Au Revoir

This has been long time coming but had to come one day.

The 4 years have just whizzed by and I can still remember the 1^st day in college, seems like yesterday.

College has been such a learning experience for me for you see before that I was pretty much living in a cocoon. Saw the same 140 faces in 14 years of school, lived in the same neighbourhood all my life and had friends for long as the memory can stretch.

So on that rather eventful day on 8^th August 2001, it struck me, I dint know a single face in college not even one, zilch, zero, none. So had to do something very alien to me insofar, MAKING FRIENDS, I stuck to that task rather diligently and the end of it all think am pretty good at it :-p

Its odd when you look back you only remember the “good” or the “fun” stuff that happened. I’m sure I dint like the DSP classes by “beloved” Mariappan but looking back it doesn’t seems all that bad. Neither did I like kicked by every living soul in college for my b’day but I’m almost looking back at it with certain amount of fondness (NO! I’m not crazy!!)

College has been my best teacher yet, I have met some of the best brains in Chennai, known some of the funniest people, got acquainted with people who just don’t give a damn about anything in life, saw major character transformations in the 4 years, more than played my fair share of pranks, and consider myself extremely lucky for knowing some super human beings.

And all that has come to an end. Guess that I’m feeling a bit sad, guess I did like the everyday grind of traveling 90kms and being bored to death by lectures.

College was my security blanket and now it is gone will have to start work in another week; God only knows how that is going to be like.

Am gonna miss college BIG time, it means no more heated discussions on football, no more ragging, no more being obnoxious, no more last bench wise cracks, no more night stays and no more playing gnibbles in labs.

But saying all this if someone came up to me and offered “Vignesh, we are gonna turn back the clock 4 years and let you relive the entire experience”
I would have to say “Thanks, but no thanks”

Its time to move on.