Choosing the college....

Guyz... this is how i got into my college!

May 30th 2005,
Maa... where are the photocopies of my birth certificate and TC? its getting late!!.. "its in the front zip of your black bag" screamed my mom "dont forget to take your towel " Okay, i said.. dumping everything inside the bag.
The Train started with a cranky noise! "why did you reserve in this train pa?" i asked my dad, displaying a dissatisfied face! "Your marks left me with very few options" snapped my dad clearly showing his disappointment with my marks! 'But its Okay, the seat is comfortable' i tried to ease the situation ! !

May 31st 2005,
"SHANMUGA ARTS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH ACADEMY" read the majestic arch, which stood above the main gate of the SASTRA varsity! standing beneath it gave me a happy feel.. probably due to the security of getting a seat for sure.. Second session in the forenoon was the slot given to me! we entered the building even before the first session.. slowly the buzz started.. Officials started moving hear and there, making sure the day is the hotteset and tensed day of my life till date! I walked across the lobby eagerly awaiting my slot to come. I cant think of any better situation to understand Einstein's Relativity theory more clearly! My clock refused to move and the whole world stood frozen before me!

Slowly time went forward. The only good thing that happened till then was, i sat opposite Ramya, thats what i assumed, as their parents called her Rummy! A gorgeous girl, with a strikingly beautiful face, pointed nose and a small forehead which was covered by a layer of hair! She was calm and composed, a very rare quality in girls under tension. At the moment I even felt ashamed for getting tensed! My dad, who was trying to know more about the college, striked a conversation with Rummy's parents.. ten mins rolled by.. "This is Ram, my son" atlast came the words from my dad, and the adrenaline started shooting up.. I was waiting for this moment.. to say "HI" to rummy!.. I even started dreaming of sitting next to rummy in the last bench, as i was confident that even she will get the same department, what am gonna get as we both were in the same slot!
But slowly came the bashing News from her dad that, rummy was not actually interested in SASTRA and she wanted to do B.TECH back in chennai with her friends! Now i can understand why she was so calm!

The dull LCD display screen flickered one again.. Finally my name was there.. in the fifth row.. A broad smile on my face.. Called the names of all the GODs i know!.. I entered the room with all my cerificates and took a seat before the computer.. "Electrical and Electronics - 112, Electronics and Instrumentation - 20, Mechanical Engineering - 140..." Read the display board.. I was starring at the board not knowing what to do.. suddenly turned towards a professor standing nearby and asked the stupidest questuion in ma whole life "Good morning Sir, are these courses good?" as if hez gonna say "No, they are not!!"...
i did the math (i liked the subject.. atleast thats what i claim :-P)... compared the three numbers.. 112, 20, 140 and came to the conclusion that Electronics and Instrumentation was the hot and happening course as it had the lesser number of seats left out! so i wasted no time picking the INSTRU seat and came out of the counselling room as a achiever!! But the happy feel was short lived as i heard the news that INSTRU was a small department and had only 30 seats, which actually made my logic of choosing the course wrong and made me feel novice! "But still I got a SEAT" was what i told to myself and felt happy once again!
"Congrats!" said my dad... saw a smile in ma dad's face after a lomg time.. "By god's grace you got a seat! we hafta go to a temple first! " he said relaxing on the Bench put near the parking lot!! "paa.. Go's grace was there ofcourse... but my hard work too was there..." slowly, the Iconoclast inside me came out, which clearly indicated that, i was out of the TENSION times and into Green zone now!!

July 10th, Sunday, 2PM,
Entering my Hostel Room, Sandipani Sadan,
"Hello ppl... (Thrusting my hand forward ! ! ) This is Ram.............."