Excitements in iiitb

International Institute of Information Technology, from now referred to as iiitb became my educational institute cum home in August 2005. In the past two years, I have spent every sleeping/waking moment here along with 250 other such students. Well, not exactly. I went home on weekends and if I don't mention that, my fellow iiitbians(some of whom were not fortunate enough to have their parents living in the same city) will make it a point to remind me.

iiitb had a variety of students hailing from different states,belonging to different religions,following different culture patterns..A true cosmo-university, if I may call that.






It is situated bang in the middle of one of Bangalore's IT hubs, Electronic City, away from the noise and pollution of Bangalore in the midst of a beautiful nature friendly campus.It did not take me very long to fall in love with iiitb.




I developed some of the best of friendships during my term there..
That shouldn't be too surprising considering that I practically lived with these guys. I can think of tons of things that happened but an explanation of all of those would hardly qualify as a blog post. :-)

One of the most exciting moments were definitely when on the night of my birthday, myself and a handful of friends decided to scare people in the hostel. We started by using sticks to knock softly on some girls' bedroom windows from the outside pretending to be mysterious unwanted intruders. To achieve the effect we chose certain bedrooms on the second floor which could not be reached from the ground outside. Some fell for it and started screaming. Others brushed it off as an antic after considering the fact that the only rooms that were being targeted were the ones in the corners (as those were the only ones we could reach with our sticks).
So we thought of a way to get these people too. We staged an act by placing Swathi(one of the most convincing dramatists amongst us) in one of the middle rooms that could not be reached by absolutely anyone from outside in any manner, except if they were flying around on a broom.. Swathi caught the attention of every single person in the building by letting out an ear piercing shriek and running out of her room with stories of how she had just heard knocks on her windows, very scary ones at that.
This ploy was an absolute success as. :-P With all their IQs put together, the girls could not come up with any reasonable way in which this phenomenon could have happened. One by one, every one of the others whose windows we had knocked on earlier, were convinced that something evil was going on. God himself could not have come down and convinced the girls that day that everything was ok. We(the culprits) were almost on the floor, rolling with laughter, while the others decided on how to handle the situation. Swathi was still playing her part,shedding crocodile tears and building up newer,more excellent versions of the scary incident. She seemed to be getting better at the act.. :-) Everybody were totally convinced that there was a ghost about the place.. We enjoyed the reactions for some more time and it was only when the others decided to report the mysterious incidents to the management, did we decide to reveal the truth. Needless to say, nobody slept that day.:-)

Will write about more "Excitements in iiitb" later.