Living in an IIT Hostel

Indian Institute of Technology or IIT, the name is good enough to make you feel great about it. Great in the sense of education, placement and lifestyle. But what about the life in IIT hostels?

Well, I have been living in an IIT hostel for more than fifteen days now, so, I get that right to tell you my experience of living here in the hostel room of an IIT. Of course, every IIT might have different kinds of hostel experiences but mine is pretty good.

The location of the entire campus is actually very good, the hostel is situated at a decent distance from the academic area and other important buildings like the mess and sports complex. The girls' and boys' hostels are situated differently but with no curfew timings or any restrictions. The hostel rooms are spacious, ventilated and decently maintained. The basic facilities including the electricity, water supply and internet are well-provided with no complaints. The hostels have an elevator facility as well. Cool no?

The hostel buildings are surrounded by greenery giving the perfect view from the windows. I often see pigeons sneaking through my windows. The best thing about my room is that I get to see sunrise every morning sitting comfortably on my bed. Every day I get to experience the best ever morning walks on beautiful paths surrounded by nature, feeling the cool breeze and chirping of birds. It wouldn't be wrong to say, everything here feels peaceful and therapeutic.

Food, the most important part of hostel life, is also good here. There are three different messes here, all doing their jobs pretty decently. And the other most important part of hostel life, the people here are also good. I mean, they feel good, at least now, lets see, how that changes in the coming days.

Okay so, that's my life, living in an IIT hostel. Could you guess, which IIT I am talking about?

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When I Left Home For the First Time

Hey Everyone!

You remember that example of the bird that protects its eggs until they hatch, then take care of the birds until they grow and then it allows them to leave the nest and see the world on their own?

The same thing happens to us, humans. Since childhood, we have felt protected, preserved and extremely safe and that is why, when it comes time to leave home, we start feeling anxious and restless. Exactly the same happened to me when I left my home for the first time.

I did my graduation from the same city where I lived all my childhood but to do a master's from IIT, I had to leave not just the home but my state as well. And willingly or unwillingly, I did so. I prayed with all my strength and hopes to get to college in my own city but destiny won.

A little excited, and a little nervous, I prepared myself to leave my home. I didn't even look in the eyes of my mom, because I knew I was not that strong. The entire duration of my journey, I was feeling extremely low, sad and depressed. I was not happy about getting into IIT but was sad about leaving my people behind.

I reached the place where I was expected to spend the next two years of my life, I was feeling nothing but when my father also left the campus leaving me behind, that's where I had to be strongest, I didn't look at him directly, I was not even uttering a single word because I knew I would start crying any time forgetting all my strength and breaking the character.

When I saw my people on the video call, I turned the back camera on to make them unable to see my face which was obviously sad. I was missing them on simple instances of the day and night and believe me I still do, I will keep doing this forever. 

Anyways, I just tried to cope with everything, tried to hide my weakness, tried to fake the strong girl character, but nothing worked out except for the words by Bunny from YJHD which says " kahi pahuchne ke liye kahi se nikalna jaruri hota hai", which means in simple words, if we desire to get something, we need to sacrifice something else. How could the Bollywood girl in me not believe this, so yeah, here I am writing this from the hostel room of IIT with my people in my heart, memories and aspirations in my brain and a smile on my face.

That's it, that's all

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Till then, keep smiling and spread love.

- Nidhi