THE SANDS OF TIME

I turned 21 yesterday. The adult tag sure feels great but time is flying and it scares me.
I barely have a year more of engineering to go and I’m going to miss these days like crazy!! It’s funny how I feel like it was just yesterday when I was in school and decided to pursue engineering. I’m almost done and I’m happy about that. But I wish I could just stop time. If I still miss the 2 years of junior college then I don’t even want to think about how much I am going to miss these 4 years.

I’ll miss the constant company of my best friends. I’ll miss the unpredictability of our movie plans, always last-minute and the crazy rushing that followed. I’ll miss hanging out with them. I’ll miss all the funny experiences I’ve had with Namrata; especially the long uninterrupted chats with her during lectures and the challenge of keeping a straight face even while listening to the most hilarious things. I’ll miss listening to Arpan read my SMSes. I’ll miss the bitter pleasure of the heartaches- those that I went through and the ones that I caused.

I’ll miss BTech IT like crazy. I’ll miss all the fun times. I’ll miss A3. I’ll miss the library and the canteen. As they say, ‘you never know when you’re making memories’.

I’ve met some great people here and some not- so- great. There have been some fostered relationships and some broken. Some things have made me laugh and some have made me cry. The best thing is that it has never been only about academics. In fact, it has hardly ever been so. There have been some major life-lessons and for those I’ll be ever grateful.

We have just a few trimesters left all of which are going to see frenzied preparation for the MBA entrance exams, final attempts to bring up our CGPAs and the stuff. So officially the best part is over. I don’t know what the years to come have in store for me but I sure as hell know that my days in this college are going to be some of my most cherished ones.