MDI Gurgaon is a myriad of facts and figures and knowledge which we gain by attending lectures. I have spent a month in the campus and with each passing day, I get to experience something new and beautiful. The main source of information, apart from the professors, is talking to my peers and to my seniors, who share great deal of interesting snippets. For example did you know that there is an actual bat cave in Takshashila where actual bats live, one senior asked me. Gleefully, he replied we call ourselves Batman. Another one shared that in Sanskriti, the initiation to getting inside the inner circle is to listen the Pink Fridge story. This tradition was started by Apratim Maitra. Hey I got another truth for you, said another senior, MDI is an alcohol free campus, with a slurry voice. He gave me another tip - We definitely do not Faff in our exams. Jhajhi is the best place to have Parathas at this side of the city said a home stricken senior. A friendly senior told me shyly that girls visit guy’s hostel after 10 PM. During the conversations, I happened to hear lot of usual chatter from the seniors - in a weeks’ time, a months’ time or in 6 months’ time, MDI will be a Wifi enabled campus. Some of them said so by imitating Arvind Kejriwal’s tone and manner perfectly. Subway, CCD and McDonalds are going to open their outlet in the campus one day, they sighed. Another senior mentioned that Whatsapp pings have become her jingle, the music to her ear, co-incidentally by pinging me over Whatsapp. Maybe this was her way of telling me that the same thing is going to happen to me.
My experience at MDI has made me
realize few truths, obvious yet not so spoken openly. Firstly, I have come to
the conclusion that Computer Center will one day make me an expert printer
mechanic. Secondly, pen is an essential commodity in college. I can trade it
for dollars. I think I have unearthed a conspiracy, maybe my mind is going
bonkers, I don’t know but there is something wrong. Hostel and Mess Committee,
is on a mission, I believe, to make us all appreciate the importance of
Parathas and Rotis as part of our diet, especially during lunch and dinner. On
a serious note MBA life has started teaching me the ills of Procrastination. One
full day of MDI Gurgaon is worth a lifetime of another human being's is a
mantra which comes to my mind each and every moment I am swamped with work.
Last but not the least, the most important untold truth of them all is that I
have become expert at taking power naps otherwise I don’t know how I will
survive the forthcoming months, at this beautiful magical place known as MDI
Gurgaon.
