In A Nutshell

Snail mail. Good news. Acceptance letter. PG Course. Different college. Different city. Different state.

Packing. Tearful goodbyes.

Hostel. Checking in. Unpacking. Final farewells. Initiation. Ragging. Making friends. Sharing rooms. Midnight parties. Fun!

First day of college. Introductions. New classmates. Learning names. Learning faces. Learning.

Exploring college. Exploring the city. Exploring shopping malls.

Coffee shop. Free sms. Crank sms. Making friends. Phone calls. Exciting!

Second Semester.

Beach house. Girl's night. Surprise birthday party. Bonding.

Spencer lunches. More coffee shops. Movies. Sparks. Banned phonecalls. Heart ache. Lousy birthday.

Christmas at home. Speeding time.

New Year's. Pongal holidays. Loafing. Bad news. Black days. Teary nights. Funeral. Depression.

Frenzied studying. Sleepless nights. Final exams. End of semester. Back home!

Awesome holidays.

Third semester. Back to the grind. Internships. Case studies. Research methodology. Dreaded statistics.

Psychotic room mate. Dreaded hostel. Midnight tears and confidences. Sleepless nights. Drowning. Breaking. Obsessive phonecalls. Counselling. Packing bags. Running away. Goodbye hostel. Goodbye schizophrenic roommate. Goodbye madness.

Wild saturday nights. Phone-sickness. Phone obsession. Dreaded end. Heartbreak. Heartache. Dissent into madness. Again.

Class trip to Bangalore. Partying! Partying! Partying! Good food. Bonding sessions. Fun.

Another lousy birthday. Lousy Christmas hols. Lousy New Years'.

Fourth semester. Frenzied rushing around. Project done. Final corrections. Final Submissions. PG over. Back home. Jobless bliss.

Application for MPhil. Lousy entrance exam. Lousy interview. Acceptance letter. Back to Chennai!

Start afresh. New hostel. New classmates. New church. New friends.

Blissful independance.

Coffee shops. Tearful farewells. Angry rantings. Helpless.

December blues. Back home. Club X. Interesting night. New friend.

Utterly depressing birthday.

Carol Rounds. Sneaking out. Meet the parents...the first time. New Years at church. Party after. Talking all night. Being together. Bliss.

Back to Chennai. Frenzied work. Speacial papers. Research. More research. Submissions. Deadlines. Hostel solitude. Studying. Studying. Final exams.

Research. Writing. Typing. Thesis. Deadline. Torture. Missed deadlines. Running around. Pulling out hair. Nit picking. Brain picking. Homicidal tendencies.

Final submissions. Relief. Final viva. Mphil over.

Back to Bangalore.

Sigh. Chennai. I'll miss you.