Even today, I wonder how I survived the first day of my college. Standing in front of my college gate and staring all around, I had no clue as to what should I do. Being an introvert, I just went and sat on the first bench of room number eighteen, I didn’t have the courage to even look at anyone. After 10 long minutes a student came and sat next to me. I was happy that I was no longer alone, but my happiness lasted only for few minutes when I realized that she wasn't from my stream.
But as days turned into weeks, I made friends as well as some enemies(well being in a girls college you can't expect everyone to be your friend). Now one year has gone by but the difference is that now I dread the days I don't have to go to college.
Gossiping and bitching are the two most popular affairs observed in my college canteen or in front of the chemistry lab or next to the dance room. 'OMG what is she wearing?' to 'did you see her new hair cut?' to 'dude, she surely needs to get a manicure done' are annotate we have all heard or will hear. Back biting, back stabbing, not sharing notes, ' ‘meine toh kuch bhi nahi padha yaar’ , how will I pass in my exams?' and then scoring 80% are considered to be quite conventional in my college.
But the best part about my college is that one can wear anything that one wishes to, ranging from track pants to shorts to comfortable harem pants or patialas teamed with a nice kurti or may be just plain and simple jeans and shirt, because at the end of the day it’s a girl's college and there is no one to impress. But then again you will definitely come across girls wearing hot pants and pink tee-shirts with kilos of makeup plastered on their faces, carrying their hand bags at the rim of their wrist and wearing stilettos (even though they are dying inside to wear floaters or converse). Once I made the mistake of stepping on one of such girl's foot while taking chole bature from the canteen.The scream that followed after that almost made me deaf and even today whenever I see her, I just turn around.
Last winter was one of the best times I spent in my college. When we had nothing to do, my friends and I used to buy steaming hot coffee or chips and find nice comfortable chairs from the bamboo room and sit under the warm sun, sipping coffee and simply gossiping, sharing ghost stories, discussing about our future or just listening to songs and smiling.
So from the first day to my birthday, submitting incomplete and copied assignments, studying for exams from ten different books instead of one and roaming in the library to passing the exams and finally completing one year of college, I feel so good. Exactly a year later, I saw all the freshers and there was a girl just as frightened as I was when I first entered college, standing in a corner waiting for her college life to begin.
KNOW YOUR FRIEND FROM DU
Pallavi Mukherjee is a second year student of Maitreyi College. She is currently pursuing her graduation in Chemistry. She likes reading, writing, watching movies, listening music, dancing and is trained in martial arts.
