On the 24th of December 2009, smiles that had been lost underneath never ending stacks comprising mainly of unorganized photocopied notes, subject material and books that were never actually referred to, returned on the faces of most of the students at NLIU as they packed their bags to return home. The MP Tourism taxi service probably recorded peak profit that day, as most of us rushed to catch that trains they don't know the name of, for obviously that didn't matter to them. What mattered, was the belief that this journey will take them outside the godforsaken campus that had been haunting them in the last two weeks, thanks to the end-terms. So as 'most of us' vacated the hostels, the unfortunate rest stayed back to face a painful round of negligible social contact, no food on campus, empty hostel corridors and locked rooms. Why? Exactly the question almost everyone of us staying back asked oneself at the end of the day, 'Why did I pick this moot!?' Among the 15 or so students staying back were not many heavyweights of mooting, but there were some hopefuls. The teams that stayed back included those representing NLIU at B.C.I, Jessups North, MM Singhvi, DM Harish, Vienna East, K.K. Luthra, and the GLC-T moot. And somehow, we managed to make it an experience worth reminiscing.
With the library closed for the first 3 days due to local and national holidays, the mooters stayed in their respective rooms for a substantive part of the day, only coming out to find the tapra closed and walking back, or to arrange for food. I made regular rounds to the Jessup team's room, to fetch some inspiration from the quartet stuck to their laptop screens. It helped me out a little, but couldn't prevent me from wasting my time on various futile issues like thinking about where to eat for hours and planning meals in advance. So, the year 2009 was ending with most of us making honest attempts at researching, yet often finding ourselves checking out the amazing download speeds that we were getting. GBs in an hour, the WiFi lord was impressed I guess. Some of us did manage to resist the temptation and work, which is something I can never be proud of, because sadly enough I couldn't follow suit. And I paid the price later, working non-stop for more than a day, and convincing the courier service to take my package even without proof of identity. Managed all of that, and learned never to repeat some fatal mistakes that I made during the period.
Some things still need a mention, because of being the only light moments that we had, moments that were free from pressure, and filled with humour. This would obviously include the Christmas Dinner that was delicious, (according to what I am told, couldn't be there) the Bonfire which included ideas like burning the dog and smoking the bonfire flame(one of which was turned into a practical demonstration, I leave it upon you to figure out which one ) and everyone's submission date. All of us managed to submit on time and those of us who didn't quite know how to format, acquired the knowledge the hard way, and the rest we decided to keep for later.
Advice to future mooters staying back:
Make sure you know who else is in the hostel.
Keep listening to music, BUT work!
Always have stuff to eat.
If you're not experienced enough at it, don't sleep for 20 minutes, thinking that you will wake yourself up on time. (You're going to wake up the next morning, take my word)
Keep talking to people. (don't let the big bad moot get you)
And, DHL doesn't take packages after 8:00 PM.
This piece of information, would certainly help.
(I submitted at 8:25 PM, but I was lucky)
-Yash S Vijay
Batch of 2014
With the library closed for the first 3 days due to local and national holidays, the mooters stayed in their respective rooms for a substantive part of the day, only coming out to find the tapra closed and walking back, or to arrange for food. I made regular rounds to the Jessup team's room, to fetch some inspiration from the quartet stuck to their laptop screens. It helped me out a little, but couldn't prevent me from wasting my time on various futile issues like thinking about where to eat for hours and planning meals in advance. So, the year 2009 was ending with most of us making honest attempts at researching, yet often finding ourselves checking out the amazing download speeds that we were getting. GBs in an hour, the WiFi lord was impressed I guess. Some of us did manage to resist the temptation and work, which is something I can never be proud of, because sadly enough I couldn't follow suit. And I paid the price later, working non-stop for more than a day, and convincing the courier service to take my package even without proof of identity. Managed all of that, and learned never to repeat some fatal mistakes that I made during the period.
Some things still need a mention, because of being the only light moments that we had, moments that were free from pressure, and filled with humour. This would obviously include the Christmas Dinner that was delicious, (according to what I am told, couldn't be there) the Bonfire which included ideas like burning the dog and smoking the bonfire flame(one of which was turned into a practical demonstration, I leave it upon you to figure out which one ) and everyone's submission date. All of us managed to submit on time and those of us who didn't quite know how to format, acquired the knowledge the hard way, and the rest we decided to keep for later.
Advice to future mooters staying back:
Make sure you know who else is in the hostel.
Keep listening to music, BUT work!
Always have stuff to eat.
If you're not experienced enough at it, don't sleep for 20 minutes, thinking that you will wake yourself up on time. (You're going to wake up the next morning, take my word)
Keep talking to people. (don't let the big bad moot get you)
And, DHL doesn't take packages after 8:00 PM.
This piece of information, would certainly help.
(I submitted at 8:25 PM, but I was lucky)
-Yash S Vijay
Batch of 2014
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