Be more, Do more and Have more

The words in the title belongs to Ron Malhotra but it was introduced to us by Joju sir in this week's class. And just like that we are back to online classes after a long break. It was quite an eventful couple of weeks, we had our model exams, submissions, exams and finally Onam@🏡 with loved ones.

The week kickstarted with Ancy ma'am's 'warm up' class. We didn't start any new topic but ma'am helped to set the tone for our upcoming classes.

The most learned subject of the week was Psychology. Since, Ancy ma'am couldn't teach her classes due to some inconvenience, Giby ma'am got ahead with the portions. The topic of ' 'Remembering & Forgetting' introduced us to a lot of techniques to improve memory. Moreover ma'am did a fun exercise where each one of us shared certain 'shortcuts' to remember difficult facts. I think those shortcuts can easily equip one to write government exams.

In philosophy, we dealt with Buddhism and its principles. There are so many meaningful principles and quotes of Buddha that each of us irrespective of their relegion must try to abide by.

As always Joju sir's class is always filled with fun facts and stories. This week we focused on cognitive domian of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Finally, for optional class we started off and almost finished the first unit of Edu 10.

We have a series of deadlines to be met, I hope my laziness won't turn it into a huge pile of undone work.

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