My Ramaiah days-2(In Prashanti Niketan)

The same morning I came to Hyderabad, my father took me to Prashanti Niketan, where I was to attend a "crash course" for Ramaiah entrance exam.Fortunately I found a friend who was also going there,along with me.Days rolled on(just a month ).Work was intense, but I was used to it as I finished my ICSE Board exams a few days ago. Though I couldn't grasp all those real analysis etc etc that was being taught there, I worked in Chemistry and Physics, which interested me immensly.It was the first time I went along without understanding much of anything in maths.I didn't know that it was to become my lifestyle for two years from then.

All that limits, continuity,binomial theorom and other arbit stuff we didn't have in our school syllabus started troubling me.I couldn't do anything, for I had no source who could properly teach me things.And so I made a month long co-existence with all that math, hoping that it would be over, once the exam is over.Little did I know that my assumption was a great mistake.Things went on and finally the day of exam arrived.

What a sight it was!Thousands and thousands of people, all gathered at one place.Osmania University-it was the place where the exam was to occur.I never saw so many people gathered at one place, though I had been to beaches on occasions, where I could see many people.But there, the vastness of the ocean intimidated these huge numbers.Here it wasn't so.I gave the exam and I felt that my performance was satisfactory.All the while I never bothered about "What if I couldn't make it to Ramaiah?". I really never bothered about it, till I got to join the institute and had a chance to experience the way people treat students from Ramaiah.

I gave the exam and went back home, feeling sorry that I missed a precious month after the exams, while all my friends were happily enjoying at home.I heard of their activities, the movies they saw,and a whole lot of other things they did in that month. It only saddened me, made me feel bad about those days that would never come back for me.