VANAKKAM GAM 2020
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Life at REC around 1985
Just 10 hostels for only 350-400 students, movie screening in EEE-auditorium every week, good mess food, NITT or more appropriately RECT was quite different
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VANAKKAM GAM 2020
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www.gam2020.in
Life at REC around 1985
Just 10 hostels for only 350-400 students, movie screening in EEE-auditorium every week, good mess food, NITT or more appropriately RECT was quite different in the 70s and 80s.
Agate, Diamond, Pearl, Lapis, Sapphire, Topaz, Emerald, Ruby, Coral and Opal: there were 9+1 hostels. Before the Opal hostel was built, girls were allotted what are now the staff quarters. The first years’ accommodation in Agate is similar to now, 4 per room randomly chosen but 2nd year onwards, when people were allowed to choose their wingmates, the interaction between students, inter-branch and across the years was a very strong bonding.
Topaz marked the boundary since there was nothing behind it but a jungle and people dared not venture near it.
The Shopping Center (SC) had a departmental store selling groceries & stationary, Bank, Post Office, photocopy shop, Juice Bar, Food stalls, Cycle Repair shop and a Cobbler shop.
All the girls shared a single hostel irrespective of the year. Initially their hostel was an extension of the staff quarters near the temple. Subsequently, girls were admitted for post-graduate programmes too and the requirement of a hostel precipitated. Thus the famous Opal was built.
Opal was even more cut-off much to the dismay of the guys. But the number of regular devotees to the temple increased significantly after the construction of Opal hostel!!!
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