Part 1 : Rewind

DISCLAIMER : Based on real life experiences. Not for Karan Johar fans. Also commerce and humanities students, don't get offended. 

March 2011. Done with Class 10th. By May 2011, results were out for our batch or as we liked to call it- "THE LAB RAT BATCH" as we were the lucky (or unlucky) rodents upon whom the new educational structure was tested upon.

June 2011. Streams had already been allotted. My friends got segregated into either Medical, Non-Medical and whatever other streams there are(Commerce and Humanities people... You mad? :P). There was a huge superiority complex among Science dudes initially. It was as if Science students were like the lavish and filthy rich heroes of any Karan Johar movie and the Other stream students were the lead makeup guy of a C-grade Mallu porno.

[On a sidenote: I seriously don't get KJo movies(and what kind of a gayass nickname is KJo?). Take MY NAME IS KHAN(i know i am going to face criticism from devout SRK fans on this one) for instance. Is POTUS's security so bad that some random weird dude walks up to him and say things about not being a terrorist? If this were not a KJo flick, he'd be pinned down on the ground with 10 men performing a colonoscopy on him in public view. Plus i don't get most SRK movies. Why the hell does he keep running? In Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, why does he need to run over that bridge? In Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, why does he run from the helicopter like a mental gorilla. I am surprised that Rakesh Omprakash Mehra took Farhan Akhtar instead of SRK in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.

On a different sidenote: I heard from a very trusted source that Milkha Singh looked at Farhan Akhtar's phisique and said, "Mad body, bro. What? Did you bench-press all of Juhu?"]

Now back to the topic. This was also the time when coaching institues attracting customers students for business to impart them with knowledge to  they didn't give a shit help them clear competitives. They did this through full page ads of some goodie-goodie boys and girls having heavily oiled, properly combed hair and high powered spectacles resting on their nose(quite a stereotype. no offence to cool dudes who dress like this though). Also, almost every coaching institute claimed that they produced the AIR-1 guy and had atleast 4 spectacle dudes figure in the Top 10.

Everyone who were up to take competitives got enrolled in some coaching or other. Be it MEGA EDUCATION/RIDDHI SIDDHI TUTORIALS or be it FIITJEE/VMC ( ironically, the other author of this blog studies in one of these blood sucking corporates ). Science geeks were into their coaching material even in school. One day, i was peeing in peace, minding my own fucking business when two science geeks occupied the pee basins on my either side and started discussing whether peeing is laminar or turbulent flow. The details of that discussion you don't want to know.

There were also few freaks pretending to be geeks. They showed how devoted they were during school hours by memorizing some shitty formula whilst swinging their heads metronomously(as one does while singing intensely remixed bhajans). People who passed by these posers curled their lips in an upward arc, raised their eyebrows(bespectacled guys raised their eyebrows and looked over their spectacles), slightly tilted their head to one side, and remarked, "Padhne wala launda hai!". But, in reality these few kids do this show off, go home, listen to some good old Baba Sehgal while simultaneously pleasuring themselves and go to sleep.

Fast forward to Jan 2013. Shit just got real.

-The Freak