Adios, my alma mater

loooooong time since i wrote.....Orkut is becoming an addiction.....:+$%#&&....but to be honest...I am completely overwhelmed by the fact that I actually have 155 friends...man thats a great feeling ......just gives you a reason to love urself a little bit more.....chicken soup for soul, brain, body everything.......

Well, Orkut is not exactly why I started writing this blog entry.......The purpose was to bid adieu to IIT Madras....these two years i can say beyond doubt have been the best and the worst days of my life....I have experienced such extreme emotions that it leaves me spellbound to think about them even now and realise that I could actually feel them.....have cried more than i may have cried the last 21 yrs. of my life...have laughed more than that too......have given my best shot to everything i did...studies, biz fest, having fun......

Managed to do all the things i had ever dreamt of......sang with my own band at a rock concert.....just for the record, I sang Limilight by rush, Pinball Wizard by The Who and You oughta know by Alanis Morissette!.....did some theatre.....made friends everywhere.....Organised events...big ones and small ones...worked in saarang...went to all the saarang shows...won loads of prizes and money....:)...more than anything...walked along these winding roads of IITM at 1 a.m. at night.....a dream that I have cherished and nurtured ever since I was a child......

I have been analysed by faculty in my department as someone who is smart, hardworking and surrendering when it comes to mistakes ...and that they say is my biggest strength ... SURRENDERING!!!!Noone has ever analysed me this way...I dont know if they are right or wrong but it makes me feel good that they actually have spent enough time to analyse and formulate such a precise opinion!

And here I am, about to finish thes two years and enter into the portals of the corporate world.....Someone told me two years back ...."....two years will be the gone like the blink of an eye and you will regret all the things that you did not do..."...first part i agree with...but the second....I don't think so.....I have had fun and loads of it at that...and I seriously believe now is the time to get serious and give something back to all those people who have given to me unconditionally all these years....My parents for instance.......

So as I leave IITM....I have no sad feelings...but I carry with me beautiful memories that will help me get by on days when I am really low and feel that everything is falling apart.....

Adieu!!!!!