End of First year!

So in no time, the first year of my great college life has come to an end.Seriously, the year got over quite quickly. It seems just like yesterday, when we joined the college. As expected the seniors ragged us (but not very severely). We have to call our seniors 'sirs'(or 'mams').
And now, suddenly we have graduated to the title of 'sirs'. Now we are eagerly(or wickedly) awaiting for the fresh batch of 'freshers' to come.
The college has been great.
In first sem, first year students were divided into various classes branch wise and then roll no wise. Akhil and I were in different classes. Akhil had some Electronics students also in his batch. Luckily he had Varun and Rishik(both in DCE ECE then and before with us in the same class in school with him). I made a number of new friends in college. I met sidharth, nipun, rahul and many more.
In second sem, COE(computer engineering) students were again distributed into 2 batches of 45 students each (Akhil and me being in different ones :)). This is when akhil and i had the group with which we generally hang-out now. We had Mohit, Dheeraj, Varun, Sidharth, Nipun, Rishik, Ishan Bose, Mayank Kapoor in our group. Also we had Troika '08(the annual technical fest of DCE) in this sem. Troika was a great fun. We were also involved in Mission ADR in our first year. This enabled us to take part in the 'Paper Presentation Competition' in my first year itself. In fact we took part in various competitions in Troika and luckilly even won some :).
We came second in the 'Hardware Conceptualisation' competition and 'Linux' Challenge. We were third in 'Bots', the AI challenge and 'Bits', the On-the-spot Programming contest. We had earlier won the pre-Troika Bits contest and earlier in first sem, the Programming competition during the IEEE thursday events as well. This gave us the excellent opportunity to meet the seniors also which later on turned out to be a great edge. We later on made our 'Team Phenom' for the ACM ICPC contest with our next year senior Ujjwal Dasgupta(I might give details about the contest in a subsequent post).
Overall, the year turned out to be fabulous. We met new people,made friends, learnt a lot new things and got some achievements under our belt too. And yes, i came first in my Department in Second sem scoring a whopping 84%. This was the first time in my life that i bagged the first position. I was amongst the Top 3 in my batch in school in XIth class, which in itself was a great feeling. But the feeling of getting the first position was something just out of this world. I had earlier in school got highest marks in one or two subjects but my overall rank was never 'one'. This was just the best thing which could have happened to me. My overall Depatment Rank(DR) after first year was 2!
Of course, the transition from school to college was great. We have a lot more freedom here, alot more decision making about what to do, when to do and even how to do. We decide on our Time management and many times have to decide about making a choice between two things.
These are some experiences which we never had in our school.
First year of college would always be memorable to me.