Hostel Life: First Party

Within the first 2 weeks of college, the new batch of freshers had decided to have dinner at the restuarant in town. So when the weekend began, everyone was excited as most of us had not been to the town. My last time was when I was staying at the hotel during my admission period. Some of us had asked our seniors about some good restuarant in town and they had mentioned of one which had a Vegetarian menu. So we all showed up around 8 pm as the college had a policy of open night on Saturdays (That is the gates get locked at 11:30 pm).

So in the end we all were sitting at 5 different tables trying to accomodate 30 people for dinner. By now we all were getting to know each other. Each of us came from different places from India. There were people from Jammu & Kashmir in the north to Kerala in the South, Rajasthan in the West to Assam in the East. Geographically speaking, we all came from thousands of kilometers but at that moment we were sitting next to each other having the same kind of dinner.

We can't describe this as a party but yes we all had an outing at the town which was situated at 9 kms from our college. The other main reasons for the outing was that we wanted a change with the food as we were getting tired of the mess food due to its regularity or taste, that depends on one's thinking. But that day led to the start of the outside college life whose beginning and end was always reminded by Auto-drivers (3-Wheeler Cabs) high pitched fares which would lead to tough bargaining as there were no other modes other than the local buses which show up anytime between 30-45 minutes (Auto fares are fixed by saying as Meters are not used in that small town).

Due to the inefficient Auto fares and untiming buses to the college and also the campus being situated atleast 2kms away from the nearest major bus intersection, some students were motivated in getting 2-wheeler (buying or getting from home). With the increase in the 2-wheeler on campus, concerns regarding safety prompted the college to enforce the Helmet rule. This did save many lives, as at this particular age many think less of safety and end up endangering their life knowingly or unknowingly.