Lets Start : Day 1

Day 1 at an engineering college as a student.

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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.......