Someone called me today to ask about NUALS. A common friend had given this guy my phone number as he got allotted in the college I spent 5 years of my life in. He starts with asking me how is NUALS. So I start talking, and I realized a lot of things. I start telling him how college was for me. Through out the 5 years I always wondered how my life would be had I gone somewhere else. Like, someplace with a lot of strikes and then random things like an arts college. But then I realized I wouldn't be me without being here. It changed me in several ways. For one, I was a Rebel, let me put it simply, I was a wild animal, a really wild one, just like my hands my tongue could hurt people and the pain wouldn't have left for days. And then would I have gained anything, NAH.
Well, NUALS tamed me. From a lion to a wolf maybe, don't know. At least I learned to think before I start acting, to measure words before spitting it out. Was it the place or was it just growing up. Maybe a mixture of both. Will I make a good lawyer, Nope. Have I figured out things about my life after leaving college, Somewhat. But then, I found a medium in everything, some sort of balance.
I found NUALS to be accepting. It accepted anyone even if there was no fitting in possible. It taught me that even when it could be accepting, it need not necessarily care. I think it was on the second day of viva that Arya and me, sitting in the corner stairs (or is it the emergency exit, blah) started talking about the perks of this place, and we found that there is a very low chance of finding another place as accepting as this. Its not that there wasn't gossips, oh, there were lots. Its just that, from the simplest to the most outrageous things was acceptable for everyone. Me being a local, (meaning a kalamaseeriate, well, lets just say its like an embassy of some sort, like the place never belonged to the local area) people asked me questions. NUALS was this foreign territory for them, and like people from one country ask questions about the other, there were a lot, and as a local I was supposed to answer. Does girls Smoke ? (couldn't count) Are there real couples in your college like national law schools? (I don't even know what that means, and yeah, a lawyer asked this. and a lot others). There were more, from curfew for girls to how short dress girls wear (yeah, I know), from have all smoked up to alcohol. And the Goa trip raised a lot of eyebrows. My answers included constant shrugs and aah, I don't knows, then it became why the hell do you care so much, then to mind your own business, and then to just staring back at them. The population in NUALS is so blended that people accepts everyone, from whatever they do or not do.
And as of me I found some really amazing people there, all different, and there are a very few who would fit in well with social norms. My mom always said that I found some really amazing friends, and she started saying this years back even before I realized. Also the college has some really amazing Faculty. Apparently, our batch is one of the favorite for most of the teachers, which some people still haven't figured out why. I am gonna miss them and their classes, even though some of which I had earphones under my scarf and was actually watching movies. But then there were some remarkable classes like Jayadevan sir's Consti, or JJ trying his best for one week to put in one single cases into our heads (I am never gonna forget that Rupa Ashok Hura case). And the faces of the sweet teachers and of course BK (ah well I don't have to say much), Hmm. I am actually gonna miss the place.
I wasn't a hosteler, so my stories won't be that emotional as those who were. Yet, I am gonna miss the place, the crazy crowd, I am gonna miss the entire class even though I doubt if I have ever spoke to the people at the right backside of the class. Have I ? And in the last few days of college I realized that I haven't spoken to a lot of people much, other than the occasional hi, all the best, have you seen this person, or simply smiles. And then I realized some people thought I was intimidating, well, I think they haven't spoken to me for more than 2 minutes.And then the dine outs. My family says that I know more about restaurants in and around kochi than people who live nearby them, just like being the guide about LULU.
And then about my friends, I wish in all the success we all still remain friends because I am gonna have some really stupid doubts and you guys know that I cant ask others and then I will look really stupid. Arya, Aparna, Kavita, Gopika, Drishya, Janaki and Meera, you guys have solved more problems for me in these years than I did alone, well, as you all say, some problems are just boiled in inside my head and I need you crazies to figure it out.
Laptop about to die, So good bye.
Well, NUALS tamed me. From a lion to a wolf maybe, don't know. At least I learned to think before I start acting, to measure words before spitting it out. Was it the place or was it just growing up. Maybe a mixture of both. Will I make a good lawyer, Nope. Have I figured out things about my life after leaving college, Somewhat. But then, I found a medium in everything, some sort of balance.
I found NUALS to be accepting. It accepted anyone even if there was no fitting in possible. It taught me that even when it could be accepting, it need not necessarily care. I think it was on the second day of viva that Arya and me, sitting in the corner stairs (or is it the emergency exit, blah) started talking about the perks of this place, and we found that there is a very low chance of finding another place as accepting as this. Its not that there wasn't gossips, oh, there were lots. Its just that, from the simplest to the most outrageous things was acceptable for everyone. Me being a local, (meaning a kalamaseeriate, well, lets just say its like an embassy of some sort, like the place never belonged to the local area) people asked me questions. NUALS was this foreign territory for them, and like people from one country ask questions about the other, there were a lot, and as a local I was supposed to answer. Does girls Smoke ? (couldn't count) Are there real couples in your college like national law schools? (I don't even know what that means, and yeah, a lawyer asked this. and a lot others). There were more, from curfew for girls to how short dress girls wear (yeah, I know), from have all smoked up to alcohol. And the Goa trip raised a lot of eyebrows. My answers included constant shrugs and aah, I don't knows, then it became why the hell do you care so much, then to mind your own business, and then to just staring back at them. The population in NUALS is so blended that people accepts everyone, from whatever they do or not do.
And as of me I found some really amazing people there, all different, and there are a very few who would fit in well with social norms. My mom always said that I found some really amazing friends, and she started saying this years back even before I realized. Also the college has some really amazing Faculty. Apparently, our batch is one of the favorite for most of the teachers, which some people still haven't figured out why. I am gonna miss them and their classes, even though some of which I had earphones under my scarf and was actually watching movies. But then there were some remarkable classes like Jayadevan sir's Consti, or JJ trying his best for one week to put in one single cases into our heads (I am never gonna forget that Rupa Ashok Hura case). And the faces of the sweet teachers and of course BK (ah well I don't have to say much), Hmm. I am actually gonna miss the place.
I wasn't a hosteler, so my stories won't be that emotional as those who were. Yet, I am gonna miss the place, the crazy crowd, I am gonna miss the entire class even though I doubt if I have ever spoke to the people at the right backside of the class. Have I ? And in the last few days of college I realized that I haven't spoken to a lot of people much, other than the occasional hi, all the best, have you seen this person, or simply smiles. And then I realized some people thought I was intimidating, well, I think they haven't spoken to me for more than 2 minutes.And then the dine outs. My family says that I know more about restaurants in and around kochi than people who live nearby them, just like being the guide about LULU.
And then about my friends, I wish in all the success we all still remain friends because I am gonna have some really stupid doubts and you guys know that I cant ask others and then I will look really stupid. Arya, Aparna, Kavita, Gopika, Drishya, Janaki and Meera, you guys have solved more problems for me in these years than I did alone, well, as you all say, some problems are just boiled in inside my head and I need you crazies to figure it out.
Laptop about to die, So good bye.
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