The Serpentine Lake

Hey folks! I am the famous Serpentine Lake in the campus of IIT Guwahati, Assam. An abode to thousands of IITians who after being drained off their gray cells in a nearly extinct examination called JEE are sent for a survival test to different places, one being Guwahati. After realizing the big fat lie which every coaching institute told to the JEE aspirants, that their life would be heaven, the IITians realize a greater truth, no girls ergo no life forget about heaven. Yeah it’s this “thing” amongst IITians to consider their campus comprising of only males and “non-males” but no females.

Anyways these conceptions are amongst the lesser mortals within the IITians. I befriend the “happening” and “dude” IITians who are the talk of the campus. Actually, when I was founded, about 17 years ago, I heard a divine voice which bestowed on me the pleasure of eavesdropping on the most famous couples formed out of near zero probabilities. Since then I have been enjoying, what the arts and commerce people would term as the, dullest, corniest, most geeky and dumbest couple conversations of all time. Nevertheless, I am very happy to be part of better amongst the worst. My friend lake near the library in front of NAC is frustrated of not having a name as well but that’s just the beginning of its miseries. Staying next to the library and in front of the lecture halls is the epitome of torture that it goes through, which I refuse to even imagine. I am really proud of being the lake with an island near a community hall, which only comes to life when HSS people celebrate something. Yeah even professors do use that community hall but well I mentioned about coming to life not going dead.

Yet, the best part is when that shining orange ball in the sky falls into my waters and extinguishes. That’s when I wake up. That’s when I clean my ears as well as I can and just wait and wait until two poor souls who know not that their conversation wouldn’t be private as they think it to be, come walking towards me. With the boys as desperate as they could be, I always get this vibe from them of searching the nearest possible bus stop shed with low lighting for obvious reasons. For the girls or well ahem…”non-males” it will be majority of the times about their life problems and retrospection. For some it is about losing weight as well but I always pray that such people can hear my friend SAC grounds call and go to the appropriate place because I give preferences to “you-know-who”. It’s really funny what the guys expect and what the girls actually come for. With all their college life expectations shattered into pieces I have great sympathies when even these expectations shatter. Anyways I hold them in high regards to at least manage to befriend their opposite sex. Yeah there are times when two souls are of the same sex as well but in this world of versatile possibilities we ought to respect personal choice. I don’t even blame them. What can one do with 1:10 girl:guy ratio and sometimes even worse.

So, now you know me better. The lake with an island or the couples lake call me whatever, I silently survive and wish for more couples each day, I proudly am the Serpentine Lake.