Our MIS Class

It's a crazy class. We're expected to read and memorize a chapter of Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" before every class. Our teacher, Shakti Rana, takes a viva before each class, and grills us with obscure questions like 'Gates uses a nice phrase to explain the communications revolution that is about to take place. what was it?'. or, 'How old was Gates when he wrote his first program?', 'What is the full form of ASCII?'. It's a very enervating and nerve-racking experience.

Once he asked us all to draw as many menus items and the corresponding drop-down command items in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint as we can remember . It was a pretty hard exercise!

However, the classes are interesting, I must admit. He gives all funny anecdotes and tells absurd stories.

One time he even told the joke of a poor boy who was forced by the teacher to count 5+5, with both of his hands in his pocket (The boy naively replies '11').

I was tempted to say that if he had to answer in the binary system, he would have said:
11111 010 11111