Saturday, May 5, 2007

More of the same...

Quite frankly, I can't actually categorise my memories into a year- by-year account, so I'm going to just randomly put in stuff, in no chronological order.

The famous Lime Club! One of the biggest topics of speculation- Does it exist or not? Those in the know swear they've witnessed it's umm.... 'nefarious' (if I may use that term) activities and hence, stay away from the (in)famous infirmary unless, dying. Those who haven't been such lucky spectators listen engrossed and hang onto every word of those who have!

Members of the by-then (in)famous Eco batch of 2004 jumping the boundary walls in an ingenious attempt to escape the "tyranny and torture" of yet another OAT! It's a different story that these members didn't foresee the possibility that their descent might end up dumping them right in front of the cops and bodyguards of a certain ex-CM, who were standing on the other side of the wall...and who on witnessing such rare events, promptly held the lost kittens by the scruffs of their necks (I can be forgiven for my exaggerations here) and handed them back to the Princi's office!!! (So much for athletic spirit and freedom of choice!)

Our class being pulled up for breaking furniture, chairs to be more precise(who would've imagined that such a gentle, peace loving, rational, 'economic' class like ours would pull off such stunts?) even though the said chairs were ALREADY broken to begin with!

Sitting in Applied Stats/Econometrics/Computer Applications for Economics classes! (And now, I need not elaborate more on this!)

Battling the famous & eternal 'Dress Code' issue, Spending endless hours of futile debate in English classes on "Is a dress code necessary?", wondering if we were being initiated into a nunnery (!!!), getting sadistic kicks watching a uninformed 1st year kid (when we were 3rd years) being pulled up for wearing a SLEEVELESS (horror of horrors!) top to college, etc etc.!

Post Valedictory: Five people changing out of LONG saris into 'normal' clothes (in a single car) in a parking lot that was by no means vacant, or dimly lit! AND to top it off, it was bang opposite some very much occupied hostel rooms!!!

Long discussions in front of the canteen on the vagaries of life (read education, career, attendance, lectures, subjects, etc.)

Endless 'coffee' breaks in between classes. And of course, 'Melody'! The toffee with a cult following!

The 8ish story: Walking in late(anytime between 8.15-9.00 for a class that begins at 8.00 and ends at 9.00) to college, hanging around for a late slip and then sneaking our way up to the doors of our classroom to have 'secret consultations' with those inside to see which prof was currently in class and then decide whether that tiny bit of paper in our hands (aka THE 'late slip') would work it's way into the prof's good books and ensure that we get that 'Holy Grail' that we all seek...attendance!

Inventing all manners of short forms to keep up with the super fast lecture speeds and then TRYING to decode the said short forms while studying!

Jamming all mobile networks during CAs and End sems with the continuous exhange of panic calls, msgs, 3 a.m "How much done? I think I'm going to flunk tomorrow" msgs...

(Some people's) drunken antics and the ensuing videos that the owner (of the video) always threatened would land up on Orkut!

Back to back movie sessions at good ol' Satyam (after bunking classes of course), 10 buck tickets (& spending 10 times that amount on popcorn, food etc), chaats at Gangotree, Nibbles, being a loud and obnoxious group at Mocha, Ame, Woodlands, Ispahani, Barista.... pretty much everywhere!

And many more mad things...

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