Night of Submission!

I hate to recall those days, not because they were terrible but those are the treasured moments which i have lost forever and no matter what i attain in life it’s going to be really difficult to bring them back. Yeah, I am talking about the college life and "Engineering College Life in Particular". Theres so much to write about my entire college life [boat club, shopping, movies, cricket matches, overnight hostel stay, girls and (of course) studies...] - Ill have to write and entire book to summarize those wonderful four years : But for now I would love to focus on the one night in Third year Engineering when we were hell bent upon completing our design submission! No matter what , we always waited till the last moment to complete the submission work. However this time we were caught on the wrong foot as the work involved 2 full size A0 sheets of drawing assignment! Worst still very few of us had the idea on how to do it. We were 22 in the class , the submission was tomorrow morning and today at 5:30 we have decide to meet in the hostel, and this is how we went about it.
We started by dividing ourselves into two hostel rooms. Laid out our dwg sheets on dwg boards and locatedour drawing boards on whatevr feasible locations we could- Chairs, bed, tables [ the lucky ones] , buckets or floor as the last resort. Then some of us who had figured out the scheme took the lead and started carving. The others decided to follow blindly. 2- 3 guys were totally absent from the scene. They promised that once we were done they'll take just an hour to Glass trace it. So the authors had started and the rest had started to follow suite. Using our scales, dividers, compasses to take dimensions from the leader’s dwg and reproducing the sheets. We were following blindly and the only objective was to get a complete sign on the following morning. Engineering drawings sheets can eat a hell lot of time depending on intricacies and we started to realise this was no piece of cake. With the sheet only half dome we decided to take the dinner break at 10.30 pm. When we resumed we only hoped that we got it done in time. Working tirelessly [and blindly, of course] we were done with the first sheet at 2.30 am. This is when we decided to get some Tea to keep awake. I joined KD and together we went to the Shivajinagar railway stn [ adj to hostel] to fetch some tea. On our way we saw a ghastly accident scene. [Earlier, around 1 am, we had heard a loud bang but dint care much]. An empty State transport Bus had rammed into a Light truck sending it off-road down the bridge. The truck was full of poultry and the impact had killed most of the chicken inside. We could see the people in the neighborhoods helping themselves with handful of birds. We returned with Tea and resumed the second drawing sheet. People in the adjacent hostel room were still lagging behind with the first sheet only half done. Most of them had given up hope of completing in time. We continued our second sheet till 5.30 am but it was still only 1/2 done. Here some of us started to take power naps but never resumed. Seeing them sleep others followed, we decided to quit and by 6.00 am everyone was sleeping in whatever space they cud manage. Some of them were fast asleep on the very tables they were drawing. Finally when we awoke we decided to buy some time from our professor. The professor thankfully obliged and we were given a grace time of one day. Completing the sheet after that was a piece of cake.
At last it was done! Whenever I look back at that night I cannot help but laugh at our misdemeanors – but that also reminds me how smart we were to get out of that mess!