Jail !!!

When I entered Nirma and the walled campus, guards, checkposts... I wondered if it was an Institute or not. But the 4 years there were wonderful. The management and the trustees seemingly more knowledgeable and more student and education oriented.

The life here seems to have drifted far away from that. With each day bringing in new issues to resolve. There is more wastage of energy in trying to undo the wrong... Where does one find time to do things one loves. Be it this or something else. It is just impossible to grow in such a scenario. Oh.. not growth in terms of new courses and more fees, I meant in terms of stature and quality.
What can a new individual do to a place that digs its own grave. How can one save this piece of ....... And now is the wonderful time when someone literally comes up to the council and asks me till when I am going to be there. How is it his business anyway. And now it really pinches, as to why are we here? What kind of education are we getting? Can we really grow and become what we wanted to be ? The wonderful corridors of college are our of bounds for the students. And why not... we are so many in number. And to do that diligently is a guard whose only job is to stop people from using the " elite " corridors reserved for the "faculty and the Top management" And thanks to that, a class that was just a min away, becomes a nice mile long walk. Ofcourse with the new corridor block, the One way and No Entry on the roads is aptly depicted on campus.

In school we wrote on topics like technology a boon or bane. But seems like this institute suddenly woke up to the fact that there should be a firewall and Lo !!! there it is, blocking every possible site on earth. Wanted to check the latest cricket scores, Sorry !! Blocked. Why ??? Sports !!! Why do u need sports in an educational institute. Sometimes, I feel like pulling my hair out. (Some answers here from the staff are really mind boggling and more so frustrating) And if u thought that plagiarism was unlawful, the IT team here surely thinks so.. Oh of course that means that e-snips is off. G-Talk was thankfully restored, for otherwise instead of these sites, the IT head would have been the next casualty. And when we talk to the IT head, pat comes the reply. "All these sites and chats add a lot of unwanted load on the server" Or were we wrong in assuming that this was centre of education. Where we were supposed to sit and discuss and interact. Facebook can no more show its face on campus. (Orkut was the victim long ago) Ironical that an Institute of this repute has to block off sites which are related to sports, movies, and much more. There is simply nothing more disastrous than this to ward off people from the campus. Of course if that is the case, so that more of them can be added in the new courses that have been started, it would be a different case altogether.
As if to add to all this is the wonderful rule of the library closing down at 12. Oh yes as mentioned earlier, it is an hours grace.. Oh thank you so much sir !!!. I had thought of a B School where life exists 24x7. Why should it not, it is supposed to be so. MBA is supposed to be all about interaction and a lot more of it. But here, how can one interact forget studying. Its simply impossible to get this into the heads of the s...... out here. Its sad that such things arent seen in the same light as the more educated and the needy lot. Many many different versions and excuses doing the rounds, but nothing that can really support the decisions taken. Be it security or whatever, there has to be a justifiable reason.
As if an icing on the cake, in the 15 min break that you get, a tea at the kitli outside is also time wasting. The gate of entry and exit are also marked. And why not, with all this pain, why should we be allowed to bear a little more. And so there goes the tea. With the new canteen also allowing the other students to sit and enjoy themselves, we are left with more so no space to have food or tea. Some way to diet aint it. Heavens !!! or rather HELL !! is all one can say, keeping in mind the latest that is happening on this place. What are they doing to this place..........??? If one problem was taken care of, there are 5 more created and by the management only, such that we are all bound and stuck in quicksand.
Parampara, done with a lot less of hooting et al, was still deemed as one of the worst student events, the fresher's party not having the permission for the girl's late entry... and a lot more. Is it not something really discerning. And I feel, why am I wasting my time thinking and trying to solve these?

And someone said that the alumni here didnt bother about the Institute. I would say.. " why should they?" There is nothing nice that I am going to remember except for the times that I have spent in this place with my buddies. Where is that connect? Where is that feeling of self gone? Would it ever come to me? Somewhere in this race of money and more money, this institute has lost all its sheen, its caliber, its worth and status. Just hope, they realise before its a tad too late....

Sigh... till then we just have to live with hope that this place may become something better than .. jail.. !!!