Exams are Fun!!!

Deciding the title for this post took me real long. So long that I started to write the content before i could think of the title :P. But really how does that matters to you, I mean in whatever sequence I may write this thing you are going to get the title and the content together. Its also worth mentioning that some how all my literary works manifest in a tangible form whenever I am tensed, heartbroken or really sad. Though I have been planing to write this post since 3 days, how could I write it without a little war of words with my girlfriend.. ;). So getting into some serious business, this post is dedicated to those wonderful days of my sixth semester exams which got over 3 days back. I am seriously going to miss those six days of terror along with the 2 months of partying(at my friend Neeraj's house). Well its not that I have enjoyed the exam days this time but its been a fun ride for me since childhood I believe. Though I cant really quote many such events to you but you have no choice but believe me.

Exams are really the best days of the whole learning year for me, not because I am Einstein or Phunsuk Bangdu, but because every exam follows a lots and lots of preparatory leaves before they start and also in between. I mean that is something great, no school, no college, no teachers, waking up the whole night, tea and biscuits, maggi, texting, Facebook and every other thing that you want to do other than study ;). It also comes with the benefit that your parents believe that my son is going to his friend's for studying, isn't it a great feeling? And all these things become all the more better if you have a friend with a big house full of all kinds of food and a really big kitchen with all necessary tools for rookies to cook awesome things the whole night. And believe me, I am blessed with all these things.


Its not only these things that make the exam time so special for me. There is a lot more to it, and that is the bond of Friendship. As far as I can see I have always spent these wonderful days of terror with my best friend and may be that is the biggest reason for me to enjoy the exams so much. This bonding is so strong that it has lived even when we have different subjects and courses(B.tech and Chem Hons.). Well, that does gives an emotional touch to everything but yes that is true. 


Though I have such a casual attitude towards the exams its not that i have never thought of changing thing and taking exams a bit more seriously. Many times i do feel a need to change this attitude of mine that sometimes has made me feel so helpless and even terrified of the fact that I may fail in the exam tomorrow. Like it happened this time, I will quote it as Neeraj told it to Prashant (another friend) -"In these exam days Tushar came to my house to prepare for his six exams with a Foreign Author book to prepare, before we started to study he would praise Foreign authors for their knowledge an excellent writing skills and defame Indian Authors for copying from Foreigners and make books just for passing exams"- now what Neeraj says next is interesting, Neeraj continues - " after going through the syllabus and content of the book Tushar would exclaim, that there is nothing in this book he can study and its better for him to sleep and start studying the next day and arrange notes from her friends". Here the next day happens to be the last leave for preparation ;). So talking about this kind of casual attitude of mine many times I thought of taking exams more seriously and to arrange notes before hand. Many times I feel that this way I am playing with my future and a lot more awakening stuff like this. But this feeling of guilty consciousness has not disturbed me more than a few hours or may be a day or so. Moreover this would actually eliminate the fun part of the exams and make them boring and frustrating as they are for most of people out here. 

Well its not like that only the preparation phase of this time is amazing, its also the very day of examination. It is so much fun to go to the venue with a pen and see everyone else carrying their big bag-packs loaded with books, pens, erasers, pencils, scales, and i really think some would even carry crayons to be on the safer side :P. Its so nice seeing the toppers so tensed with whats gonna come to them, making their last minute revisions trying to mug up every inch of book and to vomit all of that as it is in their copies. I really could understand this phenomenon of last minute revisions only after I was in B.Tech, these revisions are actually helpful if you have just have Mugged up everything without realizing the need for understanding the concept. Whatever it is I have enjoyed every hour of examination. But yes again this time has been special for me. Seriously, this time I have done something I thought would never come to me in my whole life. It was the first time I have felt that terror of failing in the exam while I just finished reading the question paper, 5mins the exam got started. Oh boy, I actually wrote a note to the examiner to pass me, isn't that insanely stupid..? But what an experience, I could have never felt so helpless, so weak, so terrified in any moment of my life. Still it was so much fun. I didn't talk to any of my friend while going home. Amazing... :)


We have almost reached to the end of this post just a few more feelings to share. Really, exams have been a very nice time for me, I have always enjoyed the happiness of that one answer only I could correctly attempt, that one remark that i have performed the best/worst (:P), that one smile that came as a thanks for helping my friend to cheat, that one cup of tea that went for an hour of not studying, that one book that everyone had expect me which was best for preparation, that one question that I guessed and that came in the exam, and yes that one friend that is there with me awake whole night to study....