A Castle Of Memories

My first day at amity had me anxious about anything but ragging. But surprisingly not even a single senior even asked for an introduction. First month was occupied in understanding the structure and norms of the college. The terminology of “X-Y batches, tutorial classes and auxiliary notebooks (which funnily, I bought a new one every week before the practical class)” was new and gave us the idea that contrary to the public belief classes did occur at Amity. Our section was then divided, and I found myself as a part of new smaller section .  I liked the small size because it gave us a better chance to interact with the faculties. Then the groups started budding up. We made friends, we fought and the circle continued. Amidst our hectic schedule Behavioral Science and Communication Skills classes provided us some refreshment. My first semester ended I some pretty decent result.

I don’t know why some people criticize the university because it’s a pretty organized and a well infra-structured one. Of course we can’t compare it with the IIT’s and all, but we all never got through JEE and we knew what we were signing up for before taking admissions. Besides the innumerable classes the college gave me some of the finest friends namely Abdullah ,Abhinav ,Piyush ,Anilesh ,Ashutosh, Abhishek , Varun  and last but the most unique Rohit. These fellow sailormen helped  me cruise the ship of my engineering through some pretty rough water, which on most occasions were consequences of our own actions. Our group was always the wild one. We presented some real challenge to our faculties . Classroom was our arena in which we never failed to light everyone’s face with frequent smiles and laughs. I was very punctual at being late for the first class, which lead to many scenes of requests and confrontations with the faculties.

People always term their life at B.Tech as miserable,  I’d like to differ as mine was awesome. We explored places at our college, around college ,Delhi etc. First day ,first show movies every Friday ,frequent parties, cricket at E1 ground, bowling sessions, missing minors for a game of cards were included in our college timetable. Our favorite spot at H Block , the wicked sense of humor of us people,  and many more made our life as easy as it gets. I would not say that ,”life at Amity is 3 A’s, Attendance,  Assignments and Amizone” as mentioned by a friend of mine, because attendance was never a problem ,we never made the assignments and Amizone was a dear friend of us. No story is complete without a tinge of love, and I had my share of it too. Along with fests ,sangathan,and other events ,one thing that can’t be forgotten is the Military Camp. Be it the chanting of “Bijli” while marching, late night chat  sessions , daily dose of putting a blanket over someone’s head and beating him, ‘exclusive’ use of fire extinguishers and countless more, that was an amazing experience. I think Amity should provide atleast 2 of such trips for every batch.

The two internships provided me with some decent experience at work as well as personally. The exploration of NFC and the reasonable restaurants of  Batla house during lunch time was definitely the thing I never had in mind when I heard about internship. I learned a lot of the practical aspects of engineering during the trainings. I would definitely like to praise Amity for having two mandatory internships. The submission of projects and much hyped viva was always enjoyable. Our group was never a law abiding one and although I am not going to mention them here, we have played with some dangerous rules at Amity. It was dangerous but fun too. So on the concluding note I would like to thank the university as it helped me become a good engineer and for all the good time I had in it. I would also like to thank our communication skills faculty Mr. Parveen Kumar for motivating me almost at gunpoint for writing this.

Nilay Vats,

8CE2,ASET