What Will I Miss Most About XL?

It’s so weird…how much a place can affect you…

I’ve never been too emotional…have always believed in the power of the mind, logic, practicality…during my undergrad days, my friends used to call me the guy with a pace-maker instead of a heart (and somehow, I used to like it too)…but XL has made such an indelible mark in my life, perspectives, personality…that its impossible to stay for a long time without thinking about XL..Impossible to spend a day without missing it…

I guess it’s true: You can take an XLer out of XL, but you can never take XL out of an XLer

I have always believed that this place has the overwhelming power to change a person…and any generous soul who has ever had the patience to talk to me on XL has heard this from my mouth :)…I have changed too, in a lot of aspects…and now that I am out of the campus, feel a void within me…

“What will you miss most about XL?”, someone had asked me recently.

 A lot. Everything, actually.

I’ll miss my classes, where I was always so punctual (always 5 minutes late is also ‘punctual’, right! [:-P])

I’ll miss my projects and those never-ending project meetings....I’ll miss all those case discussions, where I’d invariably be half-asleep and Highly, RJ, Bandit Queen or Chandu would fill me in with the details of the case and then would come the output (for which we have received appreciation also!)!

I’ll miss the people here…so many of them, each one so different from the other…since I’ve always liked staying among lots of people, have loved each and every moment spent with every one of you…

I’ll miss my committee work a lot…Services, CRISP, Crescent, even CII-Yi (very new relatively)…have learnt so much while working in them…learnt how to, above all, work with people who might not share your concerns, who don’t think like you…I’ve always believed that being in a committee isn’t everything; one must prove that his existence in that committee is justified…loved the pressure of proving one’s worth by making one’s ideas / contribution count…

I’ll miss Theplaxi…its been absolutely amazing to work for it…for organizing the Dandiya Nites, the Thepl@xi dinner last time (am very sad not to have been able to organize the dinner this time :( …am worried too, about how the tradition will be carried on by the juniors, since they don’t know what exactly to do…)…I’ll miss the Dandiya, the Garba, teaching enthusiasts whatever little I know…seeing people enjoy the program…the music, the halogen lights…the post-event cafeteria delights…

I’ll miss planning the 1001 things under the sun…with none of them even getting started!!

I’ll miss talking to Profs...not only like a student, but as a professional too....or in personal capacity. I have been able to speak to them more frankly in the second year. You’ll be amazed to see how receptive most of them are if you talk to them frankly…

I’ll miss criticizing the system (though I can do that for some time now! [:-P])…will miss defending the system…

I’ll miss Bishu Da and his amazing parathas and cheese fried Maggi…and the bakar sessions and Gyaan sessions there…and yes, even those two most irritating dogs on the face of the Earth!!

I’ll miss even the mundane tasks of coming out of hostel and entering my room…they have become so much a part and parcel of my routine that not pressing the lock code of my room for some time makes me think something’s amiss…

…will miss the amazing nite-outs, the long walks, the case-taking, the breakfasts @ Regent and Madsam, Litti @ Bistupur (yummm!!), watching movies in LH, gym top, the Learning Centre staircase, the Admin Building stairs, the faculty quarter roads, the photo-shoots (will always think of Chandu and Gunji whenever I think of the word “Photo” [:-D]), the biking sojourns, Budhaxi, all the “axi” ‘s, the highly chilling sessions!, my friends, my best friend…I’ll miss Life.

I’ll miss Life.