The Unique Batch that is...

28th November 2007  - The last day of classwork at BITS Pilani Goa Campus , and the last day we attended classes there as proud Kernelites. Exactly one year is up, and I was flooded with memories when I saw the "raw" videos that we shot, on this very day last year. Now, one year later, my friends are at different places  - most of them core professionals now ( some entrepreneurs too) , few still unchanged, and a fewer are students still. /* No.. We did not  fail. */

****T6***** - an ID that is now unique to just 45 ( +1+3) of us, a bond that all of us share - not to mention the perennial confusion as to what it really meant and whether it was engineering after all. The wonderful journey started in 2004, with us treading on a path no-one else had ever explored before. Well, i can confidently declare now that the journey through the college has been as colorful and as wonderful as the journey to it...

The first year went in a hurry - with sparse interaction between us. Maybe we were more worried about Thevenin and Norton.  I, for one, never got to figure that out completely. :( But that does not matter. Not now anyways. We had our first interaction with a question " How many of your names start with "B" ? " From the second day, I have been guilty of occupying 2 seats. And no !, I am not that fat! [ You can check in the photos below ] .The second year was enjoyable, despite the Mini-Tests. The third year was supposedly serious with CDCs hanging by our heads. The fourth year - I wont comment.

We were quite aloof, right from the very beginning, and united as a class- so much that for the first two years, it never even occured to us that we must have an association. I was really fortunate to be  in a class where the people really cared about each other, and the teachers were more like seniors. We did a host of projects - each one of them involving an intense argument [:P] finally culminating in a desperate Nightout. How can I ever forget the Fan regulator, a project that we had no clue about till the penultimate day. The doubts which we had would have put the inventor of the regulator to shame. Fortunately , my ingenious teammates were the saviours! 

 Who can forget the rigorous preparation for Quark-06, a feat that was repeated at the Apogee... There were wonderful leaders who emerged, and they were role models for the rest of us. For that matter, each member of the class displayed some unique and rare virtues - something I have been awed by.

There were certain remarkable moments too. Infosys Dinners. The blue dress drama. Samosas in the class. Commentary at the back. Mini-tests. Birthday Celebrations. Kabo-de-Rama Trip. Videos. World Cup Victory. Quark. Airport Plaza. The C-Chakra( which i guess only 2 other people know about), Electives' Worries, Pangs before placements... The list goes on...  Our class was certainly unique in more ways than one. Caring, united, always enthusiastic! 

Well, should I end with one question, one of the first we were ever put  across - "How many of our names start with 'B'? ... :) If you know the answer, ( as was given in the class) do comment :).