RGIPT - À la carte!

First day @ RGIPT! Can any of the 34 guys ever forget that day – 13^th September 2008? Atleast I can’t! I remember walking in from the gates of GTI, Noida and expecting to be led to a “college”. My expectations from a college were very simple – tennis court, big cafeteria, football field and a well equipped gym. Of course these things are expected to be topped up by lots of freedom, movies and loitering around. Well… dreams are dreams for a reason J All my dreams of bunking classes and playing basketball were put to rest that very moment. The joyride that I had imagined was not to be - More likely, the Horror ride had just begun!!

The menu was well laid out for our batch:

Starters

Crispy Honey first 2 weeks

“7 subject” soup

Sesame “quiz” fingers

“Mid term” Tandoori Roll

Main Course

Fried nights (accompanied by loads of work)

Roasted “Assignments”

“End Term” Butter Masala

Dessert

Placements

We could only digest the first item in the starters! Very light schedule and not much work to do – the professors handled us with a lot of care. Little did we know that the honeymoon would turn into a nightmare within couple of weeks. As the session progressed, days became longer and nights became shorter. The soup was extra thick – 7 ingredients (subjects) in a soup was something that we had not dreamt of! The next round consisted of quizzes – the only time when we thought that we did not give quizzes was when we went to the washroom (some decided to spend extra long hours in the washroom to avoid thinking about quizzes)

Mid terms did not take long to get served. Before we could take a breather from the quizzes, Mid terms were dished out!

The main course was served without us finishing the starters and gosh…. It was spicy and sizzling hot! While the main course was being served, our batch devised new ways of working around that workload. New innovations were made in doing assignments overnight (that night was generally the night before the final submission) and we learnt to sleep with our eyes open during lectures (some of us have actually pioneered the art… can’t reveal the names though)

End Term examinations were always with extra butter and lots of masala! So many things to study…. So little time and very little knowledge about what was taught in the class! That was the time when we perfected the art of “Time Management” - I’m pretty sure that some of us would be taking seminars on this topic some years down the line J

However, everything that has transpired in that one room of our ‘campus’ has been an experience of a lifetime! More than friends, books were there by our side J. Despite having the most grueling study sessions, our faculty made learning fun for us. The Horror ride has indeed been a joyride that I failed to see. The menu wasn’t exactly what the dietician recommended, but dessert ke liye kuch bhi karega!!