The UD I thought and the UD that is!

This was the first article that I wrote for The Spirit, our college magazine.

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It was called UDCT. University Department of Chemical Technology. Sounded big! Sent chills through my body...? -no. But definitely forced the respect out of me, oh yes! I had heard of precocious students getting in and prodigies coming out of UD, of intellectuals and entrepreneurs born out of it. After admission, i had prepared myself to go into a crowd of scholars, something compared to Russel Crowe in 'A Beautiful Mind'. After coming here, there was no doubt about what it was.

UD was simply cool! There is no other word for it. The buildings though old, the ground though crude, the canteen flooding with people, the graffiti in the rec centre, the innumerable books in the library, the beautiful greenery, all of it is simply cool.

And UD is so small! The professors are approachable, the seniors are nice and it might so happen that the Director might know your name. The faculty, they are a class apart and yet are such simpletons. you might just find one of them with trousers folded, boots in one hand and an umbrella held above the head, walking through the puddles that rain makes in UD!

The seniors are interactive in the literal sense. There is always a two-way flow of information. And my colleagues, they are supercool! They make you feel at home. For me it was not going to be a college, rather it was to be getting lost in the big outside world. But it is not like that! It is like small tributaries joining into a big river. It is no longer "they make UD", but its "we make UD". We are going to be the technologists of tomorrow. I am proud to say that!

And we have looked up a beautiful place in our insti to study. There is our auditorium building outside which they have built good granite benches where you feel wonderful to just sit an go on reading. Its all surrounded by trees and you can get so nostalgic that its overwhelming. I used to go there read novels, and now we go there to study during exams. There beside it, is the largest tree of UD, and damn its so huge! And considering that it has so many trees around it to hinder its spreading; yet it stands there, tall and huge. You look up and you can see nothing other than sky through the branches and leaves of that tree. I so love that place.

I haven't seen all of it, but I would like to live in UD for ever. It is just so beautiful. And in the morning, I feel every moment should be conserved, every inch of UD should be captured and should be always be kept in front of you. Every small leaf after it is touched by water, every stone turned after they have swept the floor in the morning emits a maddening scent which makes you feel this was the best moment of your life. The birds in the morning can make you feel you didn't have these human fellows around. After staying in UD I seriously won't mind going and staying in a forest. I wish I get all of what is here in the next three years I have to stay here.

It is called ICT. Institute of Chemical Technology. Sounds big!