Journey to REC ................
I still remember the day when i took the bold decision of opting for electronic seat in a college about which no one in my family heard of... including me..........Well once when i was in 12th std , one of my friend chaitya mentioned about REC...Our knowledge at that time was limited...what we knew at that time was that there exists one college near trivandrum or somewhere in south which is know as Regional Engineering college (REC) and important task for us was to find out how to enter this college...We got a breakthru when someone of us informed that REC has its own entrance and admission forms will be out in Nov.........Thats it..Discussion abt REC ended there itself...As everyone of us was aiming for BITS nobody did ever worried abt other colleges...We prepared our best ,appeared for the exam , enjoyed our vacation with frds.... I spent most of the vacation watching tv at Parags place or having pani puri with Sujya Mangya Paragya and Vijaya.... All of sudden the D-Day arrived .Results were out ....Some were celebrating ...Some how i got to know abt my results...As usual success evaded me...I was short of 10 mark ( merit list)...Thus BITS seat was far from my reach...A silver lining in the dark cloud was the MSc Integrated course.... But no one except me was banking on that...Everybody started suggesting me the alternatives ....As i was also bit disappointed I filled the form for my state colleges.....But all my 9 choices went wrong and I was not allocated any seat in state's top colleges...This is was Blessing in disguise....And as it is said man proposes and god disposes ....i enrolled myself in JNEC aurangabad for the computer course and went to Aurangabad to attend this college...I was ragged on the very first day.... Within four days I made a decision not to stay there and the big day arrived (I was waiting desperately for this day)..... It was our REC Counselling day....We went to Nagpur..I was accompained by my Mom..... She was hesistant right from the word go....But I had already decided that i will opt for instrumentation course ....Of which I liked the AEIE course the most..... Later i came to know that I was the one of the few person who knew what was exactly AEIE....My reasoning was simple by having two degress electronics and instrumentation I will be able to apply for openings for six branches .... Electronics ,Computer , Electrical, Instrumentation, Production, Mechanical .......................Thus there wont be any dirth of jobs......................We reached REC Nagpur arnd 9 clock ...counselling was to begin at 10 and everybody was getting restless... I was with my college buddies Sujay mangya and paragya.....First Jolt came to me when instrumentation seat in REC Trichy got filled at 98. something PCM..... And my heart almost sanked when REC Rourkela was opened at 98 ....i was praying like anything.... I was still 9 mark behind and there were almost 38 guys ahead of me..................Well that was only seat which was opted till 10.45..... Once again I saw REC Rourkela name flashed on the screen... This time I almost lost my hope... I didnt had any courage to see the branch which was filled... I was bit upset when somebody told me that it was Chemical branch that was opted... I was very happy to hear that and started blessing the guy for choosing chemical branch.... I even thght I will meet that guy in person and thank him...Later that guy became a very good frd of mine ...thats a different story...Now just 5 students were ahead of me...And I was worried...Because I knew success can evade me at any point of time...Count down started 4 3 2 and the moment i went to the desk where i need to inform my choice I hurriedly said AEIE REC RourkelaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaI remember that guy looked at me (Mr Deshpande then Head of Counselling at VRCE) ,stared for a second or two and two word came out of his mouth "Good choice" ..........He then asked me r u sure?..I said yaa I am confident and that seat was allocated to me.................. I didnt knew at that time where my would be alma mater is and how to go there ?.......Mom started almost weeping when she saw that I was dead serious to go ahead with my admission... Later i came to know she accompained me as she thght I may change my decision afterwards.... We had a huge quarrel while coming back to Nanded...Argument continued upto such extend that at Nanded Mom decided to go ahead to Latur and asked me to complete the admission process on my own....I knew it was her love for me that was preventing her from allowing me to go to REC......... I was firm at my decision ...completed formalities in Nanded, went back to Nagpur submitted my documents and got the admission letter for RECR..................I had a MSRTC pass at that time...It was an offer wherein u were allowed to travel as many km as u want within 7 days for 750 rs... I opted for that...from nagpur i went to pune to meet my old time buddies Rahul and shashank....Then I came to latur to pack my bags for Rourkela.................... Totally i travelled nearabt 2200 kms....When I reached arnd 8 clock to latur I found my dad studying India Map.... I asked him what was he doing.....He replied he was searching Rourkelaa and was trying to locate route for travelling......My Mom with heavy heart started preparations for my travel........next day i was told that somebody has come to see me...I was later told that he was Kishore...one more fellow who will be joining RECR...Later I came to know this was the fellow who opted chemical branch....We left latur by Pandarpur-Nagpur bus which started arnd 1 pm and reached nagpur by 4 clock....Tear already found their way from my Mom's eyes and I was rathered surprised to see them.............I was very happy ..............Dont know why but i was quite confident and had a belief that this decision of mine gonna surely change my life....Life of Parimal Killarikar...............We reached Rourkelaa arnd 9 pm and booked a lodge for ourselves....My Big Bro accompained us...........Kishore had brought a reference of our senior....He decided to meet him the very next day....Next day I took bath (which turned out to be my first and last sincere bath in Rourkela)...........we headed for REC Rourkela...We went thru the main gate........We also saw many guys seating the entrance of main gate...They were looking towards as if we are their next Bakras....unaware of the situation we headed towards the administrative bulding.......The journey from Main Gate to administrative block was painfull....We walked till that building in scroching heat..............My Bro asked address of Shivaji to one of the senior who directed towards the hall...Everyone was staring at Kishore and me ....We were just walking casually.....I didnt sense any trouble till we entered Hall-3 .The moment we entered Hall-3 we were sourrnded by group of seniors...One of the senior asked my BRo....He called shivaji and introduced him to my Bro....Shivaji took my bro away and I started sensing trouble...............As i had already experienced ragging in JNEC i knew what was in store for me...But my calculations proved to be wrong as I underestimated REC...........Ragging was totally different here...........we were ragged almost for an hr..........I heard every one calling me Magya and Gabris butru.......i was not getting anything out of that...............Some body told me that Gabri had gone to Morning show...And I shd get out of Hall-3 before he comes as he is desperately waiting for his butru...................................................................
Thus Began the journey towards attaining the status of RENGCOLIAN
