A sem to forget… aanh or a sem to remember..??

The end of fourth semester must mark a new beginning to my life at IIT Madras.. or atleast I hope it will!

This.. incidently is also the sem I sweared at the most..

The REASONS clearly being-
- Academically the heaviest sem I would ever be in.
- Special mention to the math course LinAL (Linear Algebra) which is the crapiest thing I ever heard or will hear.
- My performance (academic) the worst ever, I spose.
- Low EQ (Entertainment Quotient) all through the sem.
- Away from home for the longest period in my life… 124 days..
- And last but not the least.. Expectations, many of ‘em were belied.

Here it starts..
The number ‘26’ acquires a NEW meaning..
The sem started on a scary note with 26 credits to complete.. u wd know better if u knew wat credits were. Attending the first few weeks of classes, we knew we will have to go through complete crap… and I bet it was!!

A SAARANG dat cupped..
Then came SAARANG our cult fest.. supposed to be the 5 most happening days of the even semester. But guess wat?? To add to the agony of the sem, it cupped and very badly at it. “An excuse for a pro show” by Sukhwinder Singh made half sure that the guests wont revisit SAARANG. And from my side… it cupped too.. despite of being in the Hospitality department I could not find a girl to go for Salsa with me… Can u believe it?? Well in my defence -- I din put fite!!

Quizzes came calling… infact without calling...
Well I don remember much… C’mon the sem is over daa!!..... :)

EQ!!!!
There was little or no entertainment this sem.. no enthu to watch English movies.. watched DDLJ, Bombay, Roja, Anbe Sivam and nothing new..
And with F.R.I.E.N.D.S over.. had to find solace with “How I met your Mother” and “Two and a Half Men”.

Nearing the end..
Towards the end it was reduced to counting the days.. End sems were seen as nothing but a barrier between home and hostel.. And all that remained was to cross it soon… whichever way possible!!!

Confidence graph!!!
Had a bumpy confidence graph all through sem... sometimes at my zenith and other times at my all time low....

**But still Every dark cloud has a silver lining.. And this sem, (DARK as you may call) was no different..**

I broke barriers this sem...
Be it the way I thought about people or the way I looked at life or be it the number of classes I bunked or the number of torturing PJs I shared (with a friend of mine)...

I came out of the shell called “SHAILESH”.. listened to arguments.. made mine and got convinced and made my point too.. Mind gave way for new ideas about future.. And for a change, I started thinking seriously about them... Life(minus acads) suddenly seemed much more peaceful..

Life used to be painful.. It(I mean ‘the sem’) taught me to find pleasure in the pain..

Experimented a lot.. did things I never did before.. and liked them too.. (I don mean booze or fag.. okay )

Finally….

Fell a lot this sem… but got up too…

Understood my friends well… and enemies better…

Suffered heavy blows… but din fail to strike back..

There were failures this sem, literally BIG in magnitude, but the HOPE for REVIVAL still remains..

And it is for this one reason.. This sem would remain as a “Sem to remember” and never to forget..

1:52 am, May 9, 2007 Shailesh R Nadar.