5 point someone ::Living the story:: Part 2

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The start of the first round of tests was a big event for all us freshers. Everyone wanted to prove their mettle, to start off the semester on a high..... Well atleast "everyone" thought "everyone" was preparing hard! For the first time in weeks, our minds were "inhabited" by thoughts of serious preparation, otherwise dominated by THE most devilish plots. These new inhabitants, though, were still pretty much a minority, and the effect they had on our preparation is pretty much comparable to the effect our movement has on the orbit of mars (something that i fancy since we were taught newtons third law!! That we pull a planet with an equal force as that of the planet on us) getting back to the point, as the exams arrived, days flew past and we were hit by more than one debacle. The first round was closed book, ironical.... because so was preparation. Our books practically opened up only on pre-exam nights!

I always looked forward to exams while in school. It used to be the time to show those teachers who thought of me as a worthless bag of pawns and pranks, that.... things are not always learnt from books. In college this continued, but after the first round i realised that i liked exams for some other reason. It was the nights before exams that we came up with these awful ideas and pranks that would make the mahatma gandhi statue (just outside our hostel) frown and look away! Being the only ones up at around 3am, we had all of the hostel for ourselves. And we made full use of it! More than necessary i feel, thinking back. For us these nights were the most anticipated thing at that time, in an otherwise pretty dull and mundane village of pilani. The adrenaline rush they brought was incomparable!

Talking of adrenaline rush, the cultural festival of Bits-Pilani, OASIS-2k9 was due that same month (October). This too was meticulously organized in the middle of our second round of tests. This second round was open book (Our books remained closed though!). There was a hype built around this event, a week prior to it though, the aura described by our seniors was missing and prominently too. Sans the buzz and the excitement, we thought we were in for a disappointment. This, considering it was slap-bang in the middle of our second round of tests, was a double whammy (First being the results of round one!). As the date grew upon us and the shadow of a dismal show looming large, all students, clubs, departments put in extra efforts, doubled their work to get results. There was hardly time to spare even for mundane things such as a bath, as people went days together without a brush up.

To be continued.. Part 3............... :)