Adieu kgp...

Time flies when you are having fun...

In the Orientation on the very first day at Netaji Auditorium, somebody said, "today you might not realize, but when the day dons for you to walk out of this institute, you will feel bad". I really did not realize that day, but I sure did not differ. I am glad I did not.

With less than a little more than thirty hours left in kgp, when I write this, I feel a strange kind of attraction with this place. There has been a lot of moments, when I thought that being an IIT, this institute could really incorporate some changes in this field or that. I have passed through days when the work load has been so high, or situations have been so against me that I felt like jumping off my balcony. There has been classes more painful than perhaps crucification, exams more deadly than devil, or grades wildly dissatisfying.

In spite of all this, today, as I stand at the brink of what can be safely termed as an era, I feel sad. I feel sad to be leaving this place. In two days time, KGP will become history for me, would go down the galleries along with Purulia, my school and my classmates. Still it seems like yesterday that I walked in the campus for the first time with my father. Still it seems like yesterday that I met Bayen, Sougata, Sonal, Arijit, Siddhartha, VD, Sausi - the list continues. All those memories of treats, of night outs, of chats and gossips, of mischiefs seem so fresh. But as of today, all I know is, someday I will probably come back to kgp again, or perhaps I won't. The worst part is - all these people who have been kind of my family all these years - meeting them would have to be left to "chance".

I would not belabor about what IIT has given me, for it can't be expressed in words. I came in as a boy, and the day after tomorrow, I will walk out as a man, a Graduate. I have seen failure as I have seen success, I have seen sorrow as I have seen joy, I have seen betrayal as I have seen loyalty. IIT has made me ready for the world. I am confident and equipped as I have never been before.

Its late night, and I do feel sleepy. But I don't want to sleep. I want to live these last moments in kgp to the fullest. I want to capture each and every second and want to permanently fix them in my memory, till the day I breathe my last.