Last week, on the 2nd of June, I had a GD/PI
scheduled as part of the application procedure for a college offering Liberal
Studies under a prestigious university in the student hub of India, Pune. Both
the GD and PI went exceedingly well and on the day of the results, I found out
that I had been accepted as a student in the university.
The deadline for the submission of all forms and
documents has been posted as the 15th of June, which means that my
father and I will have to do some really quick work and get everything in
place, which includes my 10th and 12th Board marksheets,
pass certificates, leaving certificates, migration certificates (required for
changing the university under which I was studying in my junior college to the
university under which my senior college is), ID proofs etc, etc. Apart from
that, we have to go visit the campus to confirm my lodgings at the campus
hostel and also fill the admission forms there. Wow, that is some work right
there.
To make matters worse, my father is moving to Ahmedabad
because he got transferred there and he joins on the 13th. And since
my younger sister has school (she’s in 10th now), my mother can’t
afford to help me out because she has to manage the house and my sister’s lunch
boxes. So, my father and I have to finish the work as soon as possible, which
means in two days.
I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that I’m
going off to college. Heck, I can’t believe I got selected out of 500-odd
students who applied for the 60 seats available. I’m gonna be studying a much
in-demand course and it’s something I’ve always wanted to do because I just
couldn’t decide whether to go in Arts, Commerce or Science. I mean, I wanted to
be able to study Psychology, Biology, English, History, Physics and Math and
also continue Music, Dancing and Photography as my Extra-Curricular activities
and Liberal Studies allows me that!
But, in spite of facing the heat, what with the whole
admission procedure and choosing subjects and majors/minors, somehow I can’t
acknowledge that I got in. yes, when somebody asks me where I’m going for
college, I can say the name. But somehow, it is emotionally not registering. In
fact, a small part of me thinks that they’re going to drag me back to junior
college, saying that I failed my 12th Boards!
Everybody around me is talking about hostels and college
life and managing a monthly pocket money and getting the stuff I’ll require
such as new clothes, a cell phone, a laptop and perhaps even a two/four
wheeler. And here I am, typing away in a frenzy, half afraid that all this is
just a dream.
Well, I hope it’s not just a dream. Or, even if it is, I
wanna see how it ends and not wake up before the good parts even start (don’t
you hate it when that happens?)
Anyway, I better sleep now, because there’s a lot to do
and I have less than six hours to sleep before starting to run around to secure
my admission.
But before that, I’m gonna make myself a nice glass of
milk flavoured with Mapro’s Mango flavour concentrate and sing,
Turn and face the strain
(Ch-ch-Changes!)
(Ch-ch-Changes!)
In case you don’t know (which is such a
shame), the song is David Bowie’s Changes.
And everybody else who’s also starting college this
year, I wish you a rocking college life and lots of parties and college fests ^_^
