I got up for the sixth time in the morning to check the time which was still 5 am! It was my first day of college!

I was so nervous that I could hardly sleep in the night. So, finally I got up and went to check if my mom had woken up. She was in the hall and was surprised to see me awake so early! Of course what does she know about my inner feelings about my very first day of college…?

Okay, finally I was ready in a blue t-shirt and jeans (of course I had chosen them a week before) waiting for my dad to take out the car…I studied my heart out in inter for EAMCET and now here I was on my way to fulfill my dream. But why was I so nervous? This was what I waited for which seemed lucky forever! While I was lost in these thoughts, my mom started all over again how to answer seniors, lectures blah blah!

On the way, my dad had asked how I was feeling. How was I feeling? Excited? Nervous? Happy? Confident? What? I had no exact answer so managed with a smile.

Finally! There stood my home for the next four years!) I couldn’t even imagine where did all those years of day dreaming of the same have gone? Hours and hours of struggle with Eamcet had gone? Wow, it felt so great!

So I entered the gates of my new home, observing carefully all the faces and saw some nervous and tense, may be they too were juniors like me, and few looked confident and careless, probably they were seniors! Seniors! How could I forget them? All those stories of ragging my cousins had told me flashed in my mind all of a sudden! God, this is going to be tough!

I slowly walked along the pavement for the notice board to find my class. It was in the B block ground floor. I started my careful walk again to the B block. ‘Excuse me there’! I heard someone calling out for me. I turned back already thinking what to answer, as the first rule of a junior life is be careful with senior! But when I saw the person, he was smiling at me in a friendly way, there he goes! He is a junior too. He spoke again smiling more widely now, may be saw my inside relief which he too felt. Hi, I’m Akrit, I’m a junior too…” …so found my first buddy like that.

As juniors we were not allowed into the canteen, so had to lunch in the class itself. My new buddy had friends (already!) in ECE Dept, so I went with him to meet them… while I was thinking how stupid I was to be nervous for nothing, a gang of seniors caught us and then started the hangama! It all stated with “BD kottura’ (bio data) to “Twinkle twinkle little star in Telangana”…without knowing when it had all even started, even we started enjoying (I know ironic) that was my first day and ever since then everyday was as fresh as it was on that day!