just back from a vacation!

dear blog
i have been roaming around the country for the past few weeks. i met many people. actually, this was the first time in my life that i enjoyed meeting 'new' people. the atmosphere there is such that one can approach and talk to anyone.

at IITR i was surprised with myself that i had talked to 60 different people (excluding the seniors,profs) in a span of two days! we had formed a group of 9 people. together we used to roam around the whole campus. we had been given maps of the campus. so we needn't ask anyone for directions. we moved as if we owned the campus. the interesting thing about large campusses is that people don't know everybody. so we even went on to play badminton and squash in their courts! we even went inside the library. its another issue that we just sat on the couch there... who would want to study in the presence of such cozy couches!

the next campus-in-line-to-roam-around was SIBM,pune. after IITR, it looked like a concrete jungle(not even a jungle.. a group of bushes maybe..) in the middle of a desert! it is one hour far away from pune in a village whose name even the autowallah won't understand in one take. no autowallah will go there ever.... that's my prediction for the next 10 yrs! that village is like a university in a nutshell. all the possible, thinkable areas of specialization can be found there. that too, in a single building!! MBA is somewhat respectable there, for it has three buildings to itself and a common auditorium very near to it. on reaching there i just could not figure out the reason so much hype is given to it. You are in pune, yet you are not in pune! who would want to be there, i wondered aloud! so, along with me, i demotivated two other people. they were demotivated to such an extent that one guy just kept mum in his gd and the other girl told in her pi that her hobby was to scream at teachers(she even cooked up some examples!) i did not try any of the above stuff, still, my GT went horriblly bad.

its good that i had to go to pune. atleast i could meet old friends!i have just come back from my vacation to the reality of attendance short.

i have to go for another gd/pi. now its in delhi. i will tel you about the second leg of my vacation after that.