Hence goes another sem

First of all i pretty much know that its been two months since I last wrote and thats a huge time gap considering I saw so many movies, did so many things and flunked so many other things...But i guess the title explains it all and its anyways better late than never...Comebacks(even as mundane as ones of this kind)have to be appreciated!!!

To sum it all up in a few words...4th sem has been a revelation...I have reached the peaks of happiness and depths of despair....Busy like a bee one day, lazy like a buffalo the next...raping one exam and flunking(_big_time_)in another....You could call that a truly roller-coaster sem(and it aint done yet...results_the biggest game changers_are yet to come).

To summarise briefly the things over the past four months,

January:
The busiest of months-albeit non academically. Saarang ambience, Institute Web ops, Lemalabs, my pet project and Amalgam-well...they squeezed all the time out of my hands in the first few weeks. Ambience was especially severe with me having to go to some arbit welding shops in taramani, running temperature and also work late into the night for almost ten days in a row. Then came Saarang-my first insti festival where I had not reached a final/semi-final. But good things turned up at Saarang(Dreams on canvas, Kamal)-but i did flunk big time at flirting(I know i am not "that" kinda guy). And hence went January.

February:
Lesser work load. Federer won the Australian open after three years. Amalgam was taking most of my time now and I think I did a fair amount of justice to it. At the end of the day though, results matter :( ....Flunked almost all exams in quiz-1. Project didnt go as smoothly as expected. Forgot to wish mom and dad on their wedding day!! Slipping health. And to culminate it-the bizarre Kovai trip. Exhilarating ride.

March:
March was a nice turn around. Amalgam got an unexpected boost towards the end. I got my internship confirmed. And the biggest of all-I became a core member of Shaastra 2010. It was only a dream when I stepped in at IITM in 2008-and to have achieved a dream in life was totally great. I owe it to my previous cores for showing immense trust and confidence in me(and dont forget the Gods). My project, though, was completely derailed in a  matter of an hour. We had to go in for a total revamp there, and taking such a decision was humongous. As far as my quizzes for the month went, I did them better than I did them during February. It was also a month i went for a few treats.

April:
A month of treats and interviews really. The first two weeks had one treat or the other and I had close to five days of treat food in 2 weeks!!. Add to this the hostel night fever. It was a totally amazing experience(shying away from the mess food that is). I did go to Sharav hostel night for the first time and it was a nice experience(the food was stud!!!!!!!!!!!). This was also a month when my co-core and myself had to spend an entire weekend+two evenings interviewing people and also make some tough decisions to select the "best possible" team...and so we did(or we hope we did). I do regret missing out on the meta farewell trip though. End sems towards the end(as always). IPL took away the chunk of my preparation time with me seeing some hopeless matches like DC vs RCB in the third place play-off. But I was happy that(As Dhoni puts it)"at the end of the day" CSK had won the tournament and turned out to be a deserving winner at that. But my heart also went for Sachin-for coming so close yet too far-and yet again!! The performances in the end sems ranged from Nervous shows(few silly mistakes) to utter flops(silly mistakes giving rise to blunders). There is still hope though that I will put good grades and hopefully I can see light at the end of the tunnel.

And hence went another sem. It was another of my sems where I hit new lows personally. But I kinda think its "OK" to be emotion-less most of the time. Though you grow sick at heart, you do become stronger and less influenced by others' thoughts. Hopefully something good and cheerful comes in the following sems. "Hope is not a bad thing to possess"-Shawshank Redemption.

cheers,

PS: I am not half an engineer yet, I still have 6 sems to go :'(