Induction Day

Well, our journey in BIT, Durg began with the induction programme held on August 11, 2009.

I reached the BIT Audi at 10.45 for the event which was to start at 11.00. True with these mind-aching programmes, this one lasted a hefty 2 & a 1/2 hrs and would have become unbearable is not for that humorous talk by Mr. I P Mishra, who turns out to be an important member of the college trust. Anyways, after all of it, we were instructed to come out, section by section, to follow our respective class-teachers.

Contrary to what I had thought, our classes weren't according to our branches and were instead a well mix of all branches, mine - Section-G - a mechanical dominant section. My classroom was ELS-12, and so was Nirmal's, as I learnt afterwards, while Vaibhav got ELS-13. The nomenclature of the rooms is as follows - 

1. EL- Electrical & Civil Engg. Block

2. EX - Electronic and Telecommunications block

3. S- Science, MBA, Humanities

4. M - Mechanical Block

 While the end letter denotes - 

1. G - Ground Floor

2. F - First Floor

3. S - Second Floor

As you might have figured, ELS-12 stands for - Room no.12 on 2nd floor of Electrical/Civil block.

After making our way to the classroom - much like kindergarten kids following their teachers - we were introduced to our class-teacher - Mr. Rajesh Lalwani(Reader, Physics Dept.) - who would teach us Physics in 1st Sem.  A dose of instructions and we were done.

Afterwards, I went to check out my room - 101 - looked horrible & ghastly at the 1st look, but livable. I advice all juniors not to be petrified by 1st looks of your room - After living in for a few months you'll find it to be the most quietest and well suited room for studies. 

Anyways, as I was treating myself to Rajma-Chaawal brought from home, in comes Nirmal - along with a few friends, all of them looking like seasoned criminals. Initial plan was to stay in the room from day 1 - but considering Nirmals' reluctance to stay on and the nonappearance of our others 2 roommates - I decided to return home(Raipur) after done with the arrangements. So I went out and bought the necessities from the local market - A cooler, Mattress, Tube-lights(No form of lighting will be provided by the hostel),etc. 

Before leaving, I tasted the creation of our college canteen - An Uttapam. Quite good for me, being north-Indian, but south-Indians may differ with me.

To sum up, dark clouds and subsequent downpour greeted us all the way back to Raipur...

PS: I still didn't get what the NSS man was saying at the end of the induction !!!