4 years of Engineering .. 4 years which I consider few of the best years in my life .. 4 years which I wouldn't want to change in anyway .. 4 years that somehow seems to have gone by in just a couple of days .. 4 years that if given a chance to re-live I wouldn't want to change any bit of it!!
Seems just yesterday I used to get up at 7ish types and catch the BMTC to Malleshwarm 18th cross and board the college bus, get to college, spend the entire day among friends, laugh, have a good time ... college days!!!
1st year was mostly making new friends and getting ragged ( I have nothing against it as long as the parties involved know their limit) . Although ragging sounds dumb it was fun or maybe I feel this way cause I didn't have any shitty experiences. I remember the first time I had to say the RV anthem as the bus passed RV falls, I was like "Is this an engineering college or what". Apart from the daily routine of attending classes, my new friends and me started playing basketball a lot, bunk classes, any free hour and we'd be playing basketball. We had workshop in our 2nd semester, this was basically playing around with sheet metal, hammers and see all big m/cs and stuff and this was alloted three hours but we'd rarely take that much time. We'd finish it as quickly as possible and head over to the court. Playing basketball in workshop uniform just makes one sweat even more and after couple of hours of it we'd be drenched completely. In this state we'd walk back into class ( civil class i think) passing the ball between us, fight for a seat under the fan and all this while being least bothered about whether the lecturer is okay or not with us being in class :). Semester exam because everyone was just out of PU/college the josh and enthusiasm about doing well was still there in many of us so we actually studied days b4 the exams and managed to pull in good marks. Oh and how can I forget, the basket ball tournament during our 2nd semester for which we bunked so many classes and later went to the lecturers saying that we were volunteers there.
2nd year was okay I don't remember much of it actually. I remember a few of us going to HOD's room and actually asking him if we cud do a mass bunk so that we could see the IND vs PAK world cup match, and he sort of gave in. I made a couple of good friends and we later got the name "Bheja Fries". Canteen was sort of like our hangout area, just go there sit down along the outer walls, have our lunch, sit down some more .. talk .. laugh .. do a bit of masti but one thing that was always there was mountain dew :). 4th semester how can I ever forget is when I got a platinum medal in DBMS, somehow that subject didn't fit well with me and I was very very lucky to get away with a platinum. Oh and how can I forget we managed to pull of the only class trip to IIT chennai for the tech fest they were hosting. The trip was fun!! Oh and yeah this is also when the josh for getting "good" marks left me!!
3rd year was one of the best year we had the department fest which was so cool and the best that has happened in college, everyday of the fest was damn neat and everyone part of it would have memories about those days. I remember the night out in college where few of us painted the college red with our fest posters then went into our department and slept off in one of the classrooms!! The other incident although I wasn't there was about the HOD's meeting where some conflict between the different departments conducting the fest had occurred we won a moral victory, whenever I remember this it makes me feel good for some reason. My friends and me took up playing badminton cause the idiot who kept the keys to the court almost always made up some sort of story and wouldn't give it to us. Bheja fries also made their first trip to pondicherry around this time. Oh and yeah at the end of 3rd year our Placements had started. First interview that I sat down for was CTS and i got through luckily, thanks to Ribhu who got me through the written round :).
4th year .. I think here is when all of us started realizing that shit we are in 4th year college khatam ... whats going to happen and all!! Even with all this thinking we didn't do as much as we should have in the last year what with all the free time we had. We had the time but I guess the one thing that was common in my group got the better of us :). Funny memories well .. I'm not sure which semester it was but I had bought a rubber lizard and in one of the classes while the lecture was going on, one of my friends or me threw it to ahead to some random person, amazingly it didn't have the effect that I thought it would but anyways few of us got a good laugh and yeah we didn't get caught. In the 8th semester we had our project and boy what a project it was. Ankit, Preethi and me formed the team and I'm very sure based on the no: of lines of code ours was the smallest project. We had to run about a lot but the whole thing was fun and that was the main point. I got to freak out a bit with a GSM modem and also got to play around with a bit of hardware just like i had wanted to. The other crazy incident is how pavan and me got to be sun certified hackers. The best part it was how we just bursted laughing and the shock on our lecturer's who was announcing the names of the winners .. third places .. lol. Also I got placed in I2. I didn't want to sit for this company but thanks to Divya and Nisha who forced me to take it up. I'm glad and very thankful that they did.
Other random and crazy stuff I remember .. sitting in the last bench day after day doing everything from pictionary, dumb charades(clean and porn version), eatting, sleeping, listening to music, hiding our cell phones when the routine idiots come to check our bags .. if the person in front got caught then prompt all the wrong answers, go to the extent of tickling him/her .. that crazy MCA lecturer that came and told us about the rat race thingy and all .. SCM classes .. preparing for the exams, DL god chilly chicken gravy, kalmi kabab, mountain dew .. talking to ranga and begging for the keys .. playing Counter Strike in the hostel LAN .. Naveen and Sagar sirs classes .. Sagar my classmate explaining to our physics maam that air bags dont have sand in them .. Abhishek our PC's story about the proxy company coming for placements .. rachita and me fighting over cocktail food .. talks with ros in the bus ( tough sometime wud get onto my nerves :) ) .. learning how to ride a bike .. mrinal explaining that the cigg pack in his bag was a collector's edition .. college bus .. "GAPPU DROPS ki jay ho!!" Nisha and Gayatri making plans on what the minimum amount to study would be and then after them making the plan I'd talk to them and reduce it even more .. the rapo between Roshan and our unix lecturer .. my friends made up rapo between sirisha( physics lecturer) and me .. Our DBMS lecturers .. electronics LAB, both the Divyas and me in one team awesome fun .. our HOD .. our Data Communication paper brilliant!!
hmm ... College is one the best days of every ones life, it doesn't matter which college your from its the same all over the world but one thing is for sure you wont get to live through it again, the life after it is just one hell of a ride where more often than not when you reach your destination it isn't what you really want. For me those days are behind me but as I said i have no regrets, I've had a great time every bit of it.
Just want to say to all the people who are reading this and are still in college don't waste it, these are the days that you'll remember sitting in your 4x4 cubes later on. Live these days like there is no tomorrow and make them worth remembering!!!
To all those who have already lived through it .. Cheers to those memories!!!
PS: ISE folks who do read this .. post yr memories too as comments!!
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