after 2 months of fun frolic and the lack of it, i think it is safe to say, the next 8 months, barring a 3 week vacation, are going to be a continuous sweet pain from a kick where it hurts...my shin...

timeline...august 8th-august 27th

series of orientations, free food and oogling over natural works of arts defined most of our time. the best part about US is that there is no redundancy. each beauty is different, even though under the hood they might be essentially the same thing. styles ranging from toyota's to coopers to acuras to mazda's. they are all a sight to remember.

meeting new people and discussions of which courses can land me a job were the unfortunate topics of discussion. everyone was thinking of on-campus jobs, jobs in the future, comparing the companies coming here and in other colleges, petty comparisons between resume's and trying to give each other false hope..' wow, you were the president of the annual cleanliness day committee in your college. that is so cool. i just have 3 years of work experience with microsoft/some-big-ass-company, your resume is so much better than mine. you will surely get morgan stanley. i hope i atleast get some job'. apart from the cynics, some hypocracies and boring conversations of pro's and con's of electives chosen, as a group of friends we had a lotf fun during that time. beer in hand, poker cards with uno cards as cash...good times.

i got my apartment about 3 km's from college, which means i have to cycle everyday up and down slopes which makes my legs go numb. moreover the mansion mess i call home is stacked with good desi food, who has the patience to make it. procrastination and fatigue takes over and i end up having cereal and bread for dinner..mm..healthy.

August 27th-today-december 15th odd..

assignments keep my mind from wandering or enjoying the other nicities of life. my food habits become better, if only a little bit. the normal thoughts of food, sports, women and fun are replaced with the 'looking-forward-to-friday', food, sports and work work work... in the written order of course. with every assignment contributing to my grade and realising every class i would have spent 12000 rupees..rather wasted them for not listening in class, the week passed by like unhygenix shot from a roman sling into Laundanum. no matter how fast it flies, the stink remains for sometime. and before the weekend gets over, you realise there you'r in deep shit cos there is an assignment for virtually every class and you hav'nt started.

the free times- fridays and saturdays are times for boring lectures about future, writing in corporate world, and many other things. what sucks even more is that the seminars are actually supposed to be helpful, but you just can't get yourself to listen hard..it is all just too boring. though the free food, which we still get often enough, is always welcome. even though the food is the same..some form of cheese, sometimes wine and beer, some chicken on a stick, some pigs in the blanket..it is all the same. but who can complain when its all free.

companies, info sessions, people getting interviews while you sit with more than enough rejects in your hand. feels good at times, thats when you have to remind yourself your purpose of being here, which dos'nt always make you feel better.

this piece of digital black and white may not sound like the most perfect time i have spent, but i would not replace it for anything. all the boring non sense, tough subjects, assignments day-in-day-out do seem to help me, in one way or the other. in any case, i think all this is worth while, atleast i hope it is.