Ma college years - Part 1

College days are fast closing in and it seems a good idea to revisit them. However it's a fair bit of exercise to go over the last four years and I don't think I will be able to do it in one session. A friend of mine had rightly enlightened me of the benefits of writing a diary(I am missing it today) but I guess it's too late now.

This would be one of the post, I am not writing for others, I want it to be a sort of diary for me. Anyway, since a blog is meant to be viewed by all, this will be a politically-correct version of college life.

So, let me go back to when I joined the college. Was it July, or August? Hardly matters except that Jamshedpur was extremely hot and the food was bad. It's not that I was out of my home for the first time. I had already lived in Ranchi for two years (for my higher secondary education) away from my family. So there were no bad dreams or insecurity or fear of ragging(this fear was there, albeit very small in degree), I had already been there, done that. I had been waiting for this day and here I was in my college.

Two years of my bachelor life in Ranchi hadn't had the effect as many would believe it should have had, for a boy who has been out of his home for the first time, living with his friends in a flat. We were a closely nit group there, devoted to studies with hardly any interaction with others (Evident from the fact that one of my room-mates is studying in AIMS Delhi, one studying commerce in DU and the other is studying engineering in Punjab University, pretty impressive, isn't it?). Let me take a moment to say thanks to my Ranchi room-mates for all their support and care.

Isn't life strange (like I didn't know it already, but still!), we interact with so many people. I can still remember my messs walla in Ranchi, the shops I visited, many of them were really nice.  A dialogue from the movie Hum-Tum seems apt here - "jaise hum aur logon se milte rahte hain, unki kahani hamari kahani se judti jaati hai".

Oh! it has become a Ranchi chapter when it ought to be Jamshedpur's. I should be able to focus on Jamshedpur in next post.