The Reading room

# For those who don’t know, R2 or ‘Reading Room’ is a large hall in the Central Library of IIT Delhi which is 24 hours open for students.

The Reading Room concept was introduced by IIT authorities to encourage students to study more. I don’t know how far they’ve succeeded in this job, but the one thing I do know is that the students have put this R2 into a better use. Some people read books here, and some read faces…….faces of girls.

There are several reasons why I go R2.

1. Its air-conditioned.

2. Its having a Nescafe counter.

3. Girls.

Some of the most prominent observations I had in R2 are as follows:

# The amount of study done is inversely proportional to the number of girls present out here.

# The amount of frustration (or frustaapa, as by IIT lingo), is directly proportional to number of couples present.

Earlier, I hated to go R2. I mean whats the point of walking a kilometre from your hostel to study something you can do it in your room only. But gradually I realised why the place is so popular. Basically it acts as a bridge between farthely-separated girls and boys hostel. Although boys have to walk a bit more to reach here than girls, but then again its justified. Afterall, they are the girls

Its also a meeting point of couples. They come with their books/laptops etc., sit for a while and try to study (which is impossible for both of them in presence of each other). And then when they fail badly, they sleep on each-others shoulders leaving the rest of the crowd to see them and envy.

There is also scope for those who are not having a ‘bandi’. Its really a great feeling to see a girl studying. I must say girls look really cute when they study. (I wish I could say the same for boys also. ) So, the funda is, you study and when you need a break, take your head out of your book and look around. After 5 minutes, you’ll be fully-refreshed and ready to start studying again.

R2 is also Wi-Fi enabled. So some people come here with their laptops. Since in R2 you cannot watch anything objectionable, therefore one can work here without any distractions (which normally occur when one is surfing internet in his room).

So friends, this is R2. Here the love inculcates, nourishes and reaches upto the extent of sleeping (of course on each other’s shoulders). I really doubt if R2 has produced some 9 pointers. But one thing thats sure is that it has been the favourite hangout for ‘5 point someone’ like me.

I had a lot of R2 for the last few days because of my minor exams. May be this was the reason I screwed all my papers. Still I am hopeful that one day I’ll visit R2 and will use the excellent facility provided by Indian Government for only studying. Although I doubt the day will come.

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PS — Minors ended. Trying to forget the nightmare.

PS — Hmm… ‘Rock On’ rocks man..(only if you watch it in a theatre having good sound)

PS — I’d sent a friend request to a girl of my branch on orkut, but she refused.

PS — So I sent it again and guess what, she again refused.

PS — One day I asked her the reason and she said, “Its because of your blog”.

PS — WTF!!

PS — Coming Bhopal. Yipee…!!

PS — Addicted to Kishore Kumar. He rocks.!

PS — Tchao