Exam Season

The 6th and 7th semesters of college bring about a weird change in perfectly normal people.They Suddenly start worrying about their future and start preparing for exams like CAT, GRE, GATE and a few others. The entire atmosphere of the college changes.
Pre Exam Season-
ME: DUDEEE!!!weekend kaisa tha??
FRIEND: Awesome man!!!managed 2 catch the latest mallika sherawat movie :D

During the CAT/GRE/GATE season
ME: DUDE!!!weekend kaisa tha??
FRIEND: Positively delightful...watching mallika sherawat gyrate to the foot tapping number managed to leviate my despondent spirit greatly!!
ME: Ummm....you had brain surgery??!!!!
FRIEND:NOO!!! Practising my word list man....on the cover it said "most effective when used in everyday life"
ME: Be#$%*# ha#$^

This is also the time when people realise that throughout engineering they haven't really done anything except waste time(in my case learn pool/snooker :D) and master the art of "hanging out"...and that MBA colleges want certificates for co-curricular activities!!!! So there's a mad rush to "be a part" of college activities. Some join the placecomm(placement committee) others join the various technical societies in college in the hope that a certificate from them will smooth the entire process of getting into a top level college.

Now i was starting to feel out of the race and the weirdness was growing around me so i enrolled myself into a CAT class simply because everyone else was doing it(i still had no idea how to get the certificates tho). On the first day of class i was asked to give an 'assessment exam' to help me determine which sections should i focus on. After an almost 3 hour exam an assessment was carried out during which i was categorically told that i would clear CAT ...IF AND ONLY IF the Indian cricket team managed to win the world cup, and that i should maybe consider tobacco or poppy farming as a career option(considering the recent slump in salaries of the MBA's....i actually like the idea now). I eventually did join a "crash course" and took the CAT .....turns out the class people were right there's no way in hell am i clearing it EVER!!!
Of course unless the Indian team works its magic :D