Remembrance

It is my last day in BITS Goa Campus. In India, we don't think of college as a luxury, but a necessity. This is both good (everyone gets more education) and bad (the quality of that education may not be good). After high school, we don't think 'should I go to college?', we think 'which college will let me in?'. And then there is the competitive examinations...at the end of high school, college seems like a refreshing break! Almost like a party.(It really was a party. a 3.5 year long one. It was not always a great one, but it comes to an end. Tonight.)
Arriving here, I think that one gets a feeling of permanence; 4 years seem too long a time to think about what will happen at the end. Even those that do have a hard time actually saying goodbye. But what happened in those 4 years? One has to stay for 5% of their life in a community of complete strangers! Of course, at the end, they are not strangers anymore .
I loved my room. It has really been a private kingdom: I had the freedom to do whatever I liked! I was responsible for my actions: If i succeeded it was my success; if i didn't, I learned and went ahead anyway. Because college is the only time when you don't have to pay the real price of your mistakes.
Ah, enough written! Let me enjoy the campus now.