my college life....Chapter-8...

17th june 2009,

11:35pm....

Chapter-8 "When Thou Panic Sets In..."

Every other week exams.....at times unit tests...at times mid terms...at times practicals...and finally ....final semesters.... that was the modus operandi for every semester....but what was mine....no unit tests...no mid terms...only practicals...and semester exams.....( i dont like wasting my energies u see)..there wasnt even a single mid term for which i actually studied..i hardly gave all of them...and that is whhere the root of the problem lay for those who studied during mid terms and unit tests...they were not supposed to panic during final exams but my story was different....i used to study during exams only.....studying till nights...waking up early in the morning.....

Choclates,tea,maggi.....all aided me to study till late night.....and i think all my friends (almost all..and with due respect to all)...had the same story...there was a time when scoring 60 marks used to be a thing to worry and a cause for guilt..but in college...60 was a dream...a desire..

But this is what great men are all about...doing right things at the right time...as i said in one of my chapters....we do right things at right time...ther is no point of wasting time in mid terms...and.......unit tests...well they simply dont exist in college life....

Talking about practicals...our prepration used to start when the first batch of students used to come out from external's cell....and it did not matter whatever we prepared...we always had an answer.."sorry sir nai aata".....put ur head down and say this...you will score 40 out of 50..and if you speak .....you will get 45...so we were well contended with 40....i still remember my batch mates mugging up answers even seconds before showing up to the external..and we...we used to crack jokes...make plans for the evenings..or something we were good at....sing songs...the best viva that i had was of minor project....after so many efforts all we(rahul,pranam,anand,aanjaneya and me) made was an emergency light...by the way we called it "power inverter"...it took 20 min for all others to explain their projects and answer what the external asked....but ours lasted only for 5min....she said "this is useless...you may go.." none of us even bothered to explain her...and we just said "thank you mam" and left the room...

In few days time after our last practical we used to have our final exams....people going to each others place to study...long sittings...group studies..though i never did them but my final sem gave me this experience as well....it as fun....doing few questions.....then a bit of nonsense...then a bit of "crazy taxi" and again studies....things jelled up quite well....

I still remember that "tirth yatra"....yeah..before every exam we used to do that...there were one statue of Sarwasti ji and one of lord Ganesha in our college premises..we used to take their blessings before every exam..it didnt matter even if we were late..it was customary..and then taking blessings from rahul's coin..which he brought from vaishnav devi...all these with little studies..did help us to be a graduate...though last sem results are still to come out..but atleast 35 subjects we were able to clear because of them....

One and a half month after exams...results used to be declared...one sms is all what it took to set panic..there were quite a few occasions when the site used to be blocked up......results on a hault...and heart beats raising...but the mettle i am made up of always helped me battle them out...most of the time post results.....few days passed in making resolutions...."this time i will work hard and get better marks and show everybody who am i..." but.....i suppose i dont need to say what actually used to happen...!!

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"why cant everything go according to plans"......yupssss there were many that didnt go as i wanted...what were they all in chapter-9....till then..

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cheeersss....