Tathastu : Student Team 2020

Like every morning, I took my coffee and was on the way to the office while the notification popped. It read "CONGRATULATIONS" in the subject, I stopped my car and read the complete mail and suddenly I felt like Harry who finally got his acceptance letter to The Hogwarts. I was smiling all day, planning to quit my job, thinking, and dreaming of all the fun that I would have before relocating. I thought of resigning one month early and spend some quality time with my parents, although I had the regret of not able to complete 3 years of work-ex as I would fall 3 months short for 36 months. Anyways, I Dreamt about going to goa on the money I had saved. On the other side of the picture, Corona was in the news but, like all the Indians even I thought it wouldn't enter India. So I did go on a trip to Bengaluru, although official one but had enjoyed this one to the full extent. I reached back to my home Ahmedabad on 21st and then as if God had said "Tathasthu", the lockdown came as a slap on my face. I like everyone was locked down in the house with my FAMILY for 3 months, my student life which was going to begin from June was in doubt. Work from home was another thing to get used to clearing the IT hurdles. I thought of the freshers I'm going to miss, the friends I was about to make, the campus I wanted to walk in. Then I thought how are we going to make friends how will I know a person how will I study in this virtual world. I never thought I would make any friends like this but,  Google-meet, Microssoft teams, whatsapp and Zoom proved me wrong. I made friends we did batchmeet every week with umpteen introductions we knew each other to an extent. I also made friend to whom I could vent out everything. I got mentors all of them awesome and ruthless. The committee rounds the induction, life was hectic since virtual class started but one thing was I was still working I didn't resign as I had to work from home. I managed everything for 3 months then on 31st July I hung my boots, I resigned and I had crossed that 36 month mark. So again I felt "Thatastu". This pandemic taught me as human and as a student no matter what Virtual experience can never beat Reality.