The first three weeks

Vanakam...
Seeing back the 3 weeks am here, at 24 Kothari Road, placed among the posh localities of Chennai, at Nungumbakkam…at IFMR…rejuvenated again from the all the work load…just trying my hand briefing my little experience…

A perfect day to start will be something like getting up at 4 in the dawn, getting refreshed and start studying…keeping up to expectations of all…and perform better to best with high hopes…and all the ‘goodie goodie’ words…
But its quite different for me…

Day starts at 8 or even late…getting ready…with shirt tucked in…all set ready for breakfast followed by the classes…

With excellent good faculty, classes at IFMR are very interesting, sometimes learning extremely tough concepts…but sometimes work load taking its toll on me…I manage to continue the classes till 1. But luck running out on some days when there are post lunch sessions…it becomes extremely tough for me to keep my ‘shutters’ on… At last the classes come to an end at around 4 in the evening…grey cells all saturated…

Back from the classes, with a brief time to spare and with impounding work and studies, it is really a pleasure to wake till atleast 3…Cuko to give sweet alarms every hour of night starting around half past 1…really a ‘Silence Breaking’ session…

Oh….how not to mention the ‘Ice Breaking Sessions’…it was(hope it has ended) a very interactive experience for me…barring a few late night sessions…seniors really came close…well appreciated by all…the best being with the drama session…and also switching off the mobile with eyes closed…legs and arms raised…as if ‘Moon Bhangra’…

Friends are always a part of ‘success’ journeys…not an exception here…with a batch strength of around 85…the class really acts as a close unit…with a new CRs leading the roles in their respective departments… the best part of our batch is that it is well integrated with people coming from varying disciplines…and some too extremes to my imagination…

With all the efforts to clear up study lag and learning the art of preparing fine presentations, life really moves too fast…hours blink by...days fly by…trimesters always at your door thumping hard with a frowning face…program of two years seems to get completed in 2 months…

With a bit mixed experience at IFMR, life is really good and enjoyable…provided one can make time out…but again I find some contingent events weird to my thoughts…So I leave you with a statement to comment upon…

'Do we ever look back at the steps that have been a part of our journey, giving support to the risk of taking the next step? May be the hunger for looking forward has made us forget it…’