Exhausted, Part 2

I talked enough about Guwahati yesterday and now it’s time to talk about IIT Guwahati.
IIT is around 20 km away from the main city and the main means of transport is institute’s bus service which is good enough.

It’s just like any other IIT. Huge buildings of various departments and hostels spread over a large area. Big labs full of cool equipment, everything that a to-be-engineer needs.
The feel too, is similar to any other IIT. Everyone is cool about most of the things. The atmosphere like all IITs is - No one gives a damn to what you do with your life. It’s your life and you can bend and twist it in any way you want.

One big problem at IIT Guwahati was that it isn’t very well maintained. The building is quite new (newest among IITs) but it is already having problems. No one seems to look after the minor problems in hostels. Like, all the toilets stink and are full of various kinds of insects making your hygiene and bladder extremely low. (I am playing Sims a lot these days :-))

After the initial impressions, I and my friend (Vivek) decided that we are not going to IIT Guwahati. But we still had two days before the train back home. We spent the first day in IIT with a friend studying there. We had lots of fun IIT-style (rather engineering college style, coz now most of the good engineering college students spend there hostel life similar to IITians). This day made sure that the next two years of my life at IIT Roorkee will be an unforgettable experience.

We spent our last day at Guwahati in a hotel. The old style elevator there was ready to collapse when we entered and it actually did when we were leaving! This day was extremely bad. After having awful lunch in a restaurant, we stood in Rail Ticket cancellation queue for 4 hours to get our unconfirmed AC tickets cancelled. To my relief the day ended well with some good food and sound sleep.

The next two days belonged to my longest train journey. As if 36 hours in a Sleeper compartment in a train traveling in Assam, Bihar and UP were not enough, the train was 4 hours late. I don’t even want to remember how I was stinking badly and trying to kill time in the train.

Well, I am glad I am back and I still have some days before I join IIT Roorkee to enjoy. And in the same breath as I say this, I wish this was my last such trip.