- Being on time for college bus
- Waiting at the bus stop ( Bus time varies from 9:05 am to 9:25 am )
- Teasing A at the bus-stop ( I'm gonna miss the time spent with her in campus too :( )
- Reading newspaper/ lab records/ class notes frantically in the bus
- Waiting for 15 minutes at traffic signals while on the bus
- Arriving at the campus 30 minutes before classes ( Yeah, go ahead and say I don't have a life :P )
- Getting into the Central Library for issue/ re-issue/ return of books that I never read :D :P
- Whiling away time in the digital library ( I do not go there to research, I go there for AC environment ) :D
- Roaming through racks of books in the library/reference section
- Reading "Midnight's Children" , " Discovery of India" , etc when there is a test in the next hour
- Reaching the class sharp at 10 am
- Being the only one in class ( very often ) when the teacher enters
- Branded as "nerdy villain" due to the above [12]
- Seeming to pay attention while listening nothing at all
- Sleeping in class with eyes wide open
- Throwing questions at the teacher while still in sleep
- Waiting for the class to get over asap
- Scribbling notes along with so many other thoughts
- Writing poems on the last page of the notebook
- Attending 4 classes at a stretch and secretly cursing the last lecturer
- Cursing anyone who asks "doubts"
- Getting shocked at the announcement of assignment submission dates/test deadlines
- Making a beeline at "Book Island" for "xerox"
- Listening to "Aye Janicha ? ", "Hey Bhagooo !"
- Madhu Babu jokes :D :P :D
- Sitting next to the greats - DJ, KTB and P2
- Watching A,A and S- the first benchers - all 3 of them are madly scribbling EVERY word out of the lecturer's mouth
- Carrying an almost tattered red-black bag to class ( Its my lucky bag :P )
- Girly gossips :D :P
- Receiving exam/assignment notification/solution on Facebook
- Attending "surprise quiz tests"
- Completing assignments JIT
- Food @ Monginis'
- Canteen ka veg chowmein , dosa , meals ( yuck !)
- Throwing money at Food Court, Flavours
- Talking about hometown while waiting for turn to take THE grand viva.
- Having no clue about study stuff yet nodding in affirmation confidently
- Meeting project mentor ( Pain in the...you know where :| )
- Panic calls when exam dates are out
- Answering juniors' queries like " Where are you placed ? " , "What's your CGPA ? " ( Our juniors are one of their kind )
- Fumbling while answering questions asked by 3rd years on polar plot, Nyquist plot and such stuff
- Visiting Prof's chamber aka "matchstick box-rooms"
- Spending sleepless nights when your subjects,records,assignments, project - everything is half-done
- Staring at lab apparatus as if they were some UFO
- Getting frustrated when the "straight line graph" turns out to be a "curve"
- Hitting the lab instruments out of sheer anger
- Completing records, graphs, etc during submission period
- Wondering whether the stator or rotor is located on the outer surface of the motor ( 1st sem labs :P )
- Giving path-breaking theory ( read : Bluffmaster's Special ) while appearing a viva- exam
- Waiting for programs to be shared on common folder before the lab class is over
- Having laughter sessions during 3 hour long lab sessions
- Discussing about "What happens @ IIT/ NIT ? " when we are still at ITER :P
- Giving presentation / seminar without any clue about the whys/hows/ifs/buts.
- Sleeping in the semi-dark seminar hall while the session goes full-on
- Clapping wildly for your friend when (s)he talks absolute crap
- Splurging hundreds of currency notes @ Arya World 2 to make "attractive" seminar reports
- Mimic-ing all the teachers - the good, the bad and the ugly
- Calling every teaching element as "Mastra" ( and naming them for life. Same applies to some not-so-friendly classmates . Don't mind, we have fun that way :D ).
- Asking DJ for a sip from her water bottle
- On certain blue moons, coming to the class at 10:35 am and still getting an entry :D :D
- Classes getting cancelled :bliss:
- Strikes : argh !!! :
- Taking part in Tech-fest and losing every competition ( I believe in "Participation matters ! " ) Whatever !
- Frantically searching for a "crush-free salwar-kameez-dupatta set " every morning.
- Getting awesome compliments from random people "You've great, straight hair".
- Chatting with your pals in class,during breaks, on gtalk ( till midnight )
- " We've talked about that hero that year" - saying this to your closest classmates.
- Playing "Name-Place-Animal-Thing"/Dumb charades in DSP classes sitting in the front row.
- Learning at least one subject every semester in a day ( That day is invariably the night before the exam ).
- Managing to listen to the teacher even though the whole class shouts/ plays music.
- Getting branded as "the most indisciplined branch" by the entire faculty - cutting across departments
- Dreading Environmental Engineering classes.
- Completing the last module of every subject in 1-3 hours.
- Wondering why I got a D/P grade when I had aced that paper.
- Wondering who on earth gave you an "Excellent" grade when you just expected to pass in that paper.
- Rudely awakened from an afternoon nap in June with a call "Even sem results out !"
- A great January evening spoilt by an announcement "Odd sem results out !"
- Pass lists an hour before actual results :P
- Not getting placed in any biggie :|
- Getting placed in TCS with 402 other people
- Wondering if you would have fared worse in that entrance exam and taken up Mechanical Engineering instead, at least you could sit for 2/3/4 companies of your domain :P :D
- Abusing teachers on Facebook : therapeutic :
- Finding your lecturers on Orkut :D :P
- Getting shocked when you have attendance shortage and its on public domain :O :O
- Getting a secret pleasure when a teacher walks out of the class - after blasting the whole class on discipline
- The same teacher in [85] entering the class with a smile the very next day.
- Meeting classmates at some random competitive exam and jabbering away all the time.
- Talking to your single girl pals about the dearth of "boyfriend material guys" in campus vicinity.
- Teasing non-single souls about their better halves.
- Drooling over "that HR" whose company didn't offer you a job :blush blush :
- Waiting till 12 midnight without food/ water/roof/ warm clothes ( in December) to get the news "You're placed !"
- Attending a company's campus selection process very well knowing that you would never join it :P ( Crazy-ness personified )
- Coming home after spending a night at girls' hostel ( I'm a day scholar ).
- Eating Maggi from a plate shared by 6 other girls ( I remember the warm feeling that night. )
- Listening to Mamma saying " Don't you have to study during B.Tech ? "
- Going to college and coming back with your cute lil' sis ( almost everyday ).
- Going to college, having one class and blowing away rest of the classes due to arbit reasons or no reasons at all.
- Seeing a junior faculty being rebuked/slighted by a senior faculty :P ( Awesome-ness :D )
- Surprising most classmates by attending a DJ night at the end of 4 years ( Slipping away before the dance starts though - Cinderella style - Sadly no princes are involved :P )
- Making lists like this a day before the last/final end-sems.
A s I was walking , C hoosing the hues of life, R ainclouds made an appearance O n the sunny sky above. S cuttling through untrodden paths, T he narrow bylanes,not a soul around, I was indeed lost - Drops of rain C hased me - but Ahoy! a way was found. P.S. :My first attempt on acrostic poetry.Hope my readers will like it. To know more about acrostics,click the link given. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic
Comments
awesome list nerdy villian :P
Even people do the same things at NITs. Though i have never issued a book from the library in the last 2 years. :)
Reading this makes me want to read your blog, I mean all of it! :D
I'mma go do that now!
I sure am :P
LOL...There is explicit mention of boys and men in - 88 [ there weren't any guys of "my types" :cry: ] and 90 ( A harsh,useless but CUTE HR guy :heartbroken: :P ). So this ain't a sham list :D
:D I guess you've cleared your doubts now :D
That's great :) waiting to read your list :) soon :)
Hmmm...good old days :)
:P I guess it happens everywhere in India :)
Hey ! Thanks :) Read through :) I hope you'll enjoy it.
Those were the day the Golden days of life ...
Bikram's
Yes...hopefully.
Gee...Thanks :)
when i read points 71, 85, 86, i felt as if u were talking about my class :P :D
Loved reading this list. It really made me nostalgic.
:) Yeah,those were the fun days :)