To being a MAYOITE ..

This one goes out to all my awesome dorm mates...i'm already working on my promise of a book for/ on you all..

Contrary to the belief of a non Mayoite..we are not made up of lots of attitude and elitist behavior...we do not stand on pedestals... we are PUT on pedestals..we aren't the best because we have a legacy behind us. we are the best because that's what we make of our opportunities. We are born with the skills of time management and persuasion... that's how our parents know that Mayo is the best place for us. Being a Mayoite is like having a new identity its like being part of a family....yes my observation is very run of the mill.
But it is a fact.. we are all family...so what i'm going to do is give a little bit of an insight into the  the life of a Mayoite or rather a Charuite..

You enter a whole new world thinking how you are going to fit in but in less than a week it feels like you've been nowhere but here. And soon enough Friends become Family and we become a part of each others lives. i watch a movie or read a book and i find at least three to four characters who are a mixture of  those very friends.

I HATED horlicks and now its at the top of my tuck list...i had issues with eating 'kaccha' maggi now i cant wait for those 15 minute before prep maggi sessions... or those 20 mins after 12 when we still aren't ready for someones birthday....

yes we light up a storm while preparing and trying to make someones birthday special...and no we don't always clean up...

 

we study....we read..we interact and we make new friends or rather we prank unsuspecting or random people...that's what we do when we r 'vela'... which is usually after we do our homework or not do our homework..we are maestros at the art of  procrastination....from submissions to inter houses...

Inter Houses are nothing short of civil wars...we do take them very seriously. Its practices till late at night (or early morning) and then we blame the sleepy behavior [not thanks to our OOs ;) ] in class on the morning P.T.! ( which thanks to our awesome batch of captains will not return???)

Oh..I also found old like really old friends thanks to mayo..so i'm not complaining about the immense workload we have ....because one trip somewhere and suddenly the back log seems manageable! we change with time and metamorphose into completely different individuals and yet when we see the old dorm..we once again become the naive juniors that we used to be..the friends that became a one big family...giving each other abbreviated names so that shouting becomes easier ..

 Mayo is a place where we learn to lose our inhibitions..to make new friends..to embrace new opportunities and to stand out of the crowd so much so that we ARE put on pedestals. to make the critics rule in our favor..
This is my last year of school and i honestly have no idea how we came this far..how Five years will soon become Five months..a part of me wants this to get over and the other more rational part of me wants school   to be extended

Typical as it may seem my analysis is true and so is what i'm going to say next. You can take the Mayoite out of mayo but you can't take mayo out of the Mayoite! i owe my awesome time in school , the fights,the feasts, my possessive streak about my things (INCLUDING FRIENDS) and the amazing time I've had to u guys...my dorm mates and my friends...

To  the CHARUITES
AS, AS, AM, AM, AG(m), AJ, AS, CV, CS, DG, DS, EG, GS, KS, LRR, MA, RB, RK, RP, SP, ST, TJ.

                       
and to everyone else who has taken all my tantrums and still told me  "YKD chill! "  i love you guys....

P.S this does not in anyway mean i don't love my Calcutta friends...i love you guys as well...

P.P.S. this is the first and last time i'm actually getting emotional with 'my internet blabbing'.