KIT, Tiptur (September 2003)

21 September 2003,
This was the day that the wonderful period of my life started. I reached the campus this day and went for my hostel with a mind full of doubts about the college, the people I will meet, who will be my roompartner, how will i face ragging etc.
I entered the hostel and was told that i was allocated room no. 49 and my room partner was a guy who will be known as Chacha from now on. So I went to my room and saw that everyone was in a room sitting with a senior who was telling us about the college and place.
I went ahead and shook hands with chacha and went to take a bath and freshen up after 50 hrs of gruelling journey.
After the seniors left I had a brief round of introdution to the guys who were there KK, Manjhhi , Chacha, GK, Nish and Bips were the first persons I met. Never knew that I will miss them so much, later in life.
In the evening we went in the ground to play cricket and got some instructions about dress code and do's and dont's and also an idea about what life was going to be till we got freshers.

The classes started the next day followed by visits to hair saloons some ragging sessions and getting to know the people around.

There were some people who came late and this gave us the opppurtunity. Me, GK and Nish acted as seniors and took ragging of some of the new comers we were lucky that no one told the seniors about that.

Those initial days laid the foundation for lifelong friendship. I still remember eating Alu's namkin.
Sitting all day in room no. 50 eventually people started telling me that you are wasting money by paying hostel fee when you are never in your room.

In those days some wonderful things happened which I will tell about later....