Looking Back!

On August 25th as I looked at the MET building in Bandra, many random thoughts went through my head. The one over-riding nearly every other thought was “How would College 2.0 would be for me?”

Returning to college life after more than 3 years was tough. I was used to earning money and spending it. Returning to the student lifestyle would be tough I thought. And believe me it still is!

So getting back to reviewing the last few months of college 2.0, let me start at the very beginning. The 1st three days were pure torture to begin with. Just sitting there on those uncomfortable chairs for 9 to 9.5 hours with sporadic breaks thrown in to keep us from shooting each other or just jumping out of the windows!

The next 2 days spent in outbound were really good. I made my 1st friends in that place! And then the lectures started!

Now a 3 hour lecture to start with after 3 years of not attending a single lecture can be very disorientating. One can easily be in a deluded state thinking that the last 5 minutes seemed to last an hour! I went through that phrase. I still go through that whenever the lecture gets boring.

11 subjects in total. At least 10 lectures of 3 hours per subjects. Do the math yourself! In the end we ended up doing much more than that!

Crazy times followed!! College, presentations (too many if you ask me), debates, parties and everything in between. I shifted base to Bandra from Malad. If you see, from Belapur to Malad to Bandra, I am surely moving in the right direction towards South Bombay ;-)

Well, we had quite a good faculty, I must admit. From learning how to respect women to “all the beautiful girls and handsome guys”, from reading ET every freaking Thursday to attending the last lecture on every Saturday, from Kotler to Johnson, from Debit/credit to how to write snail mail in the electronic world, from writing till the end of the world or the book whichever came first to doing nothing at all in a lecture, to wearing suits and sarees to wearing casuals, we did it all.

If you haven’t seen a zombie in real life, you could have seen me during the written exams. 11 papers in 12 days is no joke! And it doesn’t help when you actually open the books for the 1st time 2 days before the exams.

The one positive side effect of college 2.0 was that I made quite a few friends and I hope to spend the rest of my time here with you guys enjoying every bit of the journey. It sure has been a pleasure sharing this ride with you guys!

Everyone have a glorious new year. Here’s to 2012! CHEERS!!