PAN IIT booze @ ISB

Last night saw the PAN IIT booze flowing at the co2008 lounge at ISB.

We were not planning to have any formal thing of this sort among ourselves because we wanted to avoid forming a closed cohort but the head of admissions here himself invited all IIT grads for a high tea this evening to discuss on the future strategy to continue attracting people from the top technical institutes of India. Once that happened, people hesitantly poured in mails on whether we should all meet sometime. Sensing the underlying community mood, yours truly sealed the sentiment inviting everybody to put together a booze party for the Thu night when the classes for the week finish. Responses were immediate and elated. A number of people volunteered for booze, music, and system. Abhishek from section H, whose classes are in the afternoon, reserved the co2008 lounge in the morning when some of us were being tortured by the z- and the t- curves of statistics to predict the chances of us having a swine flu even though we had tested negative and others were being cold called by the marketing prof on the FedEx case. And while we cursed ourselves why we quit our six figured salaries for this BS, a pleasant surprise was the arrangement of lights and speakers too from the school side.

By 11.30 pm, almost 75 of the 112 IIT alums gathered in the lounge. Of course girls were hard to find but wasn't that expected! Towards the later part of the night, the consensus was to invite all the IIT alums and all the girls of ISB in any such future parties. Though the move is more likely to label us losers but what the heck!

In the end, some cheekily chosen songs and ghazals from the singers of the batch reminded everybody of their one sided, first love at college. We sealed the night with a 'Purani Jeans' from everybody together. The party was highly successful and left all of us wanting for more while we left the lounge with the memories of how farzi our journey to here had been - copying tutorials, bunking classes, sending proxies, abondaning studies with the full conviction that corporate would kiss our asses begging us to join them once we graduate (The enlightment was not to come till it was late), and all the while unconsciously evolving a personality that would instantly connect us with the other members of the community throughout our lives, anywhere in the world.

Isn't it all worth it.