Adieu

Today, we gave our seniors, the first batch of IIT Bhubaneswar, a warm farewell. Nah!! Not seniors.. Friends! The relation that we, and especially me, had with them never had a tint of senior-junior feeling. The three years that I spent here are the most amazing days of my life and they were there in every frame of it.

Be it working for fests, masti during Diwali, Holi, or Litsoc meetings (read it as parties) at CCD, I can hardly recollect any incident of which they weren't a part of.

No one would disagree if I say that the first batch of IIT Bbsr is the most awesome batch this IIT has seen till now. Wonderful, weird, cheerful, dramatic, enigmatic, adorable, admirable. Name a personality and you can find a person that best suits it.The three years here was a roller coaster ride and they took onus in guiding IIT Bbsr throughout the journey. In the maiden editions of  both cultural and techno-management fests, they managed to put up a grand show and honestly, we couldn't reach that level. Let me not blow their trumpets anymore. Not that I don't like to. But because of the long list of commendable initiatives by them. 

I never knew bidding someone adieu would be this hard! We will miss being together but definitely cherish these memories forever.And a sudden realization dawned upon me now. They are getting out of this place a year before us! I now envy them :P. 

A random day with a bit of quaking and quacking.

A sleep of 8 hours isn't quite sufficient.  I wake up at 7.00 A.M  and  Rosa (my junior) comes crying "Akka! Please help!", with a pitiable face and a fat ugly book of electronics. Poor girl! She is from civil engineering and is struggling with an interdepartmental course on Basic Electronics and has a lab test and Viva today. Our professors, as usual, taught the entire electronics course from diodes to Integrated circuits in 3 months. Did they forget the definition of "Basic" or just ignored it?? She asks (or rather shouts at) me "Why the hell should I know what is inside a chip?". Huh..Its okay Sweetie, I understand your agony. Three years of mundane life in Electrical Engineering has squeezed out the last ounce of interest on engineering from me. She asks me a few doubts and I tried to clear some so that she can at least confront the professor with confidence. After a few minutes of repenting my choice of electrical engineering, I unwillingly got out of my bed and made up my mind to go to college.

Somehow, I didn't feel like attending classes. But the lack of campus, an important part of college life (or can you say life?), left me with no other choice but sitting in the class room. After three hours of lectures,I got a nice treat in Dominos for no reason and these are a few times when I get reassured there is still life here. There was a little part of me dying  to bunk and it did not let my soul rest in peace in the class room. So, I got back to hostel and dozed off for a while.

Suddenly, the cot starts vibrating! Wait, am I just dreaming or is it a quake?.. Ohhk, Let me sleep for some time and sort it out later. Yeah, I know!  Heights of Laziness!! My flat mate comes and tries to pull me out of my bed but in vain. I mumble, "Dear Earth, its not everyday that I bunk lectures and peacefully doze. So, please stop your quacking and quaking .. Peace maar!". But the tremors wouldn't stop.. This is when I open my lappy and start venting out my frustaapa in words. 

As I write this, there is a discussion going on in the flat about Tsunami alerts and earth quakes in several places. Thank God, I am not in Indonesia..What with my love for peaceful sleep and regular earthquakes shaking my cot every now and then??? I remember my professor telling sometime back about earthquake prediction techniques and also my sarcastic comment, "And now he wants to prophesy too!". But that is actually a good idea! With accurate prediction methods, not only will the lives of millions be saved, my invaluable sleep too would be unperturbed... 

Sigh!!
And now the topic of discussion shifts from tremors to tests. God! Why do they need to test our ability of last minute mugging every two months??? Two weeks for the disastrous semester to end and I am still waiting for the night before exams. I now need a question paper prediction device too! :P

WHAT IF???

Hello fellas!

So, here I am! Finally started another blog ,after deleting a couple of blogs left unattended for a long long time. But it is not going to happen again.  I promise! :P .. Anyways let me get on with this post. Ohh! Before that l sincerely (:P) thank Mr.Kaypee for giving me the impetus to write again.

There is a huge list of things boggling in my mind right now. I sit and comprehend on what I am up to and start pondering if I am doing the right thing. I guess this part of my life is called confusion.

I know that doing what I believe will never let me down. But what if it does? What if it doesn’t always work out the way I think it would? Will I repent for starting out as an amateur and not following the so-called standard norms?

But again there is always a negation. What if my passion guides me through my journey?? What if all the odds turn in favour??  What if I can prove that there is nothing called a systematic procedure?? What if ?!!!

Whoa …the two words “What” and “if”, put together make so much sense to me now.... :)