NEW COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT(2008-2010)
The New College Institute of Management aka NCIM is located in the heart of the Chennai in Roypettah inside The New College campus, well known for its strikes and many things which are not worth mentioning here. Well I joined the NCIM in the year 2008, when I first joined there I could not get a hostel accommodation due to the fact that there was not enough rooms for the number of students.
I waited for a month and finally I got the hostel accommodation. The thing is that the room was as small as barber shop and it was alloted to five students, four belonged to MBA and another one belonged to MCA. At first it was irritating and annoying, I was lucky enough to get a cot along with my b.com mate and another MBA mate but the other two didn't get the cot. They slept on the mat on the floor. We felt a bit guilty because we were sleeping in the cot and the fact that those poor guys were sleeping on the floor. But things slowly started changing we started adjusting to the condition and started enjoying the hostel and college life. The mess there is really superb, the food there is the best compared to the other colleges in and around the Chennai city. Well in those college days we used to hang around in the ground and play cricket sometimes. The New College Mosque was inside the campus which gave me the chance to pray and be attached to Islam. There were a lot of guys in New college who were very religious and thoughtful and I learned a lot of thing in those hostel days. Our favorite hot spot which we used to hangout is Spencer Plaza, one of the first mall of its kind in Chennai which can be found in the mount road Chennai near the LIC building.
Like my UG college, we first thought our college is strict and etc etc...but as days went by the same thing repeated except the fact that we didn't cut the classes due to the attendance threat we usually had. We use to enjoy the classes, our faculties were of both kinds,lenient and strict. But we went cross the border and did things that they would have never imagined at all, the ultimate thing is that we had a big paper fight in the class room and there is a big history behind the paper fight. I remember a slogan we used to say when we hit each other “SHUT UP YOUR MOUTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHH”. My dear friend will remember it I guess, he does a good bit of mimicry. Well well everything was superb, we had a wonderful Post graduation classes. I guess the staff members and committee members there will never forgot our batch. The Ramadan days in the hostel where excellent ,we used to wake up in the morning to have our food and the pray together, those long talks we used to have during night without sleeping. All those things came and went in a flash and I still want those days back. A sad thing is that we didn't have a farewell because of some problems with our junior guys. But we had some wonderful hostel farewell moments which was arranged by my own batch mates. Miss those days very much.