{"id":2186,"date":"2019-10-11T23:14:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceoftheoppressed.in\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2019-10-11T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:44:32","slug":"cotton-college-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"50 things I miss about Cotton College"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent 2 years in Cotton College from 2002-2004. Did my H.S. in Arts from there. Stayed at MNDP Hostel, popularly known as DS (Double Storey). Cotton College experience is almost inexplicable. It’s a league of its own. If you’re a cottonian, you know this. But here I list some things that I miss about my stay at Cotton.<\/p>\n

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  1. Getting military-style hair cuts and wearing full sleeves shirts without tucking for a month as a part of ‘freshers orientation’ into hostel<\/li>\n
  2. Getting and giving ‘Festival’ (something we dreaded as juniors, if you’re a Cottonian you would know what it means)<\/li>\n
  3. Enjoying that little extra leverage from ragging, as you played sports and the hostel seniors wanted you.<\/li>\n
  4. Singing random songs for seniors, as they suddenly felt like listening to me sing.<\/li>\n
  5. Collecting and memorizing the home addresses of every senior in the hostel. I mean it did not make any sense, but we had to. We had separate notebooks just to write those down<\/li>\n
  6. Asking the names of ‘pretty girls’ in your class because some random hostel seniors liked them<\/li>\n
  7. Sitting on college stairs (when you are freshers, you are not allowed to sit on them, or else ‘Festival Khaba’)<\/li>\n
  8. Having the best of the times with the seniors who actually gave you the hardest times<\/li>\n
  9. Freshers parties at cotton college. (Umm they are super fun)<\/li>\n
  10. Getting up super early and going to Judges field and blocking the pitch for cricket match against other hostel residents<\/li>\n
  11. Staying up till late night and blocking part of the roads near the college for election campaigns. (We painted on the roads ‘Vote for …..candidates name…..’)<\/li>\n
  12. Going to the dining hall early on Saturdays to get extra puris<\/li>\n
  13. Doing Hostel Mess Shopping in Paltan Bazar<\/li>\n
  14. Going to the PCO after dinner to make calls to family (Strictly Family……:P, if you know what I am saying)<\/li>\n
  15. Playing cricket at the Hostel lawns<\/li>\n
  16. Shouting and Singing like crazy in the Bathrooms<\/li>\n
  17. Saraswati Puja celebrations. It allowed us to visit the girls’ hostel<\/li>\n
  18. Handique Girls College. Oh, we cottonians love Handique College<\/li>\n
  19. College Elections<\/li>\n
  20. Moving from hostel to hostel campaigning, singing songs and dancing.<\/li>\n
  21. Preparing for March past competition<\/li>\n
  22. Requesting the armed forces Bhaiyas at the Transit Camp, Guwahati for their black army shoes, as we did not have enough to compete in the March Past competition<\/li>\n
  23. Making fun of the ‘Kaala Panis’ (You would know what it means if you are a Cottonian)<\/li>\n
  24. Winning the competition for 3 years continuously. Crying out of happiness in Latasil Field<\/li>\n
  25. Irritating the Warden by making more noise when he was on the rounds<\/li>\n
  26. Dancing like crazy in the hostel verandah to ‘Bheege Honth Tere’. we overdid it as the road next to the hostel were used by girls to go to their classes<\/li>\n
  27. Breaking lights of trucks who disobeyed the order of ‘no entry’ to the cotton roads, especially during exams. (we were studying and the noises of the trucks disturbed us..:P )<\/li>\n
  28. Our Hostel warden shouting at the police personnel and asking them to get out of our hostel premises. we were proud of this that night \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
  29. Watching all kinds of movies (you know, if you know) in those mini size TVs in our hostel rooms.<\/li>\n
  30. Studying hard for exams (Yes, unlike popular belief, we also studied. Well at least, sometimes)<\/li>\n
  31. Late night tea at Railway Station<\/li>\n
  32. Movies at Apsara Cinema Hall. We used the Hostel letter pads to break the line and get tickets. Sometimes at Rupashree too. (if you are a cottonian, you will know \ud83d\ude1b )<\/li>\n
  33. Sometimes it did not work and we had to get into some fights in the tickets line !!!<\/li>\n
  34. Bunking classes and spending lazy times at the canteen<\/li>\n
  35. Getting into unnecessary conflicts with the local students. (Local vs Hostel disputes were rampant in cotton college)<\/li>\n
  36. Defeating the ‘Local cricket team’ in sports week<\/li>\n
  37. ‘Fitting’ for classmates and seniors during exams (If you’re Cottonianan, you would know)<\/li>\n
  38. Having parties in the evenings, if the ‘Fitting’ went right !!!<\/li>\n
  39. Rajabala and Ranibala\u00a0(Yes they were girls hostel)<\/li>\n
  40. Opening my first Orkut Account at the internet cafe near our Hostel (yes, that’s all we did at the cafe \ud83d\ude1b )<\/li>\n
  41. Communal bathing near the MNDP hostel water tanker, generally after cricket matches<\/li>\n
  42. Exchanging shirts with friends (People did not know which shirt was whose \ud83d\ude42 )<\/li>\n
  43. Collecting 40 rs to buy pork fry from AT Road to not eat the hostel ka sabzi<\/li>\n
  44. Stationary shopping at MC Trading (The shop is still there)<\/li>\n
  45. Basketball games at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Guwahati<\/li>\n
  46. Dighalipukhuri<\/li>\n
  47. Hitting on the first girl crush and getting rejected \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n
  48. Hostel Picnics- Umm they were fun<\/li>\n
  49. Asking your friends and seniors write parting memories in your notebook<\/li>\n
  50. Crying like crazy when you had to leave college after 2 years of ‘best times’<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Not an exhaustive list…You can never list down all your memories of cotton college.<\/p>\n

    If you are a Cottonian, you would know !!!<\/p>\n

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    (The featured image shows me and my friend Jitu pegu, visiting and posing at our hostel gate)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Spent 2 years in Cotton College from 2002-2004. Did my H.S. in Arts from there. Stayed at MNDP Hostel, popularly known as DS (Double Storey). Cotton College experience is almost inexplicable. It’s a league of its own. If you’re a cottonian, you know this. But here I list some things that I miss about my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38,73,204],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-assam","tag-cotton-college","tag-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoranjanpegu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}