The time when we are writing this piece of blog, we two friends are more than thousands of kilometers far from our homes, amidst some other culture, different persons, and of course different languages. Talking about languages, when we get to hear the dialects, it gives us the sense that we are familiar to what is being said but can get nothing out of their languages.
Well, we are currently in Nagli Balai, Rajasthan. It is the landmark where the cultures of two states coalesce because this piece of land separates the two states of Rajasthan and Haryana. So far you would be thinking as to what we are doing here in such a scenario of lockdown where the whole world has come to a halt. Okay, so I will give you the entire idea.
Two months ago we Nitish and Ratnesh (Langotia friends) came up with the opportunity to give a boost to our JEE preparation. It so happened that Ratnesh got to know that a group of 30 students are leaving for Rewari, from Patna for the sake of jee preparation under the name of SUPER 30, and anyhow we managed to get into that group. Finally, we along with other students and our mentor left for our destiny.
In the train, we two were planning for the coming days as to how we will be studying and what will be our daily routine. Well, the plans were ready and we were exactly sure about the remaining two months, the most crucial ones. But something happened out of our expectations.
Everyone or maybe we two were only thought that we gonna in some good infrastructural environment, amidst the buzz of the city, but later only we did know that we have landed in some kind of woods, but people do call it a school, a school which was built in an area of 100 acres worthing a capital of around 400 crores.
You might be thinking as if the blogger is out of mind, daring to call such a worthing capital, a jungle! Okay, so for your information, the school was closed around three years ago and this information was not shared with us before we came here. I was okay with the plan but my friend started quoting everything which he could think and come out with for instance like the school might have shut because of some ghosts. Other moments he would say that some crimes must would have occurred in this campus, which is being hidden from us. Well, nothing came out of those ideas of ghosts and spirits, as everything was normal for a week and now we were totally in a mood of exhaustive studies.
Soon after we came here, I got the idea, that our results in JEE ADVANCE, is going to be used as an advertising kit in the process of re-opening this school. And it was indeed true.
This school was configured with all sorts of facilities which you could think of in a high profile school, like swimming pool, horse riding, archery, big grounds for a number of sports like cricket and football, along with multiple basketball courts. It also had a gym. Well, we had nothing to do with them, as we were planned of our remaining days into the campus. We were doing fine with our studies. Although there was tough competition in our group and it was not that we were excelling in all the periodic tests, but nevertheless we were surviving and surviving with full enthu.
Test by test we were improving and our improvements were significant. even our dreams, the dreams which were always full of non-academic things, now contained nothing else than academic things, tests and teachers. Now we could see the clear way to our dream college, THE IITS.
But nothing runs this smooth. This was the time when the entire world was facing the COVID-19 pandemic and our country too came out with the plan of full LOCKDOWN. And thus we too were not spared. Such a sudden lockdown, and that too for 21 days, it was all a clear that one could not even think of returning to one's home, and we too did not have an option other than to stay here. Who knew as to how long the lockdown would extend. Well at that time everyone was convinced that it was for only 21 days. Since our residence was near the main gate of school which could easily be sighted by the cops and the cops would not tolerate such a big group at the time when everyone was emphasizing on social distancing and " STAY HOME STAY SAFE". So, we were all at a risk and so school administrators decided to transfer our residence at the innermost core of the campus.
Finally, we shifted to the new hostel but none of we two knew that this lockdown was going to bring a drastic halt to our routines and studies. From that very day of shifting, up to a week we were very random and disoriented.
During this week we enjoyed a lot, alloted some pet names to our batchmates. Not only this, but we came up with some more creativities. We divided all the rooms of our hostel into nations we being the Indians and the rest like Pakistanis, Russians, Africo-Americans, Mongolians, bla, bla..
And for our pride it was something which everyone accepted and it slowly became a trend in our hostel. Everyone would tease the other with their pet names like one would call other by IMRAN KHAN, PARVEZ MUSHARRAF, SHINZO ABE, NAWAZ SHARIF, PUTIN, etc. etc. And believe me you would have felt it to the optimum level only if you would have been a part of us. Really amazing that week! Something more interesting was our MANTRALAYA, which was well decorated with all the ministries, me being the INDIAN PRIME MINISTER, Ratnesh, the HOME MINISTER, and our colleagues being other ministers like HRD minister, FOREIGN MINISTER, FINANCE MINISTER, FOOD MINISTER and what not!
Soon the doom's day arrived. Our mentor announced a surprise test and in that test everyone was totally shattered. No one could just manage to pass 180 out of 360. This triggered our mentor's anger. His ultimate faith in us too shattered. This led to a huge crisis which the entire group was going to face. The very next day sir announced some constitutional laws and amendments, which he might would have formulated last night out of deep anger. Everyone's face was pale after listening to that announcement. You would think of as what could be those laws and why was it so terrible. Actually my friend, it was totally a case where you were plundered of all the basic rights you could have like sound sleep twice a day, endless BAKCHODI, cricket, movies, web series and what not. And to follow these laws "WORD BY WORD" was a must for everyone. Underlining the main laws...
1) 15 hours of daily studies
2) Outdoor games totally banned.
3) No studies in room, we had to stay complete 10 of 15 hrs in library
4) No grouping, etc. etc
these seemed to be quite impossible for us to follow for a day even. However the first day began that day itself. The first day passed in a normal fashion, but not could be the second and coming days.
We started feeling asleep during study hours in library itself, but the terror of being caught sleeping could not let us sleep carelessly even.
Well, we came up with new technology.
We too made a constitution. We decided that one would sleep while another will guard. And in this alternate fashion of sleeping and guarding and simultaneously managing our studies, we traveled a long way of a week. This was not all that we could tolerate. Sir soon came up with new innovations. Now he was not only monitoring but also asking for hour to hour records of us personally and bombarding us with the questions. Since we used to get tired, because of such a hectic schedule, we somehow managed to just get an overview of the topics which we undertook and so facing sir's bunch of questions was a misery for us. Many of our friends including us were caught as convicts on the charge of which sir scolded us badly.
And this was the period that was compelling us to be a different version of ourselves, out of anger and depression that prevailed each day, we started opting for something new.
For the very beginning, we just managed tramping each and every corner of a 100-acre school building.
But such a small piece of land could not leash us and our spirits that were arousing at that time. All we wanted to do was to cross the bars of the school campus and come in an open.
This marks the inception of our new adventures, which we gonna discuss in the upcoming blogs.
-Nitish
Well, we are currently in Nagli Balai, Rajasthan. It is the landmark where the cultures of two states coalesce because this piece of land separates the two states of Rajasthan and Haryana. So far you would be thinking as to what we are doing here in such a scenario of lockdown where the whole world has come to a halt. Okay, so I will give you the entire idea.
Two months ago we Nitish and Ratnesh (Langotia friends) came up with the opportunity to give a boost to our JEE preparation. It so happened that Ratnesh got to know that a group of 30 students are leaving for Rewari, from Patna for the sake of jee preparation under the name of SUPER 30, and anyhow we managed to get into that group. Finally, we along with other students and our mentor left for our destiny.
In the train, we two were planning for the coming days as to how we will be studying and what will be our daily routine. Well, the plans were ready and we were exactly sure about the remaining two months, the most crucial ones. But something happened out of our expectations.
Everyone or maybe we two were only thought that we gonna in some good infrastructural environment, amidst the buzz of the city, but later only we did know that we have landed in some kind of woods, but people do call it a school, a school which was built in an area of 100 acres worthing a capital of around 400 crores.
Soon after we came here, I got the idea, that our results in JEE ADVANCE, is going to be used as an advertising kit in the process of re-opening this school. And it was indeed true.
This school was configured with all sorts of facilities which you could think of in a high profile school, like swimming pool, horse riding, archery, big grounds for a number of sports like cricket and football, along with multiple basketball courts. It also had a gym. Well, we had nothing to do with them, as we were planned of our remaining days into the campus. We were doing fine with our studies. Although there was tough competition in our group and it was not that we were excelling in all the periodic tests, but nevertheless we were surviving and surviving with full enthu.
Test by test we were improving and our improvements were significant. even our dreams, the dreams which were always full of non-academic things, now contained nothing else than academic things, tests and teachers. Now we could see the clear way to our dream college, THE IITS.But nothing runs this smooth. This was the time when the entire world was facing the COVID-19 pandemic and our country too came out with the plan of full LOCKDOWN. And thus we too were not spared. Such a sudden lockdown, and that too for 21 days, it was all a clear that one could not even think of returning to one's home, and we too did not have an option other than to stay here. Who knew as to how long the lockdown would extend. Well at that time everyone was convinced that it was for only 21 days. Since our residence was near the main gate of school which could easily be sighted by the cops and the cops would not tolerate such a big group at the time when everyone was emphasizing on social distancing and " STAY HOME STAY SAFE". So, we were all at a risk and so school administrators decided to transfer our residence at the innermost core of the campus.
Finally, we shifted to the new hostel but none of we two knew that this lockdown was going to bring a drastic halt to our routines and studies. From that very day of shifting, up to a week we were very random and disoriented.
During this week we enjoyed a lot, alloted some pet names to our batchmates. Not only this, but we came up with some more creativities. We divided all the rooms of our hostel into nations we being the Indians and the rest like Pakistanis, Russians, Africo-Americans, Mongolians, bla, bla..
And for our pride it was something which everyone accepted and it slowly became a trend in our hostel. Everyone would tease the other with their pet names like one would call other by IMRAN KHAN, PARVEZ MUSHARRAF, SHINZO ABE, NAWAZ SHARIF, PUTIN, etc. etc. And believe me you would have felt it to the optimum level only if you would have been a part of us. Really amazing that week! Something more interesting was our MANTRALAYA, which was well decorated with all the ministries, me being the INDIAN PRIME MINISTER, Ratnesh, the HOME MINISTER, and our colleagues being other ministers like HRD minister, FOREIGN MINISTER, FINANCE MINISTER, FOOD MINISTER and what not!
Soon the doom's day arrived. Our mentor announced a surprise test and in that test everyone was totally shattered. No one could just manage to pass 180 out of 360. This triggered our mentor's anger. His ultimate faith in us too shattered. This led to a huge crisis which the entire group was going to face. The very next day sir announced some constitutional laws and amendments, which he might would have formulated last night out of deep anger. Everyone's face was pale after listening to that announcement. You would think of as what could be those laws and why was it so terrible. Actually my friend, it was totally a case where you were plundered of all the basic rights you could have like sound sleep twice a day, endless BAKCHODI, cricket, movies, web series and what not. And to follow these laws "WORD BY WORD" was a must for everyone. Underlining the main laws...
1) 15 hours of daily studies
2) Outdoor games totally banned.
3) No studies in room, we had to stay complete 10 of 15 hrs in library
4) No grouping, etc. etc
these seemed to be quite impossible for us to follow for a day even. However the first day began that day itself. The first day passed in a normal fashion, but not could be the second and coming days.
We started feeling asleep during study hours in library itself, but the terror of being caught sleeping could not let us sleep carelessly even.
Well, we came up with new technology.
And this was the period that was compelling us to be a different version of ourselves, out of anger and depression that prevailed each day, we started opting for something new.
For the very beginning, we just managed tramping each and every corner of a 100-acre school building.But such a small piece of land could not leash us and our spirits that were arousing at that time. All we wanted to do was to cross the bars of the school campus and come in an open.
This marks the inception of our new adventures, which we gonna discuss in the upcoming blogs.
-Nitish
