Life of a Sophie

Well, I don't know how to start a blog but some things I would like to mention out of any relevance to this blog is the main heading of my blog and why I chose to write what you will be reading after a few lines ......The name Pistachio or "Pista" as we call it in hindi is the closest to my heart as my grandmother gave me that name and I don't know why I have been so obsessed by it that I feel my personality to be like it only - Please forgive me for my obsession but I think blog is what is to share about yourself and your thoughts- yeah so me or "Pista" - Fair colored, Tough from outside -soft from within, Salty for those who like it that way and sometimes cannot even be cracked if I don't allow.....yet Valuable, and liked by all (as I suppose :P).
The second thing that I want to share with you is all my life I had been doing things differently and was very content with my life, I continued to change my future plans from a Pilot (Papa dreamt of it), a Cardiologist (to cure my Dadi), a Neurologist(Mamma's dream), a Sexologist ( I don't know where the thought came into my mind :P) and to my recent past a Model and a Fashion Designer (well, that was something that I wanted to be, keeping in my mind howsoever intelligent I may be), but then as you never know where life takes you, sooner or later, I realized I was intelligent enough to be an IITian and hence gave up the idea of long struggling days of a Model or life-time work of a Doctor, over the Fascinating, Comfortable Four Years at IITs, which do not seem to be comfortable at all now, but since I had chosen the Path "More" Taken, so I followed it and very successfully completed it too, with a hidden-forbidden thought of trying again for my incomplete dreams giving auditions here in Bombay,.....I don't know if it will be completed at any time in future or not, but yes, thanks for your patience for bearing a used-to story of unfulfilled dreams....Now we return to the actual Blog which starts here,

As soon as I entered IIT Bombay, I thought I had done enough of what we call "mass imitation" in the last two years of my life and now things will be different, as they used to be earlier but it took time, and as large as a span of three semesters to change the coarse of my thoughts again......Enough of having read a Freshmen, and A passed out look into IIT, I decided to write something different that has never been written, and may not be never be re-written after me, thanks to its dullness and monotonicity, unless a 'sophomore' attempt is again made on the topic.
Tired of three semesters and five more to go, I look back into life not as Saurabh Bhola, CSE Dept, IIT Bombay, but as any sophie here at IIT irrespective of the credentials attached on his shoulders, his department but, yes a thing that may appear is the masculinity of the views discussed here (I tried to include the thoughts of the fairer sex too but they appear in the same proportion as is theirs :P). So now I know everything about this place, and the city too, the people here - profs and colleagues, seniors and a new bunch of idiots too, but the question is where do I lie among them? - Am I questioning my existence?. I have been attending lectures regularly in first half of my life here (OK digest it :P) and irregularly in the second half of my life, yet the results are same - Am I questioning the fact that attending lectures helps you a lot?. I have been studying too hard for exams (though mostly during the exam week only) but still there is an ambiguity in the grades - Am I questioning the Teaching System here?. And after having questioned each and everything here, yes, I believe I am a true sophomore of IITB. A glimpse of the life of a sophie is as follows:
- I don't eat in mess because I am badly addicted to canteen or eating out that sometimes I even miss the digestible food prepared in mess on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
- I party for one or the other reason, today or tomorrow.
- I don't study regularly unlike my "Road More Taken" days and have my assignments submitted just before the deadlines(thank god for that)
- I spend my life sharing my life on face-book, receiving comments from anyone and everyone on what I thought was MY LIFE
- I have bickered infinitely till now against the professors (though some seriously deserve that) and as I said the questioned the System here especially the Grading Systems, which have left my life shrink to three numbers x.yz (sorry for the 10.00 ones although you don't even share the same feelings expressed above too :P)
- I have no idea yet about what to do with my future, and its wobbling from finance to core to MS to MBA to xyzabc
- I get "fundae" from anyone and everyone as I step out of my room, sometimes without even wanting but no "fundae" that can really work out
- I have a girlfriend or desperately need one(before you jump to any conclusions I remind you that I have been generalizing the lives of sophies and not talking about my life here)
- I spend endless nights (night-outs) wit my friends playing mafia, poker, FIFA or discussing random as well as very important topics of life too, from job, internships, grades, professors, to girls, mess, movies, family, my girlfriend, friends' girlfriend(s), sex, nation, to dominos, pizza hut, etc etc.
- Some other too personal things not to be discussed on such public forums (:P)

So where is the life going, huh? I take resolutions to improve and sometimes they work sometimes they don't, yet as they say Life moves on.
As for me, now I have new dreams & new plans for my life and I hope to succeed in it , but one thing that I have promised to myself is that I will never ever uproot the thought of taking the Road Less taken in my life and even if it happens, this sophomore would make a fresh one for others to follow too :)