I have no idea how three and a half years have passed here. Being in my last year of engineering, when i look back , every moment seems to be so memorable. I still remember my journey to this place, i was a scared little girl lost thinking of the future, worried that i would no longer be staying with my parents as i did from my childhood. First time in my life i was on my way to a hostel in a city about twenty hours far from my home. But still excited on the thought of staying in a hostel. Ironically, i never even stayed half a day without my parents around. But, reaching my college completely changed all the feelings in me. No longer in me was the fear of unknown new place nor the hostel life. After the admission and hostel registration when i met some seniors and batchmates, luckily i could get along with others really well. Many of my batchmates didn't know hindi and beginning career here without knowing is a tough row to hoe. Fortunately, since i knew hindi from my school time itself it had been pretty easy to mingle with people and also to handle every task with ease. On the first day in the campus itself i made good number of friends, met my roommate for my first year. I also roamed around the place to get an idea about the place around.
But the real story begins now. We people had come around two to three days before the college officially began so that i get accustomed to things here. And i didn't have even a bit of idea that getting accustomed implied staying all alone that night itself. Yes ! As my parents wanted me to get accustomed to staying in hostel, they wanted to sleep in the hostel all by myself. I still can't forget how that night had passed. I had my mom's phone then and thank god it had a message pack :P .I pinged some of my school friends stuff and ended up texting one of my friend. Slowly, i dozed of texting and with this begins my addiction to texting as i never had that habit before this. Next morning, very elated to see my parents i woke up and indeed the first experience was exciting. Later for the rest of the days, we roamed all around the city and got habituated to the place, the life around, the food and many more. I still can't forget the unending rains which was just an indication of the many hurdles one has to face with the climate here.
Soon the day had come when i had to wave a goodbye to my parents. I was fortunate enough to have known that i would be meeting them soon in a week as i had to attend my aunt's marriage. Saying this same thing to myself hundreds of times, i controlled my emotions... my tears of missing my parents and my younger brother. Yeah, it is a totally true fact that we realize the value of the people only when they are away from us. My brother and me always used to fight for every small thing before. But from that day till date we never have such fights. We support each other the best. Well apart from these, there had been many changes in the way i am. Surely, first days of engineering gives a person mixture of almost every emotion... and thereby turn over a new life... :)