random thoughts...

SOYA!!!

Yup, got my SOYA this week.. knew id be getting it so wasnt all that excited but yeah, it felt really good.. ironically, the award (btw, soya means student of the year award) was the first prize i was receiving in college ever... as in on stage... in all 5 yrs...
cant really believe i spent 5 yrs in college.. thats like from the time i was 15 up to 20 (that makes 1/4th of my total life!!!) ... and honestly thats made all the difference.. i remember the first time i ever went to xaviers, all of 15 yrs, fresh from 12 yrs at a girls school (which i might add were not all that very pleasant) and the huge shock i recieved at the gate when i saw these ultra glamourous people coming out... i picked up my form and literally ran out of the place!! i still cant believe how i managed to muster the courage to go ahead and apply.. i remember my first day... i was going past the reception desk and two glam girls (i really dont know if they were really that great.. think my memory has given them added glamour.. i mean compared to what i was used to (nuns in white habits) anyone was glamourous!!) anyway they were like.."the JCs are here, ewwww!!!!" (JCs translates as junior college students... apparently the most worthless life forms on the planet)... well after that warm welcome, things continued in a similar friendly fashion for a while after which we either got used to it or it stopped.. anyway i really couldnt care less, i was having perhaps the best time of my life and had made some really great friends... 2 yrs later we were in proper college, senior college, again had a really good time.... did lots, but also had a lot of fun... honestly, things were great... lots of bad stuff happened as well but in retrospect, it was all good coz thankfully i took it if not very well.. atleast somewhat positively... and at the end of it one fine day im asked to apply for the SOYA and i won!! i had kept a diary on and off all through college and the day i heard id won i came home and went through it... in it was everything, all the good, all the bad, all the silly and stupid, all the embarassing, the downright ridiculous, the success, the failure and i realized how important it all was towards what i think is the basic purpose of education- self discovery. i would never say i was the best student of st. xaviers in my batch... off the top of my head i can name atleast 30 people who were better than me at everything and more deserving of the honour but for some reason, i got it and im not complaining. maybe it was just to tell me at the end of it all, it was worth it!

posted by deepti @ 11:34 am