4 Year's of Engineering in 4 Paragraphs!

I came across this trend on social media of " 4 years of Engineering in 4 Seconds", and that's when I decided my twist to this trend and here it is:

 

#1stYear

Our Engineering started on 1st of August 2019, I vividly remember that day and the people I met on that day because they were totally different from those I ended up with! But that is exactly what Engineering teaches you: the 'volatility' of everything. Well by September 'Chhichhore' movie came out and it became all the more easy to tell people which college I got admission into. At that time we used to be like the college on the poster of the movie is ours! Well reaching college almost 20 min prior to the first lecture and then attending all the lectures religiously from 10:30am to 5pm and making 5 notebooks for 5 subjects was a thing! So in my list of colleges and their advantages/disadvantages the only disadvantage of VESIT was that the college was from Monday to Saturday, but somehow in the very first year the college decided to switch to the 5 days a week and that the disadvantage was crossed out. The carpentry and metal workshop which felt useless and too much of an effort at that point in time was an indication in disguise that the physical strain will slowly convert into mental strain in coming years. The first year actually never ended for us as the lockdown hit by the end of it and we never wrote our final exams for that year, so all in all there was no closure, thus we still carry that naive,immature first year engineering selves in us!

 

#2ndYear

So what we thought was a 21 day lockdown turned out to be a year long one. But luckily everything switched online very quickly and there was no disruption or lag in our course. It was the only year which was completely online right from the beginning to end. It was all new and online too, from submitting assignments and practicals on Google classroom just some time before the deadline ended to online vivas and project reviews and last but not the least online final exams. MCQs were a facade, I mean I never got all of them right. This was the year of multitasking, from writing practicals and assignments in lectures to doing 100 things during lectures, we simply aced it because cameras were always off. But the connection with subjects and teachers was missing. The physical class, doubt asking, cracking jokes, laughing, getting scolded,talking with friends during lectures and having lunch together and a lot more was dearly missed!

 

#3rdYear

This was a year of challenges. From hating it online last year to wanting it to be online for this year too. The first semester of this year was online and by now we were quite used to and habituated with it. But the real twist was when we were called to college in the second half of the second semester of 3rd year. The struggle was real. From being masked on face and on knowledge it was difficult to keep up with the old normal. The good old habits of being on time, asking doubts, understanding everything being thought were on the verge of death. The switch was very demanding on all grounds, somehow the train traveling felt too much, the studies felt too much, the submissions felt too much, and multitasking was not possible anymore. The offline practicals and vivas were like the last nail in our coffins, but with all the new problems and questions there were doors of new opportunities and windows that widened our perspectives. Slowly and steadily we got used to what was our thing back then.

 

#4thYear

This year tops my favorite year list! No switching in between online/offline, everything back to normal, unmasked cheerful faces and unmasked hearts living the college life for the one last year. There was a lot to catch up with college life this year. The train travel became somehow therapeutic with the right choice of songs on the go as compared to boring and claustrophobic like past years. Attended lectures, bunked lectures, made it to the defaulters list and rankers list in the same week, attended live open concerts, symposiums, cultural events, dressed up for various occasions, enjoyed watching movies,having fancy food and walking on marine drive with friends, did presentations, wrote unit test and final exams offline. Thus we are no more a COVID batch now! And yes met the best bunch of people at VESIT who are going to be profoundly missed. They make the college experience worth it. If college life was a tree they are the leaves that made it unique, beautiful and wholesome. Though leaves fall in winter, that's nature's rule and so we all will be on different paths in just a few months but I am sure we will pick up exactly from where we fell! So my relationship with engineering started on a good note, we did have a long distance relationship for a year and half, then getting back together was a little rough but we sailed through and finally made it to the finish line. At last I will end it by humming," Woh Din bhi kya din the...."(Sing it with the tune)

 

PS: There is a lot more to be expressed, I know 4 paragraphs are no justice to college life, but some things are better not written but just felt!