Gone are the days..

Long time since I returned to this page. A lot happened during this time, especially in my life. Call it Luck or anything but I made into NITIE, Mumbai. My two years of CAT preparation had come a fruitful end at last. Last two days had been very hectic at NITIE with almost no sleep at all. Seniors started their induction sessions (ragging us intellectually) by assigning case studies, business plans and quizzes etc. Till 1 or 2 pm night we have some games and sessions and from then the real game starts. Each mid-night they assigned some work like case studies, business plans etc just to make us sleep less and get used to B School culture. But overall it had been great fun but with some pains of losing our sleeps. One important thing about NITIE is its greenery. It is unmatchable with small hills all over. And yes, our class rooms too are situated in a small hill. To reach our class rooms we go to climb nearly 150 steps (!!!) every day, that too twice, for morning and afternoon session. Near by, we have the beautiful powai lake. The serene view of it from our class rooms used to provide me very good sleep even with out any pills (As usual i slept on the first day which was an alum speech conducted in our class room). Now that all my induction stuffs are over I am sitting here relaxed at my hostel room wasting our wireless network’s bandwidth by useless chatting and browsing.

When i was thinking that in what way it is going to be the different in the upcoming days except missing my good old friends, the following struck me immediately.

First of all I got shift form credit card to debit again. No more lavish hotels, treats and purchases. The most difficult thing to forgo.

Moving back to Missed calls and sms, from post paid corporate plan to prepaid students pack.
Back to books and midnight tea during exams.

No more “once in month” visit to home town, as Mumbai is one and half day travel from my home town.

One more thing that is worrying me a lot is Hindi. People here often converse in Hindi and for me it is still “Tumara naam kya hi” only. To add insult to this injury is there is a traditional program at NITIE called “Mandi” by august start, during which the students will be asked to roam around Mumbai streets and sell some products. The percentage of the sale we make will decide our internal marks in one of our subject.

There is a lot to list which might ease out in the upcoming days, but whatever it might be, I wish that my stay at NITIE would be happy and enjoyable.