The Tech Nut at IIT-G : Chapter 9

We were ushered into lecture halls for this. One of the organisers looked really, really bad. He’d coloured his hair, but not properly, so it looked really sick. So I nicknamed him Shithead. It was a bit of a LMAO moment when I first called him that, for the entire team. And then we really had to wring our brains out. This is just one question I solved – Complete the series: 6, 25, 64, 81, 32, _ … should be a piece of cake. I liked it because I had to think twice about it. I always like those kind of questions. We missed out on one 10 marker and were unsure about one or two small ones as well. Anyway, now we had a lunch break before Dexter’s lab. This wasn’t an event, more of a tour of most of the labs. We covered biotechnology, physics, nanotechnology, energy sources and design. I also got a peek at the video editing lab. Too bad it wasn’t important enought to be included. I would’ve liked to go in.

By this time, we had branded ourselves, the four of us. I was a murga because I could imitate a chicken pretty well, Karthick was a piggy, cause he could snort and grunt as well as any pig, Vishaka was a bakri, cause she could bleat and Aishwarya became a duckie, cause she seemed to quack…actually not…but she needed to be an animal too! Later, we called her Ashi, cause she didn’t like her new name

Well, after the lab tours, we checked out the eatery stalls outside the main building. Pizza Hut was there too. Anyway, it was pretty expensive, so we decided to have food from the mess. We all headed back to the Married Scholars’. Mom called while we were walking, and berated me for not calling often enough. Everyone there had Maggi, which I was staunchly against because:

• I didn’t want any more monosodium glutamate in my system
• I wanted to have the mess food. Dinner to be precise.

Anyway, all of us had to head back, because the other team, of Vishaka, Siddharth and Shikhar had to finish their project, as did we. Then, at the T-point, Aishwarya got a sudden interest in Karthick’s bag. Wanted to yank it off his shoulders/use him as a mule. In the process, her own bag’s zipper came open, and most of it’s contents spilled out.

Although we just needed finishing touches. The girls were not allowed into our rooms, even though there was going to be a teacher in there with us. So, we had to sit in the common room, on a pile of mattresses. I had dinner, and found it quite fulfilling. By the time I finished, Karthick and Aishwarya had almost finished the exhibit. After this, a laser show was supposed to begin at around 9:30 PM. Aishwarya, Karthick and I ran to the football field, but could only witness the closing moments of the show. Plus, as a result of running on a full stomach, I got a stitch. I was bent up double in pain on the way back.

Then, all of us decided to go on a little trip to the library-cum-cyber cafe. It was near the lecture halls. Unfortunately, the library was closing down, coz it was 11, so they just let us in for 5 minutes. As for the cyber cafe, they didn’t let me and Shikhar in. Guess why?

We were wearing shorts…

Apparently, anyone wearing shorts, lungis or baniyans wasnt allowed. Actually, the last two are OK, but what’s wrong with a good pair of shorts, not even boxers! The guard said it was because of electrical shocks, but I beg to differ…just think a bit…out of the box…bear in mind that it was a lab with internet access, allowing everyone to…oh heck, I’ve given away too much, haven’t I? Anyway, I set up ma’am’s laptop outside and fiddled around till they came out.

Then, Karthick and Aishwarya had a duel with water bottles. Eventually, Aishwarya smashed Karthick’s bottle out of his hand, and it broke and started leaking. So we had to finish of the bottle there and then. Then, we started the great reverse parade. Everyone, with Karthick as leader, started marching backwards, in time to Right-Left-Right. Vishaka, who wasn’t willing to, got punishments of carrying her gun (bottle) over her head. It was fun, because we eventually ended up running backwards. A few near misses, a few splashed puddles later we reached the T-point, where we were to part ways. Yawn…