College life

COLLEGE LIFE… Though it wasn’t as good as I expected it to be, I’m getting used to it…

I still remember the first day when we had the orientation for the freshers… Everyone had brought their parents and my dad was too busy to even attend it. He jus dropped me there and said “have a nice day, you’ll have lots of fun”… I was jus looking at the nervous, yet excited students, and parents who kept advising their kids on how they should take their careers more seriously… I’m really glad tat my parents don’t nag like others.. cos they either think its waste of time advising a person like me or they think tat I’m matured enough to handle things..

We were all led to an auditorium, which was quite spacious..

The only problem was tat we were unable to BREATHE….!!!!. Then later we had to listen to the boring achievements of the college… And then came the biggest shocker .. COLL

WORKS ON SATURDAY TOO!!!!!!!!! Omigoshhhhhhhhhhh…. Wat am I doing to my life????????? It was more frustrating to see the students jus nod their heads to glory….

How can they be fine with workin on Saturdays….? :-O They must be nuts…! Then came the next shocker… I learned tat bunking coll is a sin… you have to be present all six days in a week , even if you’re sick, or u have a flu or even if u have jus few more days to live.. I nearly fainted when they told us tat we could attend our own bro’s/sis marriage only if they were getting married on Sundays……!

This was just too hard to digest… I went back home and cried and screamed, but my parents were not bothered... I still remember my dad’s expression… He jus looked up through his reading glasses, made a “don care” expression and went back to reading the newspaper…. And my mom was too busy complaining abt the servant maid’s absence…

Soon I realized tat its no use grumbling and felt tat I had to do justice to the 5 lacs tat I paid.. :-(

Soon I made friends, but most of them were too engrossed in writing with black and blue pens and decorating their front pages of assignments copied from text books and wikipedia… I still remember my first assignment… it was plain and dull, with no black pen headings and under linings and no attractive front page decorated with sketch pens…

My classmates stared at my assignment making me feel like I had some terrible learning disease like dyslexia…. And when the teacher gave the assignments back in class… she gave me a wicked stare, tore my assignments into pieces and gave it to me… No hard feelings for me, but my mom felt really bad... after all it was she who wrote it… :-)

There were great times at coll too and surprisingly a few teachers were fond of me…

I was the favourite student of the Engineering graphics sir and he always refers to me as

“roll no 30”… Though he is really old(as old as my grandpa), he is too perfect with his dimensions and diagrams.. his free hand circles look way better than mine drawn with a compass… He behaves like a cute little child and he fancies the stationery we students bring and enjoys eating chappatis from our college canteen… :-) He often dozes off while conducting tests, which is a great advantage… Then there is this sweet and concerned chemistry teacher who made me eat her tamarind rice when I was really sick... she gave me loads of advice on how to take care of my health and made balls out of her freshly prepared home made tamarind rice and forced me to eat them :-) And of course I should mention abt our extremely young eng sir who often makes us feel really old with his charming speech and bubbling energy… ;-)

First year was quite memorable and we had lots of fun with classmates…

For our second year we had to move to our main block… In the beginning it felt a little weird cos we were so used to being only with our batch in the isolated first year block.

The seniors were really friendly, but it was hard to understand why they were often calling out some guys name when a girl jus passed by... :-)

They were trying to get some attention and always tried of different ways to woo a girl….!

I have only heard of girls gossiping, but I could notice tat the guys gossip more in this place…

I was seen less in my classroom as I was always standing outside HOD’s room for my great achievements… and the lesson I learnt- how to stand with one leg against the wall and one leg down to prevent leg aches :-)

We’ve had great times in the coffee shop in our 2:10 break and I must mention abt this yummy cold chocolate that you get there… simply irresistible and addicting…Sadly, there is no coffee shop anymore now :-(

As far as the coll exams were concerned, I never passed… I felt great wenever I made a double digit… I was a little serious during my semester time wen compared to coll exams… but I was still poor at mugging up stuff (especially becoz im a CBSE student) and I dint know the anna univ exam tactics… later a senior told me the tactics to do well in anna univ exams…

Cram all five units in your head

write headings in black and underline them and write the rest in blue

fill up all 41 pages

if u think a question is out of syllabus, pls attempt it( I love this one)

don’t sleep for more than five hours on the previous day of the exam

if you remember only a few sentences in a question , then either highlight them or write them bigger, so tat the person correcting thinks you know everything

Use a lot of technical terms even if they are not related to the questions

I dunno if these tactics help… But no harm in trying :-)

During the study hols ,I read everything(even the nutritional details and ingredients in food cartons),but not the stuff in my text books....and all that I remember doing in my study hols is going to Malini's terrace, eating packets of bingos and drinking steaming hot coffee and of course bird watching... you know we observed the behavioral patterns of parrots and crows.. We learnt how to identify birds with their flying patterns..We were busy lookin at kittens, tempted to play with them. But we were too scared to do it cos the mother cat is overprotective and ferocious… Malini’s terrace is a mini jungle and diverse with rich flora and fauna… ;-) We once encountered a pair of monkeys which climbed up to the terrace and kept staring at us for a very long time… We ran helter skelter , leaving our books in the terrace… it was adventurous.. :-) We watched a lot of tv, gossiped abt classmates, slept in the afternoons… We do everythin except studying in the study hols..

And the worse part is tat whenever I end up clearing, ppl give me weird stares which actually mean "how the hell did she clear... maybe she chased the papers" :-D

and since I was a favorite student of tat numericals lady, she was literally dumbstruck when she found out tat I had cleared my math paper this semester....and she always

bends her head whenever she notices me.... sheeeeeesh, i dunno why she respects me so much.. ;-) .. I really dunno if I’m popular among the students, but I’m definitely popular among the teachers... I’m always the hot topic in the staff room :-)

And now I’m in my final year of college… I dunno if I would miss coll, but I would definitely miss the students and the fun we had… :-)