Its been 1 year since I started blogging… I knew that I had started in April, but I never thought I’d be checking that on the very same day!!!! I am glad that something like this came along… Coz I was out of material, and my friends have already started nagging me to blog..!! :P

Today was a very tiring day…. My friend Arya called me up the other day to ask whether I’d go along with her to my previous engg college, to invite them for a techfest that her college is hosting… I had plans to visit Marian anyway, so I agreed… Besides Marian, we had to go to UCE, GEC, MBT and SCT… My good God!! There r over 13 engg colleges in Trivandrum, and the max we can cover in one day were these 5.. Each college was located too much away from the other one in different directions… After Marian itself, we decided that one should be cut from the list.. And that one would either be GEC or MBT.. Since I was hoping to meet a friend of mine, Rajesh, at GEC, we decided that it should be MBT… Then we went to UCE.. Arya’s cousin was a lecturer in Computer Science Dept at UCE, so we asked one of the students to show us the way to get there.. I think these people didnt even know that a CS dept existed in their college until we asked about it…. Anyways, I was only too happy to leave that college.. Bless the students!! On our way out, I discovered that I had left my bottle of Aquafina in the internet lab… Bless me too!

Now we needed to get to SCT college… We striked out GEC from the list too, due to lack of time.. All instituitions were working only half-day coz of Aaraat and since SCT was one college from were participants could be expected, we decided to go there at once…. After a terrible bus journey, we reached SCT and stood near the gate, puzzled, wondering where the college really is.. I rang up a friend of mine and asked him to come to the gate… I knew him through the net only, and was about to see him for the first time! He recognized me anyway, and led us to the Principal’s office… Arya went in and talked to him..

I saw three engg colleges in the city, and none of them seemed to have a good infrastructure…. SCT was better than Marian owing to the fact that the campus had a lot of trees!! Marian looks like a coconut plantation from every angle…. And from the main entrance, it looks like the desert map in Age of Empires…

By the way, there was a fire in the forest in front of the UCE campus… And seeing the heavy smoke, we asked the students what it was.. They said, “Forest fire” and continued their work…. hmm… Engineering students.. What more could I expect? :P