First few memories of college

The beginning of the College life, with the monsoon hovering and thundering in the sky showering tiny drops of chilled water, and with all the greenery on the earth appears quite magical, quite sensational and magnificently beautiful. The campus was the best thing I have ever seen, with neatly organized buildings and their structure, twisting and turning pathways like a huge mesh of bulgy earthworms, spreading all over the campus, greenery all over the space loaded with different colored flowers. Above all - all engineering student’s heaven: OUR HOSTEL. Resembling a giant fish in its shape, our hostel was an work of art with all the comforts students require. Well it’s a totally different matter what the requirements from the student prospective means. The DA-IICT canteen was in itself totally different section of the campus, popularly known as the “FOOD-COURT”. First time you see it, and I can bet you will feel like being in a restaurant. There are 5-6 canteen counters in the Food-Court. There is no mess system in DA-IICT and its more like – “pay and eat”. The real problem we have today is to decide what to eat given so much variety in food. So, with much enthusiasm and amusement the college life begins. Seen and heard so much about the college life that I was dying to experience it. Being a part of an institution like daiict was like a dream come true.

The wonderful college began with all the hopes and desires at their peak in Lecture Theater-2. Most of the fantasies about the college life, we usually see in movies so the desires and aspirations was usually high. Geeky profs, cool and hot chicks in their micro minis or jeans, (salwar-suits and clothing covering everything is strictly prohibited), gang of friends messing everything in the college and unlimited fun. If I am not wrong most of us would have definitely hoped of dancing with chicks, in the college campus like our hunk heroes do in hindi cinema. Me to was not out of league of this and quickly realized its not gonna be like that. But, being an optimist had some faith in my luck and God that if not this something else could definitely be done. The lecture theaters are like the movie theaters with a screen in the front and with a capacity of 300 students at once.

Looks cool but believe me it SUCKS. However cool and enormous it appears it’s the worst place of whole campus. And in weeks we (most of students) learned the art of bunking the lecture, proxying while attendance and sleeping with our eye half-opened, just enough so that the profs don’t through us out of the class. Many profs that we have got are very kind hearted and understood our positions and problems and didn’t uttered a single word even when we had fall slept on the front benches. They understood the pains the students take to come to their boring and monotonous lecture at 8:30 AM, with barely 3-4 hrs of sleep.

During the first few days went without much happening and with only introductions of everything. New friends, new place, a totally different environment and with a quest to committed. In the initial days I scanned through the girls of our batch and to much of my disappointment they are in vast minority and grotesquely distorted. Very few pieces can be classified as chicks with lot of modification and adjustments of the terminology. I being a very shy person find it very odd to go and talk to them. Especially one to whom you want to talk is surrounded by many who cant be termed as girls.

During the initial days the whole batch was divided into four groups of 60 each. We all attend lectures all together buts our labs and tuts occur batch wise. Luckily some of the hoties came I my match and I thank God a lot because I can’t imagine what I would have done, if they were not in my group.