times gone by

two months. that's the time that has elapsed since i left college. only to join another one. i reckon the previous one deserves a word or two on this blog. but i didn't feel at home there. neither here. i don't feel at home anywhere. not even at home. i'm a vagabond afraid of traveling.

anyways, iit kharagpur was kind to me in several ways. i discovered a lot of myself in those five years, especially the last three. but i didn't change. maybe, i spent all my time discovering.

but what i loved most was my room!! my own world. call it perverse thinking, but i felt more remorse leaving that room than i did while leaving most of the people behind.

it would be wrong to say that i didn't learn anything academic. but surely i didn't learn even a fraction of what i was supposed to learn. i said this in the farewell function organized by the department. but it was mostly my fault. i went to classes only to solve sudokus and crosswords and to write poems for my blog.

i didn't do many things that most people did there. i seldom had night-outs just for the heck of it. i didn't frequent chhedis/eggies/aunty's. i never attended any tds/etms/wtms/htds show. save for one. but it was the tds show of sf, the year i was the head of the sf newspaper. it was only in my final year that i went to 90D. lots of other things...

even though at present i've no intention of returning to that place any time soon and i don't think i'll ever miss kgp, yet it is and will be an important part of my life.