50+ Things That Tell You, “You’re In BMM!”
- You’re a PG in your own house.
- You wake up 10 minutes before lecture. Look at the clock. And go back to sleep.
- Running away from home (in the name of projects) doesn’t seem like a lie anymore!
- Your presence at the photocopy centre is at top most priority just before the exams. You may even have an attendance register there
- Your alarm clock is set 15 minutes ahead so you can potentially make it to class on time.
- You eventually realize that setting your clock ahead makes no difference to you and you’re still late
- You’ve ‘friends’ in class who wouldn’t give you their notes (and you weren’t writing in class thinking ‘let them write, I will photocopy from them later.’)
- Notes start circulating only 2 weeks before exam. (And you don’t understand, where were these notes until now)
- Computers/printers/writers break down only when you badly need them
- Notes suddenly become so important that your friends aren’t friends anymore – They are NOW friends with people who have notes
- Few days before exams, people in class come out with really huge bundle of new notes (and you keep wondering “where did they get that from?”
- You text/message faster than you type
- Industrial visits are never ‘Industrial’ visits. You end up in Goa, Kerala, Hyderabad, to name a few.
- Visiting – in very rare cases – even one media company in your entire visit is something to talk about
- You don’t have an answer when your parents ask, “What did you guys do in your industrial visit?”
- Before the visit, The class (esp TYBMM) spends more time (sometimes weeks) on deciding locations than time spent on ad design or magazine design projects
- Some professors feel it is their moral right to take lectures 6 hours at a stretch.
- Some ‘Visiting’ faculties just visit you once or twice, and woah!, your portion is over
- Your trash (and desktop!) is overflowing and your wallet isn’t
- The computer-repair guy is god sent.
- Cutting chai is a vitamin. (We even have a fest inspired from that name)
- You don’t know why you were born, and more important, why did you join BMM
- Google zindabad! And Wikipedia too!
- You only find out a class is cancelled after you get there – all the way from home
- You rate coffee shops/hangouts by the availability of power outlets for your laptop.
- You always wish to come on time but you never can – it is your moral duty to come late.
- The day you come early (and feel proud of yourself), your college peoon tells you ‘but there’s no class today.’
- Energy drinks become your new best friends.
- Your fate after BMM is undecided.
- Life without your computer/cell phone/player is unimaginable.
- All your projects are ‘works in progress’
- You skip/bunk one lecture to make a project for another
- School – or even junior college – started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered ‘early.’
- You don’t get up at 6am. You hit the bed that time.
- You’re a master of ONP (one-night projects) J
- Copy pasting becomes an art. Its not a keyboard function anymore
- You know which hangout will be open until what time, just to chill
- You are on Facebook more frequently than you’re in class
- When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take to post them.
- A canceled lecture (especially, on the presentation day) is as exciting as a new year.
- Your group sits to discuss a project and everything else apart from the project is discussed.
- Class size doubles on exam days – it’s a good feeling, ‘I am not alone in this mess.’
- You are using one book since your first day in BMM – even you don’t know where you’ve written what.
- Your first year group is almost or completely same for your projects until today.
- There’s always a Mr/Ms Question in your class, and you really wish someone would just tell him/her to shut up – especially when the lecture is already over and you want to get out for…err just nothing.
- Your primary news source about media and BMM is BMMBox.
- Just before exams you open syllabus, and it all seems so new.
- Going to the library (if it exists) is a social event.
- You curse your college for the most pathetic infrastructure.
- It takes you a couple of weeks/months to explain your neighbors, relatives, especially aunts, what is BMM.
- After you finish giving them the unending gyan about BMM, they still ask you ‘Beta/beti, engineering ya doctari kar lena tha.’
- When you listen to the statement above, you want to bang their heads, or probably yours.
- This post is so terribly true.
- You finish reading this and wonder what else has been left out
