Dear Karthik,
Hope you’re fine. Are you still freezing in Pilani? Just so you
know, the weather in Goa is simply dandy right now.
Just a tad cooler
than Mumbai, simply Purrfect!
Since you’re dying to catch up, lemme fill you in on the
exciting new happenings at our end. 21 new second
sem-ites have joined and,
needless to say, we’ve extended them as good a
welcome as any self-respecting senior group can (sutble,
evil, censored laugh). So, we can finally call
ourselves seniors, as any high IQ BITSian would
admit, the newbies are junior to us by a full
semester. Our Audi and the library should be open
real soon. The grapevine has it that the audi is
going to have a seating capacity of about 2200. The
library is going to be similar to the library at
Pilani – replete with computer facilities, video
viewing capability, good books (or so they say) yada
yada yada.
Cultural (hmmph!) activities have just begun and we’re finally
organizing inter-state cricket matches on the new
playground – really
as
much culture as I can take. A lot of people have
computers now, so we’re not as bored as we used to
be! The professors are good, and since we have
mandatory attendance, each professor knows his
students well and vice-versa (snigger! snigger!).
Elections are just around the corner and we’ll soon
have a student government in BITS Goa... yippee!
We certainly don’t have as much freedom as you do in Pilani… but
it’s all right. We’ve got to be back in our hostels
by 8.30 p.m (even
the
boys). Each of the four hostels, two of which are
for guys, have a register where we need to sign if
we’re going to be out late. Of course, the beaches
help kill time as we wait for those alleged good
books to show up.
Hope all’s well with you. Take care & see ya!
A. (BITS Pilani, Goa)
