The First Year
Everybody remembers their first year in college. When it comes to first year at the hostel, only one thing comes to my mind, it’s just impossible to forget it. The other day, for some reason, I happened to speak about my engineering college & its hostel with one of my colleagues. Later on that evening, while driving back home from the office, numerous pleasant and some not so pleasant incidents of my college & hostel life crossed my mind. The most surprising part was that the scenes from the first year at the hostel were so vividly clear as compared to the rest; it was as if I’m watching a movie. Later on I was wondering, why this would happen that the incidents of the first year, especially those which occurred at the hostel, would remain etched in my memory and come out sparkling fresh as if they have just happened yesterday. And then I realized that probably it’s because everyone goes thru a metamorphosis in personality in the first year, more so when one resides in a