ADMISSION @ NITJ

Well my admission in NITJ was more of a shock to me than a nice surprise...
I can't say whether i deserved to be here or not but in the earlier days when i had just got into this college .. i never felt like joining .. The simpliest reason being I thought i deserved more than this....

It all started with CET J&K in which though the papers went great and I was sure to be amongst the top few students to be into .. NIT Trichi Or Suratkal .. but destiny wanted something else... You really never know what it has kept in store for you .... ( But as they say .. whatever god does that is great .. and only benefits you ..) ..

Before this my dreams of going to BITS had crashed as even after scoring 93.2 % in CBSE I couldn't make it .. while the state toppers at 88% made it... Thats is altogether a different story ...

We come back to The CET results which were a complete shock ... My rank was 20th which apperas to be a good one but in a city like J & K where not many people appear for this .. was not acceptable ... That was the fitst time in my life that i felt like not facing my parents or friends as i had crashed their dreams and mine too.....

But one thing that was good was that many of my friends had really made it... Some kinda satisfactin ...

Seeing the rank i didn'e accept me to get CSE or some goodbranch in any REC (at that time) ... but may be god wanted to help me as i was able th get CSE which was some kinda relief after all this.... I always wanted to take this branch as i had interest in computers from before .. so i accepted it gracefully and decided toget admission here only @ NITJ ... I called one of my Seniors to enquire how the college is and was happy to hear wat he said ..( Frankly i myself had heard the name of this college only at the time of counselling ...) ..

It turned down the seat that i would be getting in some good college at mumbai or pune as we being kashmiris have got a quota there .... ( I needed me to do something on my own ..)....

So i along with my father and some friends went to Srinagar .... (to get the letters from NIT Srinagar ) ... We'll there i sniffed what was going to come as i joined the college .. as there i was ragged for the first time...

We got our letters and joined NIT Jalandhar ... I decided to join after somesays so that i can stay with the parents for some time... as i never had remained out of home for more than 4-5 days ..

I joined on 17 August and the classes had started by that time ....

FIRST CLASS @ NITJ

We'll after I had got admission into this college some people were happy with my decision while some were not but I decided to go on with what I had chosen and try to prove out a point....

When I had entered the campus earlier I had found it really beautiful... Being the most recent NIT the infrastructure was really good and also the buildings were well designed and planned.... First impression was a rather good one hence .... The first year hostel was also very beautiful with a garden surrounding it ... The managers sitting in the bottommost room of the hostel were looking like yamrajs ... trying to get most out of the new students as they don't have any idea of what is happening around .... Damn I think if i ever get a chance tomeet them again ... I will surely beat the hell out of 'em ...

My first day at the College was not really great as I after taking a room in the the first year hostel had to directly go and attend the class after the lunch break and how would you feel when in the first ever class that you attend in a college you are made to write down ... ( On a blackboard 4 pags from a book non stop in june with the sun at the top burning and the temperatures around 42 degrees ) .... I was sweating really profusely ..with all the classmates lookin at me and probably thinking... this man has got a really bad luck to be attending ...Mr. Thapars lecture ...

We'll that happened and I got the first chance to interact with the classmates who ... were wearing the normal attire as any fresher has to ....

1) Shirt ( Full Sleeves ) tugged out....
2) Only black shoes .... that too formal
3) Pants need tobe formal as well .... you should be able to see the crease perfectly ..
4) No belts allowed..
5) No wrist watch ...
6) Hair cut (army style .. we used to call that NIT cut .. even the barbers here knew about that)
7) Nothing in the front pocket of the shirt ...
8) Nothing in the pants front pocket ....

Thats it... huuuhhhhh .... Disgusting na... 'll at that time you think so ....

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Then I went to the hostel with the other class mates .... and spent my first night in hostel ....
This time around my father was also with me ...

Read the next blog to see how i spent the first night and how I felt . ....

FIRST NIGHT @ NITJ

Well friends me back again ... and what you are viewing is the photograph of the academic block ... seeing this really inspires you to be in this college only....

I have in my lifetime gone to many educational institutions but this building is amongst some of the best ..

Leaving all that apart I will go back to where I was ... My first day at NIT Jalandhar and the first class that I attended .... I returned back to the hostel at 5 ... that is the time when our classes used to end those days and went directly to the mess to have a cup of tea .... Before this I had met some of the seniors from my own state who were looking very helpful (May be because I was along with my father at that time ... ) .. anyways they told me that they will help me in any way I needed them to and assured DAD as well...

Being in the hostel mess for the first time was really a mixed feeling ... looked like someold resturant.. where all the tables had been joined together ... Some pictures were hanging on the walls as well and they tried to create a nice impression ... though you could feel the reality when you went in.... anyways I had my cup of tea and went directly to my room ....

.. The rooms were the temporary ones that were alloted to us and would be changed after some days as the students will be pouring in .... I arranged the bedding and DAd asked me to get acquainted with the students who were there ... I went to the terace and saw that a bunch of people were studying there talking about the sessionals that were scheduled to be on the 8th of next month ... well there was not too much time left as today was the 27th and it was my first day .....

I met some guys from punjab and a few guys from UP as well ... they were also discussing physics topics and i really got worried as there was not much time to prepare (.. though those sessionals never happened and got postponed by more than a week ..) but if you hear anything like this on your very first day you really don't know what to do ...

My very first roommate was a guy from AIT.. mechi guy... We stayed together for only three hours though when I shifted to some other room ...

There was no light in the room .. as we had to arrange our own tubelights or bulbs ... We got them after some time from a shop on the DS .... Then we had dinner(me and my dad) .. and went to sleep very early ...

I did not feel like sleeping so I decided to go to the neighbouring rooms to see who lived there ... I met students from Tamil Nadu..(First people I talked to at NITJ) ... then Imet a guy from goa and one from amritsar who also was staying there....we talked for along time on different topics and went to sleep at around 2...

I really could not sleep in that room as I had never had an xperience of sleeping in such a place but I closed my eyes and never knew when i went to sleep .. I was awoken by my father at 6 in the morning and then after getting fresh .. went to take breakfast.....

My father was leaving at the same time to jammu ..... I went along with him to the main gate and then came back and ate those delocious parathas.... (Never try to eat them ... I don't know how they make them) .. and then went to the class .....

Wellin thenext phase I will write about the friends that i made here in the first year ...