I got up from trying to sleep to write this.. This is mostly relevant only to me and maybe a few people who would read this. But i am sure everyone has had their moments in engineering life.
I will start with the first thing i remember related to RV. I had a cousin who was there, a year before me. I came to know him personally(my earliest memory of him to date) a few days before CET. I didn't know he was in RV at that time, only that he had aced in the CET and had some super awesome tips on how to do it. The tips did work! believe me.
Next thing i remember is that i was somewhere in of the uttara or dakshina kannada districts when we got our CET results. we were on a trek to kudaremukha hill(very big hill ~=mountain) which we never climber. nevertheless each of us got wet.. completely. Our guide, mentor, lecturer, idol etc... offered to buy me new underwear as everything that i had bought was also wet. I think i took his help. He was with us when we got our CET results.
Next thing was the trip to RV with my dad. "The damn college didn't have a proper garden in front of the main admin building" was my dad's argument to make me chose an engineering college in Tumkur, which by the way has the best ever gardens in all the engineering colleges i have seen. On our way back to majestic, the BMTC bus had a puncture.. we had to take another bus.. not a good sign again.
Next thing was CET cell. I went for the sports quota selections... yes.. i wanted to get a feel of the CET cell before i could do the real thing. First up were national level medal winners, next up national level participants... anyway doesn't matter... only one thing worth mentioning. I saw this super awesome babe... i was sure she was from Bangalore(i didn't know cool babes could come from mangalore also... no its not just you). She was really awesome. she was a swimmer is what i would get to know later.
Next was my actual seat selection. but wait.. before this we also went to KREC for other REC selections.. trichy was supposed to be great.. these guys made these on the spot rules about taking 10th and 12th marks cards and not giving them back.. so we had to chose either another REC of RVCE. We(me and my dad) chose RVCE. Just for the record I was almost first in the list had i chosen REC. Also one more thing, that day was really uncomfortable cause i couldn't find a place to shit.
Ok back to CET cell.. i am waiting for my name to be called.. fuck only one girl in top 10? she's got specs.. what would you expect man?
I see this guy.. who looked like a kid with big soda glasses sitting next to me.. See at that time, even I was a kid.. so this guy must have been kids among kids. Anyway he was reading "The Hindu". I don't know why, but i have always had this thing against that paper. I think its for learned people and that it has too much information... But it made me snigger at that guy..
I got my seat.
I went to RVCE... fee paying day.. like most(?) of the guys my age... i might be wrong here cause later i met some people who all happened to be related in someway to bank employees... i didn't know how to fill out a chalan(?) and deposit money.. I went to vysya bank after getting those RGB things from the office counter.. and i see this awesome Swimmer again. Fuck she is in this college? Too good man.. but she had this other dark guy with her.. and they were talking in english.. damn.. not a very long queue. paid money.. next hostel fee.. done.. go home.. come back starting day.
At this point i don't remember whether i went home or whether next day was first day of college, i remember staying in the hostel cauvery-30 one night before the first day.. Mayank came and told me to shave off my so--so-- mustache.
First day.. sports complex(?) i am sure it was called something else.. dont remember.. i saw this guy.. who was like 15 feet tall walking with all the people going to eat at DJ..
I remember my "spider-man" T shirt and some 2nd year seniors in those brown uniforms ragging me about spiderman. To tell the truth, I thought getting ragged was kinda funny.. it made me laugh always.. "has math chutiye" or something along those lines was always wat i got in return.
I remember crying 2 times after getting ragged.. I was(am) a sissy... a little..
We had this big fear of going out alone.. so always went in groups and had to be back inside hostel by 9PM else muniyappa would not open gates... going to browsing centre.. stealing chappals to compensate..
Then one day.. the greep chappal nataka.. melvi (the miser) is a born actor. he did the part so well... denga.. poor guy. kiran feeling sad that we always made fun of denga.. and forgetting about feeling sad the next day.. the "salute" to denga..
My first monthly feast.. wow.. coke.. 2 ice creams.. so much..
Assy's infinite b'days, ash's incident with gandhi.
Water fights...
Playing football. I would keep for pretam who was my first festhos captain sometimes after college..
Anup, TC, Michael getting ragged... seniors getting kicked out of hostel.
Last day of first year.. KK drunk, me and ash go down to check out whats happening.. i get scolded and called bad names by KK, anup being cool dude explaining he needs more booz.. you be a good boy and go back to your room and sleep... me going back.
DJ hostel(127)... super mess.. the warden beating the child workers...
Ash's comp... the first porn movie. There were like 20 people inside the room.. sitting at everyplace... dark. doing dunno what with themselves...
smoking outside the window during internals....
AOEII, quake3.
Splashing water on the truce-maker Aunty's face.. TC's smelly b'day. New year. I was waiting for my lab exams. TC coming to room getting drunk.. asking the other rakesh not to tell his DVgere friends about him drinking. me telling him to shut the fuck up and sleep. Chintu coming back on mohan.. with beer dripping onto his sweater with puke.
There was this dhaba near college.. don't remember its name.. but i remember going there with gajaraj and some others..
The first time i saw bhatta smoking(probably in first year) near that krishna's night canteen.
more football and night cricket.. (rape-the-chicks to be remembered)
chamundi.. shitty hostel.. we chose the ground floor for some group reasons.. (116). shitty room.. with rats crawling.. no light. no place to do anything...
trying erasex the first time.. seeing the videos later.
getting piss drunk.. and getting high.. making self promises never ever ever to do it again.
puking my guts out literally... and getting high(after that)
opening the main cage door of chamundi for nice guys coming back from MG road. this requires some explanation. i had this huge bunch of keys which i borrowed from the half asleep gaurd to let my friends in.. I couldn't see the keys.. forget the hole.. but guess what, i picked the right key on the first try.. piss giggling outside the hostel.. now that i remember.. all the guys in that group outside the hostel are in the usa.
playing counter-strike.
ofcourse i have to mention sneha. Everyone loved sneha. We went there almost every week to hear out TC and his stories.. never ever got bored. Last time i saw this place had become real posh.
getting placed.. first job.
last day of football with seniors.
4th year.. kiran saying he wants to study this time.. seriously and so doesn't want to be in the group.. but still comes to the same d-wing.
trying erasex again.. feeling like a loser. sending messages.. heartbreak. love. heartbreak.
photo day.. pic with some girl i admired (courtesy harki).
going to the club.. taking pics.. pissing on all places wherever we could..
i dont remember the day i went back home...
EDIT: There are a few more moments too...
Kiran "borrowing" the chess book permanently from library in the first year, thinking he got caught... denga consoling him. Me and kiran discussing out future on steps in cauvery.
Mara bovi's joke on chodan, his size and why he should study mechanical and not computer science using a keyboard..(i just heard the joke).
Chodan's penalty kick which gave "quad damage" their win over the senior bengali team. (see.., there u are not at all miniscule.. that is a golden moment to remember forever ;-))
There is one moment about harki too... 2nd year... warden suddenly invades room in the afternoon with our PD... the G man was standing with harki umanka and sid on the 2nd floor i think.. harki was laughing.. we were pretty sure there was something fishy about the sudden visit.
