NITC - after a long time :)

Visited my alma mater, NIT Calicut last weekend for Ragam.. Man..it has been a long time.. lot of changes, lot of new buildings...lot of new stories ( read gossips ) .. Guys, NITC has changed a lot :) ..Some good aspects..some not-so good aspects.. Before getting into those, take a look at the snaps below...

( Most of the content in this post might not make any sense to non-NITCians.. Sorry for that ) ..

== > This is the how the entrance looks like now.. Closed gates, security guards etc at the start of Raj-path .. Almost all parts of the compound is encircled by 6+ feet high walls with glass pieces on top to prevent any of those old-style jumpings from hostel campuses..


Heard Papachan and Chechi have closed down their stalls ( didnt go there ) becoz , mess is compulsory now...( That is bad.. Isnt it ?? ) .. The Kattangal Shake shops , Mamachan etc are said to be still there..But to go to Kattangal, u have to go through the main gate..So, unless u have a bike, its a very long detour...Predictably becoz of this, number of bikes in the campus have increased..I even saw a girl riding a Pulsar -- Sorry guys, no snaps of that :) -- Four five years down the lane, we may even see girls giving lift to guys and waiting around F-hostel on their bikes.. Thats a good prospect..Isnt it :) ?





Any guesses which is the hostel shown on the right side ==>
? Hold your breath .. It is C-hostel.. It was one of the most poorly maintained hostels during our time... NITCians, please comment on this change :)

.. Opposite to C-hostel there is a new commercial complex coming up ( no..not of the b'lore shopping malls type :) ).. It is something which'll have a stationery store, saloons, gym, etc..etc..
( No Snaps of LH i.e, Ladies Hostel :) ..though i did go near that area :) )

F' has a new floor now..Its a 3- floor hostel now.. All the hostels have net..The CC or computer center is known as "Orkut Center" now... The cases of fake profiles, profile hacking etc are very common.. Future hackers getting trained :) ..

An orkut community indicating the availability of bandwidth => http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=6918141


Another one..."Orkuttans@NITC" :) => http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=14983528





==> Atlast a saving grace..The MC..aka Mini Canteen still looks the same..

I had a portion of "Double Attach" and "Lime" ....
That place reminded me of the nocturnal life we had during our times..

At around midnight, this place used to be swarmed by people..

" Chetta , Oru Lime tea.."
"Randurpya aimpaisa.."... ( Colloquial way of telling 2Rs, 50 paise )

"Oru Double attach"....
"Oru slice .... " ... And so on....


Below are a few snaps from the evergreen concert and fashion show ( Rechristened as 'A La Mode ' after the ban on fashion shows in Kerala ) .. "A La Mode" is read by keralites as "Alambode" :) ..Apologies for the poor quality of photos..My Motoming didnt work properly in fading light ..







Above and left, Evergreen..

Right, A La Mode ( Fashion show )
... After a long time, I could do cat-calls and howls without any apprehension :) .. Before the fashion show night, MSF did a protest march in front of campus against vulgar shows

......Thankfully or otherwise, there were no mini-skirts on stage and we were kept in never-ending anticipation ..The last four teams in the show had only guys among them and recieved maximum intensity cat-calls , abuses etc :)

I couldnt get there for Shaan's show, which was very good it seems..Even political opponents agreed on that.. Shaan rocked :) ..

Met with my teachers Vinod Sir , Nazeer Sir and Saleena Ma'am.. Talked a lot..


Few news which came from my teachers, old contacts and friends who are now working there / doing mtech there...

* Students are more career conscious now..The preparations for CAT,GATE etc start early..
Those were the exams which we gave just like that during final year ..A GRE cult is not yet there..

*AIR Rank 1 in GATE for EEE is from our college and that too an S6 student... Lot of other top 100 ranks too in all departments.. And 8 IIMA calls, 2 IIMB calls...etc ..etc..Good going juniors.. :) ..My GATE rank was some 800 odd in prefinal year and 1300 odd in final year ( I studied a bit in final yr :) ) ..

*Now, to the funny part.. Director/dean issued a circular banning liquor bottles in the campus..A guy was caught because he was having a very good collection of liquor bottles..and becoz somebody tipped him off :)

* The next day the circular for the ban of bottles was released, a record number of beer bottles, and other stuff were recovered under the notice board where it was pasted...Dont know how spiced up the story is :)

* ECE - 2004 passout batch, your " Vaal - street " incident is a regular phenomenon among even the first years now :)

* Lot more spicy stories....but can't put it in blog :) So, censored :)

All in all..It was a very nice experience :) .. See some more of my memories @ NITC in this earlier post


Ajith