First Thought- No edits

I was thinking how should my blog be? The only answer I could think of is that it should be an honest reflection of my thoughts and my feelings at a point in time. Good, bad, pure, muddled, angry, revolting - shouldn't matter. Honest, Period.

Editing and revising to make a blog look good will mask feelings even if you don't intend, which I want to avoid. Editing, in my rule book, is to correct for grammatical mistakes only.

Let Truth Prevail - even if it's ugly!

Egos in the classroom

Have been taking a class from a professor who considers himself as a great strategist, but goes to every nook and corner of the case without addressing the core question. He claims to have a consulted with 50+ companies and has a book with a cheesy title modeled on the " Blue Ocean Strategy" to his credit. What he says in his book is not unreasonable, but in no way is it a fountain of great insights either. And the book is repetitive. Well, you may want to drive reader home with a point, but repeating it in all 40 chapters gets the better of the reader. I wouldn't have been in the course and read his book if it were not a core requirement.

And what puts me off is the monstrous ego of this little man. I asked him a question on the relevance of an analysis he conducted to the decision the protagonist of the case took. In fact, aware of my tendency to put off people by my harsh sounding ways ( Believe me, I am a good guy, just sound intimidating at times), I was polite enough to ask " If the analysis were to show otherwise, would the protagonist have considered an alternate course of action? If I were him, I would have done what he did irrespective of what this particular analysis showed". That was enough to hurt him. He went on and on about how he knew the protagonist and how the protagonist was a dumb-ass who didn't know this analysis and so on, without answering my question at all.

What's more, in the next case, despite me raising my hand whenever he asked a question, he never called on me to answer. So much for class participation. It carries 50% weight towards final grade. So, his intent is to flunk me and I understand it fully well. Halfway through the class, I lost my patience and stopped raising my hand. In five minutes, I felt like testing him. I kept my hand raised for the rest of the class to test if he would call on me. And he didn't. If he were to, I am sure I would have stumbled for ideas and words. But he didn't. Now, I had been testing him and his ego. The final laugh was mine!!

Is it professor's way of saying " I can get you if I want?". Would you really want to study with such teachers? I would get away if I could.

This is a great school with many great professors and leaders in many field. And not many years have gone by in the last two decades, when the institute didn't win a Nobel. And there are many great professors too. And there are bad ones too.Most students praise their schools in their blog, say only good things filtering out the bad ones.

Apologize for not composing this post well - neatly structuring it, etc. But, Who has the time? I need to prepare for the next case with the hope that my luck could change.