IIMC Fresher's Meet

Saturday 17th of May served as the date for the Mumbai edition of the IIMC fresher’s meet hosted by the generous interning seniors. The venue was a certain mid-sized air conditioned hall in South Mumbai (Marine Lines if you insist) – and the food was mainly snacks and a posh sister of bambaiyya chaat.

The point was of course always meant to be to “meet and greet”. Get to know the people who are going to be looking down upon you from academic if not seniority heights, and people whose help you will eventually need at each step of the first year journey. It was also meant to be a first rendez-vous for people from the same batch to get to the know the people from the area.

In then end, it did not quite turn out that way. Financial District or not, a LOT of the IIMC folks found themselves in Mumbai, summering. The freshers however did not seem as keen to turn up. Most agreed that the amount of people from Mumbai and surrounding areas had taken a hit this year, leaving the party with a bunch of about 15 of us freshers, and hordes of seniors seeing each other after probably a month.

Cut to the chase, we were surrounded, literally by tens of seniors willing to help out – un-peeved by questions about things as inane as the kind of mosquito nets one needed and as important as amount of studying required to qualify for summer term, and if it was possible to get bikes on campus.

The seniors helped out of course, but they also seemed keen to not deny us the process (and the joy perhaps) of self-discovery. I wholly subscribe to the idea. Curiosity killed the cat, they say – so I stick to asking questions, answers to which had immediate repercussions. I shall discover myself, how the food is – and what people do on weekends.

On a more personal note, I did find a few quizzers – much to my delight. One of them had that awesome RVCE/IITM accent that for me completes a quizzer. They even talked about widening horizons with a “sex and undressing” quiz. I (with much delight) told him that we at the Boat Club Quiz Club, had already done an “adult quiz”, and I would be more than happy to contribute my share to the mêlée.

People reading this, who had other fresher meets (in other cities, or for A/B/L/I/K/S etc are urged to used the comments to pitch in.) Until next post, keep reading and I’ll keep clogging!

May 20th, 2008 / 6589 Comments / Tags: freshers meet, pre-college / Trackback