The first night out at the department

The "haunted-house" like stories of the Fermentation Lab are very common among the Biotechnology students of the Institute.And why not? Three days of microbe-service for free is not a very likable experience.It was an eye-opener of sorts as well.I mean , a guy like me who was so fascinated with cooking and all, now finds this work tedious.Just 4 labs and I was like, MAN!!!IT SUCKS....
I DONT WANNA BE A CHEF NOW


But,the great MR.D , our lab prof,was like "HAAN JEE!!!BOLO JEE...TUM LOG KAAM NAHIN KAARTA HAI JEE...ZZZZLET ME GIVE YOU AN EXPERIMENT.....AND JUST FOR FUUUUUN YOU GUYS WILL HAVE TO BE IN THE LAB FOR THREE CONTINOUS DAYS...(this was followed by a devilish grin)".

The experiment was a demonstration of CSTR....If you dont know how that works ,dont worry,most of us ,who did it ,didnt know it either..

Just that the entire batch was divided into six groups and each day four hour slots were allotted to each group....My group had the worst slot on the first day..The slot was from 2 to 6 in the morning...Just my luck,that the SOP was in full swing at that time AND just the excuse that SIR!!ITS 2AM, I HAVE MY LAB..was so nonsensical.

Any ways, after being sneered at, I finally managed to leave for the lab.

I like to keep myself entertained. I took my lappy and Rahul's headphone.At the insti gate,thanx to the new security rules which are being imposed,the guard asked me why I was coming to the insti at that time....I said DADA LAB HAI...He gave me that are-you-crazy-or-are-you-fooling-me look followed by the IITians-are-crazy-people look.I was like HAAN DADA AAP BHI HAS LO MERI KISMAT PAR.

At the dept, everything was surprisingly quiet.I mean thats not what you expect when you have Maulik around.

There are people you do not understand and then there are people who do not let you understand them (perhaps they are confused themselves)....

Subhradeep Samaddar, a legend in himself was in my group. He has this cool habit of not attending any labs.But today,Mr Samaddar was there with his why-are-you-shocked-seeing-me look.We all were shocked indeed. The TA didnt even recognise him.She was like IS HE IN YOUR BATCH??

Soumya was there with his latest class notes..Determined to study the whole night.

And Shirsesh the dude was playin NFS..MOST WANTED...


Maulik was listening to Enrique....


Our TA was listening to Euphoria, one of my fav bands.


The work was not that hard. Infact, there was hardly any work.

Just take a sample every hour.


But this sitting there the whole night was sickening.

At 4:30 we were trying our best not to sleep..
It was then that our TA made coffee for us.
Which other dept provides coffee at 4:30..eh??
Maulik was so impressed with this, he even wrote this as his status message.

At 5am ,we were told to analyse the samples.

OMG!!!

SO at 5 we started with analysing..NTU, Spectrophotometer, centrifuge, vortex and all those fundoo machines...there was a problem...OH NO WHY US??..some group had not taken their four readings...Some error due to that freaking mistake and we had to stay there for another half an hour...

We are not machines after all...I broke a beaker...Maulik went a step higher , he broke a cubette, which supposedly is worth a 1000 bucks...


Finally, we were done..
Some sleep after a bad night....We missed the Pinaki sir's class next day...


PS: The thoughtful Mr. D, gave the girls the morning slots ,so that they are "safer"......wtf