It’s early morning and everyone is snuggled
in their blankets dreaming of a place unseen or dreaming of their love or just
fantasising about food. By now, every one of my friend is acclimatized to ignore
the face of the sun and wake up well into the day. But this day is going to be
different… after ages the alarm clocks have found their purpose again and can
once again ring with pride. It’s the first day of our second semester. The
alarm clocks ring at different time all over the world but the response remains
the same; we too just shut it off! Eventually the dream broke and it dawned on
us along with the sun that it’s time. The first challenge: taking a bath and
getting dressed; I am quite sure many just decided to quit bathing. To think
now my mother was looking at me with pity all the time I was dragging my feet
around the rooms. I commute with a ‘scooty’
and it was one daunting task for me. My mom made me wear around 1000 layers of
clothes and was still not satisfied with the quality of the insulation, I guess
no mother will ever be. It was freezing outside with volumes of fog… I was glad
because with the gray windcheater on I was looking like a ‘chota haathi’ but no one could see me now! Ha ha.
Fast
forwarding to college now, contrary to what I had hoped, students have bright
faces on and are chatting excitedly and suddenly someone rushes up and hugs me
from behind and squeals in my ear “HAPPY NEW YEAR!!” It was a classmate of mine
and apparently she had been doing this to everyone from the biomedical batch!
On an extensive and thorough search only a few of my classmates could be
spotted and catalogued. The first lecture turned out to be a lab period with
the not-so-inviting prospect of pricking your finger. I could see on my
classmates’ faces that they were cursing the time when they woke up and decided
to go to the college. The professor was new and so curiosity kept us glued to
our chairs. The CR usually is guillotined on our request, so she was the one nominated
this time too! She had to talk our professor out of giving us pain and mental
trauma. Continued whining and groveling did the job really… SHE AGREED!! Now
with the pressure of the ‘bloody’ experience gone we enjoyed our class.
Obviously, the next classes were cancelled and the time was given to our
friends, we talked nineteen to the dozen when it came to sharing our
experiences of the holidays and the apprehensions about the results. We went to
our favorite hang out zone ‘MATHELA’, the Chinese counter nearby. It’s the ‘in thing’
among the students and literally rakes in galleons. After all the time we were
away from each other, in that month we had come to appreciate what we had… many
new bonds were made and many things were learnt and it was almost coming to home
when we were sitting in our old classroom. Many didn’t come... And I guess they
were at a loss because I believe that the start to everything should be done
with utmost sincerity and integrity. I missed my crazy friends and the hectic
schedule, I didn’t realize until I had it all back that they had become a part
of my life now and I missed them. I even missed the rows and rows of books and
their crisp smell and the feel of the library.
What the heck people! We have only a few
years of college to go and then the tussle of the ‘outside world’. Let’s enjoy
and learn together when we have the time and the opportunity. I have become more responsible now and love
to study even when I have the subject which I hate the most this semester… but KOI GAL NAHI!!
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KNOW YOUR FRIEND FROM DU
Tulika Banerjee is a student of Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women.
She is very passionate about everything she does... she loves to
write, sing, dance, paint, speak so on and so forth!! Her friends love
her because she loves them A LOT! She generally takes charge of stuff
and sees that they are done properly. She is affectionate, strong and a
voracious reader. Life is fun for her and exploring it is her job. She
hopes that she can grow up well and achieve all her goals.
