Here we were fresh into college. The first semester. It was a class of 80-85 (I still haven't bothered to count...you can't blame me coz people still pop in and out courtesy the added rounds the CCB came up with) with 18 girls(Yeah, I counted that...Duh!). When it came to the class with the most balanced sex ratio, we figured on the top. 3:1 was incredible when it came to NITK standards. Girls are an endangered species here and good looking girls....don't bother. Spotting a dodo seemed easier. And even if there were any, they were for the seniors who were as deprived of the female species as us or prolly even more. In fact, AIEEE heralded in the max no. of girls this time as compared to previous years. Call it good luck or bad luck(more girls meant the lower your GPA would sink), the first sem kicked off.....
We began with the physics cycle, the so called chilled out cycle. Within the first week, we were called by our seniors for the ritual that never dies off at college. They call it orientation to the college, we call it paedophilacy (gotta check if that word exists). Ragging ranged from grinding your batch mate (guys obviously) to giving your intro in Hindi to a dog/bitch (we had to figure that out first before addressing it...ew). And could someone please tell me what National Institute of Technology translates to in Hindi. Btw, dogs are the chowkidars of the college. They are in the hostel blocks, the canteen, our beloved Amul...they don't spare anything. I once opened the toilet door to find a dog squatting rather sleeping on the bathroom floor.
The SBI atm was one of our favourite haunts in the first 2 weeks. One...because it fed our pockets, two...because it was the only other place with an ac leaving the directorate's office which definitely doesn't get categorized under hangout arenas. Even if the ATM never worked(which was the case most of the time), the ac always did.
The ATB, where classes for first years are held is four storeys high and duh, my luck dude (after all you aren't born on Friday the 13th) our class was on the topmost floor with a big fat honeycomb guarding the window lest any of us should try jumping. Every morning we religiously began our trek to the class. We would be off our beds at 7.45 and bingo! we were at classes dot 8. Ofcourse our EC prof was always there to make our lives so much worth living. His half attendance was the most dreaded thing and i think it still is. He Who Must Not Be Named had the first hour on Wednesdays and consequently I needed 5+ alarms for that morning. Physics was the free attendance period where we could take the max no. of proxies and yet have a 100% attendance thanks to his sign your own attendance method. Computer Science was everyone's favourite period not only because we had a just finished B.Tech female teacher but also she was also a lot of fun. She was just like one of us. She's the only teacher in my phonebook /*wink*/. Maths and mech always used to compete to be the most boring subjects. I still can't decide which one is the victor. But, all in all the classes weren't that bad and I was already enjoying college by the first week.
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