What if there is no NIT - Kurukshetra in my LIfe...!

July 12th, 2010. I still remember the first day i set my foot in this place, N.I.T – KURUKSHETRA, that was the moment i got a proof that i’ve achieved something great and remarkable in my Life, a proof for me and to all those who love me, my parents, my friends, relatives and well wishers of mine. Yes, this my achievement had changed away a lot in what happened later on in my Life. The way parents and friends treat me when i go to my Andhra Pradesh. They gave me more respect and much more importance to me and my word. This day, i’ve said to myself, “Yes, this is gonna be my home for these 3 years of MCA,” and it now is.

July 20th, 2010. First day into the classes. This is the day i met many of the new people, those who are going to be a part of my life for these 3 years in a row, and some of them for the rest of my life. These are the greatest gifts i’ve got in this NIT, friends, without whom there would be no fun, better said no life for a life. The things which we do in the hostels and the fun we have in the classrooms, all these are the best part of a student life. All my friends love me a lot, mainly my room mate Deepak Kumar, and lemme make a clear point, i can’t be bias in this aspect, because everyone from my whole batch showed me a very very friendly nature, and especially Ranjan, he always saye me “Hey Krish, i’m your fan,” and i love that, because i’ve never had any fans in my life, and so Ranjan is my first and first is always the best.

As everyone knew, i’m from South India, Andhra Pradesh and i can’t speak Hindi, but i feel pleased and honoured to say that none of my batchmates, and better say no one in this NIT, not even the security gaurds of library and the people those work in Book-Bank, and even the shopkeepers of Garg enterprise in NIT market and Ravinder bhai and Gopal bhai of NIT khokha, all these people, never gave me any sort of uncomfortable experience because i’m not from North India. They even tried to engage with me in English, i loved this the most. I was treated as a guest from South India, by all these people, mainly my friends, they share everything with me in two languages, they firstly say something funny among themselves and i don’t get to understand it, so they, without any mark of irritation, translate it into English and make it comfortable for me. They never alienated me from anything. And now they are even teaching me good Hindi, and mostly male-oriented Hindi, which means i better don’t use it infront of girls, yes i was told not to.

And like this, among all these sort of very good sweet memories in NIT, there came a sweetest day, which i never thought would exist, it is 25th Sept, 2010. Our MCA Fresher’s Day. This day was one of the very best days of my life, this day i’ve done things which i never had any idea of being myself capable of doing. Everything, about that day was a sweet memory, infact sweetest. I thank once again to those people who made that day a very very special day of my life, to seniors and all. And the disco we had on that day is mind blowing. Totally, the day was a rocking one.

And like that went on the first semester...to a happy ending.

Now comes the second semester, a semester which almost seems like ‘classes between holidays’ rather than ‘holidays between classes’. Three National range festivals, all comes with a week of holidays each, and we take the rest as mass-bunks. From the day one of the second sem, inductions and halchal among the students of the whole college. Literati 2011, was a very good technical fest, where i got a chance to meet some real talent in the students of the institute. This was very inspiring. And then came the original rocking event ever, another National level cultural festival, “ConFluencE 2011”. This was already being proven, as you peope had already witnessed the smashing events of the fest like Fash P and all. The fun we all had in the brand new ‘Open Air Theatre’ for battle of bands, and especially the Fashion Parade, where our dear classmate Namitha Sehgal had showed the whole insti a rocking performance from MCA along with the other students of our batch, Vipasha, Priya Lalwani, Sanga Mitra, and our senior Shreya ma’am. And a group dance from other girls of our class. Everyone of them had made this ConFluence’11 a very unforgettable experience for all of us.

All these memories of this NIT college life, right from the very first day July 12th 2010, through this day, is asking me a question, “What if i were not a student of NIT – Kurukshetra, MCA 10-13 batch?” I’ve a genuine answer for this, i consider myself as the most-unfortunate guy i’ve ever known. Yes, this is the place where you meet people, make them your friends, and build a long-lasting relation with them. This is a kind of place where you don’t get to be in, very often.

NIT, our college, is the place which gives us time and opportunity, a chance in life which we never had before, to grow up internally, as a person. It teaches us how to mingle with different people which we all will be facing in an year or two, when we enter into the real world out there, after getting a job in placements(let’s hope so, anyhow). There are people, who are my friends, those studying MCA from some local engineering colleges, who unfortunately don’t stand a chance as much as we do. They don’t get the enjoyment that we do here, through these Fests and all, and they don’t even have resources as we here do, the oppurtunities, the time, and the best thing that we have above them all is everything. Yes, literally everything. This is the place which offers us value to our lives. We all are experiencing it, if you don’t feel so, then call to your parents when you are in the middle of a ConFluEnce show or a guest lecture, or from CCN at midnight and tell them what chances you are given here to do, which you don’t get if you weren’t a part of this college, then see what your parents tell to your neighbours and relatives the next day, about how happy you are to have such a wonderful college life, with festivals, fashion parades, and the hostel life, where all your friends are just a doorstep away. Yes, all these are a mark of the achievement we accomplished and much more that is coming our way.
Guys, this is our time.

A special thanks to ConFluEnce.....!

Written by: -kRISHNA kANTH

As a sweet memory of CONFLUENCE 2011:

a short story: Oh! Wow, Is this real...!

Vivek is a good natured funny boy, of age 18, who has some simple wishes just like anyone of that age. He studies in some no-name college, doing his graduation. He is fed up with his college education, due to the very tough syllabus, and also equally ridiculous examination conduction, and their evaluation by the examination board. He thinks he is simply losing all his colour in life, after coming into graduation, as he never wanted to get into this kind of college. He always felt that he should have studied well in his previous year, so that, he could have got into a very good college for graduation, which he always dreamt of. No, he is not a user-non-friendly guy in the classroom, he of course had friends in his class, but when you don’t like the place you are in, you are most likely to think of getting out of it, with a very good option, ain’t it...!

The only thing that kept him going in this boring classroom life of his, is a girl, his classmate, Anjali. He had a different kind of feeling for her, which he never felt for any girl in his life. It is a very strange feeling for him, and also very much welcoming. He always loved it to stare at her in the classroom, whenever he felt that the purpose of the blackboard in the classroom is only to test how the piece of chalk is working, by the lecturer, which is a way of soothing himself by telling that, “classes aren’t so interesting, just like always, and looking at Anjali will help my mind work well, than being attentive towards the lecture”. So he followed his heart and rested his mind in peace of Anjali..

Anjali, like all the girls, who observes the smirking of boys, just like James Bond observes the catostorphical situations, is very much aware of Vivek’s sight falling on to her, many times in a while in the class room. As the time rolled on, Vivek also realised that she has become very much aware of him. So, he tried to get involved himself into a small chat with her, but invain. Anjali is a very different kind of a girl. Anjali also sometimes smirks at him, making Vivek nervous with excitement, but Vivek couldn’t get anything from it, as he didn’t understand what was that smirk really mean, whether that she too likes him, or is she just having a look at her buffoon in the classroom?

Vivek is not a dreamer too. He thinks that if he ends up here, doing his graduation, that is going to be a greatest mistake he’d have ever made in his life. So he decided to write the entrance exam for getting into a really good University campus, which is situated in the head quarter city of his district.
A really good thing, which is happening now, and is of no knowledge to Vivek is, the very same girl which he fancies in the classroom, is also equally fed up, with her this college life, just as much as him. So, she too thought of writing that exam for getting herself a seat at the University campus. So, both Vivek and Anjali, without knowing to one another, are seriously preparing for the exam. And the day had come, on which they had attempted their exam, but in different exam centres in the town, which means, they each other couldn’t know that they were both wanting to study at the same place.. Some days had passed on. And the day had arrived, which these both dreamt of having made it very big, the declaration of exam result. The result had arrived, and then the principal of the college entered into their classroom, holding a sheet of paper containing the names of candidates, who made it into the Univesity campus. “This is the list of candidates who got selected for pursuing their graduation from the University campus, and as the entrance examination of this year was one of the most toughest one in years, only two of our students had managed to make it big this year, they are none other than, your fellow friends and classmates Vivek and Anjali,”, announced the principal and congratulated both of them.

At this very moment, the heart of Vivek, felt a kind of happiness, which he earlier didn’t knew would exist. He is unable to analyse the precise reason for his happiness, whether it is because he made his dream come true by getting admission in the University or that the girl he fancied, for the first time in his life, is also going to be with him, for the next coming years of education. So, they both have to be friends now, and should share their unity, in a very new and good place, which assures her closeness and friendship, as they both will be from a very same earlier classroom.

Anjali, for the first time, felt good about Vivek, as the boy, who always likes to peek onto her in the classroom, is also equally intelligent, and made it into the University, which means she can count on him, to be of assurance for her, in the new place, coming. She came to Vivek in the evening, when the classes were done, and Vivek is very excited to have himself in the presence of Anjali, for the first time in his life, and felt far more happier, thinking that this is going to be continued for some next coming years, at the University.She came near him, ”Congratulations Vivek, i’m very happy that two students from same class room, have got admitted into the University, and the more happier thing is that those two students are you and i. I initially felt discouraged, that i will be in the amidst of strangers at the University, but i now feel relieved, that you are going to be with me, in a whole new place. And my parents will also be so happy that i’m having a friend at the University already”, said Anjali, and stretched her hand towards Vivek, as a gesture of congratulating and thanking him, and Vivek, who never imagined this would happen for him, is flying in the sky of colours, and for the very first time in the life, felt the touch of a girl, and that too, of the girl who he likes very much.

Vivek, was very happy today, as all his friends and family members congratulated him, for getting an admission in the University. He went to bed with satisfaction, and having imaginations for the next day. He fell quick asleep. His eyes were shut and he is into deepest world of dreams, where a colourful, inner personality of our heart lives its life, in its own way. But, Vivek is hearing a strange smooth sound in his world of dreams, which later on grew harder and hurting his ears. It’s the siren of his daily alarm of his mobile phone, and he woke up with a start. To his surprise, Vivek found himself sleeping amidst the assignment sheets, those which he had been working on, since days, preparing for a paper presentation, finding himself in a very real world, and his age was not 18, but 21 and studying not in some no-name graduation college but in N.I.T-Kurukshetra. And then did he realised what had actually happened, “Oh! This is really a dream! Wow, it felt so good, i wish i never woke up.”

This girl Anjali,really exists, just in his own class, she is his classmate, a very beautiful and charming girl of his class whom he had crush on, since the first day into NIT, but he couldn't get to have some real closeness with her.. So, his feelings for her, effected him like this...

written by:

-kRISHNAkANTH

And the rest is only about Money, nothing else...!!!

Until now, we all had lived the life in a one-way kind of style, you are provided with everything, and are only given some academic tasks like going to school for 8hrs in a day and then after 5 P.M, the rest of the day is your’s for sure, and also you will surely be having each weekend and additionally many vacations for Sankranti, Dusheera, Christmas, and most vital of all, the most awaited summer vacation, but daily of this way, we will most probably remember only the fun we used to have with friends and all daily. Still we are living a similar lifestyle, just with some complex changes in academic tasks, as we are now in college education and will continue this...................................
.............................. until only some 3 or 4 more years. That is the time when a permanent break to this kind of lifestyle is going to be encountered by each and every one of us, in the name of ‘Settled Life’.

Whatever you may be pursuing now, B.tech or M.tech or MCA or MBA whatever, as said above, in 3 or 4 more years our life is going to take an ‘S’ turn into the new unexplored & stange ways of our own life. There is one OMNIPOTENT POWER that is going to be the sole cause for all this inevitable change, it is MONEY....!

Yes. MONEY will strike-in into our lives, this time forever, pertaining to the change of individuals’ outlook into the insight of this very mechanical world, the way you think of others, the tasks you try to rely upon, the way you compare with others, every single thing of this way changes forever, and yes this is really inevitable, you can’t really run away from all these personally-social responsibilities, say like getting a Job, trying to earn as much bigger number as possible on the 1st of every month, than anyone whom you are related or known to. Competetion changes between you and this world, it all becomes currency centered. You will start comparing with your friends, not at all about the marks scored in semester exams, but in terms of income/annum. You will start caring about Basic salary, Provident Fund, Mutual Investments and like that so, and will forget about the time when you visited your home the last time or met a friend of your’s... and eventually your preferences change, your inner desires and spark dies off, life becomes mechanical, to-and-fro motion turns up between office and house. You will get back from office completely tired body and mind full of mental pressures. You will sleep only to wake up early in the morning and to finish off the remaining work before the office time. You can’t have late-night chats with your friends and won’t get a chance to walk with them around the road at mid-night like you did in your college campus.

You were always used to move from one room to another in your hostel, but now in your job life, you can’t even move to your home very often, because office transforms to be your first home, and that is the place where you spend much of your day’s time. You would even start working on weekends, so that you can get some days off, just in case if you want to visit places. The best fun you can have is, you can go for a film on any of the weekends with your colleages, or worse alone. That’s it.

You will be made to feel that going to office daily is more important than visiting your home town and parents atleast once in a month, this is not your mistake, you are cornered, you won’t be left with any other option than sitting back in office even late night and working alone like you are alienated from this world, and like this, yet again the OMNIPOTENT POWER plays its role by making you stick to your money yielding job than going to happiness giving hometown. You won’t have time to attend your sister’s marriage or brother’s wedding. May be you will be given with a month’s salary as a bonus for Diwali, but not a single week off, to celebrate it with your friends and family. What good can you see in it if you are getting bonus money but can’t go home...!

You can only send an email with an attatched flash greeting card from 123greetings.com or more you can call him and wish him Happy Birthday, but you can never again kick his ass in the first minute of his birthday (i.e @ mid-night 12 A.M) and atleast you can’t even have a piece of his birthday cake, unlike you always did in your college life. When you feel like meeting all your friends at once, you can only open your slam book or orkut or facebook’s photo albums of your days oduring college life and can only drop a tear realiazing that these are the days that can never comeback again even if you are ready to sacrifice something from your life to get them back... But, really, that will never ever happen...

So, friends, these few years in college are our last few laps, to enjoy the best life to its fullest, with your academic responsibilities, your friends, class rooms, evening outing with friends, mass-bunks, weekends, late night films, games, vacations, festivals, visiting home for vacations after each semester and much more fun that you are already having now, mainly in the hostel..... Let us preserve these memories forever in our hearts, so that after going into future life, these will be remembered as the best period of life lived with best people in this world.

Wishing you all a very Happy College Life, and a very good placement....
KRISHNA KANTH (an 'NIT'ian)

When lecturers don't wear Watches and college doesn't use bell...

                           F-*-*-K !!!  Every day starts with this word, when we look at the clock in the early morning(only if you agree that 8'o clock is early) and realise that there are only 30 minutes left for classes to start but more than 30 tons of things to think about, like brushing, orkutting, facebooking( expecting friend requests from beautiful girls of the class, but ofcourse they need not request any such thing, as we BOYS are always ON for those kind of re'quest's..)... ok, lets continue anyway, what was i telling....?? yes brushing, orkutting, facebooking and next comes the most important one, eating the breakfast and then starts the most 'un'imporant thing...  C-L-A-S-S-E-S....!!!!

                      
           And now comes the real fun that exists in the class rooms of N.I.Ts. Firstly, while entering into the classroom, we the students will expect to create miracles in the subjects of that day's class, but unfortunately we end up only in mysteries on what the lecturers are teaching, why is nothing going into the head(only if one had such a thing..) then at this very moment, heart of every student sings a song...

                 
                     "Confusion hi confusion hain, solution kuch patha nahi,
                      Solution jo mila tha sala, question kya tha patha nahi..."

 like this every class continues... and the runtime of every class is 55minutes.. And we somehow try to concentrate on black boards instead of back looks.. And after each 55 minutes we expect lecturers to pass out at once, but none of our lecturers wears a wrist watch and our college doesn't have a bell to ring after when each class ends, so that, lecturers can have an idea on our most valuable time, but unfortunately they don't. They never valued our time, but we the very good students always valued their time, which is why we sometimes declare holidays for the lecturers in the form of mass-bunks, but howcome they never did it in reverse, for our sake...??? Why...!!!

                                                 And after this hectic class schedule, starts the real N.I.T hostel life... Every PC and every laptop of each student will be booming with the wallpapers of most stunning and gorgeous celebrities(ofcourse female celebrities, i'm talking about boys hostel)... After desktop background, next thing we all care about is whether internet is working, and nitians(\\172.0.16.18) LAN address, for new movies, games, & everything.... And friends moving from one room to another except into theirs' and hanging around in the sports complex, gym, and in th NIT market, and in NIT koka for evening snacks, and some so called bibliophiles will be hanging in library & reading room....

                                                 But, a bad thing happens everyday at every N.I.T in the country exactly at 7pm... all the girls in the campus SHOULD be back to their girls hostels, and i tell you, this is the only bad thing for each and every boy on the campus, as almost half of the glow around the campus dies off at once..    no not once, but daily at 7pm :-(

                                             And many boys return back to hostel realising that after 7pm, there is no need to hang around the campus (except for those bibliophiles who stays untill late nights in reading room), and we resume the chit-chat or usless talk about that whole day's classes, next assignments, future mass bunks and upcoming vacations and every possible useless(excluding vacation) issues...

                                          And again comes the most important thing, dinner. After dinner we again come back to rooms and start enjoying @ 9pm with internet upto late night, and then opening nitians LAN and copying movies and watching them, and playing games upto something like 2 am and then drowse ourselves into another most important and worthy thing called     S-L-E-E-E-E-(upto 8am only)-P-I-N-G and again like that the new day starts with new aspirations, new dreams to succeed, to achieve, or some funny things like that..

             And again the above whole thing RECYCLES itself...

             AAL IZZ( even if it isn't now, wait, it will be later, ) WELL.....!


                                   With  first experience of these kind of campus& hostel Life
                                                                         -KrishnaKanth (an 'N.I.T'ian)

                                                                                  

I realised, yet again...!

                                             "Akka(sister), still how many more years should i continue my education, I'm getting mad about these education and career and all, can't i have anything good to do in my life apart from education???"
This is how i felt about education when i was 6 years old, in my 1st standard of my schooling. I wanted to stop my education in my 1st standard itself, but now.... I am 21years old and am a student of N.I.T-[Natioanl Institute of Technology] doing my Masters in Computer Applications...

                                            I sometimes wonder myself, if it's really me who spoke such funny things about education just at the age of 6......!!!!

6 years to 21 years.... 1st standard in school to Post Graduation in N.I.T..... this journey in between, had been my Life's most vital part...


  Basically you are born, but education makes you a Man, a Human.

                       I realised a lot about education. It taught me the value of character, goodness, honesty, decency, and above all it taught me the real value of Life. In these 15 years of my educational life, i've seen many ups and downs, i've faced many failures in diversified walks of life, but each failure had been a lesson for me, and yes ofcourse learning lessons is what is called as educaton... Isn't it?

  
                                     Previously when I was with a childish mentality, say like 13 or 14 years old, i used to think, "what are these IITs & NITs doing in the country? How are people being able to study so hard to get into them? Does it really worth it? Is education so essential for one's life?"
     
                                    But, only after becoming an N.I.Tian myself did i realise pitch perfectly, what the value of everything in education is...! I now regret for not trying to prepare for IIT in my +2(12th standard). But, i'm thankful to the Almighy for making me an N.I.Tian atleast, if not an IITian.

                                  Ever since i've started seeing the value in education, i've started getting crazy about IITians and students of IIM( now don't make me tell you about IIMs, about IIT i can only regret, but for IIM i might even kill myself).
                                  Recently, in my college, i.e., NIT-Kurukshetra, i've had some friends in B.Tech first year, when i was having usual chat with one of them named Deepak Kumar of B.tech CSE Dept, we were discussing about colleges and placements, then Deepak mentioned that one of his cousin is earning a 70Lakh per annum as a starting salary..! and then he unlocked the doors of my craziness by revealing the fact that his cousin was a B.Tech graduate from IIT-Bombay and (oh! God. i can't write this) MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad, and his CAT score was 99.95 percentile through which he got into IIM-A. (Now, this man can do whatever he want in his life, he is literally going to spend a golden life, forever, and he can change the lives of some others, as he isn't a common person, he is a product of IIT-B and IIM-A.)
                
             And believe me, it took me more than one complete minute to cool down my mind from the craziness for education at IITs and IIMs...
Then i realised yet again, the real value of education in Life....

Wow yaar..! IIT-Bombay & IIM-Ahmedabad....
I wish I was him....
                                              
                                          With adoring love for the students of N.I.Ts, IITs, & IIMs...
                                                                KRISHNA KANTH( an N.I.T.ian)