Unforgettables - I

The next few days, we went through a series of orientation sessions, dorm meets, lecture sessions by seniors, presentation by SAC (Student Activity Council) members. Really it is quite difficult to present it here in a coherent fashion with a sense of flow. Especially if you take into account the fact that right now I'm blogging where 250 others are busy preparing for the next week's classes.

But I cant resist the temptation of leaving you a few quotes, which I definitely wouldnt want to forget. So here are they.

"Welcome to IIM-A. You've won the war. However the battle just begins" - the director, IIM-A.

"The session will start at 9 tomorrow. Not 9 oh 2, not 9 oh 5, but 9. Its 10 minutes past 6 in my watch. Set your watches." - PGP Chairperson's only statement after he was invited to speak in the introductory address.

"See, you are speaking from your point of view. You arent the one who's going to teach for 2 hours continuously. You should think from my point of view as well. When you think of options, you should consider all the affected parties and come to a mutually agreeable action." - A prominent professor's first retort on a student's suggestion that a microphone might not be necessary.

"Kamasuthra is an Indian speciality too. Why dont you open a brothel ?" - A prominent professor, upon a student's suggestion that KTPL should stick to restaurants serving ethnic Indian food, because thats its speciality.

"Frontlog. Prepare for classes one week in advance. Anyways thats what 250 other freshers would be doing" - a thoughtful 'Tuchcha' or senior, giving away a few words of wisdom to yours truly.

"Its your first class and I dont want to humiliate you." - A prominent professor says with a sigh after a student made a final point near the end of the class.

"I have to be polite now, but yeah, what you just said is utter bullshit." - A prominent professor, reacting to a point made by a student in the class.

"If you find yourself depressed, stressed, disillusioned with life, or if you are wondering about the meaningless of life, you can come to us for counselling." - Professor of Psychology, one of the speakers in the introductory session.

"There's a machine in a big room and all a guy has to do is to switch it on and switch it off. How will you motivate him. Will you ask him to look at the button a little more closely ?" - Professor of Human Resources, on a students point that one of HR's responsibilities is to motivate the employees.

"He has 5 gold medals from MIT. I would be scared to shake hands with him." - Arun Raghavan, fresher, on one of the professors.

"D-2 yehan hai, pani yehan hai, D-16 kahan hai ?" - Tempo shouts of D-2 girls in front of my dorm D-16 after the bucketful of water emptied from the third floor just fell short of them. Later, ten of us, mostly barechested, chased the girls with buckets of water and dunked them completely.

"In IIM-A, there is absolutely no ragging. Seniors dont rag freshers. Professors rag them." -Words of encouragement by dorm representative 'Dildo', earlier known as Nirav.

"You must be feeling sleepy now. Dont sleep. Never sleep in the afternoons in your first month in IIM-A." - A few words by Sarath to yours truly.

"Crap." - A prominent professor.

"Even if God comes in front of me, I'll push Him aside to look at you guys studying day and night." - a senior, deriving sadistic pleasure out of the fresher's predicament.

"You guys remind me of umm... let me see... oh yeah, sacrificial lambs."