Random mentions

• have i mentioned how the law school teachers are out to get us and have no consideration of the sanctity of sleep?
• have i mentioned how i have two research papers due within the next two weeks and how i havent started on anything?
• have i mentioned how i miss home horribly?
• have i mentioned how i'm craving for subway?
• have i mentioned that law school is so frustrating all you want to do is SCREAM and punch the next person right in the middle of the nose who says- "it's onkay. First trimester goes by before you know it?
• have i mentioned how the last 27 days have felt like an ETERNITY?!!
• HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I'M GOING HOME IN 15 DAYS!!!!!

Citizens of GeekLand

Well,

so here we are.

stuck in GeekLand.

i CANNOT have yet another whiny post but i don't have anything brilliant either but little tidbits of how screwed up a small community can be.

well i can distribute gossip.

nameless ofcourse.

here-

we have

1. people who are here hoping to party, want to party and dress like they're going to party in class
2. people who are seriously messy and throw their stuff on other people's desks
3. people who claim to have felt up another person by having checked the strength of the latter's calves
4. people who get scadalized by the fact that i am seeing someone
5. people who smoke on terraces at 3 am
6. people who smoke because seniors do
7. people who need to check the sizes of clothes they should be wearing.(too tight makes things pop you know)
8. people who swallow more food than the air they breathe
9. people who think they're god's gift to mankind
10. teachers who stare at necklines(women's essentially)
11. people who think a couple sitting, holding each other's hands need to get a room
12. people who think its cool to be able to survive on less than 5 hours of sleep
13. people who have serious issues with synchronizing their choice of clothing with the time period they're living in
14. people who talk like there's no tomorrow
15. people who are closet NERDS
16. people who talk more in class than the teacher
17. people who mark their territory on new friends
18. people who blog about pointless things because that's the only thing that keeps them from going crazy

i'm really not jobless here. In fact i've never been so loaded with work as i am here, but some things and some people you love so much that you end up finding time for them only to make the day a teensy bit more fulfilling along with productive.

Law School is a Funny place to be

so, if you think law students are exceptionally boring people mired in gloom, surrounded by books and have no life-
You are pretty much right.
But that doesn't mean law school is not a ridiculously funny place to be at.
i can elaborate-

Take only today for example.

EVENT ONE
3.00 AM

tired, sleepy, hungry i was watching How I Met Your Mother. I thought i'd watch just one more episode (that shit is addictive) and then fall asleep on my amazingly uncomfortable bed (which also creaks just BTW)
AND THEN-

*knock knock*

cursing inside of my head, i put the laptop aside and got up to check who it was. I mean- who'd come to annoy me at 3.00 AM??!

I opened the door and LO!
it was a very stoned senior.
giggling
Senior:"Niyati!!!!"
Me:"Hello" I said.(faking a smile. you don't want to mess with seniors just yet)
*giggle*
Senior:"i was just watching tv"
me:"you reek of smoke"
Senior:"Really!!?" *giggle*
me:"you reek of other substances as well"(it was an attempt to tell her i could smell the weed)
Senior:"shhhhhhhhhhhhh.....Don't tell anyone"*giggle*
me:"do you want something? And you do realise this building isn't where you live na?"
Senior:"i'm going. But do you have some food?"

so saying, i handed her a jar of biscuits and sent her to bed.

EVENT TWO
10.08 AM

This one doesn't really deserve detail. In short-
we have a nice, bald teacher who has this annoying habit of calling us all his friends. Bored out of our wits, Viraj and I were making tally marks everytime he used the word.
our conclusion- ya. he uses the word friend once every 2.4 minutes.

EVENT THREE
3.00 PM

We're in a ridiculously dull "How to write Projects" extra class. She's telling us how we list our primary sources and secondary sources in a term paper and randomly John Techi runs out of class.
I poked Dheer and Vikram who were sitting (to their misfortune) in front of me and asked where Techi ran.(for the record, Techi is THE MAN)
They told me he ran out as he REALLY had to pee.
ordinary thing, so i just giggled generally.
Then he walks back in and the teacher confiscates his phone.
Ya. Techi ran out to take a call. From a friend. In the middle of class. With NO warning.
SAMPLES I TELL YOU.

So, the day's just barely half-way through and its already been quite eventful.
Law Students aren't THAT boring after all.
Cut us some slack.

comments?

come on.

i'm alone at law school.

o need some support.

be nice to me.

i haven't had a comment in 5 posts.

this being the sixth.

*makes sad pouty face*

pretty please.

the good life?

i'm living quite a funny life right now.

and obviously- this is going to be a sorry sorry post. but oh well. what all i do to keep it alive at least.

SO...

Law School.

All of us here are full of ourselves. We got into the best law school in the country and stuff. and then-

you realise you're leaving home.

*first pillar of your air castle crashes*

then you leave. A lot of hugs and weepy moments later, you reach law school.

where, of course, the (expected) ecstasy of arrival doesn't even come CLOSE to the sorrowful departure.

*second pillar of your air castle crashes*

then you start living in the hostel. and start missing home. and missing those clean private toilets you always took for granted.

*Third pillar of the air castle crashes*

then you go to class which are a YAWN. and you're slapped with HOURS of homework from the first day onwards.

*a couple of pillars crash on this one*

and then you realise you have sad, depressing classmates who by choice spend 8 extra hours in the library on an average. and even sadder ones who complain to the wardens about the only bit of entertainment in your life as of yet- the ragging.

*CRASH! BOOM! BANG!!*

everything crashes. EVERYTHING.

and the harsh reality hits you.

You're in Law School.

Slit throat competition.

screwed up geeks all around.

And a small little community where word travels faster than the speed of light and reputations stick with you for your entire life.

a place where you learn to watch your back.

because everyone's waiting to stab it.

But also the place,

where you're going to spend the next 5 years.

where you'll make the best friends you've ever made.

and a little bright ray of anticipation can be seen.

and thats the one you start counting on.

because thats the only way you deal with

a) teachers who are so in their zone- they mumble.

b) teachers who are so good they fail you for being mediocre.

c) teachers who pass you because you wear low necklines.

d) friends' roommates who ask them to not trust anyone.

e) a boyfriend who doesn't even sit next to you in class (that's just a mindless taunt :P)

f) all the bullshit in the whole wide universe

i'm still the happy person i was.

don't worry just yet.:)

if i start displaying suicidal tendencies- i promise you guys will be the first to know.

XOXOX

A Warm Welcome to Law School

Well so i'm at law school.

and i don't like it very much right now.

let me explain-

i am surrounded by geeks who run to the library to issue books and skip lunch to do so.

i'm quite sure i shall lose my fashion sense or i shall be very disturbed by the end of the fifth year because of the clothes people wear.

Classes are a yawn and i don't understand a word my Vice Chancellor says and he takes my Legal Methods class.

My Eco teacher went on a homework giving spree on the first day and the seniors claim that they go easy on you on the first day.

i live in a hostel where stray dogs climb upto the third floor common room to chill with us and frogs hop around EVERYWHERE.

It is very cold and we aren't given hot water to shower with. Ooops- let me correct myself- we aren't GIVEN WORKING SHOWERS AT ALL! Use a Bucket!

And the Lovely seniors. :)

Thanks to them i did so much in the last few days.

Let me give you an idea-

1) i did the garba to the title track of Kyunki Saas bhi Kabhi Bahu thi.

i sang the song too.

2) i looked for a senior to ask him the definition of an artist.

3) i was asked to say 5 sentences about my boyfriend's personality. Most of the things i said were rejected.

4) i was made to ask out a chappal.

5) i was made to sing choli ke peeche kya hai.

6) i was made to talk so every word i said could be picked on.

oh and just in case you're wondering why i did all this bullshit, or sympathizing because i'm being ragged, Don't.

And its not ragging, just by the way. Its called positive interaction.