Average

Among many lines of interest like Poverty Line, Greenwich Mean Line, Sir Creek Line; there is one more line which has a psychological impact on the entire student community belonging to the IITs where relative grading is followed. Between the two different states of joy and sorrow, interesting and isolated behaviour, there is a fine line of Average.

Just after an endsem paper of Electric Machines gets over, instead of what was asked before,"paper kaisa gaya? " or self confidence boosting comments like,"paper was tough and kitna lengthy tha?" , now the question on every mouth is "Average kitna jayega?" Many a times, it reminds me of recent advertisements floated during the World Cup to exploit the cricket fever among Indians. As a parallel of that," Ek hi to sawal hai, mess me discuss karata hai. Facebook  pe chatting bhi nahi karne deta. Sare chehro par ek hi sawal; Arey Average kya jayega ?"

As soon as the teacher announces for paper distribution, suddenly the guessing game (on Av) reaches an all time high, with an occasional feud and "chal lag gayi, 5-5 ki". Students go through the routine approach of asking the teachers about the figures of exam(Average, highest, lowest). Some 10p's also help them in their effort. Then follows a triumphant sound (with mess benches playing the role of drums) in case average is low or otherwise a deep mourning sound coming from somewhere deep inside.

  

What is the difference between 24 and 26??

Just two marks. Doesn't make much difference.

And what if, average is 25??

Oh gosh!!! One who gets 26 is on cloud 9. In his mind, he is calculating little Av+'s of surprise tests, attendances and then then solace himself by lowering the boundary of "BC". And in back of his mind,"aaj main upar, aasman niche. aaj main aage, jamana hai piche" is playing.

Now look at the 24's guy. Poor chap. Av-1..huh.. "Anyway i have to maintain CC, I can't go to CD" with "jag soona soona lage," in background. He goes back to his room and curses all those damn moments when he wasted time with friends. He will calculate his SPI and then again moments of despair haunt him like ghosts.

P.S. : aap tension mat lo, 24 wala 2 din me thik ho jayega :D

Hiiiii

In vacation, like everyone, Raj was also busy with Facebook. But misfortunes followed him there also. There is a separate section on facebook home page called "people you may know", many of his friends have sent friend requests to girls of their campus, and many of them accepted too, so facebook was suggesting them to him as friend. One day,one of his friends Suraj said in very depressive manner ,"ladkiyan facebook pe to acche se chat karti thi, yahan pehchane se bhi inkaar kar rahi hai."

There is a girl, Simran , facebook was suggesting her as his friend. He doesn’t want to add anyone who doesn’t know him (of course, the guys know every girl). So, first day, as USUAL, he took a look on her profile and logged off. Second day, again she was suggested as friend, it took his mental power equivalent to attending morning 8 class for stopping himself from adding her as friend. Third day, again her name was there, he thought, "ok…enough is enough." And he sent her invitation. Next day only, she accepted it.

Some days later, she was online, though his heart was willing to chat but he controlled himself thinking "sab moh maya hai." After two minute or so, she said,"hiiiii". He was on cloud 9 and he replied "hello."

Here is the part of conversation:

Raj: how is vacation going?

Simran: pretty f9 but slightly boring…whole day u stay at home, I miss nescafe and ice n spice.

Raj: yeah, true…I feel d same .

(he was enjoying his vacation to the fullest, two times a day cricket, bike, old friends, what can be better than that? And juice walla in his neighborhood is better than ice n spice, economical and tasty…but supporting a girl is more important ;)

Raj : what is ur cg?

Simran : I screwed my endsem... mere 8.5

( Oh my God, screwed endsem and then 8.5, he wish he were like her screwing quizzes, midsem, endsem. He slapped himself for such a stupid question, after all jinke ghar sishe k hote hai, wo dusro pe pathar nai feka karte. Guys, he has below average CG)

Simran : urs??

Raj : hey, who is coming for Anwesha this time?

(change the topic..best idea :)

Simran : you remember, last Anwesha??

Raj :How can I forget!! That was our first Anwesha.... .I was busy in MUN. (MUN stands for Model United Nation)

Simran : when did you work in MUN??? I thought u were with me the whole time...

(Then, he understood the meaning of 5 "i" in her hiiiii.. She misunderstood him for someone else. Then, he thought to continue the play but something {details in next post} stopped me from doing so. )

Raj: I am not the one, you are looking for.

Simran : hey, you are not Raj from Ashoka Hall????

Simran: no, it was my pleasure to talk with you.

She logged off and never talked with him again. Now after vacation, she never makes eye contact with him. Anyways, whatever be the reason, he thinks, she recognizes him now…..