I am in pumphouse da..

"hi da.. i am in pump house.. dint study for the exam.. heard that u have studied 5th unit.. can u come half an hour prior to the exam and teach me that particular unit.."

for all those guys from my college and for those who had mobile phones, this msg wudn't be a surprise..

Probably the most frequent msg sent wud have been..

"Dai.. i am caught in this railway gate da.. has the class started ???"

Of course the time this msg normally sent is between 9 - 9.15 am.. after the first hour has started..

You know, i wudn't call my college "the best college in tamil nadu".. Neverthless, it proved to be a gud place in more than one way.. I am pretty sure there wud be bloggers who feel the other way around.. Ya, the coin has two sides and so does our college.. But this is my blog and i write the things i feel..

More than the college leaving an gud impression, its the students studying here make the college a wonderful place to be.. You get all sort of guys here.. The techies.. The "to be MBAs".. the annoying characters.. and of course, the road side romeos.. the "gud for nothing" banda parties.. name it and u'll find a sample in my college..

The entire college life had a brand new color with the invasion of mobile phones.. Communication had never been easier.. Of course, the majority of the msgs flew between the two hostels.. :)

I really dont understand why administrations ban mobile phones inside college campuses.. I mean, using mobile during the class hours cud be banned.. but why ban the "carrying of mobile phones" inside the campus.. for god sakes, i studied communication engineerin for 4 damn yrs and ppl who teach actually ban the usage of mobile phones !!!!! no wonder there have been numerous pre placement trainings with GDs titled "Should mobile phones banned inside college".. Its time ppl put an end to this and start looking at the broader spectrum..

Coming back to the golden memories of the college days, the first thing that wud come to one's mind are the Industrial visits.. Ha ha ha.. Industrial visit.. It shud be called a tour or something.. where the hell do v visit industries.. It is all abt screaming in the bus, singing in the bus, and to some extent dancing in the bus... taking a digital camera along wit u and taking 'n' number of snaps wit ur friends.. Of course, there wud b that great discussion of which place to visit.. If two classes were going together, all hell breaks loose on deciding the city.. the girls point to a city.. the boys point to a city.. and finally come to a conclusion and decide on the city, the college intervenes and says "try some other city".. the representatives of the class wud have the worst part of his lifetime tryin to convince the students and the college.. Finally when the city has been decided, then comes the problem of taking a staff along with us.. All these and more, make an industrial visit an adventorous and memorable one..

The canteen and the pump house are the spots to hang out.. the place where u can kill time in case u have bunked a lab.. the official place for u to write records, observations and to copy assignments.. Speakin of records and assignments, its time ppl put an end to the whole "observation, record and assignment" stuff.. Ppl copy observation from senior's record and eventually copy it in their record.. Any person on earth can do it.. whats the great fun in doing it.. Long has been forgotten the fact that, "education shud refine people".. Education in college just requires you to aimlessly take notes of whatever is taught in the class.. Take xerox of the prescribed book 3 days before the internals.. Do some group studies the day before the internal.. write records and observations week after week.. Copy down assignments week after week.. Download some paper from the net and present under ur name in intra college and inter college events.. Where has the whole concept of "originality" gone ???? I entered into college with the whole desire to prone my skills.. But where wud i find time for proning my skills, if records and assignments eat all my time.. This is why we Indians are "Jack of all trades and king of none".. V push in the working of an optical directional coupler when v hardly understand 9th grade optics... Sometimes one never understands why v ever learn such things..

Then there is ofcourse the concept of throwing treats.. the truth is, no one actually throws a treat.. But there is always everybody to ask for a treat.. Ppl ask a treat for winning a prize in an inter departmental comp in which only 10 ppl participated.. Ppl ask for a treat when u buy something new.. Ppl ask for a treat on ur birthday.. the worst part comes when girls ask a treat for wearing the same color.. "same same sweet, give me treat"..

You know, u get a beautiful mixture when u put bubblin youth, mobile phones, IVs, birthday parties and stern education system together.. Thats the color of college life..

Further color has been added with the inclusion of websites such as orkut.. Guys and gals take it again as a opportunity to "interface" wit each other.. Funny.. and of course, the management wud always be there to ban it.. And our "young and brilliant" students wud prove themselves by finding websites such as Kproxy and continue wit their orkutting.. It is always fun being a part of it.. But looking from the outside, one gets the feeling "something somewhere is going wrong"..

there r ofcourse many more things that make college life greater.. Thanks to my poor memory am not able to recollect them.. Pls feel free to comment..


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