Time : 10.45pm (IST) (3 July 2018) Location: 2nd-floor study chamber, Library, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India This was the scariest moment of this year. I was busy updating a test case for my project on the laptop. Then, I relaxed and moved a little back on my chair to sit comfortably. Suddenly, saw a big scorpion (at least 30 cm in length). I couldn't take the picture of it, was in a hurry to alert everyone. It looked exactly like the one in the picture but was of brownish-white colour. Would you say I was lucky to be sitting at the corner of my row? 1. High chances to see and make the distance. 2. If not 1, then I will be the first person to get bitten and then.. god knows what can happen! What was my next step? I alerted all the students near me to make the distance. Then I went down to call the security guard. The security guard took a wooden stick ("Laathi" in Hindi) and talked with the library assistant. ...