Those were the beautiful days.The greenery,the cool breeze and the rain that drenched the entire hill captured within it some of the unforgettable sweet memories at Mite- A beautiful campus located amidst nature.I don't know if stones turned into diamonds here,but there sure has been a positive change in me.As a soon-to-be Engineer,I sure have learnt a lot of lessons here which will guide me in my future.I'm all equipped to face the corporate world now -The office politics,running behind targets,meeting deadlines,work pressure,fake smiles and what not...phew !!!
What more,it's been almost 4 years in Engineering and I'm still alive !!!
As a fresher in college,I was always treated well.seniors were very caring and friendly.
It may be the three-phase circuits taught by Chandran sir or the equillibrium of forces taught by Upadhyaya sir or projection of solids taught by Rajesh sir ,learning has always been fun and enriching.
I have gulped down some mild basic solutions while pipetting it out upto the mark,strained myself to make a fitting model in the workshop and have broken many hacksaw blades in the process, won first place in quiz,had some argumentative discussions during the GD sessions of placement training and physics seminar.When I look back,I feel it was so silly.Anyways,they say all's well that ends well.
Though my bonding was more towards my hostel friends,we did make friends with the day scholars.The 'kurkure' we ate during classes,the 'truth and dare' we played during free hours,the dog-and-the-bone game we played in the open library ,the visit to 'Cool Tech' for an end-sem meet-up are all that I can cherish now.
Life gives us just one chance.We can never go back to the good old times and relive the moments or mend the mistakes.What I say is,whatever you do,do it right and even if it goes wrong,don't regret,makes amends and have a new start to life, right now!
What makes my first year of Engineering more special is- The hostel life !
If you never got a chance to stay in hostel,you seriously have missed something in life.This is where you learn some basic lessons of life.
You develop an ability to eat any kind of food.Trust me, if you've eaten in a hostel mess, you can eat anything, anywhere.
You start valuing your parents and siblings more than you did because you will realise how boring life will be without those arguments with your mom and pampering of your dad and fights with your siblings.
You become economic in spending money and cut out unwanted expenses.
You will get to know when the assignments are supposed to be submitted and you get to 'refer' the assignment from the girl who finished it first.
You get help in completing records especially the CAED sketches.
And Maggie becomes your life-saver when you miss the mess food.
These were some survival lessons learnt in hostel.
Freshers' party – ‘Milange’ was a blast.Even after the DJ,we friends at hostel were awake till 3.a.m. chit-chatting,gossiping and dancing.
Power cuts at hostel were always fun time.First,the girls in the hostel would scream and then the boys in the boys' hostel opposite to our hostel would join the chaos by screaming again.
We used to have hour-long gossip sessions in a friend's room revolving mostly around their crushes or any random topic and the group would would get bigger with the passing time when all the girls in the floor would join in the discussion.
And then there were shopping times in the nearby city - Mudbidri ,lunches and home-delivery from a nearby restaurant ‘Panchrathna’ and visits to the Hanuman and Devi temple.
And then there were consoling times when some friend would have been going through tough times or is facing some problem or is having a rift with another friend.We would be the mediators and make peace between them.
We took turns to use the washing machine and waited for hot water from the heater.There were times when we would gather in a single room to watch movies.Horror movies and Korean movies were the favorites.We engineers are night owls.Who can believe that we watched movies just 2 days before our semester exams.and that too it was Vidya Balan's movie- The Dirty Picture.Well,the movie isn't that bad as the name sounds.But,it indeed showcases a harsh reality of the society - sexual harassment of women.
But,when it was study time,we were serious.We helped each other by clearing doubts and learning together.The whole corridor would have many settlements of groups of students with a water bottle and study material spread around them.This was the common scenario on the night before the exam.
I can recollect discussing current Indian politics instead of studying for Constitutional Politics exam scheduled for the next day when all my friends had gathered around me when I was reading out and explaining the MCQ question and answers for them.
When we entered our respective branches in 2nd year,we did miss all this.
Those days are stored in my memory and I'll miss it for the rest of my life.
These 4 years of engineering life is where you explore and define yourself, make and break your future, build your personality and waste a lot of time trying to figure out what you really want from life.
This Shayari is one of the Whatsapp forward I recieved recenty from a college buddy few days back and it pretty much sums up what I have to say :
Yeh din yuhin guzar jayenge,
Shayad hum dost bichad jayenge,
Naaraz na hona aap,hamari shararaton se.
Yehin toh woh pal hai, jo aksar yaad aayenge.
Three cheers to all my friends who have my 4 years of engineering life special.
