Its been three years since I first stepped into this place and it seems like yesterday. I vividly remember it was drizzling the day I came to the college. A thin film of rain enveloping the entire span of my vision making the sight profoundly mesmerising.
With the weeks rolling by and the end of another academic year creeping closer I shiver with the haunting feeling of emptiness fighting the nostalgia off as I realise my days here are counted. Four years seem ephemeral now.
Despite the fact that we whimper about every single thing of this place I’ll miss it. I will miss the horrible food of the mess which we always grumble about and the people in it. I will miss the ice-tea and maggi of nescafe!!! I will miss loitering outside jaggi after each class only to be late for the next one..... The somnolent lectures where we use every ounce of our energy to keep our eyelids open. The scribblings on the desks whose eruditeness appeals to us more than lending an ear to what the teacher is saying.
I’ll miss the baking heat and the freezing cold. Getting up at 7:30 in the morning and rushing for class with breakfast in hand...only to be thrown out of it. The last minute assignment completion and congregating notes before the examination day....Bunking class without any rhyme or reason.
I’ll immensely miss the hostel life...the petty rules and fines!!! Waiting in queue for my turn in the shower.The birthday celebrations and the late night snack parties. Watching movies during examinations. Waiting for the weekend since Monday only to be online all night long. Ordering home delivery because the dinner refused to go down the throat. I’ll miss my loving erractic roommates and their constant fussing!!! I’ll even miss the cacophony of the peococks late at night which keeps me awake.
And momentously I’ll miss all my friends. The ones I made and the ones I lost. The ones with whom I laughed and fought. The ones I shared my exuberance with and my doldrums too. The ones who always stood by me and the ones who went away.The treachery and the fidelity....
With each arduous moment in college life i learnt how to face the decadence of the world. It taught me what no text book in the world could...to live life. College din’t just mould an engineer out of me......It moulded me....
