The first day

i was asleep .. but not lost completely in my sleep.. as i usually would be .. it was more like i was just laying there for the alarm to go off so that i could get up n get going..

i got up .. finally when the first strokes of my 1945 german 18 jewels alarm clock started going off.. after finishing off my breakfast and the daily routine i started to get ready for what i was waiting.. going to college.. first day of degree college.. having said that this day was 3 years ago, i can still remember the details of the people who were in the bus with me - if im pressed enough.

Ive been thinking of writing about this day for a long time now.. but ive finally found the time now ... i still remember how constricted the space inside the college doors seemed when i walked in on that day .. of course it was crowded.. it was the first day of college.. orientation and everything.. not only were there students, but also all their parents - both of them in some cases - but i had experience of what lengths orientations can bore a normal claustrophobic human brain to .. so i left my parents out of the torture. But i had to attend the damn thing .. so i went in .. having nothing else to do on the first day.. i was given company by aziz - who dint have anything better to do in college- who promptly volunteered to sign as my "guardian" lol..

after almost an hour of the same thing being repeated by different heads(ill save the principals story for another blog) the orientation was finally over and i headed over to the class 504 .. the college building had a typical post-independence aura to it.. 20 ft high ceilings made for nice ventilation and also increased the number of steps to be climbed per floor to reach the ever elusive fifth floor. when i finally reached there.. i was a bit out of breath.. but finding the class room wasnt a problem as it was the first thing that hit the eyes when entering the fifth floor..

It turned out that going to the canteen for a drink after the orientation was not the smartest thing to do as the class was seemingly overflowing with expectant faces waiting for the lecturer to show himslef(im sorry if im being a sexist again) .. and also the moment i appeared at the door, i felt countless eyeballs falling over me and there was a distinctive silence that fell over the class - perhaps they thought that i was gonna take the lecture.. lol.. the beard did come in handy then ;) ... i scanned the class for any empty space in the two rows at the back.. and finding one straight at the end made my way towards it.. the rest of the day was very uneventful as i decided on bunking the remaining lectures after finding the FC lecture so boring that i was amazed at how the college maintenance managed to clean all the drool off the class floor.. (i guess it just evaporates)..

I just thought i'd post this memory .. missing college days.. started working now.. and its strange what "getting paid for something" and "paying for something" can do to your mentality .. and i guess i've realised the truth in my VP's speech that he gave at our farewell .. "In college you make friends, at work you make colleagues" ..