Wednesday, May 07, 2008
D.O.T.A
HOSTEL LIFE vs DAYSCIs’ LIFE
How is the hostel life different from a day scholar’s life? Any daysci would say it’s not that different and that they have as much fun as the hostellers have, while the hostellers would beg to differ. Let us see what the truth is. I asked one of my friends who is a daysci to detail his day on both a weekday and a weekend. And I have compared it with an average hosteller’s day. Here it goes:
p.s. the hostel mentioned here is the F hostel of NIT Calicut.
WEEKDAY (consider a Monday of s8 semester)
| | DAYSCI | HOSTEL MATE |
| 7 am | Getting up | Sleeping |
| 7.30 am | Getting ready | Sleeping |
| 8.00 am | Reached college | Getting up |
| 8.10 am | In class | Reached college |
| 10.15 – 11.15 ( free hour) | Library, computer centre etc | Sleeping in hostel, coffee shop, canteen etc for breakfast |
| 12.15 am | Lunch in canteen | Lunch in mess |
| Afternoon | Going to hostel rooms of friends/ going back home | Its DOTA* time/ movie time/sleep time/net surfing time in hostel |
| Evening | Said something about doing projects and all in labs but I really didn’t understand it | Badminton/ fours (a type of football with just 4 players)/ chit chatting with girls till 7/ chitchatting with boys (all boys aren’t fortunate/unfortunate to have girl friends. |
| 7 pm | Going home, studying, watching TV etc | Dinner time in mess |
| After 7 | Having dinner, again studying (seriously can’t think of anything else that can be done) | The real fun time, movie watching, lan surfing, computer gaming, talking on everything under the sun and sometimes about things over it. |
| 11 pm | Sleep time J goodnight!! | Most active phase of the hostel. Going to MC (mini canteen), drinks time for those who desire it etc. |
WEEKEND (nearing the end of semester; pretty easy to make for a hostel nivasi)
| | DAYSCI | HOSTEL MATE |
| 8 am | Getting up | Sleeping |
| Morning time till about 11 am | Doing misc house work | Sleeping |
| 12 noon | Lunch | Getting up, brunch time |
| Afternoon | Doing some work, god knows what | Lazing around, what work is being done will ultimately end in an afternoon siesta |
| Evening | --------I don’t know-------- | Recovering from the afternoon nap, takes time till dinner time |
| Night | -----Same as weekdays------- | -----Same as weekdays----- |
I guess this gives a rough estimation of what all dayscis are missing. The first daysci reacted by saying that all we do is sleep. Well, sleep in the morning is in compensation for the time we were awake in the night. The average sleeping time is nearly at 2 am. This can extend to up to 4am. But I am not sure if this is a correct representation of all the dayscis. Any daysci who begs to differ are free to comment and correct me.
* Defense Of The Ancients (the ever growing popular game of warcraft. Try it out. It’s really good)
