JUSTIFYING MY NICKNAME!!

And my folks kept telling me B.Tech would be a cakewalk. My brother was of the opinion that Science students had to slog only during their 11th and 12th Grades… and that B.Tech was any idiot’s cup of tea. I was wrong. Not that the course kept me glued to books and isolated me from any sort of entertainment…. it just did not yield the expected results. I still remember staring at a huge statistical board in my department. It contained the toppers list for B.Tech… the highest mark listed being 82%. Frankly, I scoffed at that. I knew 82% would be tough to beat…but I felt that mark was definitely within my reach. Especially since I was fresh from good ranks in Entrance Exams plus the 12th Boards…..

Only after my First Year results came out did I realise that B.Tech was not akin to CBSE. Not the least with CALICUT UNIVERSITY. I scored a paltry 67%… which was one of the better marks… But I was shocked. Being used to scores of 80+ in most exams during schooling, this was definitely hard to swallow. 82% wasn’t easy after all….

Despite that setback… and the 3 arrears I encountered by the end of my Third Semester, I continued to take it easy. No longer was 82% my target…. The recruiting companies demanded atleast 60 or 65% cutoff…. and I was desperate to get that…. But every now and then, I wish I could go back to those old days where there was never room for tension or worry. True I was under my mom’s surveillance, and that I knew hostel life wouldn’t be the same as being at home, I never expected to struggle in achieving a score which I would have got in any exam at school even if I slept the whole of the previous day. I knew the University was partly to blame… but when I saw the others stacking up huge totals in the exams, I couldn’t help worrying….

But thats me…. I perform better under pressure(says me!!). I am working hard and trying to recreate my school days… and am confident my that my hard work will pay off…. Life’s indeed come a FULL CIRCLE…. I’ve witnessed and gone through the bad phases… and hopefully they have gone once and for all…. For once, I hope to live to the reputation of my nickname….

O.K. Thats it for now…. Ma friends have come…. Time for a round of carroms and smoke….. and I hope thats not ironical!!!!