3-Phase (An average engg. student's exam life)

An average engineering student in a not well known engineering college has the most unpredictable journey of life!

HOD, tutor, professors and last but never the least the ‘know it all’ wannabes, the highly irritating lab assistants! We’ve a mission, a dream or in some cases it’s a mere duty because it was never their decision to get into this mess. The pains we’ve to go through everyday just to survive. This includes the slightest form of exaggeration.

One of the many 3-phases an average engg. student goes through

Phase 1: Question paper

[Random voices yelling out important questions]

We get ready and all set to face the exam with a lot of fear, some confusions and very less syllabus in our heads!

So, here comes that re-incarnation of God that could change a genius into a duffer and the other way around in a matter of seconds, the ‘question paper’. Everything appears in slo-mo for a few seconds. Until the examiner comes near us he/she looks blurred. With the paper kept on our table the only thing we tend to look is our friends’ reaction! Usually it’s an ‘all heads down’ reaction!

Lights off! We don’t hear or see anything for few minutes. Until….

Phase 2: Answer sheet

[A feeble voice getting louder and closer by the second]

BANG! “ Sign, would you?”

The next thing we know , we’re done signing and done with the formalities. Hopeless, thoughtless, dreamless and worst of all answerless. Like a big sad smiley looking at a world drained of all it’s happiness we sit there staring at that gift from the devil! All we can do is try filling in some gibberish and get out asap.  We finish writing all the fairy tales and Hollywood scripts and decide to get out, when…..

Phase 3: The BIT !

When the angel himself decides to drop in a letter! With fists as tight as a boxer our friends pass on the crushed and well used piece of paper. In our case it’s a map to get us to the treasure! Heart beats almost loud enough for the whole hall to hear!  One goal to pass, three different thoughts

1. Why now?

2. Shouldn’t I?

3. Why shouldn’t I, now?

The same logic as when we choose the ‘all the above’ in a multiple choice, goes here. We get out of  the hall with no guilt at all and a lot of pride! We get out and random people shouting out how the exam was. Suddenly one of them heads up to you trying to catch his breath and you recognize him as the same old angel who helped you out. He gets  his breath back and the first thing he says “ Sorry dude, wrong answer!” Dreams crushed. [ slow,sorrow violins]