Life @ IMT Nagpur
- by Kabir Sharma *
"Rocking" is the word that I
would use to describe my first three weeks at IMT-Nagpur. This place is actually
very exciting. I would like to share my experiences of my first few days at this
exotic campus.
The drum roll actually started
the time I landed on campus here. We had our registration on Day One. I landed
here on Day One around 1300 hrs. and was asked to have lunch and then proceed
for the registration by a smartly dressed person. After lunch, I got myself
registered and by the time I was free it was already 1530 hrs. and trust me I
was tired as I was traveling since past 30 hours. Then I had to settle my new
room. The immediate question that came to my mind was that 'boss what about the
stuff like mattress, bucket etc...' Then a smartly dressed female comes to the
rescue and tells me about the in-house co-operative store.
The store provided me with all
the solutions. I hoarded my room with my stuff and there was another surprise.
The rooms were well-kept, neat and clean, and actually conforming with "global
standards". By now, I was very tired and wanted to catch on some sleep but all
the new joinees were asked to assemble in the LRC (Learning Resource Centre)
hall, our Chairperson - Academic Programmes wanted to address us.
He greeted us and extended an
informal welcome to us on behalf of everybody. In this session, we all were
apprised of the schedule which was to follow for the next week. It was the
orientation week with some classes and some very useful outbound exercises. In
the entire session, I saw some very well-dressed boys and girls coordinating
everything. I was continuously thinking who are they? After the session by our
Chairperson, a lady came on the stage and extended a warm welcome to us. She is
one of our seniors and all those smartly dressed people were seniors only. Trust
me friends, they are really a great support, infact the greatest support on
campus we can have.
After the session, we had our
dinner and I was so tired that I went to my room and dozed off. The day ahead
was scheduled to be very hectic but the seniors told us that in reality it would
be fun on the run. I also got to know that it was our seniors only who had
managed all the activities on the registration day from room allotment to the
menu for our meals. The co-operative store on campus is also the fruit of
efforts of our seniors. Without all this, I guess it would have been really
difficult.
