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Sitting in the quiet, rather too quiet ambience of Oracle, i can't help pining for the college days.
After watching Love Story 2050 (yah! i know it sucked!), i can't help wishing how amazing it would be to have a time machine to travel back a couple o' years. I still have a very lucid memory of the first day of BITS Pilani Goa Campus. The first day-first class was a tutorial and i never had any idea of what exactly a tutorial class was. So what should i do? i promptly called up a friend at BITS Pilani and asked about the tutorial class and got the reply that the tutorial classes were meant only for surprise tests or quizzes and this implied that i could skip the class. So i was peacefully having the breakfast in the newly constructed mess with new sparkling plates, that i suddenly happened to see people rushing from the mess with a bag on the back. I realized there was something wrong about my peaceful siesta at the mess and made a run for the hostel. I soon reached the class. It was English language skills. Great! first class and i made it late!

Memories are something really wonderful. It sticks to our inner conscious and always surges on being invoked. Sometimes i can't help feeling that 4 years of M.Sc(Tech) Information Systems basically proved to be a meteor.Yah! It really shooted damn fast. But not that fast to have refused to leave a mark in my memory anyway.

I would always describe BITS Goa as the fantabulously amazingly awesomely brilliant place!
You might feel that it is a hyperbole but on the contrary it is a litotes. Surrounded with lush green scenery with a dash of brilliant blue waters, it is more striking than any other 5 star resort that you could lay your eyes upon.

My very first question when i stepped into the college was,"whoa! where does academics fit into this marvelous scenery?"
Later i realized that academics did really fit in and it was I who didn't fit in.
But still i really have no qualms about not spending my time "productively". Infact i learnt better things. The 4 years of BITS life taught me 3 valuable things.

1. How to beat the most laziest person in the world.
2. How to beat the person with maximum number o' snooze hours
3. How to get permanently attached to the computer screen.


I would be doing a great injustice to the college if i forget to mention DC. Those green bars, red bars and other assortment of colors amidst which you would find the most amazing collection of collections!And here i am, sitting in the office contemplating whether i would be fired if i download a song! First year indeed was a disaster for me in terms of acads.I remember that i became comforted only when i read Chetan Bhagat's "Five Point Someone".

Second year was marked with loads of midnight chattings, strolls in the park every single night, lying in the wet grass of the park, swinging in the swings meant for kids.(Nah! it didn't break),making prompt visits to the IC, monginis, those were the days that personified laziness in the true bliss sense. Sometimes i wonder how did i escape without landing up in the ACB(Academic Council Board). But i had a couple of courses to help prevent my cgpa going below the threshold. I was quiet complacent.Hah!

Third year was supposedly the "rigorous and hectic and dangerous year". But trust me, i really didn't feel any difference. I am sure it made a hell lot of a big difference for people who decided to be studious. I still continued to have fun. When you are surrounded with people like Rose, meaw, mals or sherkutty its hard be confined in my room and turning the pages of the boring books! Pentagon rocks! (plizz its not the US Pentagon, but a simple pentagon formed by 5 simple souls)

Final year saw only one semester of college. But it turned out to be the best for me. Hardly any courses and hardly attending classes, i can't expect more! Three places became the place of abode for me, swats and kavi that semester. The IC for its delicious churned veg omlettes, samosa and cutlet chats and sizzling puris. Kavitha would be angry if i don't include the IC eleachi tea. Then the scrumptous aloo tikki buns of Nescafe fame and third, the entrance of the AH1 common room where we would sit and keep chatting for hours together, collecting the envy of all others who had a high courseload. I had an excellent side roomie that sem to pass time. Appu proved to be my best mokkai partner! I can't believe that she is leaving to US now and also i can't believe that i am in Oracle now. But that is the "moment of truth now" (POS is it?). And with my team lead walking past my desk more than 5 times now, i would better stop blogging and get back to pretended work!