Four years of my life

The four holy years -

1. Teacher pattafying comes naturally ! For me, it was all about college home and this boredom started taking effect on me. In the process of attending college, all I did learn was how to maintain attendance well above 99% ! I know friends who have less than 30% and still manage to top the exams. Attending classes ≠ Marks scored (classes are useless, they help very less in understanding the subject, all you freshers, learn from my mistakes!).
2. Friends who have helped me in reducing my mood swings and helping me to get the “whatever” attitude into me.
3. Realization of life beyond college during college life and I am not talking about little shop or snacks point ! (disclaimer – I have never been to the little shop)
4. Friends and foes in disguise. Engineering may or may not have taught me the subjects relevant to what the industry has, but it has given me a vision with the different types of people I ll be working with in the future.
5. I was very emotional, damn sensitive. Thanks to my friend group (we call ourselves the othlas), I have now become less sensitive to words being hurled, less emotional and very much sensible. I felt a small segment of Ayn Rand’s objective theory in each of them.
6. Make decisions as if you have no emotional connection to them. < makes a lot of sense in variety of ways.
7. Gossips (I hate), crushes . I have been in it all the time. I remember a good friend of mine who used to hit on the Kannada teacher (first year)! Crushes had no count, I was in it all the time. Though it turned out to be sad as everyone I had a crush on, had a guy.
8. At start, I hated girls in my college, I hated them for every reason I could find. Attire, too many boyfriends, no sense and value for money, dad’s money! First two years were just pissing me off. Then came some maturity, wasn’t pained by the things happening around me, thought more about myself and it does take time for such things to sink into your head. The process is still not over. Selfishness has a virtue and being blind to things happening in this world helps in keeping yourself healthy, wealthy and fine !
9. Draw a thick line between you and your best friend. I realized that very late, no matter how close your friend is to you, he will want you to keep out of a few things. At start I did get offended but then to think of it, I too hate people knowing too many things about me. The best solution I found was to give them a gossip about myself to discuss about and they would break their head over something which isn’t related to me at all. I loved the attention and the gossiping about me, which I never bothered about though I pretended to be worried about it, and it was fun doing so.
10. Talk less! I ended up messing up with a lot of things talking too much. Silence and active listening is far better than to talk whatever you think!
11. Never be influenced by others, do the things you want to. You hold yourself back for some reason, you will see yourself left far behind. I am still caught with a few people and still struggle to come out of the spider’s web, hopefully will be marching forward at full speed from now.

Last day of the possibility of meeting friends is now gone, a few depressed, a few relieved. I am caught in no man’s land. A slight feeling of sadness of losing a few good people and absolutely no regrets of leaving a few whom I hope I never see in my life.

Traveling back in time, the things I would change or do.

1. Taken internals more seriously.
2. Taken part in various extra curricular things, especially badminton.
3. Taken a lot of holidays and gone on various trips (alone).
4. Would have not attended more than the required 85%.
5. A Bike instead of the zing I have.
6. Would have given more thought about programming.
7. I have a few friends lesser than…, hmm, say 500. Having too many friends is a pain at the same time, I feel I could have made more friends. So really cannot decide on what to do with the social networking aspect.
8. Improve my memory related to remembering names of people I have met. (special dedication to Rangaram, sorry, I think he was Gangaram, eh, no, I guess it was Rajaram. Still does not sound right, I think he was …. Raghuram… oof. Yeah, thats the name.)
9. The list is endless, including choosing a different college and to think of it I shifted from EWIT to MSRIT.
10. When forming a team, take a step back, analyze whether you are taking a friend as a team mate or a worthy capable of being a team player as team mate. It matters a lot.

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