On my way to B.E

Exam season brings it share of jitters, excitement and what not every six months. During this exam session quite a few things escaped my attention. It was only a few days before the 26th of May that I realized that this was going to be my last exam of my engineering. It took some time for the thought to settle in, I will no more be a part of the college, no more PL's, no more bunking, no more tapris, and the list can go on. There are so many things which I have been doing in so many years, which were a part of my life, might not be the same anymore. It was a scary proposition, change is always resisted, but some changes are imminent and this was one of them. I knew I wouldn't be doing any studies immediately and now this means that my life would be going through a paradigm shift and I have to realize that, but before that I have to enjoy my last few days as an engineering student.

No pleasure is as big as sadistic pleasure, and hence I decided to implicate the same agony on my classmates. It took them a while to swallow the thought but eventually they did, we came to an agreement that these few days we have, should be memorable and that left us all with deep thought. The ideas were bound by the fact that we had an exam in a few days and after an hour of thinking we all got back to studies.

I made my way to the library and finished up a few pages of the book, that I realized how four years back I had come to this library for the first time. I managed to study a bit that day but I made a lot of friends, some of them till date have been close to me. I remember those days when I left the reading hall satisfied with the studying I had done and also remember days when I left the library with my friend to play pool and came rushing back in time before the library closed. There were times when I (unsuccessfully) tried studying in the college canteen, knowledge corridor, the juice centre and so many other places. I used to wonder why do I always try studying at these places when I know it was never going to happen, but now I know why, had it not been for those moments I wouldn't have been writing here, I have a story to tell about every moment here in this college.

It was the final evening before I see the dawn of the final day of mine as an engineering student. I was as usual studying in the reading hall. I called it a day only when the library was about to be shut down, savouring every moment of this. I lingered at the locked door for a minute, there was a message here. These were signs of the inevitable. I walked towards my bike. A black 150 cc pulsar, it was one of companions throughout this journey and I took more than two kicks to start, I guess even it had realized the importance of today. I drove along the road in front of durga cafe, I saw a lot of guys collecting money from their friends, may be one of them was asking the other one to buy him one cold coffee for today, there were guys ogling at gals, there were couples who couldn't get their eyes off each other, and today I felt like an outsider.

The morning of the exams was the usual, last minute revisions and reading, friends adding questions to the list of important ones, the invigilators making sure that nobody was writing anything on their tables, nobody was carrying any cheats, the control room distributing the answer sheets and question papers to the invigilators. I kept my bag aside and sat on the table. Well this is it, the moment has come when I would be doing something for the last time, and a journey was coming to an end. How was the paper? Well this paper is a landmark, these three hours would be etched in my mind forever, because it is special and I don't want to bind the importance of it with the way I answered my paper. It marks the end of a very special journey and I will let it be the way it is; Special

WHEN YOU ENTER THE ZONE

Human mind is very childish. It never takes things for granted. It will only accept those things which it has felt first hand; otherwise it finds it really hard to believe it. If someone says that the bench is freshly painted we have to touch it, even if somebody says that your favorite team has lost the match, we will watch the game verify it from three sources and then we believe in it.

In this category there is a special entrant. Its Exam time (goose bumps!!). The exam schedule is out a month back and that’s when we comfort our mind that there is enough time for you to prepare for the exams. I decided to draw a plan as to how each and every subject would be tackled; my mind raced to the minute the examiner would read my answer paper and acknowledge it as the work of a genius. And that’s how preparations kick start. (Well the kick was not where it has to be…more on the kick later).

The first morning of the EPL (Engineer’s Preparatory leave) is coincidently an important day for EPL (English Premier League) and inaugural day for IPL( Indian Premier League).  The first day comes and goes and so do many days after that. Every day is a slow and steady progress (my parents might read this!!!) and syllabus has to be covered. When the first few sums are solved, we stumble on to a few problems but they are solved and my mind races to the expression of the examiner…work of a genius. It takes a few seconds for the mind to come back, the next few questions keep adding to the trouble and one after the other topics are piled up and then enters a friend. A friend is someone who can manage to distract you from studies and at the same time makes you feel that you have spent the whole day studying. A friend is someone who makes you feel that you have studied everything possible on the face of this earth.

And that’s precisely how we feel. We think we know everything and then slowly the nerves start coming in and also a mechanism I have perfected of calming myself down, by playing a little FIFA 09, or Age of Empires, the more nervous I am the more I play.

The sun rises and I felt extremely confident about the paper, all the jugaads are in place, my mind again goes to the expression of the examiner, he still thinks I am a genius but he doesn’t know is that is that I hoodwinked him to make him feel like that.

Then I took a nice long relaxing shower, and drove my way to college and that’s when I met my friend again (grrrr…..)

“Did you study this part, its important” the world comes crashing down ,the topics on the important lists keep adding up, the topics which I haven’t covered are equivalent to the number of topics which are important, the watch skips an entire hour altogether in no time the exam bell rings, I can imagine the wicked smile of the examiner, books are replaced by answer sheets and in no time the invigilator lands the final ( is it?...I thought there were more to come) blow with three words

                                                      "All the Best”

1500 visitors

As you people would see that my counter now shows more than 1500 visitors which is a good number but considering the amount of time my blog was up..Its not a good number. I am wishing to turn it around by writing more regularly and showing it to more people. 

Thanks to all those people who supported me through this period

Murphys law

The law says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong...and how many times have we noticed this. Your cell phone gets discharged the  minute you need the most. Your bike refuses to start when the signal is green, the only question you dont study for the paper is the first question in the paper......

but why does this happen?  I mean why does this law hold true. Why is the nature against us when we need it the most!!

All our lives would be normal had it not been for Murphy. Had he not told the world about this stupid law we wouldnt have thought about it in this way, we would have taken the wrong in our stride. Now poor Mr Murphy is abused everytime something goes wrong. I guess he would be abused so much that Mr Murphy would also be praying that his law goes wrong but....

Dont Blame us Mr Murphy you started it