Machines

With time,money and the apparently obvious incompetence of the managing body,Sahrdaya College of Engineering and technology has comedown to a level of a "cult",where,a student.from his day of enrollment in the college,is forcefully trained into a meat-loaf,useful,just enough to be recruited into a software firm,and nothing more..i will explain the "process" through which a student is molded into this here.after the admission into the college,the students are to sit for a "moral cleansing process",that the management has named as the bridge course.this is the most effective class that the student can get all through out his four years in the college.and this isnt because of the quality of this class,but because of the lack of quality of the remaining classes.whatever they might tell you this classes are for,the only thing that these classes do is ,convince you that the most important purpose of education,is to "get placed".the eminent personalities who are invited by the human resource department here are English teachers on leave from gulf,or retired from duty sitting at home minding their own business or their gardens.its totally obvious that they themselves dont want to do what they are doing.and,to the students who have come passing the CBSE,ISCE or the Kerala state Higher Secondary exams,a class on 8th std English classes,which would hopefully help us in communicating more effectively in English,which we all students thankfully rate "excellent",and "highly effective".but this actually is not the point of this classes.then comes the interesting part.Then,we are asked to sit in a class of an official,who claims to have landed from Singapore,the day before,(and this he says everyday),where,he had gone to take class for the staff of LG,SAMSUNG,SONY and other international companies we can think of.and,in his highly informative class,he tries to convince the girl students that "the only reason a male classmate calls her up at home,to ask her a doubt is because he is in love with her",and tries to convince the male students that "it is natural to stare at the poster of the A rated movie,and is abnormal for anyone not to think so".and through this,he is somehow convinced that he can make out "professionals" out of us.then,there was this other person,who asked us to be "kings of our own empires",who got fired from the college,when he was accused of "inviting students to his home for private tuitions".the only silver lining was Fr.Joy Nellissery,who was once asked by the diocese to take charge of the college,and apparently,the only qualified,motivated and exposed person in the diocese,able enough to head a professional institution.but he turned down the offer and is known to have said that he would run the college in a very different manner,and this wasn't actually something the diocese could digest.now,Fr Joy takes up Moral science classes for all the classes of the college.the only class we can be "ourselves",where we wouldnt be judged,ridiculed or shut up.

Just how vast this world is,and what all we can become,are never really known to a sahrdaya student.and,such kind of thoughts are really hard to pass through the mind of the student,when the only thought that he or she might have have is "hell with this place,i just wanna get out of here completing the four years".even though the principal claims that the college is "encouraging the student to take part in an outside competition",how much really are they helping for this....?
Yes,we have all the resources,but is there an atmosphere where we can utilize the m properly?every good college has their libraries functioning till at least 10 pm.and sahrdaya is where there wouldnt be a problem even if it functions till 12,but it shuts down at 7,for god-knows-who`s convenience.and there is no way in hell that one can convince the principal or the ED,(who might not even know when the library is functioning up to),to extend this time so that the hostelers could make more use of it.the classes get over at 5,and there is hardly enough time to go grab a bite and come back,and how much can we refer in 1.5 hours?okey,you say that there are students who still make good use of it.but can you think of how many more could use it properly..?? only if we have the freedom enough to choose when to go the library and use it...!if there was enough freedom of action in the college,how good life will be...if rules are made for the benefit of the student,and not to make running this college easy,how well could we have utilized this multi-crore worth facility!......



for the last years hostel day,principal`s speech was one that was trying to convince us that theses ridiculous rules here are actually a good thing.but it sounded more like he was trying to convince himself.he said,these rules are so that we could appreciate the freedom that we are going to get after we graduate.so that we will know how to make proper use of the freedom that we are going to get.but i thought that usually happened during undergraduate courses...now,i havent heard a lame-er justification since i heard that murder of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq was for the good of their future.who`s future?usually,when a student gets out of a professional institution,he comes out self depended,self sufficient,skilled,knowledgeable and able.but like the management is mocking us on what we are going to become,they are actually throwing at our faces,by recruiting our own seniors,as a model of "how you should not graduate.."their level of technical skill and scientific knowledge is mind blowing...their attitude and grace is un imaginable...thank you dear management..and congratulations..you could actually convince you to work here..oh,but there wasnt much to convince now,was there...but be careful..if Paul Allen or somebody else found out that these kind of potential are there in sahrdaya college,they would come and snatch them away from your hands..(and dear ex-student-now-ad`hoc-stuck-here-faculty,if you just got insulted at what i said now,then,be happy that its exactly about you that i said just now.we all know that you dont even know the basics of engineering.so stop pretending that you just won a genius-grand from Harvard,get yourself some books,read,and start learning the trade,then get out of here and live with some dignity ,or you'l find yourself aged 50,not married,no where in career and still surfing monster.com)...or you can continue the sacred trade of "changing the powerpoint slides".that will do too.so that we can all live a satisfying life,cursing ED under our breaths when he passes by and keep "paying our dues"...oh,dont have a feeling that im blaming you...i know...you can only eat what you are served..so its not your fault...but,im blaming you for showing an attitude to your students as if you have qualified to do research work in CERN,just cos you got to hang out with "senior" faculty in the majestic dining hall,or in the staff room or where-ever the ad-hoc id cards will take you.so,show some respect.to us,atleast.if not to yourself.asking dumb VIVA questions that you yourself dont know the answer for(ofcourse you know what is written as the answer in the lab manuals,but do you know what exactly that means?),does not actually make you respectable in our minds.so we are mocking you behind your backs.be very sure of that.but not everybody is blessed with this mindset.there are others who know who they are and what they are.we respect you.its the other croud im talking about...