Hi Folks !

I am in the fourth year of my painstaking 5yr NLU course. If 5th yr gives everyone the creeps, the rueful fourth gives the jitters. "Rueful" ?? YES ! RUEFUL!

After 3  of your fun and frolicking years in Law school comes the fourth year with a wave of sorrow and regret. Sorrow- to some for leaving the law school and the friends; and to some for the stark realisation of the fact that you are getting old and the best days of your life will only remain as memories (however, i guess such people are few) Regret for apparent reasons: "I could have done well" which is mostly followed by a huge " SIGH..."

Usually the vacations preceding by the fourth year a great. Mine for one went amazingly well! It was like a summer course in introspection. I know a lot of my friends planning with great gusto their career paths, who, after mere 1 month of the beginning of the classes, get engulfed by fear and anxiety. All those bright and happy faces now sit in the corners of the classroom in a stupor of negative thoughts. 

With every new recruitment comes a wave of anxiety among the 4th yrs...(" Yes dear..i am happy that you got selected...look i am smiling my widest smile...but atleast be considerate of my feelings...what will happen to me!! )

Fourth year is like a purgatory you know, to cleanse all the sins of the previous years.