Monday, 4 April 2011

First day at college :)



Actually I started this writing to express my thoughts about my college life.I can still remember the first day at college. Almost all were the new faces..The all young enthusiastic although all seemed to be little bit afraid. That day we just had 1 class and remaining 7 hours was for ragging :)
suddenly and we are ready to be ragged. Here I want to say that I am not against ragging until it comes to physical harassment or until it cross the limit. Now again what is the limit is actually a relative matter.
We were sitting in the class room when seniors entered
That very day we came to know the term ‘GD’ and discovered that it means "Gano Dholai" :D
Seniors just rushed in the class and punched all the boys on their back one by one.
Ohh what a horrible experience was that. I can still remember one of my batch mate hiding himself in the girls side under the bench. :P.
And we have been given a dress code by seniors also that day:
The boys :
White Shirt , Black Pant with No belt else it will be strapped to neck like a dog and Hawaii Chappals .Moreover you cannot bring the school bag , you have to carry all the thing in a polythene pack.
And we girls were allowed to wear simplest salwar suit J although we were allowed to bring our bag.
We were given instructions not to visit canteen ever in the first year and to bring food from home. L
And we were also instructed to bow our head at 90 degrees whenever we see a senior and then wish them J
And then started the long journey of being ragged almost for 1 year. Although we the girls were not physically ragged or harassed like the boys.
We used to come to college by the college bus.
And the bus was packed with the seniors.
As the days passed the teachers and the anti raging committee got strict and they had no option left than using the bus journey time which took almost 1 hour.
The senior dadas used to ask to perform to do different things to perform. And the boys used to do it with the full energy :);)
Someone danced in that running bus (that was horrible of course), Proposed at least 3 girls on his knee .
Someone even proposed me although virtually (not in real life till now L ), I was even married to a boy virtually (He just got married some days back) and lot of things that were actually well-known for ragging.
Although that time the whole experience felt like a bad dream and little bit painful and sometimes humiliating too , but now when I look back on those days it really feels pleasurable.
And most wondrous thing is that the seniors who used to rag us those actually became the most interacted till now. Even now we are in contact with them and laugh all together on those days :)

2 comments:

  1. Well, I agree that raggers become your intimate friends in future, but ragging is not a necessary condition. I attended both ragging free as well as ragging prone institutions. In my opinion, ragging free campuses are more conducive to learning and camaraderie.

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  2. Yeah I agree with you. I just wanted to mean that It is wondrous that who were ragged enough later became the most intimate with those seniors...And although our campus was well known for ragging but from our batch it did not actually cross the limit except the initial 2-3 days.

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