i see all these notes my friends keep writing nowadays, about how much they will miss college, and today i felt like writing too. . most of us are in this so-called last phase of academia. . which would soon, inevitably be followed by another string of rat-race-phases ! and we ll still worry about deadlines and reports, and sudden calls for presentations, and i know i ll always say, “this sux!” lol. its amazing how ironies never cease to be. as a student, i always had all the time in the world, all the ideas to be wild, but then there was attendance-shit, obligations, and alternating fortnights of being rich and being broke
and soon when we work, and work on our bank balance, we ll have all the money, and all the ideas, but perhaps not enough time.
i never wanted to give a thought to any of this. i never wanted a so-called normal life. but as Mother Irony would have it, my life seems to be going pretty normal. but in quite the abnormal way. what with all the “affectionate” episodes with AA, YA, PSR et al. and the unconditional and seemingly irrevocable ER, per se !
the first and the last ! funny, all i wanted was a tattoo; instead i got one on the marksheet
*shakes head disapprovingly* LMAO
i never gave much thought to how i’d feel with college getting over. . and with it pretty much my academic life (for a while). instead all my time and effort went in trying to get it over with. i ll never miss the first day of horror at finding weeds all over the plot. the first week of excessive excruciating self-reproach at having chosen the “perfect” place for mba leaving behind better options and being stuck in a place like the kailash campus, with all the state-of-the-art facility we had there !!! i ll never miss the tasteless soporific lectures, esp the ones with Papaya starting a godforsaken speech with “Dronacharya” and ending it with bullcrap promises. . and yet we always clapped and cheered ! i ll never miss all the wonderful moments that PSR and i shared . . which always led to me sleeping, or reading a novel in his class, sleeping, embarrassed, looking out of the window, did i mention sleeping
i ll never miss all the campus shifting. Lord knows my dad with his transferable govt job didnt have us moving household that often !!!
i wont miss the ymca get-togethers, with the red and green chairs, and the same menu and the hall with perennially the same faces and christmas decorations. i wont miss the gruelling, and the grind that the famous hyper AA put us through whenever we had presentations. i wont miss the fines by the grand ! i wont miss the management’s love for The Autocratic leadership style ! the kind that disapproves of unity when its most apt, and disapproves of individuality at all times. i wont miss the countless nights sitting like a zombie in front of the computer screen trying to stall an assignment i didnt like. i wont miss all the times i secretly thanked my group members for not assaulting me publicly for evading some of the rather painful presentations
(thankyou Ankur, 22; weasel, 24; arijeet, 26; ashish, 28; ankit, 20) i will not miss the exam days when i always felt extra sleepier than normal days. i will never never miss the result-declaration days. . while i sat quietly waiting for the day to be over, never peeped into the charts, and always waited for mausom, nikesh or weasel to tell me of my drowning glory :’P
on the other hand, i will miss having group members who probably understood my plight at being stuck at the wrong place. i will miss countless nights of laughing and howling past 2am with weasel and talli, when we were supposed to be studying for exams. i will miss growing as a person, and growing up a bit more with each day. . and yet i will miss being a child like i have never been before. i will miss all those hours in the exam-hall when i got awesome ideas for stories, blogs and pondered and scribbled at the back of the question paper. . and smiled at myself at my self-revelation that happened at the wrong time
i will miss all the polo and candy shopping that kept us awake through seminars. i will miss booking seats farthest from the professor’s lectern, and closest to the air conditioner slash ceiling fan
i will miss scouring a library filled with books on finance, for literature classics. . and always finding one i liked. i will miss the endless coffees and breakfast through winters, and amul cools and cokes through summers. i will miss the bus rides astride Honey buses, and Baba balaknath buses
i will miss all those impromptu lunches out, and sitting every other day in dominoes or ccd because the “hostel-lunch is bad today”
i will miss the late night phone calls, and using gtalk like i never used before, and yet having so much to yap at sire the next day. i ll miss trying to coax deepak bhatt saying, “please mujhe FR nahi dena”. . and searching frantically for A4 sheets which were always gently handed to me by Hemkesh Bothra or Abhishek Dabb, Gaurav Kumar or Ashwani Kumar. i’ll miss lookin at Kavneet Kaur Oberoi and Gunjan Upadhyay, apoorva ghosh and Monica Patnaik during presentations and having this big urge to burst out into peals of laughter, throw the sheets at AA’s face and scurry out of the classroom. . talking to kavneet oberoi and monica patnaik on the phone, because the former sat on the first bench, the latter sat somewhere in the middle, and i was always the back bencher
i ll miss weasel cursing me for accidentally missing her calls (almost always)
i will miss Professor pankaj jain, and his subtle jokes on me until the last day. hehe. i will miss the anticipation for the age-old-perennially-inedible hostel food, “kya aaj kuch achha khana bana hoga”
i will always miss spending everyday with mausom boruah, saving seats for ech other, having every single lunch together, the endless conversations hiding behind the backs of the people in the front row.. me giggling non stop. and the occasional boughs of dozing off and poking with the elbow to wake the other up
and all the frantic scribbling cause of the need to make sarcastic situational jokes we so loved. i will miss staying up till 5am, standing in the balcony and watching the sky go from a deep purple to pink. . to orange. . to a bright golden blue.. til it was time to get dressed for college.
i dont know if i will be allowed to finish this course, but i lived the best time of my life. got to know all sorts of people. met an amazing person and got to learn so much about life. met a wonderful bunch of girls who have been by me in laughter and tears. . like somebody says, im “a boat without a sail”. . i take it as a compliment, for that is something i always wanted to be. when i came here, i was simply an observer – a voyeur of sorts. . but today i feel complete, having lived all facets of life in all its beauty and monstrosity; a woman who can think, say, do what she wants to. i owe a major part of it to Sire.
oh. i could go on and on. and yet, there are so many people i realize i never spoke to. . that is one regret i had through all phases of my life. i guess the plight of the introvert that is, and the clumsy clueless tactless person with no filtering system and no respect for social cues. i cant say i was raised that way, but i just happen to be that way. i wish everyone a good life. i know these 2 years have been a gift for some of us, it has been important. and i mean to specify that my sarcasm and my feelings for the (virtual) institute are not a personal assault to anyone or anybody’s feelings. some of us, lived a nightmare in these 2years. . but i can also say that we learned. some of us will never give in to being captive souls. . but the mere fact that we survived 2 years, strengthens the fact that we can survive anything no matter how difficult. . and we learned to value our freedom and individuality. sounds lame i bet. but i didnt plan on staying up one random night and forcing myself to live these 2 years all over.
so here goes, to the batch of 2010 ! Our Worst, and Best 2 yrs. with a hope for everything better.
cheers.