My Exodus

Results were declared a few days back....final results.I'm done with engineering...or rather its done with me. I put off collecting the mark sheet long enough and finally got off my lazy ass to collect the same. In the process of coercing my self to go do something productive, I managed to rope in Munshi as well...who like me is also a lazy ass or perhaps a lazier one!(who knows such things). Some"formalities" were pending in The RAIT...some "NO DUES" form had to be submitted i was informed.


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When I left Apeejay School, Nerul after 14 years of useful education and wonderful memories, there was Rajaraam Bhaiyya who handed me my 12th mark sheet and then i had to go to meet Benji Sir in the office to collect my LC. The whole deal took about 20 minutes after which my friends and i went to the station and ate vada-pav to celebrate.
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As I entered the office, it seemed like the whole population of the college had decided to collect their mark sheets, railway concession, Journal papers on this very day. Although i was surprised to see the new and improved counters( there are 3 of them now!). We paid the convocation fees and collected the receipt for the same. This was then supposed to be give to some uncle sitting opposite to the counters. But wait, the convocation form had to be filled too. When I saw the form i felt like this was the most useless form i would ever fill in my life*. The details we were supposed to supply were the SAME details that we had been supplying over and over for the past 8 semesters..Name,Address,Roll no.,date of birth, mumma's name, pappa's name....
This form, along with the receipt would procure me the venerable 8th semester mark sheet.
Now came the time to fill the "No Dues" form. The star i've marked a few lines above.....thats for this line....the No Dues Form is THE MOST WORTHLESS, USELESS FORM EVER!!!
All it has is the list of all the labs in our college and we have to go to each and every one of them to get the lab-ass that sits there to write "No Dues" in front of his lab and sign it. Its OK for the library and maybe also for the IT center, because people generally default on payment of library dues and steal mouse balls, but we had to span the whole freaking college and take signs from labs that we haven't even set foot for the duration of the 4 years we "attended" college.
The last sign remaining was the Accounts Section one...and as luck would have it that asshole that sits at the counter told us to come after one and a quarter hours. For ONE sign???
Munshi had something to eat at Shivam, perhaps for the last time...i too had a thumps up for the first time in that popular "restaurant". We did time pass till 2 p.m. and went back to office to get that final sign...but that guy was nowhere to be seen! After cursing that idiot for half an hour, we snuck a peek inside the accounts office and found a clerk who would do the honors in that asshole's place. Oh yeah i forgot to mention that we surrendered our RAIT iDs as well, the only purpose of which had been to get into Horizon, the college festival. Coming back to the No Dues form. After ALL of this had transpired, we went to submit this useless piece of paper to the uncle who had issued the mark sheet. All he did was to collect the soiled and sweat soaked papers from our hands and neatly stack them on his desk...and that was it! All this time waste for nothing! We didn't or rather couldn't get our LC unless we were going for higher studies..so all we ended up after 3-4 hours of labor was nothing! But there was this feeling of calm that engulfed us...a sense of accomplishment.
Consummatum est....It is Done. Now were are free from RAIT or is it the other way round?