Does anybody else GO to college?

I didn't realise how much college has affected my life till i came home for the hols.

It seems to be a common characteristic among college students of the 2nd year and above(i speak for the male um... i can't really say half) that our internal clock comes to follow a schedule that defies the 'day-night' thing that God, in his infinite wisdom, obviously wants us to follow. I mean, i'm pretty sure that if he wanted us to play or watch movies all night and sleep all day, he'd have tv's and dvd players falling from the heavens at night and those things that they pull over their eyes on flights to sleep, during the day.

And the administration apparently shares this idea b'cos they never let up! I mean, without fail, there'll be 6 or 7 of us who get to class just on time with our hair all mussed up and our eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep(or other reasons. i can't speak for the other guys), and with unfailing regularity, one of the RA's stops us and, in his chummiest tone of voice(nicest try! as anand would say) says, "just woke up ah? He he he, college is the time to have fun, but remember that your parents are paying good money to.........etc, etc". I mean, Come on! Don't you get tired of saying it over and over again! Its not funny, and you're not going to convert us by boring us to death!


Sorry for the outburst. As always, i have deviated from my intended topic nice and early. My point was to note(or point) that routine is a powerful thing, i just didn't realise how powerful until i came back home and had to return to the old one.

My usual schedule at college is pretty ok, wake up at 8.00, classes from 8.30-4.00, stuff inbetween and sleep at 11.00... that kinda thing. But lately, what with the syllabus being completed, most of the teachers cancelled all further classes, so that we ended up having like one class every other day! As a result of which my schedule became totally warped. I was staying up till 4.00 in the morning and sleeping till 10.30. This also had the effect of cutting down the number of meals per day to 1. It used to be about 1.5 because i had lunch once in a while and a regular dinner(of course i never woke up in time for breakfast) Admittedly my change in sleeping pattern was surprising, but my change in eating habits positively mystified me.

Until i joined the 11th std. i had a lot of free time and not too many friends, as a result of which i was very much the loner. So all i ever did was eat and read(either studies or fiction), which is pretty much the sole reason that i became really fat! But after coming to the 11th, while i still didn't get out much, i had classes from morning to night, and this left me very little time to stuff myself(thankfully). Unfortunately, i still didn't do enough in my free time to lose it all, and i'd always dig in when i did have the time.

But after a year at college, i can't eat breakfast, can hardly swallow lunch, and just about manage a shadow of my old appetite at dinner. Its unbelievable! It just seems a little too much for just one year away from home. And for the last month i'm pretty much un-wake-able till nearly 10.00a.m(or so my mom says... i wouldn't know) and my eyelids don't start drooping till at least 2.00 in the morning.

How do people get on with their lives after all this? How do they get up and go to work everyday? After all that lounging around they'd need some major incentive to keep at it. It must be especially difficult for those who despise their jobs becos sometimes i just feel like lying back and letting the teachers go jump!(and i've done it a couple of times) So i just hope to God that i end up doing something that, even if i don't like, i can do without going nuts.

Now my last question is this, "Should i publish this crap or not? Is a blog really meant to have stuff like this? Are we allowed to inflict this kinda stuff on the unsuspecting public who may even now be clicking their way closer to this page?", I'll leave it to the public. If, as usual, i don't get any comments, i'll leave it in. And if i do, i'll probably take it off and put it up somewhere else. I hear there's a struggling club in college who're looking for crap to fill up the pages of their euphemistically termed 'newsletter'(Hope none of them guys reads this) ;)