Nostalgia

I was visiting my alma mater,Manipal Institute of Technology last week for my final MTech presentation.While walking around the campus with my old roomie Nisha,it suddenly dawned on us that these were our last few days here. Two years had just flown by.Technically speaking, I was in Manipal only for a year- my first year of MTech. I got an internship in Bangalore for the second year and had to move out, Nisha stayed back though. But that one year of hostel life at MIT was the most exciting, memorable, enjoyable year of my life and it was as if I had lived an entire lifetime in those two semesters. I promised Nisha then that I was going to pen down a few of these memories for my blog. Coming back to Bangalore, I got busy with my work and today, finally I have managed to find the time to put up this post.So here it goes...this one's for my Alma Mater!

Things I can never forget about Manipal......

• B3 Quarters, a home away from home. The staff Quarters converted into a hostel for the Post Graduate Students and the experience of living in it with 5 strangers for an entire semester!
• Room No.307, 4th Block: My home for the second semester and a taste of the 'real' hostel life..All the pains we took to get into it, including a verbal fight with the MIC girls (my debut ;-) )
• The Group Study Hall in the MIT Library, where we watched movies, chatted for hours together, had long discussions, spent more time than in my hostel room and ofcourse, sometimes managed to study too ;-)
• Maddy a.k.a Madhuri-A vegetarian roomie who would freak at every sight of me having chicken in the mess and our vegetarianism v/s non-vegetarianism fights that would go all night in our hostel room.
• Murgi a.k.a Nisha and her strange fascination for sun-rise photography!
• Channveer, my classmate and study pal, who always treated me like I was a guy and taught me how to ride a bike.
• Uma, my old roomie and the only other gal besides me in the class of MTech CSE 2007-09.
• The taste of Maggie cooked with a forbidden Electric Heater in the hostel room in the middle of the night:Noodles never tasted so good!
• The Chicken Kababs from Ashraya Mess...Mmm..I still remember the taste....why would they give only 6 pieces in a plate :-(?
• The Manipal End point: Our own spot for the little trekking adventures
• The adventure trip to the mountains of Kodachadri with Akshay, Channveer and Uma and the bumpiest ride of my life from Kollur to Kodachadri
  
• The General class train journeys from Manipal to Goa and back and all the interesting experiences I had aboard.
• The juice Centre at MIT Cafeteria and my favourite, the mango milk shake!
• The open book tests in AI: the number of reference books we would carry to class and come out dejected every time coz not a single one would be useful.
• The First semester presentation in the class and how I managed to get an A+ despite all the odds.
• The Second Semester Results and the excitement of becoming a 9 pointer for the first time in my life.
• The sizzling Chocolate Brownie at Saiba and how we would order it just for all the attention we would get when the waiter would arrive with it.
• The pappu from Andhra Mess with the extra ghee
• The last minute preparations for sessionals
• The Swimming sessions at the MIT swimming pool
• Diwali Celebrations at B3
• The Day I cracked VMware Interview
• The birthday Treats at Saiba, Guzzlers,Dullops and Kediyoor
• The Trip to Malpe at the end of semester one with Channveer and Uma
• The screening of RDB at the MIT Quadrangle
• The Manipal Rains and how no umbrella or raincoat could save us from getting wet coz it would rain in all directions :-)