PRIYA'S ARENA

One of my friends had a status message which read : "the whole semester converges into a single week" and yes!!! it is rightly justified.We spend the whole semester doing useless things, leading a mundane life, playing games, watching movies………… Who cares about studies??? And if anyone does, then he is a GMAT (don’t ask me the full form). And then suddenly, this is "Exam Time". Times of frisk activities. Really those are the instances that inspired me to write this post. If there is sometime the number of friends in green is less than those in red (some use always idle too :P), then this is it. Some don’t even come online.

The advent of the exams are marred by writing assignments (to be more proper - copying assignments), lab tests, viva and nail biting tensions for the exams। But when can you study if you would be having your hands full with so much to write. The lab courses, the TAs everything depend on them (I still don’t understand why the teachers reserve their homework till the last moment), And from here the mid night oil burning starts.

And then the exam time। People are seen hovering around with sets of photocopies in hand. The times when the so-called GMATs become GAWDs to the otherwise. May it be getting a photocopy of his ( or most of the times 'her', as in our section) notes or enquiring about the courses or clearing doubts (I don't know how they arise)। When no more photocopy is possible, taking snaps of it( a cheaper and effective medium). Probably the only times when they don’t use their computers to play games, watch movies and chat. And with we having power cuts in the evening, some are seen making the hostel lawn their study room. And when there was a long seven hours power cut, the corridor emergency lights came to the rescue.

Not just studying, here frisk means being frisky in everything। All the crazy stuffs in the world are beckoned during this time। May it be a long running google group thread or playing online cricket. Even people resort to watching series during this time. With the IPL going, you could watch many with notebooks in their hand and eyes glued to the TV in the common room. Overall this becomes a very eventful period. With the night canteens bearing an overcrowded look (and me being more troubled with a room just in front of it), its lottery for the canteen owner. And sweltering summer means gold strike for the nimbu pani stall and hex too.

Exam time is the time when the world becomes alive at NITR. Not even a single moment goes uneventful. Sometimes I miss these times. Wishing it to be a little longer (don’t come after me to bash, please :P). After exams, comes these vacations. Why are we to have such a long vacation. It eventually becomes boring. May be we should request the authorities to have small small but many vacations :P ...

Acknowledgement - Thanks to the ones whose status messages I used in this post (even the heading is from a status message).