Thanks for the A2A.
My life at IIT Bombay as an M.Tech (Typically final year) student was like the following –
9:15 AM – Mobile-alarm rings. Wake up , realize that it is still 15 minutes till breakfast is officially over (at 9:30); go back to sleep.
9:25 AM- Mobile alarm rings for the 5th time (after 9:15,9:18,9:20 and 9:22). Realize that, it is the last chance to get breakfast, and actually wake-up and rush to the toilet.
9:30 AM- Run to the mess and get the much-coveted breakfast (the only ‘good’ meal in the whole day).
10:00 AM – Finally get done with breakfast and leave for Lab.
10:15 AM- Reach lab and engage in chit-chat with friends.
10:45 AM- Open the lab-computer to work. Start a terminal, open Matlab, IEEE Xplore, and A manual for the hardware you want to work with.
10:47 AM- Open Facebook !
10:48 AM- Open Youtube !
11:45 AM -Realize that you’ve wasted an hour doing absolutely nothing, and start typing vigorously in the terminal you opened.
12:15 PM- Realize that you’ve worked for 30 minutes and deserve a coffee-break.
1:00 PM – Return from ‘Coffee+Snacks’-break and decide to ditch lunch.
3:00 PM- Realize that the input data-set you used during the 11:45 AM simulation was a blank file. Start the work all over again.
5:30 PM- Get some weird results ! But do not understand what that means !
5:35 PM- Feel hopeless and go back to Facebook.
6:30 PM- Realize it is time to leave for hostels.
6:40 PM – Miss a TumTum (IIT Bombay in campus bus-service) by 2 seconds.
7:00 PM- Reach hostel.
7:30 PM- Freshen up, and start watching Friends/GoT/TBBT/Breaking Bad/etc
8:30 PM- Friend calls. ‘Mess pe tinde bane hain, Gulmahar (the in-campus restaurant in IITB) Chalna hain ?’
9:00 PM- Reach Gulmahar.
10:45 PM- Return to hostel after the BIG dinner in Gulmahar.
11:00 PM- Skype with Mom and Dad.
11:30 PM- Friend’s room for chitchat OR a second round of Friends/ GoT/ TBBT/ Breaking Bad/ etc.
2:30 AM- Realize its too late and finally decide to put off the laptop.
2:35 AM- Set alarm for 9:15, 9:18, 9:20, 9:22. 9:25 AM (to make it to the breakfast next morning).
Damn ! I miss those days !