My one year at NITK was perhaps the most memorable of my life. It was a completely different experience altogether for me. Among other things, there were a number of crazy things that I did at college, which make me roll on the floor with laughter whenever I think of them. Here are some of these moments of madness.
- Prank calls: “Hello, I am calling from Vodafone. You have won a gift voucher worth 100 bucks. Please collect it off the Coop Society”(There was a lot more talking actually done). This was a nice way of getting to know more people, as those who got pranked often asked me to prank their friends and so on. I felt really guilty though, when one of the persons actually tried to go to the Coop(which is about a kilometre from the hostels) and it started to rain.
- The Yellow Merc: When you tell out jokes, a crowd gathers. And when you try to tell a never ending joke, more and more people start flocking. The Yellow Merc are a dreaded couple of words among many of my friends now. I shall not tell the joke here. I will probably break the world record for the World’s Longest Web Page!
- Home made Flamethrower: I think this happened in the second semester. We took a nearly empty bottle of deo and a long wooden pole, at the end of which a match was stuck. We lit the match, and sprayed the deo. This was awesome! Flames nearly 2 metres in length lit up the dull hostel corridor. One of the best sights I have seen. P.S. Don't Try this at home
- Of Fire in the hole and FACK!: LAN gaming was the in-thing at college, and counter strike is one of the all time favourites( lots of people play DOTA too.. A few like me also play AOE and FIFA). Every now and then, you would hear cries of “Fire in the Hole” and “Go Go Go!”. What was worse was that a CS addict two rooms away would swear whenever he lost, and his fucks sounded a lot like “FACK”. Me and my roomies got so irritated that we started bellowing “FACK” whenever we heard him, and sometimes invited people over to our room to join us. Imagine 20 people in a room shouting “FACK” !
- Corridor Cricket: We preferred playing cricket in the hostel lobby over the ground because 1. We didn't need to run a lot. 2. The ground was too far away. 3. We could play at any time we wanted. With some inspiration from Ajanta Mendis, I somehow discovered a unique ball that stalls or even spins backwards. It was a real joy to watch Sovi trying to have a swipe at it, and he could hardly touch it. When he did, he probably got out. I probably got him out more times than all the other people put together(Sovi has a big build, and you can imagine a big guy trying to have a swipe at a tennis ball with a small bat in a small area, and missing :)).
- How not to give presentations and speeches: For my professional communication course, I was required to deliver a speech to the class. My topic was Google, and I started by shouting out “Are You Evil” to the crowd. Not once but thrice(Don’t be evil is Google’s motto). The instructor and others were mildly frightened i think :). In the end, he praised me for being “dramatic”, and gave me a good grade too. For a presentation for the Ethics course(I had corruption), I repeatedly called one of my classmates(Sovi again) “fat”. It might not have been acceptable in too many classes, but I think it worked out well.
- Kannada Classes: Half the people at college did not know Kannada, and they were glad to learn the basics. Unfortunately, some of them ended up asking the wrong people for help. We told them that “Naanu”(meaning I) actually meant You, and “Neenu(meaning You) meant I. And like most other languages, one of the first things that you learn while learning a new language are the abuses. It was hilarious watching the people shout “Naanu <abusive word>” at each other. Our laughing only encouraged them to carry on. I had the whole thing recorded. I will try to retrieve it and post a link :).
- Farter Virus: With a little bit of dumb coding, I managed to write a code, which changed your Windows sounds to Fart sounds. So every time you double clicked something, the computer farted, every time you plugged in some hardware, the computer farted. It farted for each and every thing you did. It was really funny to watch some of my friends get frustrated. But then, I eventually set the things right. Not too many people trust me with their laptops now :)
- Operation Power Cut: In the beginning of the year, I was one of the few people to have a computer at hostel. That meant that almost anyone and everyone would be on the computer all the time. It got rather frustrating at times, so I formed a group of friends who could help me out on these. I would just sms them, and they would cut the power to the hostels momentarily, and then restore it back(It wasn't difficult to find the mains switch; We dubbed it Operation Power Cut(OPC when other people were around)). As I didn't have a UPS, the computer would shut down, and people would leave before the power was back
- For the IEEE virtual bounty(I am not a member of IEEE myself, but I in with some ideas), we set the theme was super-villains, one needed to answer the questions posed by each super-villain to go to the next round. But there was a twist in the plot. We set the final villain as one of our good third year friends(now final year), and made good use of a photograph that we had snapped at a quiz on the day before the treasure hunt. The question itself was based on a 1940's movie that he always talked about(Most Quiz club members and a few others probably know about this). We made sure that this person played the treasure hunt, dropped clues aptly, so that he progressed to the final round. In fact he was wearing the same shirt as he wore in his photograph when he finished. The look on his face was really funny :D.
- There was so much more that I did in the year. It was truly an amazing experience, spending this one year at NITK.
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