SERC Preparatory School in THEP'2008

Recently I went to participate in the SERC preparatory school in Theoretical High Energy Physics(THEP) organised by SGTB Khalsa College (University of Delhi) from 23rd Sep to 20th Oct' 2008. Details about the school is given here
http://sgtbkhalsa.du.ac.in/serc.htm
It was an awesome experience to be a part of it. Specially the course on QFT by Palash Pal(SINP) and Amitabha Lahiri(SNBNCBS) was mind-blowing. Unfortunately they did not give any soft-copy of their notes which I could share with. Secondly the course on Particle Physics and Standard Model by Anindya Datta(CU) and Rahul Basu(IMSc) was also of much benefit as far as Phenomenology is concerned. They taught from a proper phenomenology point of view which was definitely of my as well as many other's interest. Prof Datta had severe cough/throat problems during the school. Surprisingly he did not even use the loudspeaker. So there was "basically" no chance of relief. During his last two lectures which were a bit boring ( it was about the parton model) many of us were busy conducting some experiments inside the classroom. Me and Sushant were counting how many times Prof Datta had to cough during his one and a half hour class. The result we arrived at was 348(+/-5) times in one and a half hour. This is a damn big figure. I wanted to warn him regarding this and to request him to take proper care..but unfortunately I could not dare to do that. Some other guys counted how many times he used the word "basically" in the class. They arrived at some figures which we found very difficult to accept. We also counted how many times he used the word "however" and arrived at 58(+/-3.5) in one and a half an hour. It was real fun to do these experiments at the time when the world is busy in doing experiments like LHC, RHIC etc...
Apart from the courses and the profs the students were really cool( upto some good tolerable approximations) and I really had a very good time with them. People like Sudhanwa Patra(PRL), Kaushik(Mysore Univ), Debraj(SNBNCBS), Arun, Prakhar (BHU),Shruti, Sandhya, Pooja(DU) among others were truly fun-loving. Although Pooja turned dangerous sometimes but finally there was not much problem..she got back her "coolness" finally. I should not forget Dr Mamta (the Director of the school) who was so caring and cool. Apart from that she was the most beautiful lady in the SERC school( as Kaushik bravely mentioned that in front of her). Patra was the most popular student there. He became famous after many funny incidents happened to him which I have to skip here.He was a real genius in QFT and a passionate guy about calculating scattering cross sections of various processes.Even Profs e.g. Rahul Basu and Anjan Sen made fun out of him.It was really amazing...
I am missing those people now a lot. Hope to see you guys again....Rock On!!