Tuesday, 5 April 2011

My First Day At College :D


“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveller has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.” -  Freya Stark


Passing out from school & starting a new life a new phase which everyone says “college” gives us an identity of being an adult & provides us with much more freedom.
The date not escaping  my memory  it was 23rd December when I started the next part of my “adventurous” life journey called College.
RING RING…not another forward message, I thought as my cell phone vibrated. I checked and realised it was an alarm call. It was 6 am. My God, it was my first day to college. I got up and after hours of mulling on what to wear; I was ready to hit the road that led me to my college.
It was a different feeling all together, remembering my first day at school where I went with a smile on my face to see something new & exciting, my emotions this time were mixed. It was a mixture of nervousness & excitement, previous one for about how it’s going to go, how would my classmates be like, will I make friends? & the later one about my this will be my 2nd abode for the next 5 years.
I fell in love with the campus, landed up talking to a girl to help me reach my class, later realised she was my class mate.
Entered the class seeing so many new faces, I joined late, realised it seeing the little groups that were already formed in the class. Sat on the 2nd bench & found that the students were helpful, they made me see what all had I missed.
The students came from varied places, had different dressing sense, difference in everything. It took me time to actually make out the similarities as observing was my habit. :P  now coming to the faculty the first class I attended that was jurisprudence, it was difficult for me to grab what was going on in the class as I had missed a lot, so I struggled to understand. L
Then happened our 2nd class for that day, English, where Ms shailja got me introduced to the class & made me comfortable in this new environment after which we had our break. The break made me see the corridors filled with students of other classes as well & the canteen which had people who were smiling as if welcoming me, I saw it as positive note to this new beginning.
The last class that day as I clearly remember was taken by our director sir Mr C J Rawandale. For whom I fondly developed a sense of admiration , his way of teaching was better than anyone I had ever seen , his way of interacting with the students & his sense of humour was the element which made me like torts even more :P
It was an experience I will cherish for my life, that will never go out of the list of my fondest memories.
My first day signified the beginning of my career goals.


- Purvasha Mansharamani

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