There were 10,000 students at Aligarh Muslim University when my father started there. It was the only Muslim college in India.
His first year there, the dorm was full, and he stayed in Mumtaz Annexi.
(I wonder if that’s Google calls Mumtaz House, today.)
The students in the annex were evidently packed several students to a room. There were cots to sleep on and a table with a light to study at. They kept their things under their cots.
“I did my work during the day,” my father said, explaining how he got his homework and studying all finished early. “So I would go to sleep early.”
“The other students in the room would study at night while I was sleeping.”
“That’s when I learned to sleep in the light.”
Amazing thing I learned on this visit to see him: I didn’t know my father could sleep with the light on.