After being robbed of two grand for a 30km auto ride, and a few treks from the hostel to the main campus, I settled into my room. The following day, the guys got decked with formal shirts and ties while the girls tumbled around in their saris for an inauguration that presented to us the lethal force which holds SCMHRD together - Subbu! Being promised a gruelling two years ahead, we retired to our rooms and made arrangements to be woken up at 5am to catch the 6am bus to 'Surya Shibir'.
What a place! In spite of Subbu's instructions to the trainers to make Out Bound Learning (OBL) as tough and demanding as possible, we managed to thoroughly enjoy it. We got to know many of our batch mates; a truly diverse batch, I must say. OBL served its other purposes as well. The trek was tiring. So were a few team activities. My team, the Red Bulls (B1), drew a lot of flak from the trainers for supposed "lack of planning", but we seemed to adamantly adhere to it. We finished last, though we strongly suspect that the result was rigged! Ankita, Tithi, Charu, Khushboo, Jhilmil, Ankita Behl, Harshad, Amruta, Pooja, Viraj, Prashanth, Varun, Divya, Charul, Neeraj, Ankit, Lalith, Krishna, Akshut and SK (I tried my best to maintain height order) it was great getting to know you guys!
When we got back to the campus, battered and bruised, we were invited with a notice that informed us about a finance and economics test scheduled the following day. We were delighted! They actually told us that we were going to have a test and even mentioned the subjects! How much more benevolence can one expect! They were also kind enough to ask us to submit our finance assignments.
Last evening, post the test and assignment submission, I performed one of the most arduous tasks in my life thus far. I washed my clothes. One and a half hours for 13 of them. After initial ridicule, I was told it was a decent effort for a beginner...
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