De Brevitate Vitae - The Shortness of Life

Ok this is a song sung at university convocations mostly. Though the students sing it as a beer song. I found it the latter too. And quite good too so couldn't refrain from posting it.

Latin - English


Gaudeamus igitur - Let us rejoice therefore

Juvenes dum sumus - While we are young
Post jucundum juventutem - After a pleasant youth
Post molestam senectutem - After the troubles of old age
Nos habebit humus. - The earth will have us.

Ubi sunt qui ante nos - Where are they
n mundo fuere? - Who were in the world before us?
Vadite ad superos - Go up to heaven
Transite in inferos - Or cross over into hell
Hos si vis videre. - If you wish to see them.

Vita nostra brevis est - Our life is brief
Brevi finietur. - It will be finished all too soon.
Venit mors velociter - Death comes quickly
Rapit nos atrociter - We are cruelly snatched away.
Nemini parcetur. - No one is spared.

Vivat academia! - Long live the academy!
Vivant professores! - Long live the teachers!
Vivat membrum quodlibet - Long live each student!
Vivant membra quaelibet - Long live all the students!
Semper sint in flore. - May they always flourish!

Vivant omnes virgins - Long live the virgins
Faciles, formosae. - Easy and beautiful!
Vivant et mulieres - Long live mature women also,
Tenerae amabiles - Tender and lovable
Bonae laboriosae. - And full of good labor.

Vivant et res publica - Long live the state as well
et qui illam regit. - And those who rule it!
Vivat nostra civitas, - Long live our city
Maecenatum caritas - And the charity of benefactors
Quae nos hic protegit. - Which protects us here!

Pereat tristitia, - Let sadness perish!
Pereant osores. - Let haters perish!
Pereat diabolus, - Let the devil perish!
Quivis antiburschius - Let whoever is anti-student
Atque irrisores. - Who laughs at us, perish!



Oh and by the way this song is a hymn by Strada - Bishop of Bologna (Italy) in 1267

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I remember

I remember when i was a kid we used to play this game, in the college pool.
Who would dive, touch the bottom and get up the fastest to the surface.
I remember I used to cheat. I never would touch the bottom, go only half the way and then tried to come back to the surface fast !
I always lost.

I was surprised. Though a hopeless swimmer, I used to be good at this games , find the coin, catch the pebble etc. Or maybe I used the play these games all the time,thats why I was hopeless swimmer. But I couldn't learn one important thing from his little game.

I remember in my first year I saw my friend Ashutosh go through a real bad time. He had a fight with his friends, his love life went awry, his grades were down in the dumps.
And then, I saw his meteoritic rise. He consistently scored more than 70 % , lost oodles of weight, went from a meager 60 percentile in mock cats to a dizzying 97 percentile in CAT 2006. He maybe never had it so good. But I couldn't pick a simple clue from his life.

And the that one small thing was -

You can't rise up until you've hit the bottom

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