The early gossips...

So we are well in and settled in colleges each in their respective groups. And the college gossip and backbiting had started taking place. Today we will discus the same and few incorrigible habits of my classmates.

Note:- The information being given below might hurt few sentiments and few sensibilities. You are all requested to read it with a pinch of salt. the author does not take any responsibility for any loss arising out of the same. :P

1. In the early days when we used to have 120 seater classes. As i already mentioned there was a group students who always sat at the front bench and answered all teachers questions. Damn it, it In college who answers the questions this much, i thought . In a few days i realized i was not the only one who thought that way. There were others as well. Not to demean them, they were one of the most ridiculed people in the batch. Some jokes on them continue to this day.
P.S. :- Amid all the crap taking place, I was a party to it as well, :P. A final word. i respect the marks gathering ability of theirs. GoOd going guys. Score more.

2. The quintessential " ANGREZ" :- now now. there was this angrez in our class most sought after guys, Coz u know he was a 4 ft somethin jumpin jack , straight out of some south Delhi school the guy with an accent and an attitude as all said.
He was referred to as Angrez by all , he knew as well and did not seem to mind. He was more rueful of the fact that he was in a College that he never expected to be in.

One thing i would like to mention this way "He has been one of my long standing friends till this day"
And a note for him. This is how i would like to remember him " a friends' friend" Albeit an Angrez he still is :P

How we became friends..
Ragging .... In the earlier days When we were being continuously ragged. As i already mentioned ragging was limited to intro sessions nobody remembered 120 names. So I blurted out my name school rank etc etc. The lil guy at the back hooked up on listening Delhi Public School, I was asked DPS VK i said yes. Which batch was what he asked. 2006 i replied. Was he also from DPS i asked. yes.
He seemed to know Swaraj . Hmm some common ground we had found finally. And at last a person who was from my school although i shied away from him in early days coz i did not want to be tagged elitist as he was . (Sry Niks) ... But anyways we were on a roll.

3. Kunal sharma, Prateek sharma and abhishek Kumar had one thing in common. They were never around in college usually. Kunal has made big strides i must say.
Next up " How I met Abhishek" Col did not have a Photocopier , it does not have to this day.
There as i was getting the English(C.S.) book photostated. Someone tipped on my back and asked if i was from DPS. I said yes. A laidback guy was looking straight at me. I sid yes and finally found that he was also from DPS and whats more he was my Batch mate . Although it was for the first time i had seen him. I never saw him at school. I knew few of his friends from school and he know most of mine.
So finally my friend circle was taking shape.

Next Post:
The Joz moment and 1st escapade of Joz .. also introduction to Mr sarsawat..

Till then
Take Care
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AKJ

Nerves had started settling in

So finally the blog has started rolling and guess what i got a good response to the blog. Another surprise was that Mr Sachdeva remembered that day great.

And yes putting at rest all speculations what i would say is that you guys guessed the faculty right.
Give yourselves an award for the same.

So now few seniors were in the room on first day. Asking for introductions of all of us. One good result of having huge class was that these guys never remembered our names or faces and almost always spent the days asking for introductions. :P
Great way to start off College life isn't it.

After umpteeen Introductions in shuddh Hindi and English we were told that being frshers we should dress in white shirt and Black trousers always.

This is how we were spending those early days. Now somethin about the class composition. as with all Engineering colleges, ours too had a severe dearth of Fairer sexes. For a long time we did not know who was in CSE nd who was in ECE and it was for the better.

There was a group of people who always sat on first bench. I was always afraid of first bench I liked second rows :P

So this was supposedly the most studious batch of the Class. It comprised of Ashish Gupta, neelima, Saaransh and shivi, who always talked about studies and seemed weird to me. :)
But the fact was that they always got many many marks more tha n me :(

Now the second group was the never present guys of the class . they were Ravi and his batch of i believe 20-30 people who always played cricket in whateva space they got in the small Arena in poltech.

Thirdly there was me, himanshu, swati, a long guy who called himself kunal ( i just spent the better part of the days listening to his tales of Murthal and he heard mine) , Richa , also sometimes once in say 1 month there used to be prateek and ashish kapoor, and for a few days there was hansika as well. ( More about it later)

Also sometimes present in class was a so called angrez i did not talk to him for quite sometime.
Everyone looked at him sceptically ( they also looked at me that way, more on it later)


The most useless person of class that day acording to me was SAGAR joshi, he is still same not to worry, he has changed little.

SO the class was finally beginning to take shape. We had few proffesors as well. From the physics one who wrote from one corner of board to another and back to maths ma'am who gavce us more homework than my whole 2 years of school education put together.

Mr sachdeva of ED was from his own world.

The class was taking a shape as was the small gossip of young world we were in.
More about the early gossip and development of my close circle and one of the funniest Ragging scenes in the nest one. It is going to be more regular now onwards guys.

Wait and watch.
The blog is back and with a bang...

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AKJ

Lets Start : Day 1

Day 1 at an engineering college as a student.

hmm
It was a lil nervous. There was no blanket ban on ragging those days u see.

So it was 5 August 2007, monday. It must have been somewhere around 9.15-9.20 in morning.
I struggled hard to find the campus . The rickshaw puller outside the building had no idea whatsoever about somethin named AIT. Thank god for Google maps. I had seen the location and somehow tracked the college.

Now i eneterd a campus good enough to be a small community park in its complete area but supposedly it was a polytechnique and my campus all rolled into one.

In the melee i somehow located the 2 room set that was our college and climbed the stairs towards LT1. my erstwhile class room. There were quite a few unfamiliar faces.
Since all i could see was one class room, i did not know whether to enter it or not whether it was my class or not. so the best option was to stand idle and i did jus that standing idly looking around for more new and nervous 1 year faces. jus then someone called out to me "Hey U a first year guy"

I turned around to see it was a tall fair guy, trying to be confident with nervousness all but oozing out of him. So he was another fellow first year guy. I enquired and yes he was also in first year ECE on top of that. We introduced each other. He was named Himanshu sachdeva.

What i came to know was that He had been in col on 1 August as well but since nothing happenbed then he visited now.

We chatted idly, till some guy came and shouted like hell " get lost , enter that class and sit there"
I could not understand what this. Was that a rude senior, i had a look no 4 times as old as a senior should be. And the worst of seniors don talk like that. I was told later it was some faculty members. " Guess the name."

So now we were all settled in the class trying to turn our heads and find familiar faces which we knew were not there. It was a combined class of 120 students. I think there were 60-80 odd students that day.

Himanshu introduced me to Swati that day. he had met her on 1 itself . This is turn introduced me to Richa. The college networking was on.

First day started with that same rude teacher barging into class and shouting at top of his voice some things which i did not understand and neither did i care.

we were told that there was a room near our class and we shoild call him as soon as some senior enters. the first question in my mind. if we are suposed to sit in this calss the where the hell would the seniors be? Where is the other room????
I got the answer to that quite sometime later.

We had a cool calm first class as i remember. and we were dicussing some sundry things. Me himanshu, swati etc. jus then saw a barrage of around 20 od students rushing into the class. so we were on . These were the seniors who looked a bunch of fools to me more than anythin else to me

The first interaction with seniors story for another day folks.......

Welcome guys

Its 15 January and I am here to keep a promise. Presenting Memoirs of AIT from the lens of AKJ.

As i write this blog i feel what all has changed in the college since i saw it first. In front of my eyes I have seen it grow from a meek 2 room college to a Nice place.
I have many memories Most great, some bad.
Dont have too much to complain to god about it though.
Made some great friends here, will take the memories with me in my life wherever i may be.
Shaky, kunal, Niks, pandey, Joz, Mr max and lotsa others Its been a wonderful three and a half years with you all.

As i begin to write this it dawns upon me that i have hit the last lap of my life at AIT. 6 months to go before degree .

So here is the blog.
By god's grace or luck's fate i have been privy to some of the most important and controversial things that have happened in AIt over last 4 years. many scandals have unfolded before me in the college. many love stories blossomed many faltered in the way.
Its been a roller-coaster life and i leave it to you all how to take this Blog forward.

There are two ways :
1. I write an autobiographical type Blog beginning August 2007
2. I write in detail and depth about incidents one at a time on popular demand that u all want to know.

I leave it to u all to decide how the blog proceeds. One thing here. The blog would be updated as regularly as possible but not necessarily daily. Few things are keeping me occupied.

So lets rock guys.
Pour in your views.
I kept my part of promise. All scandals, inside stories of happenings of past 4 years of AIT might be spilled here. ;)

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AKJ