MIRE- THE WORD

This was a blog written by me last year i guess... But because i didnt have time (always a good excuse) or i wasnt confident enough, i didnt post it...

Posting the blog now... many things written in this have become stale (we dont talk about giving GRE or CAT anymore) but i hope everyone who reads it will like it, post their comments n encourage me to write further...

Starting my blogging career with the most serious discussions which was gng on in the 3rd year- giving GRE or CAT!


MIRE OF THOUGHTS


The word MIRE in the title has a very interesting story behind it. Though I pride myself on liking and understanding english (comparitively more than maths), I am a total loser for vocabulary. Reading comprehension is my forte but vocabulary is the exact opposite of forte (whatever that is) . So the thought of giving GRE never even entered my mind ( one more reason being I am totally and completely bored of studying anything technical-transistors,diodes,resistors blow my mind off (maybe I should say this after clearing this last year, still.. ) ).

Anyways though I am not in the GRE race (I was going to be in the CAT race but I think I will run the race next year), there are many aspirants in each and every 'last year' class. The most favourable time of the year to give GRE being August,September, many in the class are frantically studying from the flash cards in lectures by keeping the cards in desks,notebooks pages etc (The small,concise cards are a great help and easy to hide.. a lot of thought has gone into its making I guess!).

Me not going to give GRE still not wanting to listen to the boring,drab lectures going on,started
borrowing cards from friends and reading it (not so seriously obviously... CAT aspirants can get off without vocabulary,atleast thats my belief maybe because I do not want to learn words which are not remembered later at all..) There was this word 'mire' which went under my eyes never reaching to my brain and till I declared that card to be done it wasnt even in the periphery( no proximity sensor could have found it).

The next day in my CAT class while reading some comprehension passage, the word 'mire' suddenly loomed in front of my eyes.I knew I had read the word yesterday in the card, could even remember the exact location of the word on the card but try as I might I couldnt for the life of me recall what the meaning was. The word in the passage was used in general and the passage could have been completely solved without even knowing the meaning of the word but I couldnt get the word out of my very rarely inquisitive mind.

The next day in class I caught up with the friend whose card I had borrowed and who was doing the same words as me the previous day and asked her the meaning. Being a very serious GRE giver she had to think for about 5 seconds and gave me the meaning. Now my mind was at rest knowing the meaning of the word which had bothered me the whole night.

So much goes into remembering one word. Imagine doing 4000 words. Sorry guys GRE is not for me!

There are many cards(about a 10 which I had declared to be done from which I remember a very few words-affable,senile etc (dont remember the rest)).

And for those who dont know the meaning, it means 'to entangle'.

So from here goes...'MY ENTANGLED THOUGHTS'.