Here I am at kanpur to attend marriage of one of my very close friend given by iitk only. Marriage is on the weekend and at lucknow. Today I planned to visit IITK probably after an year. Even I visit kanpur, twice or thrice in an year, but offen don’t get chance to visit iitk,heaven on earth - as few of us still believe.While driving down to iitk, when i reached at kalyanpur it reminded me of iitk festive days when we used to come down to kalyanpur market for stuff that we dont get in nankri. Finally I reached at the glorious gate - just remembered the news group thread about iitk-gate, i really dont remember anything about the thread - just remember that few folks were comparing our glorious gate with sahu ji maharaj’s beautiful looking gate those where really jerk… :p don’t mind if you were among those. It is exactly the same gate, but the way I am entering is completely different. While entering the gate it reminded me the first instance when I entered the Gate that was the summer of 1998, when i first time came to iitk to checkout the result of JEE. That day I entered with only one thing in my mind what’s my result. Today I entered again with a question in my mind but this time my question is subjective and not that clear. So why I am here today, one of the reason is that I wanted to meet a friend who is doing the RA ship at iitk. Other reason, i am not very sure by myself most likely i want to refresh old golden days of my campus life. First thing I am suppose to do is to meet up with my friend, I parked my scooter in front of gate-3 (academic gate in front of hall-1) and was waiting for my friend who is suppose to meet me there, while waiting I started a conversation with the SIS guard standing at the Gate, to make sure if I am suppose to park and even taking my vehicle inside the academic area, I am still really afraid of making any mistake at iitk, may be i will be hanged up may be someone will come and take away my degree, I can’t effort that, our degree is the major factor in the life which is going to be driving us for the long way. after few minutes a senior SIS guard was passing stopped and asked me how i am. I told that I am fine, to my surprise he knew me, he knew that i am an aluminous of recent batches. I asked him about recent changes, he told me that new boys don’t have too much of enthuasim they don’t see live action very much, then he recalled me old days of people like vohra, kk, etc. Anyway, after few minutes I went to hostel to check if my friend is wating there, I meet him at his hostel and we started walking towards the Hall-3, I wanted to take a look at my hostel, Hall-3 I really have a very very long stories to write specifically about my three years stay at Hall-3. Canteen is looking completely different, although owner is changed (no more lala) but the staff was looking at me with a nice smile most of them knew me quite well as i was among there regular customers of that canteen. Without having anything I left from there, took some water and entered the mess… Oh my God is it hall-3 mess ?? Its looking completely different, its looking hyper tech, stylish chairs and tables. Things are changing at least in mess. While walking from 3-bot, i looked at the 130’s gate and shouted that, “how come 130 is locked?” A young guy came and asked are you looking for someone… i told the young man that i used to live in this room six years back. Talked a while with that bachha, moved out from the hostel without taking look inside the room, I really dint wanted to look inside the room - cuz I still think 130 is for me and saharia only ;-) Whats next, started visiting places at iitk starting with library, it was a mid sem evening so there was a good rush at the library, but I really don’t see much of the couples out there. Man what the hell is happening to IITK? May be evening is not the right time to catch up the sweet little couples. From there, I visited to cc and cse building not very much noticeable changes there - only changes I can see there is that now I need show up my I-Card everywhere. Campus is moving more towards discipline, sometimes its good but sometimes its not that good. After all went to MT took a tea and .. there.I am desperate to go back into that life, I am really desperate for that. But its ok, I am happy with what’s going on these days….. There was a feeling at the back of my mind which again got affirmed that those where the real best and coolest four years of my life.