BITSian Lingo

Most common words used by a BITSian

A-ANC, Assoc, Audi, Ave, Acads
B-Bogs, Bumps, Backie, Bhawan, Bong
C-Chom, Centli, C'not, Calci, Chowki, CT
D-Dutch, Da, DC
E-Enthu, EC, Extra
F-Fundoo
G-Gen, Gen enthu, Grub, Gult, Groupee, Guss, Ghot, Gate call, Gen Sec
H-Hush, H-Rep
I-Intro, Illad, IC, IPC, Insti, Inaug
J-Jealous, Junta, Ju(junior)
L-Lite, Lacha
M-Mallu, MedC
N-NC
O-Ob, Ornithology, Outsti
P-Psenti, Pondy, Prez
Q-QT
R-Rod, Roomie, Redi, Ref-li
S-Sac, Sidee, Se(senior), ShivG, Shikanji, Supri, SUB, SAC
T-Thadi, Treat, Test Series, TT
V-Vetti
W-Wingies
Y-Yo!!
Z-Zukk

BITS family system

ID [great grand / grand ] pop
ID [great grand / grand ] mom
ID [great grand / grand ] son
ID [great grand / grand ] daughter
Book pop
Book mom
Book son
Book daughter
Room pop
Room mom
Room son
Room daughter
BITSian brother
BITSian sister
BITSian crush

WINGS // in boys' bhawans

Front Wing
Back Wing
T-Wing
H-Wing
New Wing/Side Wing

My unified theory of so-called living and non-living

This might be a bit interesting for you. N yeah, this is not at all for you in case you beleive in souls. So, in case you dun beleive in souls, can you tell me whats the difference in a living and a non-living thing? I studied biology till 10th, and also in my first semester here in BITS, /* yeah, we engineering students do hav to study bio, one sem*/. So, dere i studied a few so-called requirements for a thing to be called as living. So, lemme try to remember them, dey ver, adaptation ( irritability/individual/population); growth and reproduction; metabolism; proper structure. yeah, i m missing mayb a couple of them rite now, but i had thot over all of dem. So, fine, i m creating a big big robot, wid huge arms, dat are continuosly digging the earth, at one place to extract petroleum, vich it vil purify and use as its fuel, or u can say food /* metabolism*/ ; another to dig out iron and other material, vich it vil use to create more machine of such kinds and to repair itself as well /* growth and reproduction*/ . N yeah, it has all kinda sensors, so dat it can sense all its surroundings /* adaptation*/ . Now i just want to find one of the criteria vich my mega bot is not fullfilling. N yeah, as far as thot process is concerned, i mean u say dat v living beings can think, i can explian u dat thing also. But dat later on, for the time being, lemme just compare my bot vid sum simple living form, say plants. N i think, dat my bot is a lot better dan plants. K, it is a lot bigger, but still better equiped vid sensors, driven by a better program dan dat stored in the plant's dna. I mean, now vats the difference in the two. How can one say that plant is living n bot is non-living.??? N in case u say dat my bot doesnt grow, so, i programmed it to make up his own parts, n also to repair dem. vel, one thing vich i was thinkin was how vel adaptation is done in d bot. As per d definition of adaptation, it is changing, permanently o emporarily, to fit to the surroundings. This my bot vil also do, for eg, control the speed fan on the processor according to the outside temp. Ok, now d thinkin part. Vat i 'think' bout dis is dat, first of all, i think dat v dont think. V just do actions accordin to sum pre-pogrammed algo or sumtin. Vel, i dun say dat it happens so, but it cud. Just like our involuntary muscles, vich work vidout our intervention, i sumtimes think dat all our actions r also involuntary, dey r just affected by the events happenin in the surroundins. N yeah, in case v consider dis to b true, dis wud certainly mean dat v can calculate our fture actions. it vil need a lotta computations, but it can b done. So, many a times i think dat ders no need to call a thing living or non-living. d difference i think is d level of complexity. Vel, for a long time, i dint found ne contradiction to this theory, but still, i think dat i m livin n dis comp on vich i m workin is not. Vel, actually, it wud b wrong to say dat i think, instead i feel, i feel dat i m livin n dis comp is not. I m livin, mayb i m not controlin my actions, i mean, mayb my actions r being controlled by all d events happenin around n pocessd by algo in my dna, but dere is sumthin dat makes me feel livin. yeah, not dat simple to explain. n i dunno y i m tryin to do so. But havnt u ever thot dat way??? mayb not excatly like dis, but in sum different way, sumthin must hav sumtim been in ur mind too. Vel, i m not able to convince myself bout dis theory, for vich i m not able to find ne contradiction, primarily coz i 'feel' dat i m living. Now, i m sorry, but i wont b able to describe my feeling vid d help of dis non-livin keyboard. In case neone frm bio field read dis, please lemme know d difference between living n non-living. vat i feel is dat so-called non-livin r d buildin block of livin things. n so-called livin hav a poper algo to work. but dat way i m nt able to find ne diffeence in a machine controlled by ne kinda controller n a plant ( just for simplicity sake, else i can compare my bot even vid u). u must b thinkin dat i m totally confused, vel, i m not much confused, its simple, i think dat i m non-livin, but i feel dat i m livin.

Home sweet home - the journey

So... finally... i am home... after battling the comprees out dere in the scroching pilabni heat... i am home. Came yesterday. But the journey was not so simple. Yeah, a non-preplanned journey is not always so good, but the twists in such journey are always welcome. After all the twists n turns, i was home tomorrow, n ... now for next two and a half months, al my posts, i'll type on my very own keyboard.

25% engineer???

So, my first year in BITS is goin to end soon. This sememster, i must say, went away really fast. Less visits to home, APOGEE, sariska trip, two test series, all of them contributed. But i must say that this sem was ob much interesting than the previous one, and pretty hectic as well. Well, compres will start from next tue, not even one week is left. But even at this stage, we do have other things to worry about, that overshadow all the tension of compres. I indeed found our bhawan allotment really interesting. Well, lemme explain first, in case you are not a BITSian. Here we do change our hostels /* called bhawans */ every year. Apart from first year, in all 3 of them, we get our hostel according to our discipline. This time, my discipline i.e. EIE, EEE n B.Pharm are going to be together. I must say, this thing, i mean bhawan allotment is pretty interesting. The list of disciplines n bhawans was out this sat, n dat day onwards, all over d campus, people r trying to get a gud group. Well, still left in the bag is wing allotment for various groups. Forming groups is not dat simple. We hav to make groups of 11-12 people. We formed one sat nite arnd 2am. Nxt mornin 3 of them left, den we got some other 3. Den other 2 left. Well, its been a total mess for last 3 days, n i m really enjoying this. Sumtimes i feel its more like a marriage. U r gettin a proposal from groups n simultaneously u r sending ur proposal as vel to diff. gropus. Later on u get to know dey rejected n sum group accepted, but u now dun want to join dat group. Well, even i wanted to kick out 1-2 from my group, but den i feel like, i must not break my promise. But what if v get dat person, vil dat b gud for us for nxt whole year, shud v compromise or vat... Maynot b for u, but this is really interestin for me. Mayb i'll neither get wing nor wingies of my choice, but i m facin such situation for d first time, n really enjoyin d stuff. And another landmark of semester end, farewells, discipline farewells, regional assocs.'s farewells, clubs n dept. farewell. Well, only disp. n reg. assco. farewell r official n hav dinners in messes. Our mess, d best in our campus, daily v hav one or the other farewell grub. Well, i m not in ne dept. or club, n our reg. assoc. of delhi has no psenti semite /*hope its spelt correctly*/, so i had just my discipline's farewell. Yeah, I enjoyed d food. I was dere, takin sum 'responsibilty', yeah, i can handle dem, especially if dey r really chilled n sweet, i was dere at sweetdish stall, enjoyed vanilla flavour n my favourite gulab jamun a lot. V r indeed a bit worried bout compres, but dat has only changed d way v pass our time. Instead of sum other talk, v talk more bout d av., outta 300, how much vud b A, n all sort of dat stuff. It vud b a lot better if v conc. on our studies, rather dan wonderig how much more v need to get d grades, but alas, no one can help it, v r progrommed to pass our time by talkin on n on in groups, vat compres has done is just changed d subject n nothin more. Well.. my next post, i suppose must b ven i m back home, after compres as I'll try, if not to study, den atleast to b away from stupid ways of time pass. Mayb i'll succeed...

Yo Sariska!!

So, finally, I also can tell people stories about my excursion trip. Yeah, this was indeed my first, and it was really rocking. We started at around 1345 hrs on saturday, after the mathematics test, after the lunch, after taking permission from our warden sir /* yeah, it was all legal this time*/. The journey was about 4 hours, which itself was a real fun. The surrounding hills were really eye pleasure, as we got closer to alwar, which is 36k from sariska. Few kms ahead, we halted at a place /* you can have a look of it in the photo*/ I dunno what exactly it was, but we loved the landscape and there was a little water /* you cant call it river*/ around where we enjoyed watching turtles and our ancestor monkey-the-great.

Then we proceeded and the surrounding got even better as we approached sariska. After a lotta roaming around, thanks heaven, we did found a motel sort of thing to stay, which had in total 3 rooms, and we booked them all. Later on we realised that there was no need at all. Coz for the whole night, we were playing "Mafia", it's really a nice game. We enjoyed it the whole night. We planned to start our 'safari' at around 0800 hrs on sunday, so, took a little rest for 2 hrs and then checked out. We reached our destination at 0800 sharp. So, this was the thing we were waiting for. It was a tiger reserve, but there were no tigers there at present. So, all we could had prayed was for leopard and cheeteah. K lets first, enter the jungle Now let the pics speak a few things. That's sambhar

Run Lola Run

Now that's maa ka pyar No, we dint got to see any leopard or cheetah either. We just saw footprints of hyna /* as per the driver*/. And apart from the above animals, we got to see neelgai, jackal and wildboars. I cant tell u how many birds we saw. Well, but i must say more than the animals, we enjoyed the landscape. This was first of its kind, atleast for me. It was really amazing when we climed the hill, in gypsey, on so called 'kuchcha raasta'. Somewhere there was so much slope that we had to get down and push the vehicle up. And as we got to the top, there we had a place called "Pandupol" /* I hope its spelt correctly*/. For that we had to walk about 2 kms further upwards. But it was really worth it. Its actually a waterfall, but there's no water at present coz of the hot weather. There we enjoyed a little bit of rock climbing. From there we returned back to the base quickly coz of time constraints. The driver took us from the "pukka raasta" this time, so we dint had much chances to get to see laopard or something, u can see them only while you are driving on "kuchcha raasta". Back to the base at 1130 hrs. We all were hungry, we had just a cup of coffee since morning. So, next destination, some kinda dhaba. But this one was really difficult. We also planned to see forts in Alwar as well. This was a good news for some of us and a bad news, atleast for me, the fort remain closed for public on sundays. Yeah, after 5 hr journey, then a night out playing mafia, and then the safari, without a break, it was all really taxing. Ok, lets move on to our next stop. There were no dhabas around, before we got to a Rajasthan Tourism resort. It was around 1300 hrs, between Sariska and Alwar, built near a lake. We got our tummies filled /* well, not exactly*/ and then we went for boating in the lake. We initially planned to visit this lake a day before, but we missed it on the way that time. So, here we go three pedal boats. We planned boating,but it seemed we did rafting when we got out. And even here, not to forget the beautifull landscape. Yeah, this is Rajasthan, our beautiful Rajasthan. Well, after the boating-cum-rafting we were really tired and on sunday we have no other option, everything is closed in alwar, the forts and the museum. So, only option, our hostel sweet hostel, Pilani. We got back at around 2000 hrs. What an amazing trip it was. Hey, the thrill and adventure was far more than the description. U cant expect artistic description from me atleast. Some of my friends enjoyed "Mafia" the most, But I really enjoyed the park, yeah, landscape more than those herbivores and the jackal. Or in simple words it was : TARGET ACCOMPLISHED SUCCESSFULLY. This, no doubt, was a big HIT. My sincere thanks Rwitajit, for the brilliant snaps. // I have 512MB of the stuff