Yr 1:The Rainy Hell-hole...

Platform...

The first idea about this place that any fresh student(and a few stale ones too)will get is that it is rustic...really rustic...infact it's so rustic that the next town you visit feels like a city...and any metropolis seems to be air-dropped from another planet...
As VK and myself arrived we got a look at one of the two things that make this speck of watercolour on a map famous..the railway platform...
we scrambled to the entrance as we saw the train pulling in...just ready with all our luggage...but the train didn't show any intentions of stopping...but it did..almost when we were sure we'd run out of the asphalt.
funfact:the length of the platform is more than 1km, don't ask me why,as all i know is that i hate it when the train stops as far away from the exit...bloody fools...just because they can..they'll put trains in series instead of parallel
All of those who arrived were stuffed in a joke of a bus..the heat had already numbed our senses..and the humidity...i never knew the human body could act like a wet sponge...
our luggage had a more comfortable ride..

MS

I got off at what they said was Meghnad Saha(MS) hall of residence(i still don't know why they can't call the damn thing a hostel)..after the short(chuckle!) formality part i was alloted a room...far away...
All the hostels..sorry halls here have abbreviated names. the list is a bit like
Radhakrishnan:RK
Pajendra Prasad:RP
Patel/Azad/Nehru: PAN loop
Lala Lajpat Rai:LLR
Sarojini Naidu:SN--->female residents only
and so on...
my room was on the second floor...and my heavy trunk ensured that i couldn't take a second step easily...i got some help eventually..so it wasn't all that bad.
i entered the room...and thought it was a broom closet,and i was told that the balcony can't be incorporated in my room either(for reasons of sanity,i wont elucidate much on the sanitation here!)
After 3 days i settled down(read:got a proper mattress)
The worst combination of weather is Hot and Humid...if u disagree..think of your underwear sticking up in places you can imagine..all soaked in sweat..yours, preferrably...do i hear a "UGH!"...exactly...
well..after the first day here..it rained as if all of humanity neede a nice common shower..and i looked forward to what this place might have to offer...besides a degree or two