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So here is the end. The end to those 4 years of college life that everyone aspires to live with a dream. A dream to aim big, a dream to have someone by their side, a dream to get a great band of pals, a dream to get the first job, a dream to experience life first hand.
My college life began with great excitement and enthusiasm, and a bit of nervousness at first. I was apprehensive of my University that has been near to me since childhood, but never close to me. I was fidgety about my new environment and the changes that jerked me a little. But every college goer gets some awesome company, and I was no exception. My mates at A1D just rocked. All the canvas was painted red with the cheetahs and their notorious acts never missed to amuse me. I learned from them how to live a bindass fearless life and taking risks is never boring. My nature of being too much studious and obedient changed with first year bypassing. A wonderful change from convent life to A1D-KKL life ;)
With the branch-wise segregation next year, many new faces were introduced with whom I had to spend next 3 years. First 2 weeks felt like school days back in college, but then came the halla of Freshers' party, and the people got to know each other. Some respite came from communication lab introduction and group discussion sessions too, but our true best was revealed while planning the Freshers'. Who is witty, who is great manager, who plans well, who is most jugadu, the chit chat box, the 'pic at every moment' person and the guy who laughed through all. A1D taught me well to get comfortable at the back bench of the class, and I followed the lessons in 2nd year too. That's when I got a friend who later emerged as great musician of the class. Sharing thoughts always go well with two, and we never counted time when we were together. Gradually, we got our gang with the gems of the class, and we cheered the 2nd year away, with, needless to say, all the unsuccessful planning of the Freshers'. My birthday that year was the most amazing bash that I cannot forget. I had an elite lounge in NL for celebrating my birthday at college ;) My swollen bums were the testimony of my friends' excitement and the stress levels of engineers combined. This combination is deadly and I bet no one would ever want to encounter that :P By the end of second year, I got to know one of the brightest minds of our class and how cheerful the guy was despite being a bit nerdy.
With the start of 3rd year, I chose him my project partner because of obvious reasons :P We had a new experience of taking classes with professor at abroad and the field was just amazing (I am actually going to make my career in that field). Also when we thought the college life to be smooth, we encountered the Hitler in our life and the tortuous classes that we had cannot be forgotten (my blog is too popular *wink wink*, so cannot say much, but I can write a full article on that class :P ) With the theory classes outnumbering the days in weeks and labs every next day, we were completely slogged down. No time for fun?? Absolutely wrong. We had some amazing group study sessions that were on the funda: Study kam Tour planning zyada ;) And to escape the world of extreme strain, we went to the memorable trip to Mussorie. That's when my negotiating skills improved and I get to learn some amazing skills from my tourmates.
Third year was the year of most of the trips. I went to Udaipur Jaipur trip, IIT Bombay trip, and then to Dehradun Mussorie. We had Agra New Year Bash and awesome Amritsar trip later. Never travelled that much in my life. And it was not the destination, but always the journey that was more fun. Travelling with friends is one thing that would always be on top of my list.
By the end of third year, I knew most of my batchmates, and we became a family. I began to spend more time at college than at my home. I shared moments with people at college that cannot be expressed. And then the fourth year began.. the year of placements..
When we were deciding about our major projects and plans of starting the final year, the very first company came out of the blue and rejected tons of students in the first round itself. Many people were dejected by their first placement experience, and many consoled themselves saying.. pata tha hamara nai hona. All started preparing for next company religiously and then came the notification for TCS: the annadata. The news spread faster than fire, all hands went crazy registering, the reputation was at stake more than the job. I was lucky enough to qualify for TCS Codevita with the perks of written test exemption and technical HR interview was a piece of cake for me. Others had to undergo all day tiring drive. With results revealed at night, almost half of the college grabbed a job in hand. One hell of an accomplishment.
Others not selected tried hands on other companies and got placed eventually. Nobody cared about the academics due to placement preparations. After getting placed, nobody required to care about academics. Still some feared the all hailed question of 3 Idiots: "Fail hue to naukri rahegi ya jaegi?".
Now here we are counting our days in college on fingers, nostalgia surrounding everywhere, people writing long senti posts on their walls, their blogs (except this one :P ), posting farewell pics and group hugs.
These 4 years of college have changed me altogether. I learned to laugh in miseries, cry in pain of others, regard people you care and don't give a fu*k about someone you don't. I learned the dynamics of the world, and how cruel it can be. At times you find yourself all alone and you have to face problems instead of running from them. Still my college life was more fun than thrilling and I take this opportunity to thank my friends who made this journey- my college life - worth taking. I have no regrets of not getting admitted to any IIT, else I won't be able to meet such awesome people: friends for life.
This is not the end. This is neither the beginning. But this may be the end of the beginning!
