IIT-Madras

One of the best thing about living in a hostel is the bonds of friendships we develop during the course of time. These bonds are so strong that they tend to diminish the old ones. I am nearing my degree completion. It has been 5 years since I came here as a fresher. Things have changed for good, which I plan to write down after my thesis.

Hostel nights are the best part about our hostels. Check out the videos of previous hostel nights. Basically we write for each other, which is called (RG) Royal Garbage. I really don’t know what others have written for me because its not revealed before the event. Below is the RG I have written about my close friend, Toto, here.

The existence of NIFT has been a boon to IITians as they provide endless supply of forward looking and FRIENDS watching hot girls. Everyone seems to have benefited from this window of opportunity that Taramani gate opens for IITians. Toto is no exception but the only difference is that he tried to transgress the bounds of just NIFT and venture into other colleges. The result was that he had a healthy, romantically safe and adventurous relationship with a Bokaro ‘chick’ for 3 long years. But then the inevitable happened as that chick turned into hyena.

Stabbed on the back by his long term girl friend, he found solace in Art of living (AOL). The engagements in the AOL quenched every bit of remaining vengeance in him. Suddenly our man who used to spend 22 hours of the allotted 24 hours, per day, with girls was so embittered against the fairer sex that he even refused many proposals which came from AOL girls. But incidents makes someone only prejudiced, the basic nature remains the same. He was still a flirt at heart and thus never refused anyone directly. He dated every single girl who even remotely had any feeling for him, not just once or twice but innumerable times. His last relationship had left him under heavy debts so, which he claims to pay back only after his first salary in September, so that ‘innumerable’ unfortunately couldn’t become ‘infinite’.

He thinking these days has been heavily influenced by FRIENDS, the episodes of which he has watched religiously. He has now become very very broad minded and has risen above the mental level of an average Indian.

Scene 1 (2^nd year) – Are yaar how could I have just kept friendship with her? Ab ladke aur ladki saath aayegi to payaar to ho hi jayega. Love is so beautiful and I recommend everyone to fall for it.

Scene 2 (5^th year) – Why do you guys take every relationship between a boy and girl to be love? You have the typical Indian mindset. Why can’t I and ‘S’ can’t just be friends? And how can any sane man fall for a girl, especially Bokaro girls!!

He did not shed a single tear when his childhood crush was married recently. But he is hopeful that promiscuity will show its ugly face soon and convert his childhood fantasies into reality.

All these failed relationships have made him a veteran. Others consult him on the matter of love and seek his blessings for a successful love life; his only word of advice for them, “ naari jaat par kabhi bharosa mat karma�

People talk at length and many flaunt about the prospects of research in IIT. Outsiders often wonder the level of research and the kind of equipments available in an IIT, the premier institute of engineering in the country. I have talked to people and they often express their awe at the facilities available in the labs here. Well the truth of matter is IITs exist because of JEE and not because of the research. IIT is ranked 5th in the world when it comes to Btech but that rank touches 3 figure when it comes to post graduate education. The reasons, well there are many and the most prominent among them is lack of funds. I understand India is still a developing country and to be at par with the world class institutes you need much more than brain power. No doubt Indians have out-performed their counterparts in US universities but with foreign facilities right?

My previous guide left his job in California to teach here in IIT Madras. But he soon realised that things are a lot different as they appear from outside. He resigned within 1 year and is now back to where he came from. Facilites are pathetic and so are the bureaucrat procedures to get a job done. Just to buy a book he had to wait for months!! Considering the fact that it is Madras, where are people are more educated compared to other parts of the country and it is expected of them to realise the value of time. Corruption is a lot lesser as compared to the place where i come from. (Bihar to be precise )

I had to take few print outs today. When i asked the person responsible, he denied me saying this is for the final copy ones so use the other one. Well this ‘other one’ was a wipro printer (perhaps the first one to be come on the scene!!). I was wondering how do u feed papers in it? Finally i left because i had no mood to experiment.

Update 1- I am sweating but still can’t switch on the fan! the reason; i am suffering from severe cold and would be comfortable if my fan runs at speed level 3. But the regulator doesn’t work! damn we pay 13,900 per semester to the hostel office which includes 3,500 as hostel maintenance charges and look what facility. If i lodge a complaint tomorrow then it would take weeks before someone is sent. Where does the money go? in the pockets of concerned officials! I have heard there has been lot of politics regarding allocation of mess contract and lot of exchanges below the table (unconfirmed reports say that there are a slew of court cases pending against the authority). Well so why is IIT ‘the’ institute in this country because you see its all relative!!

Update 2: I took the print outs outside. Went to the lab to give it the prof but he was not there so finally had to give it to the same phd scholar who fobbed me off yesterday. He was sitting in the adjacent room to where the printer for ‘final print outs’ was kept. The first question n he, asked seeing the print outs, “that room is closed na?” wow! damn it, i took those print out of my own money and how dare you suspect me!. I am not a thief and plus my would i! i have a laptop that is worth double the laptop u are using !!

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