I used to love this Justin Timberlake song when I was in teens. "What goes around comes back around". With that song playing at the back of my mind, here I am in "Amrika" blogging my first post ever since my life turned around into something I had never imagined it would. I still remember the day I got my CMU admit for masters.. Feb 24th I believe. I just opened my gmail account and there was a decision mail sitting in my inbox. I was shivering with excitement as I read "congratulations You ...." I never read a word after that. I was jumping in the air and celebrating my best and most ambitious university admit. I had made it to my dream university!! (Even though it costs me at least 1.5 times of some other university). After months of changing and re-changing mind, I finally decided Carnegie Mellon University is going to be my destination. Background check -- What had I done in life till then? Uhmm difficult .. Err.. I guess I had survived engineering and thats that. Fast forward to the day I was leaving Bangalore. My family was in tears and I was a little emo myself. But the moment I reached airport, all i was worried was how would I push a 23*3 Kg trolley!!! I was so busy with my luggage that I never realized it was going to be a long journey away from home. A hard one where I had to cook my own food, wash my clothes, wax and shape my friggin eye brows myself because it is too expensive!! Oh and I almost forgot. I had classes to attend, a grad student's life to live!
I woke up today morning at 6:00 am and almost dizzy with mixed emotions.I had a dream; A sweet dream where my family was here in Pittsburgh to visit me. I was so tranquil and happy. But when I woke up to the rude reality that I was sleeping in some creepy corner of my room with books all around and my laptop was open with a million assignments staring at me. I was so miffed that wanted to stamp my laptop into pieces and go back to my dream. But, like they say all good things come to an end! My morning was screwed up with emotions. I wanted India. I wanted to be in my room at my home in Bangalore. I wanted my noisy neighbor playing tappanguchi Kannada songs loudly and pissing me off! I wanted to wear a salwar kameez without a triple layer of sweaters and jackets over it. As I was lost in a trance of my thoughts, my flat mate knocked at the bathroom door reminding me that I had a class to attend in 30 minutes! Sigh. Those were the days when I used to wake up at 8:00 am for a 8:30 class!! Now I get up at 7:00 for a 8:30 class because I have to clean-make-pack my own lunch. My classmates from BNMIT will be surprised to hear this.. I am hardly ever late to any class here! All this minus my scooty.
Unlike my bunking days in engineering I stay back in university till midnight and sometimes even late finishing my assignments and homeworks!! LoL.. Call it peer pressure,, call it responsibility.. call it fate.. call it mistake. Students here literally "live" on campus and go home once in a while to sleep and eat. For me the transition was really hard. From what it was in India to what it is here, I have come a full circle. Back to the studious school days when I used to study to be on top. Now I study to survive! Everyday is a new battle with a new project or a new challenging home work. I feel the clock in pittsburgh ticks faster!!!
Finally shivering in the cold windy night I come home at 1:00 am and make some salad out of the left over vegetables and mayonnaise. I introspect my life and sit down to blog after a long time. Is this what i expected? Hell no.. Is this what I enjoy? Hell Yeah... I finally get to LEARN something new.My life is not perfect (which you can figure out easily when I tell you i eat cold salad for dinner.. ) But I am happy! A new prospective to life..That's a 360 degree turn.. isnt it?
I woke up today morning at 6:00 am and almost dizzy with mixed emotions.I had a dream; A sweet dream where my family was here in Pittsburgh to visit me. I was so tranquil and happy. But when I woke up to the rude reality that I was sleeping in some creepy corner of my room with books all around and my laptop was open with a million assignments staring at me. I was so miffed that wanted to stamp my laptop into pieces and go back to my dream. But, like they say all good things come to an end! My morning was screwed up with emotions. I wanted India. I wanted to be in my room at my home in Bangalore. I wanted my noisy neighbor playing tappanguchi Kannada songs loudly and pissing me off! I wanted to wear a salwar kameez without a triple layer of sweaters and jackets over it. As I was lost in a trance of my thoughts, my flat mate knocked at the bathroom door reminding me that I had a class to attend in 30 minutes! Sigh. Those were the days when I used to wake up at 8:00 am for a 8:30 class!! Now I get up at 7:00 for a 8:30 class because I have to clean-make-pack my own lunch. My classmates from BNMIT will be surprised to hear this.. I am hardly ever late to any class here! All this minus my scooty.
Unlike my bunking days in engineering I stay back in university till midnight and sometimes even late finishing my assignments and homeworks!! LoL.. Call it peer pressure,, call it responsibility.. call it fate.. call it mistake. Students here literally "live" on campus and go home once in a while to sleep and eat. For me the transition was really hard. From what it was in India to what it is here, I have come a full circle. Back to the studious school days when I used to study to be on top. Now I study to survive! Everyday is a new battle with a new project or a new challenging home work. I feel the clock in pittsburgh ticks faster!!!
Finally shivering in the cold windy night I come home at 1:00 am and make some salad out of the left over vegetables and mayonnaise. I introspect my life and sit down to blog after a long time. Is this what i expected? Hell no.. Is this what I enjoy? Hell Yeah... I finally get to LEARN something new.My life is not perfect (which you can figure out easily when I tell you i eat cold salad for dinner.. ) But I am happy! A new prospective to life..That's a 360 degree turn.. isnt it?
