 75." To me, those appear to try to make it sound like the cheating was somehow okay, or even a good thing, even though this cheating was apparently covering up a lack of ability. They aren't merely saying why cheating was used; they try to make it sound acceptable, when it clearly isn't.
    - balladeer 13y ago
      You have completely misread it. The only thing I wanted to convey was: "I didn't have an option". You want to debate why and how I didn't have an option? Well, you are welcome to do it but my answer would be simple and I've typed most in my original comment. > covering up a lack of ability I hope you were not simply trying to be mean. > they try to make it sound acceptable I am not sure whether I am right replying to your highly judgemental comment but anyway I did. And yes, you are almost entirely off the mark and wrong.

mwfunk 13y ago

Those are excuses, not reasons.

anon4 13y ago
What's the difference?
- Pacabel 13y ago
  "Reasons" are merely statements of why something is as it is. Justification isn't used. "Excuses" try to put an unjustifiably positive (or perhaps a less-negative) slant on the explanation of why something is as it is. balladeer wrote things like, "So, there was no way I was going to pass my 10+2 (last school year) without cheating and I am lucky that I somehow managed to cheat." and, "I wish I could have cheated better so that the meagre Chemistry score couldn't bring my total % to around 75." To me, those appear to try to make it sound like the cheating was somehow okay, or even a good thing, even though this cheating was apparently covering up a lack of ability. They aren't merely saying why cheating was used; they try to make it sound acceptable, when it clearly isn't.
  - balladeer 13y ago
    You have completely misread it. The only thing I wanted to convey was: "I didn't have an option". You want to debate why and how I didn't have an option? Well, you are welcome to do it but my answer would be simple and I've typed most in my original comment. > covering up a lack of ability I hope you were not simply trying to be mean. > they try to make it sound acceptable I am not sure whether I am right replying to your highly judgemental comment but anyway I did. And yes, you are almost entirely off the mark and wrong.