A Flashback

A whole semester in college seemed to pass away in a wink... Can't imagine will be in second year next time i return to college. Time seems to be racing, and to keep up with it, we all seem to be racing against time!!!

Second semester in college was pretty eventful, filled with activities... never seemed to find time for studies until the week before exams. Many would raise a brow reading this statement knowing what big a nerd i am, but lemme be truthful, i hardly found time to study or to spend time in the library reading books.

Right from Jan, it started, one after the other, club activities, Pragyan, Nitfest, Section dhamaka... went on and on covering a span of 4 months. With each new "occasion", may it be Pragyan or Nitfest, would come a tide of excitement. It was fun to see seniors busy at work, students loitering around all confused in the campus, love birds whiling away time in the food stalls, and we first years making the most out of it. No classes, unlimited sleep, hanging out in the stalls in "jeans"... well jeans had to be in quotes since then it was a very big deal being in jeans... don't forget we were STILL under ragging and anything like jeans and top were simply unimaginable. One thing i got to agree, guest lectures were truly amazing covering a wide diversity of topics ranging from nanotechnology to Indian economics. I had my best time attending the lectures...:)

Then finally our good old seniors realised its time to free the first years from ragging (here lemme mention, this realisation came after eight months of college... but im thankful to god, ATLEAST they realised). All that ragging consisted was usual chaat sessions and doing seniors work. Here i ought to mention, i had a terrible time writing seniors records and assignments cause my handwriting GENUINELY sucks and my great seniors thought that i was acting a bit too smart by not writing their records properly. But they still don't know that i spent more time writing their record than i spend for mine just to make it look OKAY OKAY and unfortunately they were never happy. God!!!! now when i think of it, their threatening remarks once actually made me cry. Now i realise how dumb i was to cry on such matters like ragging and that too SENIORS... Back to the point, we went for our freshy cum farewell to Yercaud, a small hill station on Kerala -Tamil Nadu border... It was nice... something cooler than trichy is anyday welcome!!! But the best part was we got to know our seniors really well which we wouldn't have otherwise. Maybe now i realise how important they are...

God!!! Not even a week in home and all these college memories are already overflowing... maybe i should stop cause i don't wish to start missing college right from the day i arrive at home...

(original post May, 2007)