Its been ten days, and life in Bhagirath village is as laid back as that of a Navy officer after spending six months at sea. It seems like yet another peaceful and uneventful desert town on the outside. Take a closer look at the mess-side (not mess-facing) upper pi wing, however, and you will notice that it isn't all smoke and green after all.
To start with, my namesake and (ex-)wingie Vineet Pandey, who is now a Backlog student, is back on campus. To make things worse, he has been alotted a room next to that of his nemesis. You may think that that is the cruelest joke the random nature of the Universe can play at you until you visit Room no. 258 in Bhagirath, where Rachit Chandra is living next to Nobody.
Cornered on the other side of the wing, Anurag Dutta has been made to study Bode Plots for another four months after a high-tech 'Pen Check Test' conducted by one of the thousand Deans in the highly dysfunctional bureaucratic system of BITS proved him guilty of adding a leading '1' to a requisition letter.
King of DoTA Vishal Vejani, who has made up his mind to set up an empire of Imitation Jewellery, has been fighting hard to gain access to the Temple of Zuma with SunGod priviliges.
In other news, chocolate boy Kunal Batra, who has successfully evaded more than seventy proposals from ovulating BITSian women in the past three years, has finally come out of the closet and publically announced his sexual preference on his GTalk status message.
Also easily noticable (in fact, impossible to miss even on Google Earth) is Binit Ranjan Mishra, who has been alotted the middle room to maintain the centre of gravity within the wing (and also to keep the moon within the Earth's gravitational field). He has put up a curtain in his room as well, to protect his precious and delicate body from the perverted eyes of the three people who will bother to check out what he's upto in the next five months.
While Golden Boot of BITS Sathe Akshay Rajendraprasad and Nine Point Something Mohta Mayank Prakash have been struggling with the name fields on their resume, Rashik Gupta has been receiving fragments of romantic poetry from his secret crush.
Stargazer Amey Parulekar and my favourite gult in the whole world Karteek Addanki, as usual, are Geeks.
With upto six hours of powercuts, an erratic water supply and a disastrous LAN distribution switch, Bhagirath Village has become alarmingly similar to BITS Goa.
Thankfully, Swine Flu hasn't created as much of a havoc so far, but the aptly named Little Green Mofos have ruined Vishal Jaiswal's plans of jerking off with the lights on.
As for Yours truly, Divya Saraf agreed to tie him a rakhi after 'The Dude from Lucknow' Swati Singh, for reasons undisclosed, blatantly refused to do so, causing a minor glitch in her neonatal relationship with a particular StuCCAn of a department that thinks it controls(z) everything.
As the moment of arrival of Dhananjai Gaur, Anant Prakash and Yahoo! Software draws nearer, and as Ayush Saksena, Shailee Jain and Surbhi Chowdhary continue to struggle with the wires and holes on their breadboards, Senti sem at BITS promises to be a 100 day long tale of Intellectual Conversations, Critical Decisions and Situation Comedy.
Here's to Retirement!
