BITs and Pieces

After hours of headbanging discussions, incessant internet surfing and chat sessions, and days of travel there's finally a stamp of approval on Mission Admission: BIT Mesra- Ranchi is where I'm going to (Ta Da!) and the branch, of course, is ECE (coz i dint fill nethng else!).

Well I was in the University a few days back for the provisional admission process and with no fake modesty, was awed by the campus. So here are a few picy details.

Well the first thing to notice once you have travelled some 20-odd kms from Ranchi is, well, nothing! The area around is like any other suburbia in hinterland. But once you have made inroads into what they call the BIT More, it gradually unfolds.

The lush green canvas catches one's eyes and moments later, concrete structures (hostels to be precise) emerge. And then, you are gradually led to the main administrative building (MAB), which is indeed a masterpiece of minimalist architecture. Just two storeys high, In fact, it is wide enuf to make sure it gets out of your ocular expanse from any angle you view. The MAB houses the chore engineering disciplines, viz Elx, Electrical, Civ and Mecha.

Taking a look around, see the few hostel buildings, trees, the R&D Department, more trees, the Bank and still more trees. The Campus, with all apologies to former and current BITians, is fit enuf to make a Wildlife Sanctuary. (It's 800 acres, for God's sake!) And I was the unlucky guy, who embarked upon exploring it, and you can be sure, by the evening, i was one tired man.

The ECE department spans an entire block, which gives me a nasty premonition of tough times ahead! The Hostels are more than decent, considering they give 24*7 LAN connectivity and a single room from the first year, not many instis in India do that, actually none that i know of. There are rumours of a Wi-fi zone but not much was revealed to me.

And talking of Insti Culture, well obviously there's plenty of it as the incomprehensible song blaring out from some final year hostel revealed. By the way, a BIT alumnus happens to be the top brass at Standard and Poor's, so there's something about this place, soon there will be more first hand accounts, Peace!