CHAPTER 6 December: The Pressure Cooker...
College life was getting somewhat comfortable for
Ragav. As he tried to be more flexible with his life just like other budding
engineers. The biggest festivals of any engineering student are the semester
exams. Though the student has not studied throughout the semester he can’t
escape from studies during this period of life. He has to study and utilize
each and every time available to pass the written exams. Its just similar to
the pressure cooker where the pressure builds with a steady phase. The fresher
is always tensed about these exams from the day one of the college. But still
some of them manage to get the things going on smoothly.
Just like a normal student Ragav preferred to study
at late night. But the problem is the more you study you will get hungry! The
only available food source at late night was with those who lived nearby
Kolhapur just like Ragav he had plenty of food stock available for 4-5 days.
But this was not sufficient. There had to be an alternative to this and this MacDonald’s
was a better option at the distance of just 5 mins by run! So these guiz
whenever were hungry set off to their destination of food just like an owl. But
getting to the destination was not an easy task, here the team work played a
major role. It was the time to learn some team spirit. One of the roommate had
to check on the sleeping guard at the hostel. The guards usually doze of till
midnight but some of them stayed awake throughout the night. Second had to climb the walls of hostel
carefully and give a signal to indicate the further road is clear. Every hostel
guy will become an expertise in this act and stealth in their movement that they can beat
the marine corps that took out the Osama Bin laden in his sleep!
Examination hall is the place where all the history
are written and created. The students enter the hall with the fingers crossed and
tensed mind. There’s a whole difference between an examination at high school
and engineering, at school you strive hard to get good marks but here the first
aim is to get passed in every subject with first class. The first thing any student will do after
getting the question paper in hand is scan the whole paper and check the total
number of answers know to every question. If the number is more than 40 marks
then its best to him else better luck next time. 3 hours in an examination hall
is memorable event of engineer’s life. The time has to be managed while writing
the paper. The key to get more marks is to attempt the whole paper with a
proper representation of answers and diagrams. After the breath taking 3 hours
the first remarkable question asked by friends is “Bhava, stunar kai paper???”
(Dude, will you pass in this paper). And the discussion continues with cross
checking the answers and other values.
Done with the exams it was the time to get going to
a vacation. This was the relief time for everyone. Everyone before waving off
good bye promised to call back twice in week which was nevertheless than a
dream to come true but still with smile on face, Ragav set of to Bhopal for his
vacations. The ancient city of Maharajas Bhopal is one of advanced city in
Madhya Pradesh. Everyone in his family tree was an Engineer by profession
except for Soumya which was banker, working at a bank in kerala. She was the
next person after Reema in the family who helped him in many of his decisions
later in his life...
To be Continued...
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