MSB = M?? Sciences ..

A very straightforward question to anyone who's reading this.

What percentage of the institute's major landmark locations (hostels, messes, facility centers etc.) is an average insti-resident actually aware of?

Normally I would not have given this issue much thought, since most of the people who I know had explored the place inside out within the first month of their arrival, and the rest knew most of the place before the end of their first semester. However, after this incident that happened yesterday in the mess, I was shocked to hear the things I heard, to put it mildly.

So I was talking to this MA freshie. General stuff, how's life, how're acads going .. the usual blah blah. However, as I casually asked her which hostels her friends are in, the "conversation" somehow turned into somewhat of a ragging session about locations of hostels, much to my delight. And the replies I got delighted me even further.



Here's how the conversation went:


Me: So how many hostels do you know of?

MA Freshie: I think 15, right?

Me: (with a very sweet smile) How many of those can you name?

Freshie: Come on da, I'm almost done with my 1st year, why are you ragging me now?

Me: Aww, come on .. Tell me. I just want to know. (Sweeter smile)

Freshie: Ok .. So there's Tambi and Pamba and Narmad and Godav and blah blah blah (She listed some 13 of them, leaving out Alak And Jam. Fair enough.)

Me: So which ones are the four newly constructed hostels?

Freshie: Uh, let's see .. Those are Tambi, Pamba, Mahanadi and Tapti. (Lol)

Me: Ohkay .. Then which is the hostel in front of Guru?

Freshie: (with a huge confident smile) Narmad.

Me: How about the hostel in front of Himalaya?

Freshie: Uh .. I'm forgetting the name .. Wait, I'll tell you in some time.

Me: Okay .. Then which three are the ones at the end?

Freshie: (again confidently) Ganga, Mandak and Mahanadi. (She didn't realise she'd already located Mahanadi elsewhere.)

Me: (smirking now) Nice .. Where's Alak?

Freshie: Behind Narmad.

Me: Ah. (huge grin here) Nice. How many floors does Tambi have?

Freshie: Come on da, it has four. It's one of those last hostels.

Me: .. (Lovely. What's next?)

Freshie: And then there's Saras too right, in front of Basera, next to the football field.

Me: What's the football field called?

Freshie: Ok, wait a sec. I know it's called something, it's definitely not Sangam, I'm forgetting the name.

Me: ...



My expression? LOL. And it got better ..



Me: Ok .. So pack hostels, how many departments do you know?

Freshie: I know most of them, not all though.

Me: Where's Navarch?

Freshie: It has this big wave tank right, I saw it once, although I don't really remember where it is.

Me: Biotech?

Freshie: Somewhere at the end of the main road.

Me: Chem?

Freshie: Near basky courts. (I figured pointing out the difference between Chemical and Chemistry wasn't really worth it.)

Me: ESB?

Freshie: I know where all of these are da .. Why are you paining me?

Me: Ok, what does CRC stand for?

Freshie: Classroom Complex.

Me: ChLT?

Freshie: Chemical Lecture Theatre. (Lol again.)

Me: CLT?

Freshie: Classroom Lecture Theatre. (Double lol.)

Me: Ok .. MSB? (Warning to Mech junta: BRACE YOURSELF)

Freshie: Mathematical Sciences something na?



Yay .. Whatte freshie!


(continued)

Me: Uh huh ... (Imagine the expression I had.) Okay .. Okay, that's good. HSB?

Freshie: Ob I'd know HSB da, it's the Humanities department.

Me: Ok .. where's HSB?

Freshie: 2nd floor of CLT na ..

Me: And where's MSB?

Freshie: 1st floor of CLT.



That was it. The Lol-Theorem had stretched beyond limits by now. I couldn't take it any more. And thankfully by this time, she had finished her dinner and made some excuse about going to mug. And I went over to some Chem junta and told them this story, from whom I got reactions totally appropriate for Mathematical Sciences Block. Of course, I got some chiding for ragging people like this at this time of the year, but I could sense it wasn't whole-hearted.

Anyway, nice dinnertime entertainment, I gotta admit.

And you might want to rethink the answer to that question after reading this, if you had it all figured out :P

And yet another one :)

I guess my blog is pretty much on its way to be the official limelight for all those silent, living-in-the-shadow creatures that are found in the campus, as all of you readers are going to very solemnly acknowledge by the picture that I am uploading in this post. I really don't know how they do it, but somehow all of these guys seem to intuitively navigate their way right in front of my camera, and they seem to do tiny little animal/insect dances (which may or may not be cute, depending on the life form). From cats sitting on my windowsill in the middle of the night, to leeches stickily climbing up my door; from bulls with raging hormones to red ant infestations, I'm just like an animal magnet (Not to be taken literally).

Anyway, this guy is officially the most recent addition to my list of weird creatures to have posed for my camera.


Beautiful, ain't he?

And despite the poor thing having only seven legs, the determined struggle that he put up against my desperate efforts to sweep him out of my room really deserves special mention here. Sometimes I really feel like applauding all creatures like this, who have tremendous abilities to invoke inspiration.

Anyway, I have to admit, Spidey here has certainly inspired in me a huge new-found respect for Little Miss Muffet, and she has my complete sympathy and understanding for jumping out of her tuffet (which, by the way, I did too .. only that it was a chair and not a tuffet). Anyway, I salute her too .

And lastly, I guess it's time I changed my blog description a bit: The lemonades aren't being given to you to freshen you up, but they're necessarily required to be there just in case you need calming down. What say? :P