Kya? Khatam Bhi Ho Gaya!???

YES! That's the reaction when you're finally done with the finals! That's the reaction when you look back at those amazing memories of 1st year M.B.,B.S., when you check those pictures and have nostalgia! Of what? Just one year? LOL, it itself felt like an era! And Kya? Khatam Bhi Ho Gaya?

There's this transition. 10 months ago, I was a CET student. I remember writing the memories of junior college. But then, it was an ENDING. These are still my baby steps into the world of medicine and I already feel like having grown a Dumbledore beard!

I thought of writing this post, when my friend Mrunal asked what changes took place in me during this year, to write on her blog. And though I couldn't find anything much specific, I am surprised to see that there has been so much gradual transition.

 You don't just join a medical institution. It becomes your life. You don't make just friends, you make lifetime relationships. You don't just imbibe the principles of medicine, you breathe them. Your batch mates become your siblings and your seniors, your elders. You seek advice and directions from them.

A task from Treasure Hunt :P

From tips to study IMP questions, to DO's and DONT'S of patauing that girl you've been oggling. They guide you in everything. Oh yes, we've been blessed to have such seniors.
And now I look forward to having our juniors next year and sharing my enlightened mind's GYAN with them.

Yeah ok, I agree, I rather am waiting for the new batch of XX phenotype supply but that's not the point here! :P

The point is, so many changes occur in YOU!

You become much more calm, understanding and patient. You start accepting the things the way they are and moving on with them instead of just fighting them. You obviously have to. YOU, a school/college topper, learn that scoring 50% in the exams, to pass, is itself a Herculean task and then you stop dreaming the dreams of say, topping MUHS! You become forgiving. You learn to ignore the mistakes made by your friends. You HAVE to! You friggin' are gonna share 5.5 years with them (and maybe more if you equally perform/fail in PG CETs).

Thank You Mrunal for censoring it!

You become much more shameless. I would never dare to say the word PENIS or VAGINA in public. But now if you listen to the jokes we crack, even L'il Wayne would die of shame! (thanks Zaneta for taking us for the show Vagina Monologues)

We went to Alibaug, a trip planned by our CR (class representative) without any supervision by a teacher. Now I won't write much about what all we did there, 'coz that itself can be a post. But we've grown responsible.

We made a Facebook group - $îønîtês, which totally reflected our college lives. We shared histology slides, embryology models, interesting medical facts, videos, college notices and amazing jokes. Anything to be shared, we were like "Arey $îønîtês pe daal de na!"

We made it a point to specifically attend the boring lectures to hoot and clap like jerks and made the famous 'Dave' jokes! Thanks Sunny Leonne for the fun we had (not exactly the kind you're thinking of). We celebrated our CRs birthday at least thrice every day. By now he'd be older than Nicolas Flamel! The famous Kasturi acts! We bestowed the marathi literature with the noun Kasturigiri (reserved for the times you feel so pakau ed by a comment, that You Don't wanna Live on this Planet anymore)

Dr. Ingale, our Biochem HOD with the Rock n' Roll!

The physiology dept. for the first time ever in the history of LTMMC, held small cultural meets and gave everybody a chance to show their talents in music and singing. We added mimicry to that list and how! All the professors would've seriously wondered that night, while staring at themselves in the mirror - 'Holy mother of God! Do I seriously look and talk LIKE THAT?' Thanks Akshay, Mahesh and everybody else. Hell, we did these mimicry acts even during the breaks, sitting on the last benches. But we still respected our  professors and maybe even loved some of them.

We won laurels for the college. Biochem and Physio quiz (though we were washed out in Anat)

Shrey and Amruta stood 2nd in Biochem quiz

We had Trinity. The medical conference of the students. Our seniors, barely 2 years older than us, managed to pull off a near perfect event like the professional event managers. I performed that night. Sang Abhi Na Jao Chhodkar the first time maybe people of my college knew about my existence.

Then we had SFL & SPL. Our own versions of Euro and IPL! There were teams, managers, owners and bidding. I was sold too (I know that sounds funny but yeah I was :P )

Then we had ASHWAMEDH our college fest! And man, what a life changer (for me at least). Against my dad's consent I signed in for a batch dance, a drama and composing AND singing a COLLEGE SONG. Of course, the song was the only thing I did finally as I'd have needed the time traveling apparatus from McGonagel to be able to pull off all these! And woah, was that one of the best decisions of my life!

Me and Suyash composing the College song.

I got to stay in college apart from college hours. I explored the Anatomy dissection hall (or maybe the corridor at least) during wee night hours. Yes, making horrible sounds and freaking out some lady friends was fun, but hanging out with seniors and actually being their BUDDY was the best part! The JAM sessions we had, showed us how 'ELEPHANT SEMEN' could be brought into any friggin' story.

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Raja Hassan dazzling the celeb night

We got to know so many of our batchmates better. There were some misunderstandings, we also cleared many. We gelled in together, we bonded. The 'HEY's and 'HI's became 'ABEY KAMINE KYA KAR RAHA HAI'. We started sharing food! ( believe me, that's really a huge thing in a medical college). The people who missed Ashwamedh for stupid reasons like exam preparation, I feel really bad for you. (Now don't be a moron and miss the AIIMS trip and Ashwamedh next year too.)

We had our Freshers' party. It was a blast with all the 'YOU KNOW WHAT' kind of jokes and games. I became Mr. Fresher while Sheetal was Ms. Fresher.

PHOTO CREDITS MRUNAL AWALEKAR

Then came the pre exam fever. As you wandered around the college looking for some hot chocolate (yes, its the best in the CHHOTA CANTEEN) you saw your classmates carrying huge books.

You felt the urgency of going back to library soon (and maybe again sleeping on your books) but as you gulped a sip or two, you were back to you 'EXPLORE THE COLLEGE' state of mind.

Prelim results were out, I scored the highest again (yippee!!) this time only by 0.5 mark, though. Giving all my friends one more reason to not believe really the pre exam night freak outs I have. Like one chapter being left a day before is normal. You've experienced that. But what if ONE chapter is the only thing that you've completed out of the SEVEN that you have! That's our condition mostly. Then, extra dark coffees and long boiled teas become the sole source of fluids to your body.

Some people had problem with their mandatory attendance completion percents. Can't blame them, not everybody has the patience to sit through a series of lectures where you finally understand from the book, that all the time when prof said MAMMARY she actually meant MEMORY. |-__-|

Then we had the Preparatory Leave (PL) which is the fancy term we use to describe our VACATIONS prior to the final grinding! In which, while most of us tried to fulfill our TV quota of the year, some rare species described as 'NERD's tried to finally finish their 4th revision

Then the finals came and gone. Lets not rather talk about it. Maybe someday I'll write a post about it if my results don't kill me of Myocardial Infarct.

As I now wait for my last Biochemistry practical to be finished, I relived those moments when I went through some pictures and thought maybe I should write a post about it. For me, for us to remember what fun we had. For you to know how kickass we are. And maybe show it to my children 20 years later what LTMMC made me.

What LTMMC made US!

Biochem pract will be done, we'll have a (namesake) vacation of 15 days and soon start with ward postings for next year as we wait for our 1st year result.

We'll soon begin with lectures and be into 2nd year. We might bid some of our friends good byes, might welcome some new (this is all considering I myself pass :P).

It will again be the 1st day. Of the 2nd year. Though, this time I won't be confused, finding my way around the college. This time I won't be insecure about the way I look. I won't be looking at strange faces and being judgmental. We'll all soon be back to ROFLing, from day one!

Kya? Khatam Bhi Ho Gaya!???

Nah! Abhi toh shuru hua hai!! :) :)

This is our COLLEGE SONG.
Yeh Hai Meri Jaan...