Tuesday, 31 March 2015

I am in my cell.What's next?

 Congratulations.After the registration is done,you're finally a BITS student.After you reach your room along with your parents,you gotta buy some things.
1.Go to Borkars and buy some toiletries,if you haven't carried them from home.
2.A bucket,a mug,a dustbin,broom of good quality,mattress(if you've not followed my advice),a bottle,a wiper etc.All these things would be available in your hostel's common room.
3.Go around for a walk and contact your seniors for books.Mark my words,if BITS is called a cool place(which I don't agree),its because the seniors are so cool.They are the soul of this campus.BITS on its own is still a old,jammed machinery.
4.Buy a SIM card from Monginis(refer to the campus map for directions).
5.Open an SBI account(This can be done at a later time also.I did this after about a month).

At the time of registration,you will be given a schedule of two important things:
1.Registration at Computer Center.
2.Orientation programme.

Registration at Computer Center will comprise:
1.Submission of your 10th and 12th grade mark-sheet,pass certificate etc.
2.They will shoot(with a camera) your face for ID card.

I seriously do not recommend visiting the Orientation programme(although the last few minutes are important as they show the names of those students who have been slided-up or transferred to some other campus),as you can gift yourself and your parents some rest during those hours.Contacting your seniors is a much better idea to get information about the college.In fact,I would recommend that your parents also should contact a senior,instead of attending the OP.

After this very less things remain to do.And this is the time when emotions start playing in your head.Your parents would  leave soon,and no matter how much you hate'em(in today's world it happens!),at one point you'll feel wetness in your eyes.How much you cursed them over all these years when you dreamt of nothing but freedom,and now when freedom is at door-step,suddenly that thirst for it has vanished.I remember when my father left,I suddenly felt light-headed.I wanted to go back to my room and sleep.Then suddenly it started to rain(perhaps one of those rare occasions when even nature takes part in human suffering).But what is bound to happen,will happen.

After your parents have left,don't go into the room and open your laptop and start chatting with your old friends.Hangout a bit,walk around the campus,see your fellow girls,meet with your hostel-mates,meet your seniors and mentor.
1.Do not expect the very next day some senior will knock your door to rag you.Ragging in BITS comprises an introduction(though expect some more at your department orientation programme.Good thing I kept sleeping that day).
2.BITS has a very unhealthy culture of speaking English,no matter if you're comfortable in it or not.If you see a bunch of boys or girls babbling in Engish(in which you're not very comfortable),do not think them high-class to whom you can't talk.Go approach them in the Hindi or the language you're comfortable in.At BITS everyone tries to speak the foreign language.no matter how incorrectly they speak.Remember you're here to be a man of science,not an Anglophile.

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