Ok. So I am being supported by DAAD, and so are about 150 other students. Someone’s idea was to open a google group, and people joined in. People discuss all sorts of stuff there, mostly unimportant. I unfortunately seeing the (over)enthusiastic crowd, shy-ed away from it, and so neither did I contribute anything to it, nor did I take much from it. I only get a digest mail from them once a day, that I just glance over. So far there has been endless discussions on airfares, baggage allowance, the amount of warm clothes and protection from rain people would require, and many other silly details that one could easily live without. Even in that you would see the occasional guy trying to be smart, especially if there is a girl in the discussion. And if you thought only IIT people are desperate in this respect, NIT guys are no less either. At points some members try to take the upperhand and start planning trips for others. Many people join in, discuss possibilities. Mostly they never agree. (The problem with most people who think they are intelligent.) When these go out of bounds, some people cry foul at their mailboxes being flooded, unaware that they can change the settings to prevent it. This is then followed by fifteen more posts agreeing that indeed such things should not be discussed on a public forum.
There was also 2 group spreadsheets. In that I don’t know what people got in changing or distorting others’ details to something they thought was funny. And there were NIT-IIT fights. Just for fun, one of them said.
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