As usual I am gonna make a list of all such elements with no sense of order in them.
Great Timing after the Exams:
The IV is usually just after end of the odd semester university exams. All of us have had a great time at eating up every written word of d books and vomiting it on d exam day only to forget everything we've read d moment we submit d damn paper.
Most of us have a fear of a few KTs, some with an extensive experience in the field of KTs fear a drop. Without an exception, every single person believes that every single paper was set by a moron with no knowledge or sense of importance of the topics.
With all this tension and stress, the Industrial Visit with it's prime features like no studies, no assignments, no khadus professors, no monitoring of anyone and most essentially, no control, comes as a genuine stress buster. It's perfect timing of just a few days after the exam amplifies it's effect to the optimum level.
Lafdas In reservation:
Usually all the members of your group will get a seat reserved in a different part of the train,that is, if they get a seat at all. Although this is a bloody mess on the part of the organisers, the sharing of seats and the adjustments have a fun-quotient of their own. Spending sleepless nights in the train, the pranks, the poker games in the congested area with 12 people fitted in 6 people's seats have given us memories that are definitely are worth the trouble.
Cards and Guitar:
Playing card games like poker and singing to the tunes of guitar are few of the best memories in the engineering life. As a rule you have to sing "Sutta" once a day everyday in the IV and especially the parts with "Behnc*od"s and "Maac*od"s.
Even the small fights during poker games and disputes over chords and strumming patterns are sweetened by the ultimate joy of having a grand time with your friends.
Drinking and Smoking:
Arguably,the most attractive part of the IV for most of the guys, boundless drinking throughout the IV is indeed the utmost important aspect of an IV. People drink bottoms up, people fall in the corridors, people do crazy stuff like urinating in the washbasin or worse,urinating in the lift, people vomit limitlessly, choking up the commodes. Most of us nerds have had their first experience of boozing during a crazy IV night.
The same goes for smoking. Most of the times,non smokers have to spend their time in corridors, in girls' rooms or in toilets because the rooms are so full of smoke. Anyone with an asthma would either die or suffer a severe attack due to their tobacco smoking friends.
Although these aren't the most admirable things to do or to be proud of, this total loss of self control is one of the best parts of youth that we engineers get to experience to the full length only during IV.
No Industrial Visit:
In the IV, there's a certain industry that we all are supposed to visit. But well,most of us aren't in any mood for some industrial bulls*it,so only 10-20 out of 250 end up going to that boring place and listening to the boring details of that industry. Others enjoy the 10 days of Industrial Visit without visiting any industry.
Photos and Videos:
In an IV we click literally thousands of photos,some to be shared with everyone and some private,to be shared only with your closest of friends.
I don't know about others but my group of friends has a knack of making videos especially after getting drunk when at least one of us has gone full Tully and has no idea whatsoever as to what he's doing.Needless to say we spend hours watching these videos and laughing uncontrollably after we've come back.
Love:
Having a grand time with your significant other is not at all a part of the routine for an engineering student. An average engineer spends most of his time writing something on paper, typing something on notepad or clicking mouse to create diagrams that hardly make any sense to him.
So in the IV where no one is monitoring you and you have no assignments or projects pending, you get to spend some quality time with your love. How you spend that time and which base you reach in your relationship in the IV is a question of your own ;) but if you didn't have fun with your lover during an IV,didn't go for a walk in the moonlight with them,didn't dedicate them songs, you sure did miss part of the happiness you could've got from the IV.
But if you're single,then you can ofcourse make up for it by the higher alcohol quotient ;)
Friends:
The IVs in the engineering years have given me the most cherishable memories with my friends of my life so far. Singing in the bus with your friends, clicking the endless photos, sharing your stuff ranging from cellphone chargers to sweatshirts, having booze and sharing the truths of our lives,even the small disputes are the memories that I'll get nostalgic by.
IV is the time to realize how much your friends mean to you and the irreplaceable place they hold in your life.
This time spent with friends will be remembered much more than the time we spend throughout the semester with the mind-numbing books.That's why we say it's the time of our lives.
