There and back again... by shreyas

Sorry JRR Tolkien. Who cares though? You're dead :P

Ive named this post for two reasons...

Reason one... IIT is finally over. Classes, my faint, unreasonable hope of somehom making it through, endless debates, convincing parents that you're studying, grimacing painfully at Sonar's jokes, trying to disguise fitful giggles when Prashanth was getting screwed by AVS, pushing people around in the corridor, listening to HSS's life experiences, shouting in Kavitha's class etc, etc etc..

But its all for the better, everything other than the above mentioned instances were horrible... especially when your IIT test marks were sent to your parents through sms.
Let bygones be bygones i say. Open that coke bottle (no champagne as probably nobody's old enough to drink) and lets toast to two years spent wasted and slogging. Two years of hearing endless debating whether methanamine is a stronger base than ammonia and other such topics.
Two years of getting up early and running to the bus stop with the choicest of swear words on the lips for being late.
Two years of total surrender to the whims and fancies and utter brutality of the question paper setters.
Two years of enduring sadistic smiles from the teachers while discussing the answers after the tests.
Two years wherein our own parents doubted us and started praying to God to bless us with heavy asses so that we don't get up from the study table.
Two years of having to put up that fake smile with people like Madhukesh when he's petting you like a mongrel when all you want to do is give him the ol' one two on his stupid face.

The second justification for the title is cricket. Yes! I made my return to cricket. This time as a coach. Assistant coach is probably the better choice of words. But it still has "coach" in it so I'm happy. Coaching two dozen tail-less monkeys is very tiring work. Even more so when you don't have that authoritative voice with choice swear words coming to your lips from time to time. But just being back on the cricket field is a great feeling. The playing part will have to wait till the exams are over though.

There are still two more battles to fight. AIEEE and CET yet to come. And if anybody here is crazy enough to try and find out the answers and demoralize yourselves before the other two exams, be my guest and click on jee.learnhub.com/

Ciao.. May you achieve your ambitions however ridiculous they seem.
Cheers