My Day

Pre-breakfast: 12 rounds of swimming pool; 7 breaststroke 5 freestyle; totally 600 meters

Breakfast:~2 cups of sprouted dal, 15 slices of cucumber, ~1/2 cup of chopped tomato, 4 slices of white bread,2 teaspoons butter, 1 glass of milk

Post breakfast- 6 chapters of the Novel by David Davidar-"The House of Blue Mangoes"( my first attempt at reading a 300+ pages novel)

Lunch: 4 rotis, 1 cup of chopped and fried beetroot, 2 cups of kadi with pakodas, 1 cup of yoghurt,1 cup of yellow split pea

post lunch: disappointing meeting with the professor

Evening: 1 glass of milk

Late evening: Jog through Institute- starting at Tapti Hostel following the road leading to playing grounds then tracing Biotechnology Department, the CAD desgin block, the Rarefied Gas Dynamics Laboratory, an abandoned 1 seat flying craft, the Campus Cafe, the Institute hospital, Kendra Vidyalaya, NSS water tank, Vana Vani, the border wall of Guindy National Park, the iconic IIT Main Gate, the Jalakanteswarar Temple, the Ladies Club, the Sree Durga Peeli Amman Temple, the Director's Residence, the Institute Stadium, the SAC centre, the Institute Gym( 5 pull ups, 6 pushups) and from the gym a walk back to the tapti hostel tracing along the way Sindhu, Institute Swimming Pool, Godavari Hostel, a view of Himalaya Mess, Basera, Side View of Saraswathi and finally back to Tapti Hostel.

Dinner: 7 pooris, 2 cups of aloo curry, 1 cup of yellow pulses, 1 cup of buttermilk, 1 banana

post dinner: A sudden rush of nostalgia. 5 years at IIT!