Six Degrees of Rendezvous

It’s my final year in college, but this is the first year I’ve ever been to Rendezvous, the annual cultural festival at IIT Delhi, and the mecca of every engineering student in North India.

Rendezvous has been going on since Tuesday, but today was the first day there was anything for me- today was the first day there were quizzes. So I toodled over, and late as ever, missed the first quiz, which was bad- I could have won that one.

In between the first quiz and the second quiz, I hung around the Dogra Hall lobby, where the rangoli contest was being held.

The point of a rangoli contest is for people to spread different coloured sands or powders on the floor in geometrical and artistic designs. This allows engineering students (who are overwhelmingly male) to look at the butt cleavage of girls from LSR and JMC. As a bonus, some works of art also get created.

The second quiz, which was a pure audio-visual one, I paired up with a random partner- a first year chemenger from Roorkee and got my butt kicked in the prelims. I stayed on to watch the finals, which by a happy coincidence were conducted by Nidhi (who now has a tattoo). And two other dudes.

All right. There was more than one happy coincidence. Here’s the story.

During the quiz, there was a connection audio question asked about our favourite search engine. Nobody in the teams got it, so it passed to the audience. I answered correctly.

At the end of the quiz, I’m talking to Nidhi. She turns to one of the other quizmasters and says “Aadisht recognised the Google office picture.”.

Other guy: “Aadisht Khanna?! aNax?!”

Me: “Juventas?!”

The other guy was Juventas, longtime contributor to the now defunct TimePassTown. I’ve never met him until now, but for the past one and a half years, he’s been Nidhi’s calassmate.

There’s this issue of Spider-Girl in which the villain, Crazy Eight, says “I’m not a big fan of coincidence.”. I, on the other hand, am.

Because, you see, there are five people handling the Blitzkrieg (rock band contest) prelims, and two of them are Nidhi and Juventas. And my chances of sneaking in are now so much higher. Yay!

It’s eight p.m. right now. The prelims start approximately at two minutes to midnight. Hopefully, I’ll be watching them.

So, that’s it for the post. Dinner calls.

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