"People say memories come back,when they come back its for good" ....And the memories of my Engg exam came back to me today . It was for the reason that its engineering day today ,which make me remember my exams and the fun we had so story goes as below
Exams in Engg use to goof up the environment which literally spoils the pleasure of college life. It starts with Sessional Examination which acknowledges me about the name of the subjects; we use to ask each other before the exam “be yeh wahi subject haina joh apne ko Bhongade ne padaya tha???” Sessionals always remain cool; if you write its better if you don’t it’s much better. Our Lecturers were generous in giving good internal marks. After the sessionals we use to get 20 days of Preparation Leave i.e. PL to study for Semester exams which was meant for studying, buying VBDs, photo-copying class notes, etc. Poor IT fellows don’t have VBDs for their subjects and were always crying seeing other's VBD advantage. We waste whole semester thinking that tomorrow will be the day when we start studying but it never happened until P.L arrives. In my case all these things never happened with us in complete way. In P.L we realized that this semester is really tuffff.. (as usual). P.L turned to be leisure holidays for us where we start investing more time on TV, Orkut, watching movies, eating, sleeping, texting, PC games and in left over time we open our book. Daily after taking a round of City we use to gather near Ravi’s home or Piyush’s Room to talk, not about our progress, but about how the day went without them.
Our winter semester exams happened to be before diwali, this was really hard times for me to study seeing mom preparing Diwali ka nashta and hearing cracker's noise. Summer time use to be worse as it happened to be on month of May. Night before exam, every time we get the rumour about Question Paper being leaked, but till 3rd year we realized its waste to pay attention on it. Day of my exam starts with text of Imran, saying “Be shukla….mera kuch bhi padh ke nahi hua be….saali puri fatt k haath me aa gayi mere…..dikhaneka saale nahi toh tera dost tera junior bann jaega." Same msg was also forwarded to Himanshu. During exam days, Nikhil receive me from my home as he considered his Bike lucky. Everyone turn superstitious at that time. Himanshu wear same dress for whole exams…god know he managed to wear same dress from 1st year with same shoes. I wear same jeans, Nikhil stops shaving, some stops killing mosquitoes but Imran use to be chill and dress up like as if he is going out for party.
On the way to college for giving exam, I find Urjanagari's reading VBDs or notes on their bike. After reaching college, parking lot use to be packed with students reading Notes and discussing about their examination hall. Most important talk use to be of Invigilators. Our tronix students were always allotted in Ctech Dept. So I have to face all C’tech and IT lecturers as Invigilators, which was not good for me. As we get answer sheet, we start copying the stuff written on back of our Hall Ticket. After 1o minutes of exams, Himanshu Wadaskar enters the class without expression or you can say with his BHINN expression. As exam starts, everyone turns social and start asking each other….Pass hota kya??? thumbs-up and thumbs-down defines their feeling. On that day, we spot Deshmukh Sir trying to catch our poor unprepared students. Also on that Day, I finally interacted with Invigilator asking for excuses to copy from neighbouring friends (real frnds). After coming out of the hall, everyone starts lying and making fake story that they are not going to pass this time “Ek backlog toh pakkese hai isbaar.”
Before the result, everyone come up with their new new story about result. Some says, marklist bann ke hai, per pehle 8th sem ka pehle aayega. I never got result officially, night before the result we use to call our Nagpur friends whom we remember only twice in the year for knowing our results.
AC or backs were most heard or said words of that day. Whatever may be the result, College Canteen makes everything re-leaved...hugs of friends solve all their worries....and plan of evening party makes everyone happy and brings back smile on their faces.
