Yesterday being a Saturday, we dont have our mess and we need to go out for food.....oh...what a perfect stone age men we turned out to be...searching for food and finding every outlet closed...ofcourse as we were immersed in the Padaiyappa, we forgot the time and when we really realised the time, it was well pass 8.30 and here in this part of the world, where the shops close down by that time, it is a very dangerous proposition for your dinner...yet, we( me and Venky) went out fully aware...it sure turned out to be a great night....we went to the main Manipal Library...God what a fantastic architecture it has got...replete with glass exteriors and wonderfully laid pavements, its a treat to watch...an amazing fountain they had made in the front and a series of benches for people to sit makes it a awesome combination...had you listened to the splahing sounds of water on solid rock??...its so soothing and calming that we sat there just gazing at the night sky above us for around 1.5 hours...the Library and Information Search center as they call it, is built in a huge "50" base......the entire building rests on a base of the numeral "50"- commomerating the Golden Jubliee of Kasturba Medical College...and the facilities there, is awesome....its not jus a Library...if let, I would certainly make it my residence...Books, Books and Books....its jus filled with Books...Even by the TAPMI standards, this Library is huge...For one who had seen really a modern fully furnished Library in TAPMI, this Library is even more baffling....I had always been very fond of the TAPMI's Library...a wonderfull collection of carefully selected books on subjects ranging from Fiction & Literature to Management & Operations, TAPMI library is really a treat.

That apart, after the seemingly eternal time in the lawns of the Library, We went to the KMC Greens, as we fondly call it and sat there for another 1/2 an hour.....the discussion slowly turned towards the Medical College Life and other realted nitty gritties.....The Grade system followed by the Institutes, and other topics....

The Grade system as followed by many institutes of higher education invloved a prolonged discussion...Venky is of the opinion that the Grade system doesnt give you enough scope to differentiate between performers....he says that when there are thousands of people applying for a few seats, a system that cannot differentiate narrowly would end up miserable....thats true...consider Engineering admissions....if the evaluation system changes to Grades, then would it be able to differentiate between two people who had got the same grade- Say an A+...the first guy might have got 95 and an A+ and the other guy 96 and an A+...now whom to award a seat to the 95 guy or the 96 guy(assuming there is only one seat to be decided on)???.....Both have got the same grades, but the 96 guy is a better choice(assuming again that the grades is the only evaluation criterion)....may be in PG level grade system works(because here the competition is among much lesser clientele) will that be a viable proposition for engineering admissions(say for example)???