Retrospection

Well well well, so my first year in college is over. A little hard to believe, coz I still feel new to college. But at the same time, I feel extremely attached to it, which, honestly speaking, I never thought would happen...

This one year has been one hell of a year, in more ways than one.

The first, and most obvious one, the transition from school to college. The first couple of months were pretty hard, to tell you the truth. I’d been in the same school for thirteen years, so it was practically like my second home, a place where I knew everyone and everyone knew me. And then came college, where nobody knew me and nobody cared, where I had to make a conscious effort to talk to people, to make friends. I was SO not used to that.

Missed school like hell in the beginning, disliked college like hell, would rush home as soon as classes ended, started valuing home like never before. :-p

But then, I gradually started enjoying college, started looking forward to coming to college, started wanting to stick around longer.

And then, one fine day, I realized that I had actually started loving college. I loved the dull red bricks of the building, the Xerox lawns, where a lot of my time was spent, even though I wasn’t part of dramsoc, Irfan’s, whose banta was to die for, the awfully dingy excuse for a canteen, the dayski point, and of course, the beautiful frontlawns, where most of my first year was spent, where so many vital issues were discussed, like UCB’s gorgeous winter collection, our love-lives, Jha’s havoc-wreaking tests, bad-hair days, where mine and Anisha’s Campus Improvement Programme (read - an excuse for bitching) materialized, where I grew to love SRCC.

Now if I look back, the thought that I actually used to hate college at one point of time is almost absurd. Funny how things change………..

Also, funny how priorities change. What seemed liked the most important thing a year back seems pretty insignificant now. Of course, using the same logic, what seems really important right now will cease to matter a year later I guess.

Incidentally, I’ve learnt a couple of things, albeit the hard way (which is how most learning experiences go I think. :-p). Actually on second thoughts, I’m going to leave that for another entry, coz this is getting a little too pensive as it is.

So until next time, goodbye, and thanks for all the fish.