iitians who we really are...

Iitians in India are a famous and respected breed. Wherever you go and tell people that you are in IIT or u are an iitian, there will surely be some moms and dads coming upto you asking some advice for their children. Common perception is that we are complete nerds who are really good at understanding things and studying hard. We are seen as descendants of goddess Saraswati (the goddess of knowledge). but little do the people know that beneath this aura of geekdom we are people with very rare and mostly unacceptable qualities.

let me tell the world what we really are. Every iitian has two sides to him, the one he maintains at home and with other non-iitian (no hard-feelings) friends and one tht he has in college. They say that things come into their best when they are in congenial surroundings. And iit campus is the best place for us to come into our own and live the real insane side of our life.
Every iitian loves pink-floyd coz it is the best music that has ever been played. We call it the psychedelic music and as the saying goes:

To fathom Hell or soar angelic,

just take a pinch of psychedelic.

But we being from the Satan side need a little more than that so its elixir of Satan (usually rum, vodka, whiskey, smoke n sometimes dope) combined with Pink Floyd that takes us higher. Almost all the discoveries (there aren't many to boast about) are made in this phase and this is the time that we actually do something other than watching movie, tv-soaps or playing games.

About the movies and tv-soaps thing, you will always find an iitian who has seen whtever movie u think off and who knows every episode of FRIENDS by heart. The gaming (SOF n AOE in my campus) is another religion here. Late nite gaming is just another chore that most of the iitians have to do. Its the only way to get you frustration out, u cant kill a prof, atleast kill another player who plays by your prof's name.

Even though what I am going to say is a well-kown national fact but for the records i have to repeat it. "Iitians are sex-starved." Yes it is as true as any other theorem in the world and is perhaps the easiest to prove. We people will approach anything which even remotely resembles the female side of human life. Even though we may maintain a high taste amongst ourselves but the truth is that we are always looking for a glimpse of some female counterpart. We might be the most eligible bachelor education wise, money-wise but beware of the wild side.

Lastly I may have degraded my fellow mates by my harsh comments so to even out things let me enlighten some good things about us. Yes we are workaholic but only when its a day or two before the deadline. We can work for 4 days in a row and yet show no signs of tiredness of sleep. And the very next day we can sit in an exam and still perform better than most people on earth. Yes we are geeks, but geeks who know how to study and how much to study and most importantly when to study. Yes we can work like an ass but only when it comes to organising cult-fest, rock-nites and tech-fest.

The most important thing is that we don't live our lives as the world wants us to do, we just live it the way we want to. We dont care if people idolize us our despise us, we don't care for any dams thing on earth coz thts the way we are.

IIT SUCKS but I LOVE it STILL.........

how will i ever say goodbye

this is that time of the year when every college in India bids farewell to graduating batch and gears up to welcome a new generation. For the materialistic stuff its just the passing of the resources to the future generations but for we all juniors its like the end of an era. For some its just a time to move on but for me its like letting go the support system that guides you, helps you, kick you to get you working and make you a complete person.

People move on but leave behind a way of life, expectations to live upto, a legacy and a gap that not even time can fill. And seniors in IITG have been the best that one can expect. The way they are always able to put a smiling face, no matter how grieve the matter is, taking out fun in small things of life and enjoying it to the fullest, showing unrelenting strength in the time of need are some things that i can never forget. It gives me immense pride to say that i studied in a college where people were special in their own ways and each one was an institution in himself.
Being a kapilite i was witness to the most diverse kind of people one can ever meet. The ragiing gaints Homo and Keeki, the ever bubbling Fido, the fanatic JAT, no tension TAU, the creative Shaiz and the list goes on.
Here is something that i will always remember about these guys:

TAU aka Lakshya Malhotra: Defy system but never let it kick you back
Micks aka Mayank Singla: Downloading champ ( i hope i can continue his legacy)
Shaiz : Ultimate creativity and his ever cute abuses
CP aka Chander Prakash: Fundae dene aate ho to kaam nahi karna padta
Tuggi aka Tushar Garg: I am the boss and i can give the best fundae
Vivek Inder Sharma: I dont try and yet i perform
ponker aka Depankar Garg: Management champ
Keeda aka gundeep: I am what I am
etc etc

Guys you have been great seniors and in next sem the life wont be same without you guys and there really is gonna be a hole in my soul.
Thanks for being there and Will miss you guys forever.......

I Walk Alone

No this is not the Greenday song its just some basic facts about what life has taught me over the years. This is all about what life means to me right now.
Well I walk alone. This has been the story of my life. Like everybody's school life, my life had all the fun, studies and friends that one has in school life. And then come the great Indian competitive life of getting into IIT's AIIMS and your life starts to shape in ways you didnt imagine before. You come across people who are so very different from what you expect of them.

This cruel world is waiting to bite you, always ready to pull your leg, the moment you trust them.
you meet people who pretend to be nice to you, who pretend to care for you but when the time comes they ditch you and behave as if they dont have anything to do with you. People you trust say things behind your back, they ridicule you, they despise you but the moment you are in front of them, they are these sweet-faced, ever-smiling fellows.

My experience of hostel and college life (about 5 Years) has taught me that there are very few people who accept you the way you come. Most friendships have strings attached to them. Very few people give you space and understand your feelings. Its in the company of these friends that you feel secure and relax otherwise you just keep on walking alone. Every eye that watches you, cuts through you as if it is blaming you for something, asking you for something and you pretend that it doesnt bothers you but deep down you hate all this. This is where I have come to realize that you just have to walk alone, keep your few good friends close and take the world as it comes. Dont worry what people have to say, dont think too much about what you should do to make people happy, because in the end it all comes down to you and just you.

Walk alone friends for it is the only way you can achieve your goal.