The longest year
By Nauman Mufti

Fourth year started with a class trip to Murree. Irfan Shami and his friends arranged the trip well. Although I did not go, when the trip was over I heard so many lively stories, saw so many gleeful pictures that I feel as if I had gone. For many days after the trip saw many people with a dreamy look perhaps still playing the video of the trip in their head.
It was also the year we were introduced to Forensic Medicine. We learnt about how to gather contact trace evidence and which poison did what to the human body. We also learnt that FJ girls would be coming to KE to do lab work at KE. My enthusiasm for the subject waned however after we attended an autopsy. The gruesome scene and the smell took away any excitement we may have felt about seeing the FJ girls who have come to witness the autopsy.
Although fourth year the least rigorous year academically in my opinion, the third professional exams were delayed by about four months. Suddenly we had a lot of time at our hands. If my memory serves me well Saeeduddin utilized this time by promptly getting married. I imagine people in hostels may have gone home. I stuck around at my Temple Road place. I spent my time playing Squash and Billiards at the Engineering University and playing Chess at home.
Mercifully, the third professionals were upon us. Soon we would be in our final year.