Frershers’ – Part two

Only three days to go before the big day.

More and more tasks seem to be coming up now and then. Doing posters, getting them up in the places, arranging for audio-visual assistance etc, compiling the intros into ’significant subgroups’ of 5-6 which is to be called together, and so on and so forth … We’re nearly to the point of getting driven mad.

Meanwhile, three things worth mentioning ( by chronological order ) …

1. Joined the institute gym. No surprises, the same “cut down on fatty foods” funda. One thing i like, … less cardio, lots of weight training. Can’t run barefoot on the treadmill, the rubber belts are too thin and the rollers beneath them are hurting the foot badly. Skipping it after first day, doing spot cycling instead.

2. The experimental phase of our microchimerism project has finally got under way. What we got …

sample no. 1 – control, no DNA !

sample no. 2 – case, very near getting our desired results, but have to eliminate some factors.

samples 3 and 4 – controls, got clotted only after an hr of taking the sample ! God ( and maybe Tamoghna, coz he got the blood ) knows how.

ok, let’s see.

2. Entered first time in the Girls hostel, to put up posters for freshers’. It has a large front door and two side-doors that open into two sides of the inside corridor. For some reason the front one was tightly closed, and one side of oneof the side-doors was bolted, another open for people to come in and go out.

Freshers’ – part one

As per the institute convention we 2nd yr people are supposed to give an official welcome to all the undergrad and grad course freshers. Just imagine. OUR batch, only 9 people. And the next B.Stat. batch itself has got 47. On top of that some 60 more freshers in other courses. And now sample this. Last yr the total count was 50 odd ! You are NOT that insensitive that you can’t understand what has been going we poor 9 fellows. So very horrible ( yet so very GRATIFYING ), … planning everything, getting bits and pieces of advices from seniors, writing posters, negotiating for funds ( and probably sponsorships ), writing invitations, arranging for the auditorium, constantly trying to come up with new ideas … all on these nine 19-yr olds. All for the ‘Mas Fresco 2008 … Confessions‘.

And … AHA, how can I forget the QUESTIONNAIRE, which is designed by us, supposed to be filled up by every fresher, and then juicy intros written from them about everyone and many more, to introduce them in the stage. Here’s the one we’ve made ……

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF

Answer all (*) marked questions. Choose any 9 among others.

*1. Who art thou ?

*2. What art thou ?

3. Which kind of mountains do you like ? – a. Young and growing, b. Snow clad, c. Hard and rocky, d. Volcanic.

*4. I can …….. ( a long gap, to be filled up ).

*5. Are you … a. Veg or non-veg, b. Hot or cool ?

*6. The teacher you … a. like the most, b. Fear the most ?

7. Give a suitable quote for the ISI T-Shirt.

8. First impression about the hostel ………

9. Your first crush.

10. Suggest with reasons … a. an ideal bathroom-mate from your batch ( explanation – in the hostel we live in single rooms, with two sharing one bathroom each, hence bathroom-mate ),               b. someone from your batch whom you want as a parent-in-law.

11. The craziest thing you did in your life.

12. Describe an incident in your life that most resembles world war II.

13. What do you do that takes closest to Nirvana ( no allusions to the band. )

*14. Your dream actor/ model ………. Describe, in short, the wildest dream you had involving him/ her.

*15. ” When you try your best but you don’t succeed/ When you get what you want but not what you need/ when you feel so tired that you can’t sleep ” — what do you do ???

16. Suppose one day a teacher comes in your class, places a banana on the table and says, “I’ll be back in 10 minutes, have this banana meanwhile”, and goes out. What will you do ? ( THIS QUESTION IS INSPIRED BY A TRUE INCIDENT. )

17. Name the person(s) whose answers inspired you to answer your questionnaire.

N.B. If you haven’t found any questions, the answers to which will be your NAME and BATCH …… please mention it somewhere !

Strictly N.B. : I won’t take sole responsibility for any of these questions, so all the praises and/or swears, criticisms addressed to this questionnaire would be redirected to our whole batch, lots of seniors …

pics only

A post-ful of pics … nothing more to say really about the KVPY Bangalore camp, except that five of us bunked the last lab visit on the last day to go catch a bus to the city bus stand, had lunch at the KFC there, and went to the Lalbagh Botanical Garden.

So, now the pics …

you can't get a smell-less sock

we four ISI-waale !

Smile please !

mmmmm, ... slurrrp ...

at lalbagh ...

The lalbagh lotus pool

that’s all folks !

The first night

RECAP, IN THE TRAIN …

I saw your hand !

Hey Sujayam, you were supposed to snap OUR pics.

Place : the IISC, Bangalore campus.

Time : 29th june, 1 am onwards.

You know what you need after a tiring train journey that’s more than 18 hrs late, and you get a room to sleep at last at 2 in the morn, and you have three guys for company ? Simple ! You’d go out and explore, have a near-sugarless yucky hot chocolate, and above all wanna play and practise your newly-learnt bridge, in the wackiest and unlikeliest of places ! And here are the samples from that night

Seriously, ... we were playing !

There was this dog whom i wanted very much to cuddle, but for some unknown reason i was frightening it. It chose Ritam daa instead !

THAT Dog … and Ritam daa

Then it was time to cross the road, go to the other side of the campus, starting another game of bridge sitting on a large sanitary tank, and getting up only because of a lot of ants !

David and Goliath …

Ah yes. Last but not the least. Now back again … the main campus. Ritam daa was dying to do something ‘wild’, and what we ended up doing was climb over the walls of the Hoysala house, prowl its corridors and staircases in darkness ( yes, like thieves ) and snap arbit pics.

One of those Chivalrous Hoysala corridors

That’s all folks, for now.

The most interesting part of the tour’s over. Nearly all that remains are the memories of a lot of sleep-inducing lectures and lab-visits, more suitable for the junior fellows with us, a lot more arbit pics, and a little bit of trip to the city on the last day.

Anyway, i’ll write about it.