Industrial visit is being encouraged by the management of every college nowadays. the main idea behind it is the students should let themselves know things practically.not only these i.v’s give exposure in academic point of view, but also exposes students in knowing different places, interacting with industrial people directly. But the students idea is: To hell with the industry, all we want to do is enjoy the days of the iv away from books classes etc.
Our class decided to go on an iv this sem. well it was early to go to a iv as its mostly held when the end of sem approaches but this time students wanted to go early as they know that they will get busy and will not be able to go for an iv by the end of the sem( as by that time results may come out too). The places we decided to go were Madras,Pondicherry and Hokkanakkal(which we later changed to Kodaikanal). After a eventful one week of getting students to come for iv, collecting money, fixing up the industry etc we left for out iv on 26july evening. In the edn out of 62 people in the class 44 decided to come( one didn't come as he met with an accident on the day before the iv) there was a bit of tension on the last day as Wipro- the company which we had requested hadn't sent their permission letter yet, but soon that was solved and we started by 6 p.m(the original time was 5 but the bus we were going on came late and also some students were late too).
That day day was full of troubles troubles and more troubles. we had two industries lined up to go. in the end we decided to drop one. but nobody was informed. we had to waste an hour by the roadside to solve the issue. then the bus headlight stopped working owing to some loose connection. finally we reached thrissur by 9 and had dinner. then we started off again. the bus had an awesome music system and disco lights. we all danced till we were tired(dancing went on for 2-3 hours). Then we reached Walayar, which is the checkpoint between the kerala-tamilnadu border. There was a huge traffic jam there. usually when i had passed throught that place when i went with family we never had much trouble and crossed in 2 mins or so. but this time we had to stay in the traffic jam for 2 1/2 hours. man it was really irritating. then we crossed it. one by one everybody started falling asleep. i was not getting much sleep dont know why. then i went and sat with the drivers and for the rest of the night followed the roads( which were very good and a sight to behold at night) and chased down other vehicles. soon i was joined by 2 of my other friends. the bus was going full throttel all the time. a amazing sight i saw that night that the road had trees on both sides and their brances were bent and the trees on both sides of the road met in the middle of the road forming a canopy on top of the road.it was a amazing sight and i tried to take pics of it but all i got was my camera flash reflected in the glass of the windshield. then we met with our cs batch who had left a day before us. they had some problem with their bus. and we stopped again to help them out. stopped for tea at 5 at some wayside tea shop. most of the students were sleeping and didnt know that we had stopped. some of those who were awake went for a refreshing tea break. then i slept for a wink at 6. and some idiot took the photo of me sleeping and sampled it to the whole bus(as he had no other job in the world).
this was the first day. read the second part which 'm posting next.
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