Navin Kumar

“Oye doci, kya baat hai aaj kal shorts me class jaane laga?” “Arey dude, it’s f***ing last year now!” And several other chats with mere bhai log. Fourth year.. When we came here, and saw the bhokaali of the final yearites during our orientation (a program organized for the freshers to make them get to know about the institute in a better way), which actually turned out to be interaction session with out seniors, I don’t know about others, but I always want to go to fourth year, feel the hall 1 legacy, do all shorts of crazy things, blah blah. Unfortunately, we couldn’t go to hall 1 due to some chu****pa, but still, we are having as much fun here in hall 9. It’s far away from the academic area, and much more far away from my departmental building. It takes about twenty minutes walk to reach the class in the department, but nonetheless, it is worth it. Over the years, one thing I did realize during my stay in the IIT, grades are an explicit function of sincerity. You attend classes, make notes, you get good grades no matter how much you did study for the exams. And you bunk the lectures, no matter how hard you try, you are gonna get screwed up. Well, this is not the case for the toppers, but for me, I am an average student. And unfortunately, I have screwed all of my semesters but one. Well, I guess I diverted the topic over here, I was talking about the life in fourth year over IIT. Man, it’s just awesome. You have very less lectures to attend, about two to three per day on an average, unlike the third year, when all the time is spent in the academic area. There are projects, where you can apply all the creativity. Guys start getting serious about placements and future. You start getting mails about PPO and PPTs of the companies coming for placements in December. Things start seeming to have changed so much. And when you sit quietly, just for a minute, you think, “Gosh! it was only yesterday I came to this place…”