How I got to 4003 ....... a journey through my first year.

Its been like a whole week into the sem now. Classes are now very different. Gone are the days when 5-6 people linked only by the location of their rooms went to classes together. They knew not the others "really" . I mean beyond the others names and where they were from, there was not much they knew about each other. Probably, one more thing they knew about each other during those early days of healthy, good for the world in general fresher-senior interaction, was "frequency" ;) . More than that they knew nothing. They had just entered a world oblivious to the joys of DC++, of LAN gaming, of Techniche, of Manthan and of Alcher. When they came here they probably hadn't seen the varied hues of human nature. They got to see that in these very people, accepted their faults and now are the very best of friends. There is the pseudo-dominant soft at heart insecure guy. There is the one who feels he's always right and won't accept not knowing something even if its staring down upon him with the barrel of a gun pointed at his temple. There's the one who whines at the drop of a hat and yet he's probably one of the most cheerful guys too, Ironic!! There's the one who is too melodramatic in stuff he writes, be it status messages or be it scraps to a certain someone wishing her on her birthday. And there's me, insecure probably, a tad overconfident sometimes, maybe a bit outspoken and too sarcastic sometimes. There's the football, one track mind if I ever saw one ;). But thats all just perception. What counts is the strongest possible bond, that of friendship, the everlasting kind. And it's not that the bond has been untested. Late February 08 saw the bond being stretched to its limit. After that what has been established is that it not going to break. The year saw lots of stuff happening, some mentionables and many unmentionables :D . How some people used to being pretty much the best in anything even remotely related to academics suddenly realised that maybe thats not all they were made for. Some rediscovered the author in them which had been lost since about 6th class i guess. Many others discovered that they had amazing reflexes ...... headshot after headshot ensured that ;) . Some discovered that they could down 650 ml of a pretty dilute solution of ethanol pretty easily. Well all of them discovered that they aren't and never were the best academically. They accepted it and moved on because they still remained better than most. Or maybe they didn't give a damn. And then they lifted themselves up in the 2nd sem and got much better academically. So infact they all did give a damn even though none actually admitted it to the others for fear of being labelled "Ghissu of the Lobby". [This distinction lies as of now with the guy who lives bang in front of me!! ;) ]. And then after 3 months of absolutely amazing fun at home. They returned....... and I got to 4003