CHAPTER 14: What's in a 'Name'?
Engineering Third Year…
Never underestimate an engineer’s life! Every Engineering students life is filled with many stress factors which complicate the life. From dealing with assignments, records submissions, Lectures, back-logs, sometimes difficult faculty, taking care of attendance, forever ‘connecting WiFi’, Crushes, One-sided love stories, dreams about getting placed in one of the top MNC, you just name the things everything will be served in Engineers plate. When the final semester exam approaches everyone tries their best to get good grades through via late night studies before exam day, group studies, a quick important question from a single section of the whole subject. If nothing works from all of these Luck factors comes handy!
Mostly you’ll find 3 types of students during exams..
1 The Toppers. These guys will try to mug up every single letters from the book. Create notes of every single topic in the syllabus, make most use of college library to get the reference articles and mug up the same. They will attempt every question in question paper and get good grades. Toppers will never miss any lectures and never participate in Mass Bunk.
2 The Turkeys. Ever wondered why is there no rain in the desert? Similar to rains you’ll find these guys occasionally attending the class. They usually have to take assistance from their friends who help them pass the exam through a crash course the night before. Their justification? “Why worry for the whole semester if you can pass after studying for one night?”
3 The Honest. These are the people who don’t know where their life is going. These are the guys who were advised one “Dude Go for Engineering, it has the highest scope in career..” . They might not have anything important going on. But their regular attendance does not mean that they are the brightest. They might have the highest IQ among the lot, but they are genuinely not interested in studies and grades. They occasionally take notes and sometimes ask interesting questions during the lecture.
One fine evening when everyone in Hostel was busy studying Akki comes running into Ragav room.
Akki “Hey Ragav, got 2 tickets to Mohit Chauhan's concert at Xavier’s College!!!”
Ragav “How come?”
Akki “Don’t you worry, I have arranged it everything”
Ragav “Dude don’t you want to study? Exams are near and I have to get good grades this year so that I can get qualified for Placement drives... No, you carry on”
Akki “Ragav common yar.. its just the matter of few hours and we will get back by midnight” still trying to convince him
Ragav “But…”
Akki “No Ifs and Buts you are coming with me. That’s Final!”
Ragav had mixed feeling about whether going to a concert during finals week is worth it after long months of studies to possibly negatively affect their final score. On the other hand, after such hard work, he should reward themselves and have some fun. He chose to go to Concert.
Bob Marley Stated once “One good thing about music when it hits you, you feel no pain”. Such was the case with Ragav. All the romantic songs by Mohit Chauhan touched every single person in that concert. Concerts are a place where normal rules don’t apply. It’s not unusual to be pressed up against others who are jumping around and sweating. If you get annoyed every time someone brushes up against you without apologizing, then you’re not going to have a great time. At concerts, personal space doesn’t exist. After a long time of singing and dancing Ragav felt very thirsty, he searched for someone who could help him with his misery. He found a girl standing next to him, her soft hairs were sliding down her face. She had a bottle of water, but how could you ask for water to complete stranger? What if she doesn’t like sharing the water bottle with strangers? Suddenly her phone rings, “Appa” on her dialler screen. Snooping into someone's phones with owners permission can be considered illegal nowadays. But little information, when you are thirsty can be useful.
She “Hello... Appa.. ” speaks in an unknown language.
Ragav thought for one moment. ‘Hmm... Appa on mobile screen.. she must be south Indian that’s for sure.. what if she’s not? I should give a try...
Ragav “Excuse me…”
She turned towards him, she had a beautiful face with sparkling eyes, snub nose with pink lips. Ragav froze for a moment as he was experiencing the perfect moment of his life. Romantic Song in the background and a beautiful girl next to him.
She “Yes ?”
Ragav “Hmm can I have water please?”
She, still confused “Hmm.. Ok ..”
Ragav “Thank You So Much..”
She “You are welcome..”
Ragav still trying to make conversation “ You are Tamilian right ?”
She “Yes how come you got to know?”
Ragav Trying to be honest “Hmm Actually I saw your phone screen.. so got to know... ”
She “Oh Ok”
Ragav “So what are studying?”
She “B Com 2nd Year? You? ”
Ragav “B.E 3rd Year”
She “You got any friends in our college?”
Ragav “Ya my roommate has friends here... that’s why we got the tickets.. lucky me!”
Ragav “so do you like Tamil songs or Hindi songs?”
She “I listen to mostly Tamil songs.. but I know few of the Hindi songs”
Ragav "Wow nice, actually, I'm also south Indian"
She "Ohh!"
When things were going smoothly out of nowhere other girl comes and whispers something into her ears.
She “Hey I need to go it is late.. my brother is waiting outside..”
Ragav “Ya sure.. nice meeting you”
She with the cute smile on her face “Bye”, and vanishes from the crowd.
Ragav still recalling the conversation between him and her, Akki “Dude who was she? Do you know her?” This is when he realized the worst mistake of his life he did that evening!
Ragav “Akki I forgot to ask her name..!!!”
TO BE CONTINUED…
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