After Effects Of The 1st Semester At GNLU As A Law Student

  1 semester old at the law school. Yet it feels only yesterday that the results came out for CLAT and I decided that it had to be GNLU. The reasons behind that were many. Few of them silly others werent reasons at all. The major reason behind joining GNLU was the gut feeling and now its been proved, atleast to me that the gut feeling is something that can be trusted. It can make your life. So now that I am back I reflect upon the life there and what I learn from my experience in GNLU.

Here we go-

1. Before coming to law school, all your guy friends would be very happy that they have a lawyer friend and will extract promises out of you to save their asses from rapes and murders that they are so sure they are going to commit. Talk about confidence in the future. Is law still the Sunny Deol in the court scene where there are two lawyers joking there way around and a judge looking as if he is asleep or more likely dead. GUYS SERIOUSLY, LAWYERS HAVE BETTER WORK TO DO THAN WHAT THEY SHOW IN BOLLYWOOD. Sorry but I am not fighting any of your imaginary rape cases.

2. Food is really precious and as mentioned by a senior, you might leave the mac book pro out in the open, but food stays locked inside the deepest and darkest areas of your cupboard. Food is really precious if its good, and in hostel any food thats not mess food is absolutely yummy. So whenever you get them it incites the entire hostel to conspire against you to take it away from you. So you learn to master the art of lying and keeping secrets.

3. If you are at GNLU then you start missing traffic. Especially if you are from places like Mumbai, Delhi or Bangalore then you actually start hating the empty streets. When was the last time you traveled 10 kms in 15 minutes. In Mumbaoi that happens only when.... It doesnt happen and I had never thought that I would miss traffic. But it happened I would do anything to get stuck in a traffic jam. Empty roads drive you crazy.

4. Keep accounts of the money that you spend daily, every 1 rupee coin, 2 rupees coin, 5 rupees coin, 10 rupees note, 20 rupees note, 50 rupees note, 100 rupees note, 500 rupees note, 1000 rupees note. Once you do this you realise its pointless and if people find out then they will either die laughing or will kill you for doing that. Spend as much as you want. Go bankrupt by the 15th of every month, but spend it on your friends. They will take care of the other 15 days of the month without counting the coins and notes that they spend on you.

5. Suddenly people back home want to discuss suits and civil and tort cases with you, though they have no idea what a civil case and absolutely alien to Tort. They think thats since you can discuss basic level stuff of their subjects they can do the same. If you count out English, which anyway sux to study then they absolutely cant discuss anything related to what you study in the Law School. And they make you feel that you actually know so much about the stuff from the other world.

6. The amount of study that you do on the last day and night can actually break all records or at least equal records, since you cant put in more than 24 hours of work in a day. Thats how my entire semester has passed and till now I am pretty happy with my scores. I guess its just a law school thing, last moment stuff works pretty well. But it takes you all the courage to shake off a week of slumber to put on the work your ass off mode.

7. Your clothes start changing colors, literally. It makes you appreciate the value of the house maid to no extent. How the hell do they manage to wash 100s of clothes and wash dishes and clean and sweep without a single cloth changing its color? Personally I am gonna ask her for the recipe of success tomorrow. Because every combination of time, surf and water has resulted in a disaster for me.

8. You start defying all the biological clocks possible. You sleep when the sun rises and dont wake up till its just risen. Yeah, basically you are sleep deprived. Its a real rarity and the best place to sleep is college when the classes are on. If you cant do that then you must seriously consider an alternate career before its too late. Because then either you die or you are too sincere for a law student.

9. You try your best to show off every where that you have profound knowledge of law even if you are a first semester student because you are soon going to receive an llb degree and there is a good chance that you have no idea what that stands for. But the point is its too much fun to show off your knowledge of statutes and random sections of random acts, most of it made up using whatever you know and converting it as per the situation and will.

10. If you are on a long distance relationship and you hear people tell you it wont work then believe them. Because if you do then you get to have a go again at dating some one new. But if you dont take that advice then just be proud that your relation is strong enough to handle the long distance. If you believe then it works. If you dont then it doesnt, so its totally your call and not an act of God.

11. Every piece of news fro outside world will shock you because inside the world of GNLU there is just not enough time to keep in touch with the world and you get detached to the outer world. facebook becomes the official news reporter and you get all the news off facebook rather than the usual news papers and news websites.

12. Suddenly you crave for the food that your mom makes and you think about it day and night at the lunch and dinner. And once you reach home after a semester you ask your mom to make that dish which she made the day you left and you had frowned at the last meal being so simple and nothing special.

13. If you are in the 1st semester and had expected to come to a class that was right out of Jefferey Archer's or John Grisham's books in which the classes are interactive with smart students back answering every question thrown at them, then you would be dissapointed. Because half the class would be asleep and the other half trying to stop themselves from falling asleep. And as for the lecturer, he/sh tries the best to put you to sleep, so there goes your interactive class.

14. Dont get too excited about field trips, its just the bus rides that are important. Try to catch up with maximum sleep during that time because an opportunity to sleep shouldnt be given up. And as for the field thing, you hardly see anything so no point in keeping your eyes and ears open, so just stay back in the bus and continue with the sleep. It would be the best utilization of time.

15. Make friends in the hostel. These will be the people who will be there in every aspect of your life at college and at hostel, when you pass and when you fail, when you are rich and when you are poor, when you are on a low or when you are high and later in your life as well. Thats the kind of friends you make in the hostel. So just find those special people and they ensure your journey remains smooth in the college.To put in simple words of a friend of mine, in the hostel the friendship goes to a new level.. Its like I am the best man at your marriage and you are the best man at mine.. 

Thats how simple or complex life seems inside and outside the college, and I say that though I am just 1 semester old. The best part of being a law student though are two of my favourite lines that I have been using over and over again, all the while laughing my head off while trying to keep a straight face.

1) Situation- I have wronged someone and he is angry. He rants at me and speaks of how the world is unfair to him.

Response- If you think that this is in any way unfair then let me explain.... You o round and round till he is so pissed that he has no idea what to do and he shouts.

Then you say- You actually have no legal grounds to prove what you are saying so yeah sure sue me in court. It will be tossed out before you could say "compensation"

2) Situation- You are pissed at someone who has wronged you or atleast you want to believe that the person has wronged you or maybe you just wanna have some fun.

Response- You know you have violated XYZ right of mine mentioned in XYZ article of XYZ act which can lead to XYZ amount as punitive damages and XYZ amount as exemplary damages and XYZ amount as XYZZZZZZZZ damages and trust me I will make it happen. So you can expect a legal notice from me and we will meet in court unless you want to change your mind. Last opportunity.. Take it or we meet in the court (The Supreme Court if the person is really lost already).

(All the XYZ's are the test of your creativity and thinking on your feet skills)

Signing Off

Buckchod

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