The fifth term

The term is finally nearing its end. G talk status messages are changing everyday indicating the number of days left before most of us are done with our student lives. Post placements no one is under any kind of pressure and many have even gone to the extent of telling the professors that passing us is their headache now.
But you can count upon the quizzes to spoil the party. Not to forget the submissions and the presentations and the readings. Hell, can’t we get rid of them? The teachers while acknowledging the fact that teaching in the fifth term is the toughest of it all grab at every opportunity for screwing us.
I remember what one of our profs told us on the first day of this term-“Till mid term you won’t study anything because, you will study for the placements. Post mid term you won’t study anything because, by then you will have been placed.” And the obedient participants that we are, we are hell bent on making his prophecy come true. But this does not deter him or any other of his ilk from loading us with assignments, presentations and God knows what. In fact that’s how I spent Valentines’ Day, making two presentations, four hours from each other. It is a different matter that I don’t have any one in my life whom I’d have spent the day with. But Valentines’ day was a Sunday, goddamnit. I would have spent it with myself. But…..well rest is all history.
Things got to real pass today. We had two quizzes. Imagine! Two goddamn quizzes one of them being a surprise (shock) quiz, that too in the fifth term! The teachers are now down to testing our patience. I, in fact all of us are tired of repeating the same thing to the teachers over and over again, that it is the fifth term and we don’t, as a rule, study anything. But then, who the fuck listens to us?
An assignment waits to be submitted the day after, which I am yet to begin typing and we have a quiz tomorrow, which I am yet to start studying for. I have never been so shameless as far as studies go. Though I have always been an average student, I have been serious with my studies. Especially so, in this well known institute of management in western India, irrespective of the fact that I have consistently maintained a place among the bottom fifteen in the class. But it seems, things are changing. It is the fifth term you see!