Hi friends.
First of all, I would like to thank my friend for giving me the confidence to continue blogging,(thanks a lot yaar), though my friend doesn't allow me to say thanks at all, believing that friends do not need to say thanks to each other. So finally here I am, writing my second post, sharing my experience about hostel of my college.
Some of you may have a question that why I chose to write about hostels at the very beginning of the description of my experience. Well, the answer to that is quite simple, as hostels are the place which we encounter first after coming to college. Also, we spend most of the time here (to be honest, this is the case only with first years as most of the seniors 'visit' hostel only to sleep at night).
Talking of my experience, I felt like leaving the college as soon as I visited my hostel. At IITKGP, all facchas (local word referring to first year students) are allotted LBS (Lal Bahadur Shahstri) Hall of residence in which every room is shared by 3. When I entered my room, it was as dirty as it could be, with spider webs all over. Rooms seemed small sized and the wardrobes were not having any doors to it!! My first question was that how can the authorities do that to us!! (honestly, I was reacting as if they had done a big crime and we 'innocent' were being punished for it). I still remember that I said to my father "Papa, ye kis nark mein aa gaye hum, chalo apne ghar waapas chalte hain" (I think I have exaggerated a bit). Moreover, there are no coolers or a.c. in our rooms. Just imagine the situation in summers with slow working fans and nothing else!!
But time and necessity forces you to adjust to all type of situations. The same applies to me as well, so I have now become used to all this and instead of thinking about the negative points, I enjoy the positive aspects of hostel life. Yes, the positive points of hostel make life enjoyable. High speed WiFi (not too high speed, but still much better than that assured by our favorite BSNL or Airtel or Idea or other such companies), great LAN speed and unlimited access to it makes us enjoy everything on internet. Just for an example, I watched India vs South Africa T20 match yesterday on start sports website which gives facility of live streaming in good quality (felt very bad that India lost). Buffering 1080p videos on YouTube is a myth at IIT. Apart from the internet, people spend their complete day playing Counter Strike and Fifa using LAN ports (I tell you, these games are a big addiction). Students sleeping at 2 or 3 o clock is totally normal (this is a big change for a guy like me who used to sleep at 12 o clock). Some of the unexpected experiences I had include listening to the sound of washing machine at 1 o clock in the night, 6-7 people sleeping in a room not big enough even for 3 (I am still unable to understand how is that managed, but it's great!), students going at 12 midnight to a helipad at least 5 km away, on cycle, watching movies till 6 in the morning! But all this is extremely enjoyable with friends.
To sum up my 2 months experience in my hostel, I would like to say that though there are so many problems, still I enjoy my hostel life to its very best and all this happens due to craziness of hostel and my great friends (all of them as crazy as me, which doubles up the fun).
So guys, I have to go now as I have to prepare for my maths test tomorrow (Imagine, Class Test on Sunday!!! Professors ko koi aur din nahi mila!). Wish me luck.
Goodbye.
First of all, I would like to thank my friend for giving me the confidence to continue blogging,(thanks a lot yaar), though my friend doesn't allow me to say thanks at all, believing that friends do not need to say thanks to each other. So finally here I am, writing my second post, sharing my experience about hostel of my college.
Some of you may have a question that why I chose to write about hostels at the very beginning of the description of my experience. Well, the answer to that is quite simple, as hostels are the place which we encounter first after coming to college. Also, we spend most of the time here (to be honest, this is the case only with first years as most of the seniors 'visit' hostel only to sleep at night).
Talking of my experience, I felt like leaving the college as soon as I visited my hostel. At IITKGP, all facchas (local word referring to first year students) are allotted LBS (Lal Bahadur Shahstri) Hall of residence in which every room is shared by 3. When I entered my room, it was as dirty as it could be, with spider webs all over. Rooms seemed small sized and the wardrobes were not having any doors to it!! My first question was that how can the authorities do that to us!! (honestly, I was reacting as if they had done a big crime and we 'innocent' were being punished for it). I still remember that I said to my father "Papa, ye kis nark mein aa gaye hum, chalo apne ghar waapas chalte hain" (I think I have exaggerated a bit). Moreover, there are no coolers or a.c. in our rooms. Just imagine the situation in summers with slow working fans and nothing else!!
But time and necessity forces you to adjust to all type of situations. The same applies to me as well, so I have now become used to all this and instead of thinking about the negative points, I enjoy the positive aspects of hostel life. Yes, the positive points of hostel make life enjoyable. High speed WiFi (not too high speed, but still much better than that assured by our favorite BSNL or Airtel or Idea or other such companies), great LAN speed and unlimited access to it makes us enjoy everything on internet. Just for an example, I watched India vs South Africa T20 match yesterday on start sports website which gives facility of live streaming in good quality (felt very bad that India lost). Buffering 1080p videos on YouTube is a myth at IIT. Apart from the internet, people spend their complete day playing Counter Strike and Fifa using LAN ports (I tell you, these games are a big addiction). Students sleeping at 2 or 3 o clock is totally normal (this is a big change for a guy like me who used to sleep at 12 o clock). Some of the unexpected experiences I had include listening to the sound of washing machine at 1 o clock in the night, 6-7 people sleeping in a room not big enough even for 3 (I am still unable to understand how is that managed, but it's great!), students going at 12 midnight to a helipad at least 5 km away, on cycle, watching movies till 6 in the morning! But all this is extremely enjoyable with friends.
To sum up my 2 months experience in my hostel, I would like to say that though there are so many problems, still I enjoy my hostel life to its very best and all this happens due to craziness of hostel and my great friends (all of them as crazy as me, which doubles up the fun).
So guys, I have to go now as I have to prepare for my maths test tomorrow (Imagine, Class Test on Sunday!!! Professors ko koi aur din nahi mila!). Wish me luck.
Goodbye.
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Good work!! This one is far better than the previous one. Hope to see better posts in future!!
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Delete"Papa, ye kis nark mein aa gaye hum, chalo apne ghar waapas chalte hain" -Nailed it bro, keep it up :p
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