It is widely supposed that life goes on in a phasewise manner with one phase coming after another, bringing something new with it. So although each phase has a significance of its own, once it is passed, it is confined to the obcurities of some distant memories and imaginations. But this phase of my life was too long and too consequential to be metted out a similar treatment. These five years at IIT Kharagpur, including four years at Patel Hall have not just had some significance of their own, but have transformed me as a person as a whole. I guess its the same for anyone who comes here!
It would be quite a cliché to say that I never realized how these five years have passed in a whiff! But yes those are the very thoughts coming to my mind as I type some of the last words sitting in my room in Patel Hall. Yes, it does seem like yesterday, when a jubilant self of mine having qualified the “toughest competitive exam in the world” and beaming with utter confidence had arrived at this campus of Kharagpur. When I looked at my final grade card today, I just couldn’t imagine how and when did I complete so many courses! Ten semesters and over 60 grades to look at – that indeed had to be a big list. Although one enters here with a feeling of having conquered the world, it is very soon they realize that life has much more to offer and all of it is available right here in this campus. There would be lots and lots of things to learn here. Things that would make him a real and complete person in every regard. Of course, given that one makes full use of all those opportunities available here.
While I would have enjoying going on writing about my stay here, I better stop here and catch on with my packing. have a train to catch in sometime! So this is where my last post at Kgp ends.
Goodbye to all those whom I have known during the course of my stay here. Hope we remain in touch throughout the course of our lives as well and vindicate our belief of we all being a part of one big family!
