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JU has this system called ‘tutorials’ under which a few students are assigned to a teacher, who would seek her out every Wednesday afternoon to slog through two boring hours of a ‘tutorial’ on a topic that the teacher would assign. We were told that the system is a borrowing form Oxbridge . I shall have something more to say about this system at some other place, but for the time being let’s focus on this charming anecdote.
Each year, a new teacher is assigned to a new group of students. During my third year I chanced upon a particularly ferocious specimen and wanted to be reassigned. A fellow colleague also shared the same predicament. So we two went to the ‘co-ordinator’ taking our case. We presented our case, asking to be reassigned to another teacher. She heard us through, and then she asked: “Who are you?”
I could not decide whether it was a commentary on our status or her memory….

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