"Home Sweet Home" to "NIT sweet NIT"

Tried ECE in Warangal for 2 years (11th and 12th), got ECE in Warangal, everything seemed so well and good, everything was going smooth. On the registration day, they ask me do you want a branch change? We can internally slide you into another branch..................Whoa, I knew its a government college and there might be some wrong things going on under the table but this........right in front of everyone, that too for new admissions...........I got out, called my parents, dad said fine, you like computers take CSE. He explained the whole situation pretty well - "ECE is very tough throughout the 4 year course, you have to study a lot and the syllabus is vast, technically it has a lot of scope but the B.Tech course for ECE is the toughest one compared to any other branch. Lets be honest here, you are not the studying type, you never liked studying and I know college is total freedom and we have no control over you so anyways you will hardly study.............ECE there's a lot to study so the possibilities are high that you might screw up later. Computer Science is comparatively easier and way less to study. Plus the subjects and work and jobs will be computer related so would be interesting for you." I totally understood what my father was trying to explain and also found out my parents were well aware of my true dedication towards academics :P. I just went into the seminar hall (registration place) and found out the procedure. They explained it properly, the DASA seats for various branches will be empty because some students get better colleges or some don't show up for the registration of the seat they were allotted online, so you get to choose the branch depending on number of seats available. I got the first seat out of 5 available in CSE. Life changes in one day, this is the perfect example for it. 2 years i worked for ECE, tried ECE in this particular college, I got what I wanted but at the last minute, changed to CSE for the rest of my life.............

Well folks, here I am, a college student studying  Computer Science in NIT Warangal who doesn't know any computer language or has any idea what is he gonna do in future. We'll get to that later. So the registration was done, I was officially a registered student of Ntional Institute of Technology, Warangal. Next was the hostel allotment. Ultra Mega Hostel (1.8k), also known as the 'best hostel' among all the NITs. :P Indeed that's true. The lobbies are huge and wide and windy. The washrooms are way cleaner than what was expected from a government hostel. Top view of the hostel is the shape of a butterfly with A and B blocks being the two giant wings of the butterfly in triangular shape. There are 4 lifts in the centre of the hostel and 2 lifts in the centre of the outermost edge of the two wings. And the central stairs go in a hexagonal shape. There are 9 floors in the hostel and apparently its the tallest building in the entire Warangal. My room was B8-20. Single room to all the first year DASA students. Yup, 1st year and I got a single room. Well the bathroom wasn't attached but not very far from my room either. First experience of Hostel life was amazing. And I am pretty good at making friends and that too very fast. And you know there is always this one guy who will be hyper all the time and would do all the crazy stuff without any reason and just say YOLO after screwing it up...............well yeah, thats me. Did tons of mischief, tons of retarded things, tons of stupid dares, got bitten by a dog coz i kicked him, almost got my arm fractured when i fell on the fence with pointy iron spikes on top, jumped from first floor to ground floor of the hostel (almost a 10 feet drop or maybe more) and almost flat on the road, then climbing up back to the first floor using the grills behind the hostel, smuggling the crackers into the hostel during Diwali :P, breaking into the main Admin building at 2 am on Diwali night and climbing up onto the terrace, just walking into seniors hostel alone to explore it, breaking into the mess at 4am and stealing bread, butter and jam with a couple of milk packets (that was the best breakfast ever :P), sitting in the first bench just to change the attendance in the teacher's register and that too right in front of him while he was teaching, taking the fire extinguisher and knocking on friend's door and spraying it in his room as soon as he opens, 6 guys sleeping in a single seated room after watching a horror movie together, football from 12am to 4am with lights in the basketball court, tearing off Technozion and Spree posters all around the campus, breaking locked classroom doors, going to the in-campus graveyard at midnight, playing football in the hostel lobbies and then pushing the guards and running from them while they chase you like anything and lots and lots and lots and looooooottttts of other crazy stuff. I've done all of it, and this is just a part of the list but thats how the college life goes right? At least the first year.

Being in 2nd year, you get a little more serious towards your lifestyle, I have to go through that and trust me I don't like it. Life was so much more fun in 1st year. There was a dirty glass window that was covering up the reality and now it feels like someone's just cleaning up that window everyday. Don't want to look out of the window but cant stay in the same closed room forever, gotta look out of the window, gotta get out, gotta explore the world :P :P. Things actually get serious and you don't even realize but you start acting like an adult which is not a good thing :P. We should all be kids, no one should ever grow up. Life as kids is so simple and easy. So after 1st year we grew up and we grew up fast. Things started getting serious, especially academically :P. Trying to cope up, rest is all luck. Now I get that senior feeling thing, especially when you get juniors under you and you feel responsible towards them, when they approach you with problems, you feel you must help them in all possible ways. I've got a junior, a very studious one (the irony :P), a 9 pointer but very interactive, intellectual and smart. Very open in talking to anyone. Participates in most of the events that come up, already the executive member of the Quiz club, doing good so far and will do much better in future, sure about it.

One of my friend, studying MTech 2nd year, but currently not here in warangal, did his 1st year in warangal, 2nd year in chennai, 1 year internship. He plays Counter Strike with the nick name "assassin" and he is the best, i mean THE BEST in the college, so he took a week's vacation from his internship and came to Warangal only to play CS, he was here one week and trust me, it was an unforgettable week. The 5 on 5 clan tournament matches every single night. All the other long lost seniors, all pro players who hardly used to play on server, everyone played every single night for the entire week. And all of them, every single one of them and especially assassin appreciated my gameplay. Told I've improved a lot. They personally messaged me on facebook saying I played really good. just got in the top 5 players list of NIT, so yup, feeling happy I am finally really good at something. Other than that, lets just say life goes on and on. Time flies by pretty fast. Life is too short to hate anyone, spread love all around you, what you give comes back to you.

Forgot to mention this post got late because I had minors kept on getting postponed for over a period of 3 weeks and there was this ultimate CS week in between so was a little busy with all the other stuff. Plus blogging is not on top of my priority list right now. The coming week we have our Mid semester exams which are basically the fate deciding exams :P. So next post might take a while but please do give a feedback and just tick one of the two boxes below this post. Thank you.

Pre-college life...............

"Study Hard beta, you've chosen PCM, life is not very easy in this field. There's a lot of competition especially in India." a common dialogue I used to hear form my mom. "Dhekho Engineering li hai, it will not be bacchon ka khel. A Metallurgy degree from IIT Delhi will get you a better job than a Computer Science degree from any random gali vala private college. College matters a lot. Get a good college." That's what my dad used to keep telling me time to time. After 10th, I got something like 3 months of vacation. Well one rarely gets parents like mine, 2 months and 29 days (generalizing that a month has 30 days, now please don't comment and start fighting how 3 months can have 30 days consecutively), so we never had a family discussion regarding what branch or what subjects I should take up in Grade 11. One night before the registration, dad just asked me, "So what did you decide?". I said "PCM, will go for Engineering after that." Dad said, "Your choice, you chose it, upto you. Now you have to prove what you've chosen is correct for you." Well at that time i was like, "ok ok, i'll do it"...............

If you guys remember, in CBSE Grade 9, there was this particular chapter called "Diversity in Living Organisms", here's the link to the chapter:
http://www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/textbook/textbook.htm?iesc1=7-14
Now we had to learn this, the whole chapter, there was hardly any part omitted plus our teacher never told us what part to learn specifically and what to skip. This particular chapter was the main reason why I started hating Biology. Now there were like a hundred different species of organisms we had to memorize and each one had it's own habitat, diet, lifestyle and various other information. We had to memorize all that. This chapter literally fried my brain up and it took me almost a month's time to get control over that chapter. And till the last moment, I was not very sure about this particular chapter. My father is a doctor, deep down in his heart he wanted his son to be in the medicine line too, but to his disappointment, after facing that particular chapter, I had started telling him I hated biology. At times he even tried to convince me for taking bio in future but that hate I had developed towards the subject didn't allow me to even think about taking biology for further studies. Now dad well understood my situation and started working on getting admissions in high ranking Engineering colleges.

Here I would like to take a moment (a paragraph actually) and tell everyone that the amount of research my father did for my admission, I can surely bet none of your father or mother would have done it. It might NOT be wrong for me to say that combining the amount of research done by individual parents of all those reading this right now might also not match up with the research that my father has done over this span of 4 years. (Yeah, read it again, I know that's a long complicated sentence, took 5 mins to make it, :D) Grade 9 onward my dad started following the pattern of admissions into the Engineering colleges in India. He was constantly following the posts of this person named Raj Tyagi who has a site of his own which is entirely dedicated to the process of admission for NRI students. He followed the DASA admission process and the cutoffs for various branches in various NITs. It was all permutation and combination of the each branch being matched up with each NIT. At a point I started feeling like he got a hard disk planted in his brain and all the information regarding the NITs was uploaded onto it on a daily basis. I would just say, "NIT Trichy, Computer Science." and he would reply, "Labs are not very good, electricity problem, plus professors are not very friendly. Placements for computer science are better in Warangal than Trichy". I would say "Electronics and Communication in Warangal", he would say "Placements are the best for this branch compared to any other NIT but your college life will not be so easy", which is quite true actually. Everyday he would come from office and would tell us a couple of facts over the lunch just like, "The top ranker of first list, 2012 chose Civil Engg. in Trichy." or "cutoff for Computer Science in Surathkal after first list was 2370 but rose up to 2380 in the second list so it's better not to wait for second or third list" or "the best computer labs among all the NITs is Allahabad's and the newly recruited professors are IITians so Allahbad will be on top for Computer Science in a couple of years". If there was a degree for the research of admission process, surely my father would be holding a PhD degree by now. He's been calling up so many colleges since 2011 and not just NITs, a lot many other high ranking private institutes too. I just don't know how to thank him for all that he has done and is still doing for me but in someway or the other I will surely repay everything back with interest when I get a good Engineering job. (So please wish for my good future in your prayers today, xD)

11th was more like a made-to-have-fun year, never got serious regarding studies, just managed to understand all the theories and concepts and got through the year pretty fast. I even missed two of my Final exams, Mathematics and Chemistry, as I had to attend my cousin sister's wedding. And that wedding is one I would never never forget. It was simply epic. I and my cousins had tons and tons of fun. Well weddings are supposed to be like that.

I even registered for this online coaching for AIEEE and IIT called "AskIITians". They taught Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). They took a 3 hour class per subject per week, I must say they did a pretty fine job because because the city I live in has something like 6-7 CBSE schools and I was the only one in my entire city who cleared JEE Mains and qualified to write JEE Advanced. Well that was something to happy about. And then it even helped me in SAT, got a really good SAT score which got me Computer Science in NIT Warangal and that's how I am here.

12th was quite different. Private tuition for main subjects right from the beginning. I messed up the first half of the academic year, well lets say three quarters of the year but the last 3 months, oh the way I studied, I was amazed finding out what I was capable of. It was the Final Board Examination of CBSE Grade 12, so yeah, everyone automatically gets serious and you have no one to have fun with. Practiced a lot, memorized a lot, practically finished the whole Grade 12 syllabus in just 3 months and not just once, did it thrice. Question banks, past papers, sample papers, it was the 'Ultimate Study Mode'.

Finally I think I did pretty good in academics in both 10th and 12th. Got a CGPA of 9.6 in Grade 10 Board Examinations and an aggregate percentage of 91% in Grade 12 Board Examinations. But you know people often say "Shit happens in life", well..................I came to NIT Warangal. No no, coming to NITW wasn't the shit part. What I did after coming here is where the "shit happens in life" part comes. We'll see about that later. Right now please do comment and give feedback. At least just choose one of the options below. Any random visitor can vote for that. Hearty thanks to you if you are reading this after reading the whole post. If you've just scrolled down to read the last couple of sentences then thank you still for at least visiting my blog again.

What's all this about...........

Greetings to all my dear Readers. As the blog address reads, my good name's Pranav Singh and 99 is just my lucky number. Got admitted in National Institue of Technology Warangal on 15th July, 2013 under the DASA scheme which is like a boon for all the NRIs and other international students. Coming to the blog, why this blog? Don't know................wanted to do something productive other than just play Counter Strike all day long................Well hello people, this is gonna be something like my daily diary but not a personal one.

Millions of things happen in college in just a set of 24 hours. Thousand of them happen around me. I might know about some hundreds of them, might come across tens of them, might actually be included in a few of them and will be blogging about a couple of them. So just in case you find something that might be USEFUL, please do feel free to come up and give a feedback. Even if you don't, ya well give a feedback anyways.

I openly accept that I am not very good at English. My vocabulary is not strong but i can manage to communicate pretty fine. Please don't expect my posts to be in a very formal language. I'll be just typing out everything here pretty much in the same I talk to people. There might be some loose talks too..................just want to warn the readers, in case something happens to someone while reading my posts (if you know what i mean), then I or this blog should not be blamed.................

About me, well, a normal guy who wants to be a computer engineer but doesn't know any of the computer language.........................I don't think any further introduction is required. Pro in Counter Strike 1.6, love playing street football, little cazy, u might just see me somewhere doing something stupid just for fun. Kind of jolly-go-lucky guy having fun all the time,

Well, think that's enough for an intro. Hope my posts are helpful to all the visitors of this blog. Just have a good time reading random stuff here. I would really appreciate if you guys comment about the posts and get involved and help me improve the contents as well as my vocab......lol.........jk, but ya sure, anyone is welcome to comment and share info..............
Thank you and plz do keep visiting..............