THE STRUGGLE

THE FIRST YEAR WAS REALLY A TALE OF STRUGGLE FOR ME...ALL THE NEW FACES AND TEACHING METHODS WERE TOO MUCH TO HANDLE AT ONCE. THE HOSTEL MADE FOR AN INTERESTING OBSERVATION THOUGH. IT TEEMED WITH ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE...OF ALL SHAPES,SIZES AND TYPES.
THE NORMALS, THE BULLIES, THE STUDIOUS', AND THE LONERS.MOSTLY ALL CAME FRM THE SAME STATE BUT THR WERE A FEW FRM OUTSIDE AS WELL...THERE WAS ME, THE KERALITE I MENTIONED BEFORE, THE BENGALI GAND*E, THE NAGA HEKA KUKU, ANOTHER BENGALI LTES CALL HIM THE CEO, AND AN IMPORTED PERSON PAPPI...
THEY WERE ALL VERY FRNDLY AND I GOT ALONG NICELY WID DEM. BUT I CANT SAY THE SAME FOR MY ROOMMATE WHO IN ALL FAIRNESS TO HIM WAS A VERY DEDICATED BOY BUT MY SCHEDULE AND HIS WERE EXCATLY OPPOSITE........WE CUDNT GET TALKING STRAIGHT AWAY. THUS MOST OF MY NIGHTS WERE SPENT SLEEPING WID DA KERALIT AND THE NAGA WHO WERE ROOMMATES, USUALLY IN THE SAME CLOTHES THAT I HAD WORN TO DA COLLEGE THAT DAY.
AND SO WENT THINGS......THE FRST TASTE OF SENIORS I GOT WEN THEY CAME OVER TO DA HOSTEL DURING GANESH CHATURTHI.........MOST SEEMED LIKE "WANNABEEZ" ABUSING AWAY LIKE PIMPS MAYBE TAKING OUT THEIR FRUSTRATION TO HAVING BEEN DEPENDENT ON THEIR HANDS AND PILLOWS FOR SO LONG.......I CUD ALMOST LAUGH MY HEAD OFF THAT NYT....THEY CAME AND STATED ABUSING EVEN WEN ONE OF MY BATCHMATES FATHER WAS IN DA ROOM RYT NEXT TO DA CHANNEL GATE. IT WAS HILARIOUS TO SEE HIS EXPRESSIONS.WE DANCED MERRILY TO THE TUNE OF THE DRUMS AND THE VOLLEY OF VERBAL EXPLITIVES OF OUR SENIORS.
THERE WAS THIS TRADITION IN OUR COLLEGE THAT ONLY CITY SENIORS HAD THE MORAL AND THE FRST RYT TO RAG THEIR JUNIORS.LUCKILY FOR ME I WAS THE FRST FRM MY CITY SO I GOT AWAY.....BUT LOOKING IN THE HINDSIGHT I FEEL OF IT MORE AS A HANDICAP THAN A BLESSING 'COZ IT PREVENTED ME FRM GETTING INTRODUCED TO MY SENIORS PROPERLY IN DA FRST YR ,A THNG I HAD HOPED AGAINST.
CLASSES WERE GOING ON FULL STEAM, WITH ALL THE SMART ASSES DOING WELL IN DA CLASS....WEN I CUDNT STUDY EVEN TO SAVE MY LYF!! SOON THE XAMS VERE ON OUR HEADS AND I HAD NO CLUE AS TO HOW TO PREPARE FOR THEM...........AND AS LUCK WUD HAVE IT , EVEN THOUGH I STUDIED HARD, OR ATLEAST PRETENDED TO, I FAILED 3 OUT OF 5....
..........I CRIED MY HEART OUT THAT NYT.......THIS WERE GOING TO BE THE LONGEST 4 YEARS OF MY LYF....OR SO I THOUGHT!