Life is full of choices. Some choices appear
best only once after we make them. Some choices make us regret, while some give
us confusion. Such a choice was made by me a few years ago that led me go
through a life with full of twists and turns which is by far the most confusing
part of my life. My life in JNTU College. Day one of my college, I was looking
at it from a different lens. Along with my mediocre aptitudes I carried huge
expectations, which were shattered or rather destroyed by the way my college
presented itself in front of my wistful thinking. I had to drop fantasies which
I had set earlier, start to digest the realities I faced, accept the standards
I had to go through and enjoy the life with compromises that had come
along.
If there is anything that I need to start
with, that would be about TEXT CHATTING. It became an obsession in my first
year of college. In what way it has intrigued me was unknown to me, but I
remember I was engaged in constant chatting on phone most often to distract
myself from disappointments that college had brought in. This obsession
continued throughout my first year. I have nothing to mention but chatting, low
grades in math, amateurish behavior with fellow friends and lack of
understanding towards life…That’s the way I was in first year. First year was
finished pretty soon with attendance in class as first time ever. To top it all
off there was no fresher’s party from our seniors which led to a party
celebrated by ourselves and we called it with a name ITRUM which nearly too
about 6 months to remember the name for me. Mention of ragging and about
seniors would likely take another long story that brings a bitter shock and
creates a trauma who had gone through it.
By second year I understood every nook and
corner of the college, conduct of exams and most importantly the conduct of
management which is one thing that gets me on nerves even today. Result of
exams was likely to be unpredictable almost all the time. Nobody really
understood whether they really deserved the scores they achieved. Often
students either used to get disappointed getting low scores in a few subjects
or shocked to see high scores in the other. However, they used to balance out
in the end though correction of papers lacked a bit of genuinty as we believed.
Second year had finally ended with my interests surging towards sports that led
to another obsession which I still carried out of college. Finally, there was
an end to it with fresher’s party bringing an “ELIXIR” party which literally meant
a life-healer. We hoped it really healed our lives further.
By the start of third year I was termed and
treated as “day scholar” which I realized soon after I was being told and
taught rigorously, however it only meant I come under studious category as
assumed by most students in college. By third year we also came to know many
things like canteen lacks a lot of facilities even after its renovation,
management takes no responsibility in informing students of the schedule of
events that take place in future, playing football or table tennis is the only
entertainment that we could get in college, fifty percent of events and fests
would suck by one way or the other, how much collecting the hall ticket a day
before the exam is important, we pay development fee still there can’t be much
of the development seen with it except that we needed to pay one extra challan
for it all by standing in a huge crowd in a tiny bank that is present in
far-end of college and finally we understood was we joined in JNTU. Degrading
our own college seemed to be a habit we picked and half our time would have
gone in talking cheap and downside of college. Its like almost every student
had hated it vehemently.
Still not ended with third year, it stood
very precious in my life. It almost brought in all the pieces of interests
together, cleared off most confusions of life and a new obsession had finally
begun that changed most part of my life. A new love was formed for learning
English, soon it led me go dive in it deeper than I expected. This ensured to
give me a good awareness towards English and completely fell in love in
learning it further and further. This article from me couldn’t have really been
possible to write if I hadn’t pursed my graduation in JNTU, credit goes to college
indeed. Friends who were formed were a clear match with my interests which
incredibly multiplied my interest….Final year was one thing I sought to mention
in another article where I introduce my actual b.tech lyfe. :D
