JourneY as a 1st year dental student!!!

JourneY as a Dental student:

 

September, 2003… I can’t explain the feeling I underwent these days as it was the first time I was away from home, all by myself here far far away from my loved ones, with a dream in my eyes to be a dentist and do some good to my family… But it was tough… a feeling of strong nostalgia surrounded me like the clouds surround the moon…I was terribly home-sick…I weeped…I cried…I bursted …but moved on… pushed on myself to follow the path I chose coz I was sure there will be no looking back once I have made my mind!

I made new friends…different people from different places with different cultures but same motive, staying under a roof…that’s called Hostel…

At first it was way too tough to cope up with so many people but things got eased with time… Academically, I toiled with a burning zeal to do good and justice to my decision fro a lifetime to be a dentist… I worked hard…but yes “all work and no play makes Alice a dull gal” and I surely wasn’t dull so I made sure to enjoy myself with my friends out here…

We used to go out for regular movies, bunking classes enjoying weather, hogging on lip-smacking dhaba aloo parathas, sleeping with soft music on cracking jokes…. Sipping a cuppa tea with friends on terrace in the eves… the place is awesome…the best thing about my journey as a dental student is the place---Chitradurga… a small hamlet, 5hrs from Bangalore, away from all the pollution, population, close to nature, surrounded by hills, rocky mountains and windmills with cool breeze making sure to comfort you… Lovely nature pictures landscaped embossed in my memories forever….those sunrises… those perfect sunsets behind the mountains....sky studed with stars in the moonlight with coolest breeze surely carrying you away from this world….those early morning sights from my hostel room window…with fog and drizzling raindrops with windmills trying to cut the fog…early morning chills…awesome…the whole scenario is deeply carved in my mind forever…a perfect place to take it as a student…no hangouts… hostel to hospital and vice-versa…in this small place.

The thought of being a first year student makes it very difficult as its just a start and u always count the years ahead to prefix the much awaited DR to ur name.

I fared well in exams… I cleared first year exams with good marks… I was happy and ready for the grilling of second year…

I scored 73% obviously not bad for a start…. But then only I know how I appeared for my theory exams….just before my anatomy theory paper I got a shocking news from one of my school friends that one of our common friends was no more and had met with an accident…this friend of mine an Mbbs student..i could not believe it… I was in some other world…my friends were struggling hard for the toughest subject ..revising, learning…And I still remember I was sitting with a book weeping, thinking of him knowing not a single word striking my disturbed brain…. It was 3 am I didn’t know what to do? As I had not revised anything and my brain wasn’t working…My roomie made me sleep for an hour forcefully ..i woke up at 4:30 am and again somehow tried opening the book afresh…Anatomy…Histology…Embryology…Osteology???? I got mad as I hadn’t read a single word…And here I was sitting with 4 great books to revise and 4 hours before exam… I don’t remember what I peeped into…but just an hour before exam I looked up at god and prayed… “god, I don’t know what I am upto…I know I haven’t revised before the exam and I am looking upto u…just save me…I surrender myself to u just help me…gimme strength to move on…” This is what I clearly remember…And u know what?? The paper was great…or may be I liked anatomy very much and used to put in a lot for entire year…but the end result is astonishing…Its been the Best paper till date in theory…I scored 75/100 which is supposed to be too good for this subject…I still thank god for such a support to me.