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Of Acronyms, Pranks and Silliness

In our uneven and bumpy ride through college life, there have been several occasions that have tested our patience, our sanity, our levels of endurance, our sense of humor (or lack of one) and our ability to stay united for a cause big or trivial. There have also been instances where one among us has stood up to stage a spirited soliloquy of sorts, say perhaps to question the harmless yet annoying ribbing of a professor (this professor for some reason found humour in always ending her sentence with a rhetorical question that suffixed a particular classmate’s roll number, for eg, “ This seems an interesting way to design the kitchen, eh roll no 23!”, “You people look bored, eh roll no 23 ”, until one fine day he decided enough was enough and confronted her on her aforesaid unnecessary practice. She too a master of words, tried to charm her way out of it, however the lone warrior was determined not to give in. She finally receded realizing that to lock horns with a disgruntled arke