One of the most memorable days of my life..

Monday, April 19, 2010 | shubha khamparia

It was 7 AM and I woke up in anxiety, I could hardly sleep last night
as it was going to be the first day of my 4 years of voyage.
I got ready , wore a simple old kind of salwar kameez (as many of my school friends had warned me about GECU being blacklisted for ragging and stuff,this kind of salwar kameez was an attempt to escape from ragging), my hairs neatly oiled, and as my seniors
adviced me to take a tempo of a yellow n black combi to the Govt. engineering college, I stood by the side of the road waiting for that special entity to arrive. I could see a pig faced black n yellow thing approaching towards me on the road. I succeded to grab the tempo assistant's attraction and finaly that speacial car paused on the road specialy for me :).
I stepped in and and oh my God !..why the hell was I shivering!? I struggled for the words 'Govt. Engineering College'
And there.. I was dropped outside a huge campus where I could figure out nothing except BABOOL trees.
I managed to walk in a few kilometers and saw the college building. It was 10 AM already, and as I was about 1 month late in joining the college, I did not know which class I was supposed to go in.
Class room for the first sem students were swapped almost in every lecture: this was an anti ragging special measure taken by the college authority. Thus I was unable to figure out my class room. I read in the notice board:
"Computer Science: first sem : Computer lab". Then as I was running through the campus in search of the first sem computer lab,
One guy helped me out. He insisted me to accompany him as he was supposed to go to the same lab, I agreed.
I stepped inside the lab and noticed two things:
1. Every body in the class seemed quite elder to me.
2. God! I guess I had missed many important lectures as the students inside the lab were busy preparing projects in JAVA.

I querried peaple over there about what was I supposed to do ..and they suggested to just wait for the faculty to instruct me.
Sitting at the last PC,I opened MS Paint (this was all I liked to do in computers @ that age.)and made some funny cartoons. Almost every body in the lab noticed my screen and then they were either giggling and whispering something.
Then a Man with a register came inside the class room and started marking the attendance . I complained as My name was not announced, and the faculty in quite surprised words spoke" First class?"
I said 'yes' with a shivering voice and mixed expressions. And then he turned towards the rest of the students in the lab and asked "who got this girl inside the lab?"
And the batch laughed.:(
He informed me that it was the third year batch project lab, and I am definitely in the wrong place.
He guided me towards the notice board to check out my next lecture location. With wet eyes I checked the time in my watch , it was 12 PM and I
still could not make it to my class room. The notice board displayed "COMPUTER SCIENCE FIRST SEM - G17 - MECHANINCS"
Then finaly I succeded in searching G17 and attended my first lecture: Faculty Mr. Pahwa , subject: Engineering Mechanics.
As I had already missed around 4 lectures on mechanics in the past month and specialy after whatever happened since the morning, I could not get even a single alphabet present on board into my head.
After the lecture I blindly followed my classmates to the next class room , we walked in flocks like sheep.
Ahh .. It was 5 pm and I had to get back to the hostel.
Standing on the road, while waiting for the tempo, I had sung almost 8 songs for the amusement of my seniors.And the funniest part was: I did'nt know how but that day every senior guy who spoke to me , belonged to my home town! :P (Allthough later on I came to know that it was'nt true.).
I saw the tempo approaching towards me. Without wasting any time I stepped inside it to save my life. After around 20 mins I realised:
this is not the the same route that I followed in the moring while comming towards the college.
In Innocence I asked the tempo wala "Teen batti nikal gaya kya?"
And the full crowd inside the tempo was laughing. Hell ! why so?
The tempo driver stopped and told me to get out and wait for the same type of tempo but from the other direction.
The scene was: I had reached a nearby village , with tears in my eyes I stood on the road waiting for the black n yellow pig faced thing, but  from the opposite direction this time.
My eyes shone bright in yellow color as I had seen it approaching . yes!!! a few seconds later Ill be out of this hell.
At 7:30 PM, I was back in the hostel. After such a horrible day , I Woke up in fever 100 degrees the next morning :).

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