First day at IIIT-A

It was just another day for other world, but for me it was more thrilling than it could be. 24th July 2004 (if I could collect it correctly) was the day when I Entered IIITA.

The bus took most of us from Jhalwa to Naini Hostel, and there I saw every head in hurry, don't know for what. A bit Later only I came to know that if one wanted a room, he just needed to dump his Material in an empty room of his liking and that will be your room. That's the simplest and coolest way to get a room according to great grand IIIT-A Administration. Well I found a room in corner of the hostel where hostel ends and jungle starts, which I used to say "Jungle ki taraf wala room" with Mahendra (Later well known by our cricket team's wicketkeeper), dumped my baggage and greeted bye to Papa. Being all alone I just started searching for some nuts.

Room Just next to mine looked a bit happening and there I found a boy with short shirt, probably of yellow color, blue jeans, smarty looks and welcoming smile. Meet Uttam Dwivedi from Kanpur Mr. D-15. Interesting in first meet and continue the rhythm in next ones also. Cool and practical.

I looked happy to find somebody belonging near to my place. Later I got introduced by Mr. Vijay Meena, roomy of Uttam. A bottle in his hand, sleeveless red T-shirt and a blue cap at head and a bottom dusting lower, this is typical version of Mr. Meena, some says he can easily get misleaded to be a mess worker at that time. At that time I didn’t have any idea that they both are going to be a part of my own in near future. 


In the evening I found some more morons at tea, no need to mention the names as a long list is there. After tea we were having our first interaction with high officials of institute along with the director at 7:30. Some of our goanna be friends got the discipline lesson there itself for being late at the meet. We then headed to Shukla’a canteen, had some cold drinks and started jokes. And the day ended with jokes itself starting from dull n simple ones and then turning to interesting, heavy mean and vulgar up-to some level. And that was the time when you can identify different vicinities from where students came in IIIT-A.


I didn’t learned much, didn’t made much friends but still the first days was really the first day. I was in Hostel life for first time in my life. Now I was responsible for me, my doings. Have nobody to care for me (I was not having friends there yet). But that was a very special day for me. One studious, shy, introvert, guy was going to be changed in some next few days.

I have been a very uninteresting, maggu kind of boy till my 12^th. I never bunked a class in my life ever. Sometime I was the only boy to sit in the class, never said a word which can be claimed abusive, was never out for any kind of party. Not having even one friend outside school, never got fancied in fancy dresses. Never got interested with T.V. and was having just DoorDarshan at my home. Never seen and played a video game, was never late for my school, always attended

assembly, always a frontbencher, was present at school even on 15^th August or 26^th Jan, and was never out of home after 8:00 PM alone. And, was not having even single female friend.

Last line is a bit confusing. It was not like that I never wanted to have one. But as my school was a boy’s school and I never gone for a coaching since I knew every bit in advance….I never got a chance to have one. I wasn’t having one even in my vicinity, where I was residing. And honestly saying even if I would have got a chance, I am sure it was not going to make much difference.

Well that’s the way I was, happy with my a rack full books, with my first rank, with my knowledge, with my intelligence (At that time I thought I was intelligent but after being in IIIT-A and watching the height of intelligence the students here were having, I changed my version of intelligence’s definition), with my achievements and with the happiness of my parents due to my being academically at top.

But as I mentioned this version was going to be just in above words after some 24X7s. At my first night at IIIT-A I slept with a hope of having even better day next morning.