Get Ready For Summer
by Rahul on May.07, 2009, under Blasphemy, Fun, Life, Passing Time
Students staying over during summer have to pay Rs. 1200 per month as room rent. With an average stipend for students coming to around Rs. 3000, life will be very difficult. For the sake of such students, Yaso has generously given few pointers on Food and Hygiene which, he claims, have helped him right from first year!
Food:
- The cheapest mess in campus is Yuktahaar. It is okay, just a matter of 3 months. Later you can have tasty food in other messes when you get enough money. Go early for breakfast and stuff yourself with fruits and milk. Wear loose clothes to conceal bananas underneath. If you do a good job of this, then you need not have lunch and in some rare cases, dinner also!
- Be on the lookout for mails on important talks, seminars, guest lectures, local conferences and western classical music concerts. Our college generally gives a couple of samosas and tea/coffee after talks and seminars. But in the case of these concerts, there is 5 star food served for free. Make sure you go at least an hour before such events though, for you are not the only one with such ideas!
- Well eating in college for 3 months straight is not at all healthy. So you should go out once in a while which is pretty costly given the constraints on your budget. Who better than your friends with jobs outside? Milk them into giving you treats at least once a month.
BEWARE: DO NOT send any papers with a high chance of selection to good conferences. Else it will be your turn to throw party to your friends!
Hygiene:
Well it is not like you have taken a bath everyday ever since you came to IIIT. I personally take a shower twice a week, for it takes about 3 days for people to you-kn0w-what.
- Spend most of your time in your air conditioned lab doing *ahem* research. This will reduce your rate of perspiration and you can increase your bathing frequency to 7 days per bath!
- I prefer branded clothes for one simple reason, the quality. I wore a Levis cargo for 60 days straight, including 4 train journeys to and fro Tirupathi. Finally the fabric could not take it anymore and disintegrated. Now if I had spent those 60 days in lab, then those trousers would have lasted me for another month or even longer!
- Newspaper costs Rs. 100 per month. Every night, after they switch off the ACs in the lab due to cost cutting measures, return to your room, wrap yourself in that day’s newspaper and sleep tight. This will increase the life of your clothes to say another year! Do not be extra cheap and steal newspapers from library and TV rooms. You never know who touched them with what. Trust me, it is NOT a good idea!
DO NOT participate in any sort of physical activities (walking to lab and the like are not counted). It will only result in you taking more baths and hence spending more money on soaps and shampoo, and of course the washer man.
I picked up many useful suggestions from the movie, ‘Aha Naa Pellanta‘. Do watch it. It helped me, it will help you too!
Well this covers most of the things. Do you have any mind boggling ideas? Suggestions are always welcome. We are after all a family, the IIIT family, and so we should look after each other no?
May 8th, 2009 on 12:32
Hilarious post! resemblance to kota from aha na pellanta starts and ends with the newspaper thing.
Few points I would like to add are:
1. Make a note of all the birthdays that fall within the summer and start pestering those from now itself. The early bird catches the worm.
2. Are people served snacks in FSIS? If yes, try raising up some issue every week. Do not talk much in FSIS. It is only a waste of energy.
3. See if you can share a room with someone(not with sandeep). That will also result in restricted “body activity” and 50% cost cutting on accommodation.
4. If you are a local, consider staying at home. You can bring one of those food carriers that BLN uses.
5. Most importantly, stick to Yaso. Ask him if you will be handed over a biryani (not necessarily from Paradise) shouting slogans for TDP or being a part of cycle rally
May 8th, 2009 on 12:08
u should get it touch with taggar baba or zittu … they are the best in managing such situations …
May 8th, 2009 on 12:15
and their real names are?
May 8th, 2009 on 11:39
Hilarious….!!
May 8th, 2009 on 10:51
Hilarious !! BTW leeching is always an option. Hang on to some rich chap like Sarika and leech on him – From shampoo to deo, from that cold drink in the canteen to the dinners in restaurants. Clothes might not a prospective thing – Sarika doesnt bath so often and of course you can fit two yasos/rohiths in to one sarika’s pant
May 8th, 2009 on 11:05
“Sarika doesnt bath so often and of course you can fit two yasos/rohiths in to one sarika’s pant ” – This is blasphemy!
May 8th, 2009 on 08:33
Interesting
May 8th, 2009 on 06:46
Lovely suggestions! (clapping!)
May 7th, 2009 on 19:31
@Rahul
Anyway you wont be doing any research.
Internships – more income, money not a problem.
May 7th, 2009 on 21:44
Who said anything about me? This is for people who may face financial problems.
May 7th, 2009 on 18:22
no!
now your job is find out to which question this ‘no’ is the answer
May 7th, 2009 on 19:04
abba
May 7th, 2009 on 18:06
I already follow most of this and looking forward to follow the rest. Thanks for an exhaustive list
One alternate suggestion for clothes may be as follows
“By two set of clothes. Wear one of them for a month or so. When you feel that this one is too dirty to wear, stop wearing that and wear the other for straight two months. Now have look in your cupboard for clothes and you’ll find the first one a bit more cleaner than what you are wearing. Then you can wear the first one for four months straight. You can repeat this forever and save the washing costs. The algorithm is called binary exponential backoff.”
May 7th, 2009 on 22:17
Hmm, I will forward this to Him and let you know His opinions
May 7th, 2009 on 17:46
Wouldnt it be a better idea to just go home.
May 7th, 2009 on 19:03
And research during summer? Or internships (at Amazon
) ?
May 7th, 2009 on 20:20
If there are internships, why all these holy rituals to save money?
May 7th, 2009 on 21:46
Internships was just an example, and the number of students with internships is pretty low. Anyway, these so called holy rituals are for those people who may face financial problems. I thought I made this pretty clear in the very first paragraph?