The life and times of Manu Saxena

The main purpose of this particular post, as the title very explicitly states, is to acquaint you with the life (and times) of Manu Saxena.

Manu Saxena happens to be a student of Mechanical engineering. He is currently doing his Ist semester at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, henceforth referred to as IITD. That does not imply that he is very intelligent, merely that he got very lucky during JEE-2004. This statement is further substantiated by the fact that Manu routinely gets screwed in most of the tests that he takes at IIT. As a matter of fact, he recently got completely screwed in the Chemistry Lab quiz that was held about an hour back.

Not only is Manu faring badly at academics, but his social life also seems to have taken a turn for the worse, ever since he joined IITD. This is because Manu does not feel very comfortable surrounded by the people who inhabit IITD. These people, known as IITans, are a truly amazing species. Most typical IITans are extremely intelligent people having dismal communication skills. However, their modest social skills are more than compensated by their almost superhuman capabilities when it comes to studying all night, solving vast amounts of mathematics questions, masturbating, and endlessly complaining about hostel food. Most typical IITans spend their time either a) studying or b) watching porn. However, some IITans do take a short break from these two activities to sleep. Since IITD is a residencial institute, the students sleep on campus (mostly in class). If students are unable to get the right amount of satisfactory sleep in class, some of them commit the blasphemy of taking short naps in the hostel. Most typical IITans can be classified as Biharis (people hailing from Bihar) or Maddus (people hailing from in and around Tamil Nadu), without much loss in generality. IITans live in residencial hostels named after mountain ranges (except the infamous Jwalamukhi hostel) and students are very loyal towards their hostels. Since Jwalamukhi hostel happens to be the only hostel in IITD which is not named after a mountain range, other hostels often make jokes at Jwala's expense. Jwala also happens to be the only hostel that has not once won the hostel cup in the last 16 years. All this has led to students from Jwala being called Institute chootiyas. Thus Manu is often addressed, by fellow IITans, as IC.

Manu Saxena lives in AIIMS Campus, and the people there are only a little less weird than the people at IITD. However the people at AIIMS (All India Institute for Medical Sciences) happen to be a more frustrated lot, possibly because of the endless years they spend studying.

Manu Saxena's life is therefore, unusual but dull. Most of his waking hours are spent eating, playing cricket and badminton, and chasing homework deadlines. Manu now rues the day when he decided to pursue engineering at IITD, rather that pursuing engineering abroad. But as has once been said, and often repeated, 'Everything happens for a reason.' Great things may yet come of this situation, like this blog.