Being a lecturer is something but being a 24 year old lecturer(according to me) is completely another.

As a student now, I am surprised at myself when I look back at what I was then. One thing that is still etched in my mind is my schoolmates heartfelt opinion(which he expressed loudly to his fiancee) that I was still a kid and wearing sarees. I had got so used to wearing sarees to work that I had started wearing them even at home on festival days.

 The  first batch of students I taught is special to me. It is special for me because I had a very good time. I had a good time because everything seemed to be working in my favour. Here’s one of my best moments with them:

” The first international T20 series in cricket(In which India won) had just ended the previous day with India winning the Finals in a nail-biting match against Pakistan.

 If I had to explain further, it was because of Sreesanth’s catch that  India won the cup.If not for Sreesanth, the ball would have gone for a six and turned the match to Pakisthan’s favour.  That was the time when Shahrukh Khan was revelling in his success after “Chak de India” and had come to cheer the team.

Back to college, internals was over a couple of days before and I had finished correcting all the papers and found that my students of IS class had not come close to performing to my expectation inspite of a lot of important questions being given before the test and revisions.

When I went to class the morning after the T20 finals, I asked all the students who had watched the match the previous day to raise their hands. Almost the whole class lifted their hands in the Euphoria of having watched the match. Then I asked them the match changing moment and told them that they are the Sreesanths who don’t catch the ball because they got distracted looking at Shahukh Khan. To my surprise , the whole class laughed and clapped at this analogy. 

The point I was trying to drive across to them was that they were not focused and that could make a lot of difference.

This for some reason is one of my best moments(of many)  as a lecturer. These are the moments that make me feel that I would not trade that experience for anything else.