Now, why did i specifically take up the last sem? simply 'cuz it rocked!
There are few things that personified the last semester at BITS Goa.
Amnesia when coming to the memory of classrooms, falling in love with the wooden cot in the hostel room, competing for the best human movie database of the year, fan club of Bhuyan, river side ambling, patrons of IC and Nescafe, unfaithful to higginbothams, group discussions @ venue AH1 119 and on and on.. whoa! those were the days bounded hard in the ocean of reminiscence.
It was january 08 and i was the first to reach the hostel.I Was feeling very low since we were shifted from GH2 to AH1. I opened the door of my new room, AH1 -120 and flung all my bags on the raw cot. I opened the balcony with the intent of getting some fresh air, but the wind refused to come in as it was blocked by AH2.
I sighed. Suddenly a girl knocked at my door and smiled very sweetly. I smiled back wondering who she was. She told she was in the adjacent room. I thought my memory was so weak that i had forgotten people of my same batch just in a matter of 6 months. It was then i realised that she was a junior. One wing of the ground floor was to be occupied by the juniors! I heaved a sigh of relief. My memory had not been blighted then!
We were alloted rooms based on ID No and branch. I found that myself and appu were cut off from rest of my kernalites by the juniors. Very soon, the hostel was bustling and the placement fever started to shoot up.
The first month was horrible in a way. Everyday checking the company list, trying to get as much info as possible about the pattern of the tests, eyes going red over the RS Aggarwal (red with sleep ofcourse!), getting a brand new smart file(hoping that the interviewer will give a job seeing the new blue file), comforting myself with the thought that if i don't get a job, i can still have a shot at SAP Labs..
I was soon listed for Wipro. I was quite lucky! While everyone was bombarded with C and JAVA and DS, i had a session on SAP stuff... the interviewer was working as a SAP consultant at Wipro and he was very happy to see SAP Labs in my resume. It was a long session and i was made to tell every little thing i knew about SAP and finally i made it!
The other buses were also in and everyone got a job at hand.. peace! Then Oracle retail came. I was intially exuberant thinking that they were coming for marketing but i was shattered when i came to know that it was for s/w dvlmt. Amidst story telling, puzzles and algos, i was in... and so were other 7 others from kernel.
After the much dreaded placements came to a close, it opened the doors to heaven.
It was fun every single day! I remember vaguely going to the computer networks intro class. That proved to be my last visit to that class and DM never saw the traces of me. The only class i actually landed up going very enthusiastically was Professional Ethics handled by Bhuyan. To be candid, i took the course thinking that i can easily bunk all the classes. But i was wrong! With just 11 people in the class, it proved difficult to bunk! Nevertless, Bhuyan actually landed up teaching so well that we started to enjoy the class (which is very rare otherwise)
Everyday schedule was more or like this - get up at 8 - Atish mess - back - sleep - get up at 12 or so - go to Kavitha's or Swathi's room - check if Appu got up - go to Nescafe - back - movie - IC - back - prison break (in loops) - stroll - back - movie - conference (yah!) - blabber - DC - browse - sleep early morn 3. Songs like " Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place" turned real...! Then the numerous vasco trips! I remember we used to go to vasco at times just to plunder Udupi hotel's aloo jeera fry and temptations' vanilla shake!
We used to particularly enjoy the river side strolls, always trying to figure out the path to have a dip in the zuari river! Then the hunt for snakes..! Actually we needn't hunt for them as they are graceful enough to present themselves. Then the puri and elachi tea combo breakfast at IC deserves a special mention. Atish too deserves a very special mention (ob!). It was very refreshing to irritate my side rommie now and then and have a good laugh over it. There was this space outside my room where i would sit for hours together and watch the sky grow dark and let the stars do their turn.
There are simply too many things to pen down or rather blog down. Physically i am at blore but i still am very much mentally at the shining sands of Goa!
Ah!! reminiscence!! go away!
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