Ooops...

Ooops. An era seems to have passed. 6 days and 6 nights. Most often sleepless. Most often clueless. So here I am. I don’t feel like having fought a great battle. But yeah there is this feeling…Thank God I survived thru’ it. The ordeal isn’t over yet. How can I forget all the assessments of my stupid answers, that I’ll be receiving very soon!!!

50 marks- and how much do I score!!! Who will score more than me and who less??? How well I’ll improve upon my last performance??? Which subject I’m gonna give more attention and which the least??? Such should be the line of thought of my dear friends, cutting across all branches, all years of engineering…right here, right now!!!

Before that, of course the usual relaxed, chilled out attitude of a Mid Sem being over. The Yippee’s, the Hurray’s, the Ohhh’s that so characterized you, me and them…they were a great sight, especially after that horrible deadly silence that had palled over the entire college during the past week. Ehhh…Those are gone. I like it this way.

Should I go on living in the past or look forward at the future!!! I don’t know. But I know for sure, I will stop having nightmarish dreams. I’ll stop dreaming MTP questions the night before ASE paper. I’ll stop feeling nervous about a worthless shit of a paper that’s for some stupid reason is considered to be 50 marksworth. And of all things, I’ll stop studying for a while, which has the potential of extending till the next set of exams come, bigger in magnitude, better in quality, nothing you have ever faced before!!! Yeah the End Sems.

We all see a thousand posters, notices everyday adorning our hostel walls, notice boards and what not. Those little pieces of paper, are often wow, celebrating some great interesting event, function…and of course appealing our hearts straight out, not to miss the opportunities and be a part of it. How nice!!!

Now imagine this. It’s November ’08. The classes have been over for a week now. The End Sems are what we are waiting for, with bated breath. As if that was not enough, you have posters all over the college, you have pamphlets in your rooms. What do they say, Who was it sent by? Yeah…they would be from your institute, respective departments, the teachers. Inviting.

“ Welcome friends. Come and enjoy. It’s pure fun out here!

Remember the Mid Sems?

Well, this time it jus’ got bigger and better and got more!

Here we present you the End Sems!”

I bid adieu. With a lot happening all over the world, mostly bad, it’s really sad. It’s like 20 years hence, we’ll remember our NITK days, when the present spate of horrible events are mentioned in passing, in the newspapers, in the political, social discussions. For us it would be a mix of the bad that happened to the world and the life we lived at NITK as 5sBT’s!!!