The 28 first-timers of the 5th Semester
Published by amrit on Thursday, December 08, 2005 at 5:11 AMDidn’t have a single hair-cut
Didn’t get an OAT card
Watched only one movie in OAT: Chandramukhi starring Rajnikant
Removed Windows 98 from my comp (it had been there along with XP since 1st year)
Removed the hard-disc from my comp
Designed Shaastra T shirts and poster and banners and on and on
Got four free Shaastra T shirts (1 still pending)
Did not participate in a single event in Shaastra
Missed one end-semester exam (wrote it today after much fight)
Didn’t play a single outdoor game
Played CS
Did only one work as the Alumni Affairs Secretary of
Chatted with Bro and Sis on yahoo conference
Purchased a five hundred rupee book online (a pirated copy of which is now selling at less than Rs.80/- in Moore Market)
Created a Character called ‘Techno-the IITian’
Wore a single jeans for more than half the semester (not continuously of course)
Saw the
Went inside a temple in IIT Madras
Got a railway concession for myself
Had a sip of whisky
Dined in GRT
Saw a real CAT paper
Saw the Indian President in real
Shifted from yahoomail to gmail
Understood what a RSS feed is and started using it
Switched from a dormant blogger to a regular one
Inspired a few to start blogging
Keep discovering.