No more excuses now...

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Now after reading this post I won't look for a topic to write about in my blog. My sincere thanks to the author of this post, who now gives me no reason that I could give myself for being an inactive blogger. :-)

And the first year at college ends...

23rd March--- The official last day of the session at all Delhi University colleges.

I reached the college today at about 11:30 pm. I passed through the canteen. It bore a strange deserted look, a look that is associated only with the canteen of SRCC, not with that of my college. Yes MY college, Miranda House. A college that is always bustling with all kinds of noises, chills, thrills & buzzes was strangely enough very quiet today. Very few people had come today and the few who had turned up, the panic on their faces could be sensed. Panic to pay the dues, examination fees & get the clearance as soon as possible... And there were others who had their practical, an obvious reason to feel panicky unlike the former ones(Yea, I belonged to the former group.

Anyways, the session has come to an end. Time flies... It sure does, that too at the speed of knots. It doesn't feel too long ago when I was going around colleges filling up admission forms & praying to get through a college of my choice. Obviously with a just above-average score I couldn't think of getting into those top-rung colleges, viz., St. Stephens, LSR or SRCC.

I didn't make to MH in the first round. I took admission in Daulat Ram College, considered to be a very sad college of DU & spent the 1st month there. But then the Economics Dept. of MH declared a few vacancies & luckily I was amongst the few to get through! To be very frank, before getting into this college I did not have very good opinion about it. It was never on my list of colleges that I wanted to get through. Blame it on hearsay or whatever, for some very pathetic reasons I considered this college to be a sluttish one.(A lot of people still do... ) But I was forced to change my opinion. Glamour, brains, intellect, sports, feminism, pinky/jhin-tak clothes... All of them can go together simultaneously. Don't believe me?? Visit Miranda House!

Now that I have spent an entire year at the college, am I reallly happy here?? I would be lying if I say yes. I still haven't been able to adjust to an all-girls' college. Not that I am a frustrated being but somehow I feel a bit left out here, not being able to talk about clothes etc(For all my friends who read this, please its nothing personal!!!)I don't say that is what we only talk about but these things are a part of conversations now & then. I hope in the coming two years I find myself being involved more in all sorts of conversations & discussions!! This place has given me a few good friends, whom I am really fond of, but I can't relate to them so many times & that is why I am left asking questions from myself so often--- Am I weird or these guys don't make sense?? ...I am still looking for answers.

Despite all these shortcomings, some how I still feel proud to be called a Mirandian. And more so since I read this line written by one the girls' in the college magazine "When God experimented with a miracle & an Indian, He created a Mirandian."

A girl(that is myself..) who is awful at getting dressed-up & hates those huge ear-rings & related stuff, couldn't put kajal on her eyes with out smudging it until few months back; is a part of the most glamourous college of Delhi--- I chuckle to myself whenever I think of this. Believe me, even you would if u get to know me... :P

Anyways... The year has ended, and for me there have more ups than downs & I hope it continues to get better as days, weeks & months go by.....