First week in college hostel

After continuous visit to Dean’s office and my tenacious efforts to prove him that I am the most deserving candidate for the hostel room, my veracity finally won the case for me after 6 months of continual pestering. I moved in in less than 8 hours of getting residence. My room was a cuboid (4*3*3)meters was just big enough to accommodate me. It had a study table ,a chair ,a book shelf and a wardrobe .I still can not understand the purpose of electronic bulb holder which was befitted in a way that it allowed only 30% of light to illuminate the room. Initially I wasn’t happy with it because it was increasing my carbon foot print on the planet but my anger vanished as I realized the ambience created by this bulb is tailor made for drinking and smoking up ,but was it installed keeping this purpose in mind .This is a mystery till date which no one cared to resolve neither the souls which thrived the rooms before us nor us. Study table was obsolete and it understood pretty soon that situation might not improve after looking at the book shelf which had everything but books. I was not the only one blessed with residence that day, other guy was kaustav. He became my Res buddy .Initially, though; he was very difficult for my sensibilities .He ate fish, consumed more than 20 cigarettes every night .He studied chemistry but can that give you liberty of talking about all the drugs available in the market with their detailed chemical structure ,desired and undesired consequences of having it. I never thought people like him exists in this part of world who does not have a thing for cricket, who does not think highly of bollywood and who think ROCK music is MUSIC .But we get used to things, don’t we? Everyone in the residence invariably warned me not to eat at SCIENCE DHABA which become NIGHT DHABA at night .As expected of my human nature I was more than eagerly waited for it to open ,which usually happened in the first week of 2nd term. I ate at night dhaba and completely loved it but couldn’t really understood what is that turns every RESI ( hosteller ) in zombies who after 9 pm could not help the compulsive desire to eat at dhaba .Taste less mess food obviously had a hand in the super success of dhaba .I heard long back that hunger improves taste of everything but can that make a hunger driven Zombie out of you. How, though, could a bunch of neurons, no matter how intricately organized, conspire to make you think about it all the time .This was just the beginning. I knew this place had more to offer ,I still had to learn what is it that differentiate between a resi and day scholar ,between a stephanian and a quarter stephanian