Dear you,
I
hope that this letter finds you happiness and good health. As for me, I am
content, well complacent is more apt. College is proving to be more interesting
by the day. Its been two years in this jungle driven by hormones -good and bad
ones if you know what I mean. This place reminds me of the Disney movies on
high schools /cliques and groups. Everyone desperately trying to fit in. I
guess it is the same everywhere but it is more pronounced in colleges as
everyone is trying to find their niche in this big bad world. Don’t mind my
being a melodramatic queen- college is a forest with its own set of tribes-
jocks, dancers, geeks, nerds, musicmen, language groups(this is where we have
an added group being in India- golutis, the tamils, oddus, Bengalis,
rajathanis… being in India does add diversity)…. And last but not the least the
misfits. Each group are different from each other and have their own
characteristic, customs and lifecycle. Think of each as a separate tribe to
simplify my droning.
Tribe ball-players- (I'm not perverted!) Well they are the jocks whose average day includes practice early mornings and into the late nights. They mostly very out-going and one of the chilled group. But they aren't exactly dumb but sometimes one of the brightest. And they don't rule the college as in the movies but one of the most popular in college.
Tribe book hogs- Or typically known as nerds. Do not confuse them with geeks. They are mostly first benchers and their idea of a perfect weekends include only the library. They don't miss a word uttered by the professors and could even be sycophantic in extreme cases. They well in simple terms look down on people and can't understand why the others won't study everyday like they should. I would say this the most alienated tribe. But beware they don't have kinship amongst them always. They consider their own as competition to be ruled out.
Tribe Gizmos- Well the name comes so as that is one thing they love. They are commonly known as the geeks. But in reality or at least in my college, they are the cool people. They are the ones in the "cool" tech clubs talking about tech stuff and yada yada yada. They are fun to be with and surprisingly the most social. They include the born geniuses and pretend geniuses. Don't let them intimidate you though.
Tribe artseez- Not such a cool name (I know :P) Well they would consist of the dancers, theatrists people, musicians and artists: each a sub group by itself. They believe they have special talent. But maybe they do, but they also believe that entitles them to special treatment. They a close knit group. But mind you the dancers don't get along with the musicmen and so on and so forth as each consider their own art to be the most sacred. They dedicate most of their college life to practicing their art to perfection and displaying it across the southern peninsula in different stages.
Well, by now even I am getting bored of my exaggerated narrative. Why am I doing this you may ask.... the answer to that would be to tell you that I belong to none of the above mentioned and many other tribes I haven't mentioned here. I belong to the special group of misfits. And I am happy about it! It helps me get an overall unbiased perspective of all that happens in my college. I have no peer pressure to act or be a certain way. I am the queen of my world(no, I don't own a tiara!) The misfits are more common than you think. They aren't lost about who they are if that is what you are thinking. They definitely do know what they are not. That means there are infinite other things they can be. If you ask me "Misfit" is the thing to be.... Its much more fun to find out where you fit in the whole puzzle.
I hereby now free you from me and my thoughts.
Until next time,
Love,
The happy college misfit
