my first trip to 'the reading room' ..

thought i should never go to the reading room in the library ever in 4 yrs of my engineering ..but 3rd yr (5th sem almost done) ..i was forced to (another resolution kampu hogaya) ..

the reason - caren crasta - our 'management training and practise' ma'am (MTP in NITK lingo) ..with her 'awesome' fashion sense, 'sweet' voice and the 'dazzling' colors she paints her face with ..she'd make the perfect kindergarden teacher (im being decent by not calling her a clown :P )..in the department where even half an hour late counts as punctuality, crasta doesnt allow people who are late by 30 sec (a blink of an eye on our time scale) ..thats how i ended up missing 3 of her classes ..that took the bunking count to 11 - 1 more than what is allowed (75% attendence kaun lagaya ki?!) ..as my cell was already with her and an FA wouldn't look good on a not so great resume, had to do what she wanted me to do - sit in the library for atleast an hour and answer the mid sem question paper completely and satisfactorily (read - makhee to makhee chapna from text book) ..'i want your entry to be there at the library ..don't think i won't check it ..i will ..for sure' - her ejjat words ..i think you get the picture ..

with G1's notes, a Koontz and assignment sheets, we (got some company like always ;D ) entered the library ..to me library is always the section which has periodicals and journals, the newspaper section and digital library (everybody loves this) ..phir library mein he baite ke likh sakta na?? ..reading room kaiku?? ..we aren't allowed to bring our own text books into the library ..and i didn't want to dare to start searching for 'the reference' book even though Koontz wasn't as fat as i expected it to be ..thats when the guy keeping the entry list suggested we go to the 2nd floor ..1st floor was newspaper's section and i always thought that 2nd floor was a store room ..as we reached the 2nd floor, my resolution goes poof!! ..there it was - 'the reading room' (and i always thought that the one above digital library was 'the reading room') ..a damn big room with many desks and chairs arranged in a group of 6 ..add some cubicles and you get a nice looking office ..

dead silent (apart from rustling of papers) ..thats how i expected 'the reading room' to be ..but no ..it was as noisy as my classroom ..perfect ..after 2 hours 40 minutes, 13 assignment sheets and a packet of good day pista, broke another resolution of mine - writing an assignment all by myself without copying ..kaam tho hogaya but old habits die hard ..was 35mins late for submission ..

may never go there again ..but will never forget the feeling i had ..the one when you find that there is a different world in your cupboard ..and also the line i had to include on the cover page of the assignment - 'Library Entry Number: 171 on 18-11-2010'  :D