Day 1 - 27th June 2010 And so it begins

This blog is 'inspired' by one of my friends who is studying at IIM -L, his blog can be found here. His blog was a source of inspiration when I was preparing for all the B school entrance examinations.

Anyways now back to MICA!

Had a pretty uneventful journey from Bombay. Reached campus at around 330 in the afternoon, had to register at the entry gate itself and also got the itinerary for the orientation week. Got to know my hostel and room no. - Palash Room No. 30 is going to be my home for the next 9 months. Soon realized that I was one of the Late Latifs, there were people who had settled down 2 days back! The hostels seemed to be pretty decent. Palash is interconnected with Parijat and Kachnar. These names remind me of the society in Bombay where I used to live, the buildings there had similar names.

After settling down in my room went to find out about the course registration details. Got to know that it could only be done tomorrow at 9 a.m. Also got a taste of the Ahmedabad heat that everyone warned me about. Tried to counter it by downing two glasses of Nimbu paani at Chotta canteen (Chotta's ) , although yummy it provided only temporary succour. Met a few people who were at Chotta's, quite a lot of people are from Bombay and Pune. And whoever I've met from Pune has a very special bond with that city :-) , so Im not the only one.

Went to Big Bazaar in the evening to buy stuff for the room. Got done in an hours time. Half of PGP1 seemed to be there, it helped in completing each others shopping lists. Got back to campus and saw the second half of the England Germany game followed by dinner. After dinner went for a walk around campus with a few people discussing everything under the sun - from Pune to Mithun da's Gunda! Came back to my room and finally met my roommate(throughout the day - when I was in the room he wasn't there and vice versa). Spoke to him for a while before calling it a day. Tomorrow the orientation begins, looking forward to it.