The mastis of 11th and 12th and no studies had inculcated in me, a great sense of loser feeling and my ranks in various competitions had already shattered my self-confidence..I,by now, had become a "no aim,no vision" 12th pass out...who did not know what to do and where to go.because the choices to me seemed negligible..I had no targets,no decisons...only thing i knew was that i have to do B.TECH and have to somehow get a "respectable"-(purely subjective word) college where i can spend the next 4 years of my life...hiding my face with my "achievements" which were results of my actions during +1 and +2 classes..
IT ALL STARTED on that day,that 20th day of august when in the morning,more than about any possible ragging,i feared about my helmet and petrol in my bike.It was my first day for my college JSSATEN,and i had heard rumors that seniors in colleges do trouble their juniors by stealing petrol from their bikes,snatching their helmets etc. etc...all rubbish...Life started ...the orientation in the college..perhaps one of the most boring events i have ever had..had no new frnd and was resistive enough to make one either..my branch till then was electrical engg...i always knew that by NO means was i a boy of ac and dc...so i started bunking college...within 15 days my parents helped me change my branch and i had become a budding mechanical engineer..
Till 12th i had always heard that choose CSE or IT in engg...else everything is waste...so was quite sad on being shifted to mechanical engg. but had no other choice bcoz this was the best choice for me among the available ones(cs/it demanded loads of rokda which i lagged)...and so,,i was set on this dream journey of mech. engg.
Days passed and i had no reason to come to college..no friend..and the books and teachers were never strong enough to hold me in classes..did'nt know what future had in stores for me...then i encountered ..what could be one of the most memorable encounters in my life..my new friend archit...he was a boy-easily capable of creating a heavy first impression.I remember that day when i was absent from college and the next day i came to know that a group of second years had come to our class for ragging and archit's brother(ohh! i forgot to mention-a final year bright student with badmaash friends) had come and given them a good "prasad"-(i still curse myself for missing that day).Now archit had made his mark in eyes of every 1st year mechanical student,which included me,of course(thats my speculation).. and many of different branches too.He was the dream friend of every "BUDDING MECHANICAL ENGINEER IN JSS".We became good friends and with him i welcomed for myself a bunch of new friends-aman , swapan, shashank, apoorve, vaibhav..we all shared same feeling-i.e bunking classes and gossiping and roaming..we even went to see a cricket match-delhi vs pakistan.. a practice match.I liked this all.The "hiding my face with my achievements" feeling had vanished from me and i was again as shameless as a pornstar.I still clearly remember that day in physics lab,when manasvi(one of archit follower at that time-who was quite jealous of me for no reason.)interrupted me while i was talking to all my friends and said to me "tumhari gaand me keeda hai" to which i replied"yes..and that pest is you which i have flushed this morning in loo" to which everyone in the class burst out laughing.I had defeated everybody by huge margins in my comic sense and timings and was now an active part of this "Mechanical Group".I even had a bad encounter with my h.o.d but everything passed on smoothly...even a cricket event "googly" was held in the college in which a group of 4 boys and 2 girls had a team but unfortunately,archit,aman.apoorve and vaibhav had no place for me in the team...days passed on well and the Ist semester ended...good,better,best and the worst-this cycle was yet to start........
TO BE CONTINUED>>>>>
