Yay!!!!!!All of us graduated:):).It has been one hell of a dream run for all of us.Congrats to Softies2k7.!!
May 31 would be remembered by all of us ,as all of us have crossed a huge milestone in our lives.Pointless it may seem sometimes to think "Really is it that big a thing to get a degree???", and the immediate answer is "No".
Go back 5 years in the past. In May when the XII results came out, most of us in the class wouldn't have been very happy or sad with our marks, we would have been content with it but wouldn't have known what to do with it. At that time, an Ad on Hindu would have been one small ray of hope to all of us.Out of a 1000 applications, being short listed to around 400 students for interview and being selected as one among the 38 is not an easy task as it may appear.
Even after getting in, hostel,hopeless class timings, few faculties,labs, subjects like ASC,Graph theory,UNIX would have been another hardship.
But in spite of all these, the 38 of us coming together being as one family leaving all our egos,adjusting and sharing everything under the sun is something from which we have learnt a lot in these 5 years. Today on graduation when we meet, there is this huge plastered smile on all our faces, it was more like a wedding where all of us were proud to be a part of the family that we are today. The happiness when we get to see a class mate and introduce him/her to your parents or the love and attachment in every "How are you" or "Do come home once atleast". All of us knew deep inside whatever we exchanged as greetings were not for courtesy but they were really meant with infinite love to each other. This graduation was more of getting to know the parents and making them understand how huge and a proud family that we built for ourselves in these 5 years.
In these 5 years, we have met a lot of people and we need to agree however much you want all of them to be together just like in college it will not happen, there are only few people who would continue this journey with you,few would leave you in the journey of life today.
It was a wonderful journey for me with the 37 people.I feel proud that I belonged to Softies 2k7.
When the chief Guest announced "Now I pronounce you as graduates"(not sure of the exact words), the sense of happiness and satisfaction and the quick wave of memories about all these 5 years the friends sitting next to you made me forget the place I was in for a moment.And I instantly knew it is not big thing to get a degree, the biggest thing is the lessons we learn, the friends we make, the decisions we take and the knowledge that we have obtained is what makes it difficult.5 years is long time to survive in the same piece of island with the same people but how easier are we going to make it depends on us.When you graduate more than the degree required for procedural and formal purposes it is important we learn the art of survival too.I think we mastered even that easily without much difficulty!!
To the Class of Softies2k7 Cheers!! :) and Congrats All!! :):)
May 31 would be remembered by all of us ,as all of us have crossed a huge milestone in our lives.Pointless it may seem sometimes to think "Really is it that big a thing to get a degree???", and the immediate answer is "No".
Go back 5 years in the past. In May when the XII results came out, most of us in the class wouldn't have been very happy or sad with our marks, we would have been content with it but wouldn't have known what to do with it. At that time, an Ad on Hindu would have been one small ray of hope to all of us.Out of a 1000 applications, being short listed to around 400 students for interview and being selected as one among the 38 is not an easy task as it may appear.
Even after getting in, hostel,hopeless class timings, few faculties,labs, subjects like ASC,Graph theory,UNIX would have been another hardship.
But in spite of all these, the 38 of us coming together being as one family leaving all our egos,adjusting and sharing everything under the sun is something from which we have learnt a lot in these 5 years. Today on graduation when we meet, there is this huge plastered smile on all our faces, it was more like a wedding where all of us were proud to be a part of the family that we are today. The happiness when we get to see a class mate and introduce him/her to your parents or the love and attachment in every "How are you" or "Do come home once atleast". All of us knew deep inside whatever we exchanged as greetings were not for courtesy but they were really meant with infinite love to each other. This graduation was more of getting to know the parents and making them understand how huge and a proud family that we built for ourselves in these 5 years.
In these 5 years, we have met a lot of people and we need to agree however much you want all of them to be together just like in college it will not happen, there are only few people who would continue this journey with you,few would leave you in the journey of life today.
It was a wonderful journey for me with the 37 people.I feel proud that I belonged to Softies 2k7.
When the chief Guest announced "Now I pronounce you as graduates"(not sure of the exact words), the sense of happiness and satisfaction and the quick wave of memories about all these 5 years the friends sitting next to you made me forget the place I was in for a moment.And I instantly knew it is not big thing to get a degree, the biggest thing is the lessons we learn, the friends we make, the decisions we take and the knowledge that we have obtained is what makes it difficult.5 years is long time to survive in the same piece of island with the same people but how easier are we going to make it depends on us.When you graduate more than the degree required for procedural and formal purposes it is important we learn the art of survival too.I think we mastered even that easily without much difficulty!!
To the Class of Softies2k7 Cheers!! :) and Congrats All!! :):)
