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Trip to Mumbai – to IIT Powai |
Right in my twelfth it was my dream to study in any one of the IITs, but sadly could not crack the JEE exam. So finally I had to do what most of my batchmates did. Joined Goa Engineering College. The not so bright students (now including me) didn’t really have a choice. Now that I know its ranked 75th in India… ok I am there somewhere! :)
Our faculty here… I always admired them for being so meticulous over the fundas and concepts but never really wanted to be like them. I was happy with my five pointer sorta life. But suddenly there was this hype about selecting a project for our final year. I don’t know what hit me, but I thought this would be my last chance to really study something in my four years of engineering life. Most of which has been spent sitting and chatting in the college canteen.
So we spoke over to our professor and managed to contact a professor from IIT Powai. We decided to leave for IIT on the immediate weekend. Our college has a MoU with the institution that allows use its resources for our final year project.
WAY TO MUMBAI
Just as ideal students should be doing, we attended the morning half of college, and left to board the Konkan Kanya train. We spent most of our time, standing and sitting at the door of the train, watching the scenic beauty… the forests and rivers that passed by. It was so very refreshing.
I havnt been to Mumbai many times. Except for a few trips to Fort, Juhu and Goregaon. But always traveled with my family. It was more fun traveling like this with friends. We reached Mumbai early in the morning. To avoid rush we took the immediate next local to Kanjur-Marg. I had never traveled by a Mumbai local and this one looked like one being with all the sane people around. Most of them in deep sleep. Probably they had to get to the last station or they had some kinda body clock that would wake them up when their station would arrive. Otherwise in Mumbai no one really bothers about people around. So the short journey by the local was quite easy I thought.
All early in the morning, the guy besides me was struggling to be awake. So we enquired with him of when the train would reach Kanjur-Marg, the station closest to IIT Powai. 4secs was all that we got to get down off the train. There was not much rush, so we didn’t feel the run for time. Right outside the station was a multiplex, Adlabs Huma. We knew where exactly to come in the evening once our work was all over. We had tea, freshened up and took a rikshaw to take us to IIT Powai.
ACROSS THE GATES OF IIT POWAI
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