Missing UTA... :(

UTA…that’s the university where I pursued my Masters..!!

It’s been a year that I graduated from school, but seems like everything happened just yesterday… :(

I could actually visualize everything happening in front of me..! The on-campus job I worked in the library, all the night-outs at the Central Library before every damn assignment, all that screaming n shouting on my roomies, all the cheating I had done in the projects, all that fun...everything is right here...right in front of me !!

Awe…how can I forget my first day in US….that was a terribly sunny day in Texas and I was just wondering whether I landed up in US or some part of Sahara Desert. The hilarious part of the day was: I asked my senior Gokul (who picked me up from the Dallas Airport) to stop at a telephone booth to inform my parents about my safe-landing. Lol, he just smiled and gave his cell phone to make that call. Later I realized that the so called STD/ISD booths and one rupee coin phone call booths are possible only in India and not in US :)

First semester was all filled-up with amusement, fun and laughter with my so energetic roomies….Shruthi Akka, Aswini and Vasudha. That was the very first time in my life, staying away from my family. Every night ended-up with playing at least one game of Monopoly and getting homesick at bedtime!! I would definitely appreciate Shruthi Akka for teaching me every petty thing starting from holding the door open for other people in the university building, telling Bless you when someone passes the air, how to apply for part-time jobs, how to greet new people and last but not least how to cook. Well, I agree that I messed up very badly with my grades that semester but yeah learnt many things and most importantly how to live it up!!

Second semester was the time when I got stabilized with my grades, got a part-time job in the Library and most importantly met this workaholic friend of mine, Rizwan. He’s the one who taught me to study each and every line of the textbook and do the assignments in a timely fashion. Kudos to you Bro, survived that semester even though I had many controversies with my roomies. But yeah he’s my best critic and also one of my very good friends till date.

Summer semester passed by very soon, that was the time I worked eight hours a day, watched too many English movies, talked a lot on phones standing on Border Trial platform, started applying for Internships, the very first time went to Six Flags, Oklahoma water park and lot many Indian restaurants.

The next semester was in a most peaceful apartment at FG but with the most cacophonous roommate Aswini. This sweetheart is my savior angel, ask her any doubt in your major subjects and she would clarify it the very next day after studying your own textbook!! She’s my GPS, my Wikipedia, my TV Guide, my Dictionary.com, my Cookbook and my Bodyguard. That was when I had this peculiar combination of two brothers (but born to different mothers) as my project-mates. FYI, they are Hema and Muthu. Still I have this question in my mind, should I call them the Best Friends or the Worst Enemies?? Muthu being the narrator with Hema as the hero in his fairy tales, I had a third degree torture listening to his crap!! As the sem lasted, we were all busy shopping for our India trip, meeting the project deadlines. In this context, I would definitely like to mention about the movie “Mungaru Male”. That was such a sad movie; Hema suggested me to watch it after I happily finished my semester exams. Yes we do have a connection with this movie; Hema being the hero (Preetam), myself being the rabbit (Devadas) and our director Prashanth killed me at the end :(. Now, don’t ask me about the heroine (Nandini), only three of us know who she is…LOL.

After the India trip, my story continued in GC with Bala, Teddy and Aswini as my roomies. Bala, the most annoying creature that I had ever met!! But I have to agree that she’s the only one who listened to all my mournful stories. I always wished that I had a senior like her who can be my Mentor for advising me on how to get a job or at least on how to apply for jobs!!

Hmm….decided to stop writing this post for now; I would go on writing pages about my life at UTA. Its May 2009, but I’m still hanging around in May 2008. It’s not the environment at UTA but my very special friends at UTA made me cherish those moments. Love you all my dear friends... :)