10... 9... 8... It's here... 7... 6... 5... It's time to bounce back and show those nerds what I am capable of... 4... 3... It's time for a moral renaissance... 2... 1... 0 "HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011", I shouted out sitting in front of the TV and watching the new year countdown in a channel. It was the last week of December and I had been doing nothing for the past 10 days except for playing a simple but addictive game called Plants vs Zombies. It's just this: You have to protect your house from a bunch of Zombies and for that you use plants as weapons. "I had been very bad last semester", I told myself. "But I can pull myself together and bounce back." "I know what you did last semester", told my mind. "You are a useless bloody bugger. You cannot change yourself." "I will show you some change next semester. I will prove you wrong."
It was August 2010. I was proud that I had been attending almost all classes. Then came this damn test 1 series. Six days... Five tests... That changed my entire semester. After successfully screwing up almost each one of them, I came to the conclusion that there is no point attending all classes. Then the BITSian inside me tempted me to bunk classes. So, my daily routine was reduced to waking up late at 10 or 11, sitting aimlessly in front of my laptop, having lunch and dinner and going to Raag room and hardly attending any classes.
Then came test 2, with even more vigour. It helped me successfully seal my fate that I wont be making a GPA of even 7 that semester. The degradation was complete. I totally bunked all classes. I tried to do night-outs that proved to be worse than the idea of bunking classes. Deprived of sleep, and getting momentarily frozen everyday in a horrible winter, I faced compres with little hope that I would avoid a D grade in one of the most dreaded courses called "Intro. to topology".
I almost passed out worrying about my CGPA at that time. Compres were no better than the other tests. But a couple of night-outs ensured that I would get 2 B's and 4 C's securing a semester GPA of 6.67 that would make my CGPA to 7.81, falling from 8.05 by 0.24 units. "Now that 2011 is here, it's time to start afresh." After planning out this semester roughly and concluding that I need to get a GPA of more than 9.14 this semester, I am preparing myself to face a mammoth task of making amendments to the damage I made. I'll always remember what I did last semester...
