Celebrating NIT's Ragam....
So now everybody has this habit of packing up in large numbers and leaving out for calicut on Ragam pretext and going around kozhikode for the days that ragam is happening. Serious fest hunters-beware ,do not leave the campus under any circumstances long as you are looking forward to participating ,there's always something or other to do there.
Most good events have written prelims,so it is advisable to go for these prelims irrespective of whether or not you know anything about the event.
The events could be broadly split into 2 main categories,team events and the individual events.Having a steady set of team members for all events maybe good,however sometimes it is also great to go with people whom you dont know as you can get to know them a lot better during the course of event.
With most team events a good beginning is half the work done, and if you make it to the prelims there would be only 6 teams or so in the finals and most of the times the teams which look impressive on paper may not be great on stage .On stage its your creativity and spontaneity that matters in events like adzap,pot pourri etc.Then there are team events like street play,movie spoof etc which require a steady team and quite a lot of hard work and practise but the feeling of doing something creative together is completely different.
Getting to the prelims is a walk in the park if you get the correct balance of humour and seriousness in your answer sheet.Double meanings are potent weapons to be used in prelims etc however there is only a thin line between double meaning and vulgarity so tread carefully.
One unsaid and highly secretive rule about maikng through the prelims is once you make it through a single prelims and you look good on stage,your reputation starts to preceed you and you tend to breeze through most of other prelims.
Here again the events are the same as IIT but the standards are much more grounded.Ragam is definitely winnable eventwise and overall.
The campus is just right size for the number of people who turn up and night life is interesting with the mini canteen working almost overnight and the campus pretty much have alive and buzzing with activity always.
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