Friday, September 15, 2006

Far From The Madding Crowd

Two months have passed since I came back to college. I am back to the monotony of life-Get up, go to class, come back, move around the campus for nonsensical things, eat and sleep. This is now what is left to do here. Does life always become so platitudinous after some time?
Well, the new thing now is that all students are thinking as to how to get summer projects? But according to me this is just a new fad. Everyone is doing this just because someone else is also doing the same. This is just a mad rat race in which no one knows the final destination. The amount of secrecy that is maintained and the hype that is created can even put Manoj N Shyamalan to shame. His movies don't even have half the suspence of it. Friends turn into foes and enemies become the bestest of friends just for the sake of a project.
The best part is that guys never wish to include girls in their projects. And it is obvious too. I have been told time and again by some of my friends, that my presence limits their freedom of expression. To prove my point let me tell you how two guys talk when they meet.
1st guy- Hey u A******, where have yoou been?
2nd guy-You F*****, I have been going around that professor for a project. You piece of s***, what about you?
1st guy-$#$#$***(so on and so forth)
Now if these same guys meet in front of a girl they would have to mind their tongues, which i must say is very difficult.
The other best option right now is to start looking as to how to get an internship( which is done after the third year). My department sends about 4 students every year to Sweden. And students have started thinking about it from now itself!! I don't say it is wrong or I don't think about it, but man give me a break. There is still time left for all this.
I beleive that the most dreadful part will arrive when we will reach the 4th year. Everyone will be preparing for CAT, GRE etc. and I would also have to do the same. I really feel sorry for a friend of mine who is right now in the fourth year. His GRE score did not come as well as expected( he has got a good score but no one seems to be satisfied by a score less than 1500).
Everyone comes and asks him as to why has he got such a low score and everyone consoles him that nothing happens if he does not get a call from a good university. I am a person who does not like to tell people my marks even in my test series. I don't know how I will survive the onslaught then.
Sometimes I wish to run away from all this hustle and bustle, somewhere far,where no one cares about these materialistic things. Somewhere where I can just Be Me, with no one judging my every move. Somewhere far away from this maddening crowd.
But this is life and I have got to live it. So better move along with a smile and again plunge into this race for survival.