My First year in NITT.....!!

AIEEE result came as much of a surprise to me when i found that i've ended up with sumthing much better than wht i had expected in my worst nightmares..!!
A Gateway Straight into one of the top engg. colleges of the country...!!... An opportunity to study among the breed of some of the best brains of the country...
Although i regretted about not getting into the IITs...

but still... With all this on mah my mind, i took admission in NIT trichy, Mechanical Engg (which soon slided to Elec. n Elex. engg.).... but who knew... what more surprises fate had for me...

Going to the college.... was the very first time i travelled in train for complete 2 days!!
Initially, coming to this tambiland seemed no less than coming to some terrible place in Africa!!... BUT i was mistaking somewhr...
With people speaking tamil, i felt no more than an illiterate...!!
Then was the first day of college... class at 10 a.m. I reached the class 10 mins. before the time (for the first and the last time) jus not to take any risks on the very first day.
but for the very second lecture.. the teacher was absent..!!... 'what a college!!' i thought...
Anyways... it all got over...
A very good thing over here was finding new frends all ranging from "Kashmir to Kanyakumari.."!! in a single hostel... Its a great opportunity to learn about different cultures and diff. ppl...!!

There were ppl coming from the some unknown villages of rajasthan with Awesome AIEEE ranks to ppl frm Metro cities like delhi and bombay...and many Tambis from chennai...

The best experience was to come around with NRIs... The simple way to distinguish them was, a guy speaking every sentence starting with that 'f' word... seemed surprising initially but very soon we all got accustomed. ..

With 4 roomates, you could hardly think of anything like home-sickness...

Infact i was scolded by mom many a times for forgetting to call her, with such a busy schedule in first year... [ hey!! i donn mean studies... ;).. they are hardly a part of daily schedule..!! except for ppl better known as 'muggers'..]

Waking up at 8.15 and then running out to get the attendance for 8.30 class, soon became a normal thing... for guys who woke up in the nite till 4....

And then too... thrown out off the class many a times for coming tooooooooooooo late... (or better called by the teacher as "coming too early for the next lecture.. :D.." )....

And then begging someone inside... to give a proxy... thanks to sunil for giving me so many valuable proxies... and saving me...!!!! [:-D]

The worst part was, being thrown out... after being caught sleeping in the class... :-(...
i still imagine how others were able to keep their eyes open in those CHAAT, and DEADLY lects... !

But still somehow managing all this to maintain the minimum attendance required was the "Main Aim".

{the pic shows my first year classmates}
Washing clothes and many such things were first timers for many guys here....(Thanx to mom!! for teaching me all these things at the home itself... )...

Apart from all these, were interaction parties specially for first years... where you get to meet, "maals of first year..."... ;)...

But beware if its your b'day.... and be ready to get your ass f****d up... with those Hard bumps as the BEST b'day gift @ midnight.....

Then came the First cycle tests... alongwith "niteouts" (waking up almost the whole nite either to comple ED assignments or to mug up for tests)... to somehow complete.... the vast syallabus... and still ending up with... most of it left untouched... :-S...

Time passed very fast except during xams...

well, I am not going to write here anything bout the results .. :D.. for obvious reasons... ;-)

The end sems brought happiness (about going home on holidays) "magneticallly coupled" with some bad memories of life... about the xams ofcourse...

But, after that, going home for 15 days semester break... was fultoo fun time at home... :-)

The second sem. passed very soon... but with much more fun and enjoyment... and with events like Pragyan (college's tech fest) and NITTFEST (inter - deptt. fest) it is the time when you really get to know the big difference in colllege and school life...!!
And "Section Dhamaka" (inter-section cultz n litz event for 1st yrs.), awakening that competitive spirit in all of us..... I still remember the enthu we all had for preparations and when my dance partner got irritated with my idiotic dance steps... :-D... But still somehow she taught me... and we ended up with a much better performance than i could expect...

And yea... how can i forget the freshers party... and even FTR (final touch of raggin... )... !!

The life after freshy was damn cool... much more than we could think of..

catching seniors for treats and getting fundas from them was gr8...

Then came farewell for Final years... with their senti emotions about college and their 4 years in NITT...

Now "niteout" in octa (Octagon computer centre of coll.) was also added to 'its definition', sitting in AC while orkutting and doing some other stupid things on net... It soon became the "real home" for many guys...

First year life is something i can never forget... never... :-)