I’M LATE…! OH NO..!! RUN..! RUN.!
That’s the most common way I wake up.
Waking up to people shouting at the top of their voices begging the bus driver to “Hold on.!”. That’s another way most of us wake up. About the people who are already on the bus?
Well,God has blessed them with superpowers.
I am no superhero. Just an ordinary guy, who must get to his department by 8. Holy smokes…! I’M LATE…! This is me, almost all time. Stay up late. Miss the bus. Go late to department hoping and praying to sneak into the classroom or clinical area unnoticed. (As if that will ever happen.!)Then the routine of getting reprimanded and regretting it.
Don’t judge me. I do go on time most of the time.(Yes, even though I wake up late.This is a superpower I most certainly am blessed with.The town buses have to be appreciated for always having my back.) Discipline is a must-have virtue here. Even if you don’t possess it, no worries amigo. It’s only a matter of time before you will. There’s no way you can escape it. Literally, anyone will second me on that. Even those two minutes you may go late can cost your attendance for that day.Trust me that’s one thing you don’t want to happen. You have to maintain that percentage. No matter what! Atleast if you want to write your exams that is.!
After successfully finishing your day at class or department or whatever, now it time to rush back to campus (if you’re in the hospital campus or hospi as it’s more affectionately known) or back to your hostel. It’s the best time of the day. This is the time when the college campus at Bagayam comes alive. People returning. Others rushing to the Oval ground to play their sports.Few others to the basketball courts, volleyball courts and so on.
I never had an opportunity to study in a big institution so I was actually very eager to experience life here.There is always something to do. Some sport to learn. Some instrument you can pick up. Someone to hang out with. A new friend to make. Something. There is absolutely no way you’re going to be jobless. At least, as a fresher, you won’t. That is certain.
I personally learned how to play volleyball, ran 10 Km for the first time, threw a shot put and a javelin for the first time and some other things like that. I hope you get the idea. I would certainly not done anything like that and obviously not learnt anything like that if it were not for my seniors and fellow hostelites. That is for sure.So , shout out to all my OPTSA and DJ seniors and batchmates who pushed me to try. If it were not for you people, I wouldn’t even have tried climbing the college hill and would never have realised what a good place it was to click pictures. Every CMCite will concur with that.
Hostel Days are fun..! I had so much fun working and practicing for hostel day and OPTSA day. It’s the time where you get to interact with seniors and other batchmates. I never knew I could even hang up a lantern, let alone make one. And the satisfaction you get when it is hung up is dope too. And hostel day, it was amazing. All the practices, all the deco work and project work. It is fun. And when you see all of it on the day of the event, it’s a very proud wala feeling, to say the least. And all of this is what you will remember and nostalgic about down the line.
Well, I hear PEGASUS is around the corner. So, it’s time for the campus to brimming with activity again for the first time after the summer break. I’ve never been to the previous editions so I can’t say how it might be. But, it sure will be fun and dope as everything else that happens in my college.
Simply put, student life is fun here,at the country’s best medical college and most definitely is something you’ll remember. Now that this is done, it think I should study for the anatomy exam in the afternoon.
THREE CHEERS FOR THE SILVER AND BLUE…!
The writer is a student of Physical Therapy at Christian Medical College,Vellore.
We never understand the value of something till we lose it.
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