Living Back Memories Part II

Even before entering the department in the second i.e. before the end of the first year I got famous among a couple of staffs( thanks to my friend because of whom I got involved in the matter which has no connection to me. I wasn’t able to make a good impression of myself on them and I also didn’t care about that much).

Atlast I too became a senior and entered the second year with a lot of anxiety to rag the juniors who will be coming to the college. But then came the big blow to us. We would have hardly ragged our juniors for about a week when the rules of our college( I was aware that even my college  had rules only at that time)  got stricter and they started suspending guys for even speaking with juniors( Suspension is a no big matter as most of the time students bunk the classes). That’s the end of ragging in SSN and I can assure you that there isn’t ragging now in SSN and even if it is there it is of the mildest form and I can gaurantee you that. Because of this the gap between us and the juniors came and it didnt matter as we were close with our seniors.

As I have already mentioned in the blog it was during the start of the third semester that I bought my new computer and I was enjoying life to its core. Of all the semesters I would tell that I enjoyed the most in the third semester. Not to forget the birthday parties and the symposiums of other colleges we attended(notable one for me was SRM as I went through a couple of rounds. Also won’t forget it because I got scoldings from my friend for not seeing her goin to her college but it was fate and had nothing to do with me). It was in the second year that I got involved in the symposiums and culturals( obviously gaming than no coding matters). I was amazed at the crowd that came for PARADIGM 07. Hats off to the organizers to make it the best among the best that had happened so far. Had some bad moments too in the fourth semester and it was at that I concentrated fully on computers and started spending 24*7 on my PC. That made me more lazy and started bunking whole day classes. In my first year I would go to college daily and bunk a couple of periods daily. This improved in the second year as I started to bunk atleast one full day apart from the individual periods a week. Still my internals was average and I managed to get through the papers easily. Everything went on fine for me till my second year when the unexpected twist came in the third year. To be continued..

Living Back Memories- Part I

I just can’t believe that I have reached the end of my college life this quick. It has been a very fast four years and I have experienced quite a lot of new experiences in my life and I can tell clearly that SSN and Chennai has taught me the life to live in the world.

I can still remember the first day when my mom and dad left me in the hostel. I cannot describe that feeling. I have certain fears about the ragging that usually happens in colleges and also was excited a bit about being alone which gives a maturedness to a person and also some worry because that I am leaving my mother. I dont know how many of you readers will be believing me if i said that I was crying alone that I missed my mother in my late nights for almost one month since I entered the college( The state is totally different in these days though) . I entered the hostel on one nice Friday and for the two days which was weekend there was no ragging in hostel and I was quite surprised by the discipline of the fellow seniors and thought that the college would be strict and that is the reason for all those things. But I was wrong, everything was so only for the first weekend and things got into existence and the so called ragging started out. Ragging went on through the whole first semester atleast till all the seniors have seen our faces. At first I didnt like it but as time went on I started liking it and was also happy that all these things happened. Because of this most of the seniors because very close to me( ore ponna sight adikura alavukku close agitom). Of all the ragging that took place the one I would want to share is the one done by my school senior who asked me to act like Vijaykanth( really a tough one). The other ones were normal like what school have you been, how many gfs you have(obviously I had none then. ippa kooda rombha kammi than) and some more questions which cannot be revealed in public(:P). Another important thing that all would ask to do is to sing and dance. I am right now laughing at the moment while typing this thinking of how the hell I have sung and danced in first year( atha patha seniors evalavu paavamnu ippa than thonuthu).

It was after coming to college that I became somewhat bolder and mingled with people easily. It was this Chennai and my age that made me speak to girls. I don’t speak much (speak very rarely) to girls at school( Planning to do a post on this one too in the near future). Enakunnu pathu I had a girl as my lab partner in my first semester that too one from Kovilpatti( her name was Kavitha from EEE). Had very normal talks with her and contact with her broke right before the end of the first semester( Nambungapa enakku serious ah apa kadala poda theriyathu). The one thing which made me happy in the college life was my mobile. I was given a mobile by my dad so that I can speak with my home everyday but I enjoyed a lot texting messages and browsing internet via GPRS in my mobile( that was my only timepass throughout my first year). Then came the cricket tournament in the hostel and it brought some interaction within our fellow year people and we used to practice vigorously for the event. Although we lost the tournament in the first round I liked the unity that existed among the guys and that led to many of my existing friendships.

It was here in first year that I started learning things such as bunking classes, watching movies(mokka movies) and many more. It was my friend Joseph Prashanth who taught me the art of bunking classes. But he is a rogue as he has good name with all the staffs and no one complaints when he bunks the classes. Another unforgettable incident in first year is that once we friends all went to the super duper hit movie of Aathi and it was too late that we didn’t get transport service to return from Kelambakkam to my college and it was around 5km distance and hence we had no other option than walking all the way to the college. It was around 12 in the night and was quite a strange experience. I hadn’t had another chance to do so. The former part of the first year I was much sincere and used to study atleast once a week but the latter part was the seed for what I am today, and that can be clearly seen from the graph of my marks obtained in the university exams.

Even one of my staffs made fun of me with my marks in my third year but I did not seem to care about it. First year was the most enjoyed year in my college life and I would love to relive it as the seniors present at that time were also brilliant and at the same time enjoyed life to the most. Many more to come in the life at SSN and one post is obviously not enough to meet it so this will be continued in the consequent posts.