First Day at BMS

Having been busy with some interesting research (will update in the coming days ) for the past few days & coupled with the increased hours of load shedding in our area has ensured that I post to the bare minimum which will make Tanisha aka " Nikki " also proud . Now that my head is confused with fuzzy logic I thought what better time to share my mundane experience of the first day @ bms.


If I do remember correctly it was June 13, 2000 ( time has zipped past huh ! ) and we students as well as some parents were seated in a big classroom good enough for around 120 people. Its was supposedly a Ice-Breaking party so that we get introduced with our seniors and also about the course in general which was pretty new . In the whole classroom I was knowing 3 persons and out of them 2 were from my school itself. Enter a middle aged man with a not so welcome gesture and I learnt from an individual from the next bench that he was the course co-ordinator. Then there was this boy who was having very high fever , but despite that he managed to make a point by attending the first day which was and is still a mystery for me.


Now the session started with the co-ordinator welcoming us and all that usual crap and then our seniors were asked to introduce themselves first and then we were asked to introduce ourselves and also to explain the reason on why did we choose the particular course. I had no particular reason except for the fact that I had heard that after finishing the course one could get directly admitted to JBIMS which had incidentally facilitated the entrance exam for our course. However at that time I had very little courage to speak to a audience of more than 25 people. ( So conveniently forget the 100 plus people gathered that day. ) Thanks to this I did not utter much and just said that I heard that this course was pretty good compared to the traditional courses such as B.Com. Well before my introduction I rememeber very vividly that there was this guy who on his introductory speech told that a pink paper called the Economic Times was a essential read. Here was I who had never gone past the last 3 pages of the sports page of TOI and now I had this daunting task of reading a business paper " Daily ." I uttered to myself that perhaps I was a total mismatch for this course .


As the introductions got over the co-ordinator started to speak about some shit rules of the college and course and on hearing which I happened to laugh a bit on a couple of occasions . But unfortunately I had taken a bit too far for his liking and he soon caught me smiling to one of my school friends when he was busy reading out some serious rules. I was asked to stand up and asked from which college I had done my +12 . I replied " Model College ". He " Please do not bring that rowdy culture and now you may get out of my class. " Not knowing what to do I pleaded sorry frantically to no effect and was subsequently thrown out of the class .


Humans have this tendency to repeat history . So did it in my case where after about 15 mins another couple of guys were thrown out for talking and laughing ( yes I still can't believe it ) in the class . The co-ordinator came to us and told us that we could reconsider on joining the college and he would be happy to refund our whole 9000 bucks. Now this was serious stuff , but still one of the other 2 was still controlling his laughter which was evident to the co-ordinator. This made him more angry to say the least and I wanted to smack this guys head right on for ruining my chances. Imagine what reason could I have told my parents about my being thrown out from a reputed college and for a upcoming course . Soon the session ended and some seniors came out and comforted us ( more me ) and told that the co-ordinator had this insane habit of terrifying students initially and that he was a kind person . Again we approached him and he gave all of us a warning that such behaviour would not be tolerated to say the least.


What followed for the next 2 sems . was that I was overcautious and made a point to never to be in bad books . One year passed and our college had a new co-ordinator and from there on started my freedom ride .