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My table-clock says its 3.45 in the morning, my eyes are blurry, my mind is exhausted but my heart is at peace. Because finally, the first big exam at WIMWI, the dreaded mid-terms are over!!! The feeling is so amazing. After the tremendous amount of studies we have put in past week, now the regular preparation for classes and the everyday studies look no big deal.
Though I know its not far that the same grind will start again day after tomorrow, but the relief of getting through the exams is still overwhelming... Don't ask me how they went, that's another question altogether which I prefer not delving into.

The past week was full of anxiety and tension as people didn't get enough time to study for the impending exams... the regular class study was itself consuming all our time. In the mess during meals, the topic of discussion veered always towards the mid-terms... it's like the entire campus was obsessed with it. I won't bore you with the details of the exams. I will just say that they were unlike any other exams I had ever given. Most of them were open book, but the papers were so damn application-oriented that there wasn't much you could do with the books. You don't have to learn by heart anything for the exams. They purely test your concepts and application skills. There is no format for the exams, you never know if it will be objective or subjective or whatever... you do not know how long the paper will be until you actually get the question paper. So every subject has its own unique characteristic for the exams, very much unlike our engineering days. The only thing common to all is that they are all damn tough But then that's what makes the process even more exciting!!!

Let me move away from the boring topic of exams! If you are wondering what am I doing at this hour of the night (or the morning I should say) even when the exams got over today, it's the T-Nite preparation. Yeah, the much-awaited annual four nights inter-section event starts tomorrow and we have hardly enough time to prepare for it. So the entire class was sitting in the classroom and preparing for the same. And boy, its great fun. So there is one group which is busy making posters, another practicing the skit, another the dance, another the fashion parade and the remaining not doing anything, but either clicking snaps or joining in the poster making... Because the number of posters you make is never enough... the more the better.

And then suddenly, we all stop what we are doing, get-together in the centre of the classroom, switch off the lights and play the music full blast and start dancing... And its an awesome sight... everyone just letting their worries out and rocking to the beats... knowing how to dance is immaterial, having fun is the essence. The classroom is a completely different picture during the preparation than what they are during lectures. There are paints all across, charts here and there, people sipping coffee while working, loud music blaring all along... I have captured all the moments on the camera but can not post it till the T-Nites are over. The entire preparation is a section secret and can not be leaked out of the boundaries of the class, lest the other sections take advantage of it... So I will post the snaps this weekend.

Actually that's the purpose of the T-Nites, more than an inter-section rivalry, the aim is for all the classmates to bond together and the friendships we make here go on for a lifetime. The sense of unity is developing and I can see that the enthuse level is surely increasing. We also got our section T-shirts...

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* Contributed by -
Vinamra Srivastava (Campus Associate),
PGP - 1,
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.