R.I.P Internals

And there it is, one final internal at da college. I wont be seeing anymore question papers labelled "Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology". There are times where we used to study for about a week before the internals which then shrunk to three days, then to the day before exams, hours before exam, ..minutes ..and finally no preparation at all. Its da process. No wonder , you study for days ..hours for just a 20 marks paper to be written in one hour. and you end up with 10-15 marks even if you know all the answers, just cos there wasnt enough time to scribble. And I guess my process of shrinking preparation times was a bit faster than the rest. I stopped reading for internals since first internal this semester. My aim is not internals, my aim is external, thats what our mathematics dude used to say. May be in my case its neither of 'em. But internals is the time where you have real fun. People have no choice but to come to college, so I wont be missing anyone, especially my friends. And the preparation after coming to college, its a real deal. No matter how much you read at home, the preparation you do after coming to college only thing that counts. No wonder, you will find people reading all over., scattered., grouped., on the stairs, lawns, under trees, on the trees, parking lots, canteen, anywhere they could possibly lay their ::beep::s on. And then suddenly someone comes runnning during this tight session, and tells a bunch of his friends about some question he is expecting for the exam. Now the hands executes their search program to find that 'important' topic. But twist in the story here,people suddenly realizes that the topic is somewhere else in another text book. Now the grey matter works even faster. Their search query for the person having that text displays 100% matching result, a dude reading near chemistry lab. The Bunch runs towards that guy, but the dude misunderstands them and runs towards canteen and by the time people get hold of the text book the clocks ticks 10:30 . The bunch reads something while walking towards the examination hall and writes the samething no matter what the question is. But the real challenge comes after taking the test. Now you start researching your answer sheet, you compare your answers with the correct answers, try to relate them, so as to convince the evaluator for marks. By the time the papers are corrected you try to convince them, tell them you will score better marks in next internal. Then they run a obvious piece of code that says if(next internal) then (marks++).The cycle continues. But not anymore. There is no next internal. All the tight study sessions, awkward reading places, PG block building which was more of entertainment than study, 'how did you write the internal?'-kinda questions though we know how we write internals, 'kuch bhi nai pada'-kinda dialogues, I would never forget.