MITAFEST

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This weekend I attended the culturals at MIT College (MITAFEST). For those who don't know what is MIT, it is one of the leading government engineering college in the state and as it was spoken high of other colleges I expected more from their culturals. First of all I would like to inform you that I haven't attended the culturals of other colleges and INSTINCTS (Cultural event of our college) is the only culturals I have attended so far. The crowd to the event will be around thousands and our college gets a good number of count in audience due to the overwhelming sponsors we get every year and so I was expecting at least a decent crowd in MIT. The first day when I reached Chrompet it was around 2 in the afternoon( as I had exams in the morning I had to start late). Don't mistake me to be a dancer or a singer as I went to the culturals :). The reason why I went for the culturals is to take part in the gaming event conducted by them and of course for sighting :). I have took part in a couple of such gaming events before but haven't been successful in any of them. People who know me must be aware that I am a die hard fan of football and have interest in FIFA. I was shocked at first by seeing the place in which the event was being hosted. It was a place where they park the shuttles and for tamil people try remembering the introduction song from the movie Five Star. Welding works were taking place in one direction within the place and a mere ten computers were used for the gaming purpose. There was a total of 4 events in gaming. I had no idea of posting about this else i would have managed to take a snap of the place. They didn't forget to collect the entry fee for each event which was much higher when compared even to SRM College which is the only college in Chennai that charges more for events like this. I just went out to check the standard in which I was playing the game and I had no confidence of winning the game as it has more than 8 months since I played FIFA 08 ( I have been playing the new version of the game FIFA09 since it was released in August last year). The first round was much easier and I dominated the game right from the start and I had no trouble in proceeding to the next round of the tournament. So they asked me to come back the next day for the next rounds. I thought for once whether I have to travel around 50 kms for just playing as I wasn't much confident on the event. It was one of my friends in college who insisted me to give a try to the event.

I went the next day a bit earlier as they told me that the second rounds will commence by 10.00 in the morning. But as there was shortage of systems they extended the prelims till 2 in the afternoon. The place was under an asbestos sheet and this made the place more hotter. I started getting head ache due to the heat and irritation there. I cursed myself for coming to the event. If I had been in hostel I could have enjoyed a lot sleeping :). I thought of spending the time by having a look at other events. As on the previous day I have arrived late I couldnt actually roam around the college much. On the second day I found out that hardly 500 people would have come to watch the culturals. For a leading in the center of the city and having culturals on a weekend this number was too low and I was surprised. Then i consoled myself saying that ' இந்த மாதிரி கேவலமா நடத்துனா யார் தான் வருவாங்க' . I played the next round and I lost the match and I was happier than I would have if I had won it because I just wanted to leave the place. I waited for my friend to finish his match too and so that we can leave for the hostel together. As already stated there was some working going on in the place where the event was taking place and they were welding beams at the roof. I managed to get a picture of the place from the movie for you but the place in reality was far worse than what it is in the movie. My friend CT ( His original name is Gokul Prabhu and CT is his nick name) was playing the match and as I was having a head ache I was sitting in a chair away from him and was facing towards him. Suddenly the people working were shouting and I saw a beam coming from the roof right towards the pople playing on computers. The size of the beam is given in the picture so kindly take a look at it. And it fell right next to CT and the CPU in which he was working flew some 20 feet away. The beam has missed him by just and if it had fallen on him I can't imagine what damage it would have done. Organisers of the event didn't even apologize for the incident and they simply started continuing the event as if nothing has happened. My visit to MIT has reduced the respect I had on the college before. Our college culturals is due in a couple of weeks and we hope that the event becomes a success as it happens every year. I invite you readers to attend the event which is scheduled to take place on March 5,6,7.