Plans for the new year
Confused?? What are you thinking?
New year? Its more than half the year over… Why now? Oh man! this guy is running six months behind everyone??
Its not the solar new year. Not even some lunar or Indian calendar new year…
Its the new year of a student. Yup! you got it. Its the academic new year. Though, I am not sure there is anything academic left in most of ours.
Whatever may be the case, here it stands before me, challenging me right on my face. Asking The Question
“What is it that the mind of this mortal thinks it can do worthy of me?”
I passed out of my school in 2005, seems I lost my ability to answer that question too.
Every year, like any other B.tech. student, I brace myself up to go to the same classes again.
See the same faces getting worse, wrinkled. Ageing [Americans read Aging] faster than their natural course under this ultra flawed system. When they joined in they seemed like in their early twenties,due to the previous flawed systems, but now they have fast forwarded to early forties (may be I am imagining things but thats how they look to me)
All I see is lack of any sense of where we are going and a complete disaster of another of the Supreme Species(Will write on that in another post). Sometimes it feels like living in some zombie land. We have been trained to believe in this system and most of us are trained with such an excellence that we cant even see that the system is flawed. May be the same excellence in hardwiring other things in our minds would have done us more good but thats a different story altogether…
While for most of them the cycle is “yaar is saal padhai karenge”->”abey kya classic movie thi be!” AND/OR “Ki maal toki be!! [censored]” AND/OR “Chal dhaba jiba” AND/OR “Saale us teacher ki [censored]“->”Abey mid-sem ku 7 din rahila be, kichi padha sarini”->”ma [censored] mid-sem. semester re bhala rakhile mid-sem ku kehi khatir karibeni”->”[tom/dick/harry] ku dekhilu? nungu sala mandu dhari fest saara bulu thila”->”haba haba haba”->”Tara [tom/dick/harry] lab lekha sarichi?”->”Viva re [teacher] [censored] dela be”->”Semester aarambha re bhabithili, e thara padhiki [censored] pakeibi” OR (reply)”Sabu seiya bhabanti”->”[teacher] [censored] kichi patha janini saala ma [censored] ku [censored] hou thila”->”[censored] End-Sem ta saru gharaku jiba”->”haba haba haba”->[holidays]->”yaar is saal padhai karenge”
For me, it was more of “bas 3/2/1 aur saal. ho jaayega be”->”sab class kar lunga”->”kuch to kar hi lunga”->”nahi hota yaar. grrr”->”abey kuch karna padega be nahi to nahi hoga”->”projects karte hain”->”mid-sem aaya be. phew aadha sem gaya aur adha bas”->”Attendance banane ki try maarta hoon”->”please mujhe ye fest me mat ghusao be”->”nahi be I should try for them atleast”->”bhak saala, help karne jaao to zabardasti ka natak”->”bhag jaaun beech me se?”->”projects karte hain”->”lab records kaun likha hai?”->”Viva? main acha phenkta hoon be” OR “Viva??…..”->”projects karte hain”->”Attendance… sigh! kaise samjhaun kyun nahi hota”->”End-sem end-sem end-sem”->”back nahi lagwana hai be jaise b yahan aur nahi rukna hai”
Coming back to my question (Dont mess with the zombies!!), Its been five very long years and with each passing year, my answer to The Question grew progressively feeble.
Every semester I would get back to college atleast 3 days early and then I would stay here thinking of some decent reply… This year I have planned to make an opensource framework which will be the heart of EnjoyStudies and any other website that I develop. Will appear for Zend PHP Certification(aint sure on that). Will try to get stable with my projects and earn enough to get a place to live in when(hopefully) I pass out of college. Then I have to try and get in better terms with my teachers. Work on atleast 5 different websites thru this year. Get a plan for having a sustainable source of income so that I can concentrate on creating…
Its just two more days for the official start of our new semester and the final year of our B.tech life. This is the year everyone will get into the next level of their lives. Discussion(read “Division on the basis”) of jobs, payscale and higher education will be all around me now.
Hope everyone around me has thought his/her reply to The Question and will do something to do justice to this year…
