I Said “WHY”.
I’m like that “I said Christmas” kid. A lot of us at college are simply being called to the principal’s office for a ‘hearing’ when we question something. I still can’t believe this happens so many years after school. My freedom of expression is violated. I hate engineering colleges!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Join the club.
I can’t comment about the subject for fear of prosecution from my own college. This is like Myanmar.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Poor fellows. My college is nothing like that!
February 19th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Yet yours is an engineering college and a sister institution of Food’s college.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Haha food was supposed be in my college but as usual he got cheated.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
You were cheated too. Only that your course study saved you after a year because there was no instrumentation course offered here and there was biology to be taught. .
Marc, so true. Actually, we are no better off than Myanmar. There, at least student organize protests against restrictions. Here, only one or two editorials spring up in newspapers now and then drawing attention to the pitiful state of over hyped engineering degrees in India. As, George said somewhere we pay some lakhs, stay for 4 years in one place and get a degree in recognition of our sojourn.
February 20th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Sorry your comment was too big to read so I didn’t.
February 20th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Shit Marc, congrats on executing a tl;dr. A little more effort and you’ll fit in on 4chan just fine.
Ah Arun, but it’s up to you. You must make the difference, and Sathyabama (that’s where they had student riots, didn’t they?) had such a good chance and they botched it. But you know what? On the individual level it’s much harder to justify fighting for something that will not directly benefit you, especially if the risk of loss is so big.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Yeah, I know. But I hate to see those smug faces. They know exactly how helpless we are. They threaten with suspension if you read a book in a free hour! They call parents and say, ‘Your son needs counselling, he reads books not related to course subjects’. It’s worse than Corporal Punishment in schools.
February 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
No, it’s not worse than that but it’s still quite pathetic.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Actually we weren’t cheated. They moved us to the other campus after a year like they promised. They told us we will be there for a year and we were. But you guys still haven’t moved so you are the ones who got cheated.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Adithya, enough. You’d probably say you fought with the Dean and got transfers for yourself and others. .
February 21st, 2008 at 8:20 am
Well we did fight with him but they would have transferred us there anyway. You people got cheated and you didn’t even try to fight your way out.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
Fighting my way out involved coughing up extra money for this shitty degree which I wasn’t prepared to do.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
You know, all of you guys, you should never have done engineering. It is clear as day, as a clear day anyway.
February 21st, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Thousands of unwilling people are forced into engineering every year.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Arun, It isn’t fighting when you are paying them money.
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:54 am
You lot were just 20 odd people. Transferring them is not a big deal for them.
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 am
They also transferred the bio-tech and genetic engineering students. They were far more than you.
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:14 am
Marc, thousands of people who will not stand up for themselves, or who don’t know better. Is it any wonder that you’re treated like cattle when you act like cattle?
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
George, you think anyone knew how crappy engineering was when we were back in school?
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Adithya, for the last time, you had frigging biology to be taught. Who would they pack up along with the biotechs, you or me? They can’t have everything in that mouse hole of a campus, can they?
George is right in a way. People don’t stand up for something nor do they support it. They are chickens. All you need to frighten them is to cut their marks. They don’t understand that the college needs them more than they need it.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
They thought us biology when we were at Ramapuram campus too! If they wanted they could have just got a couple of new teachers.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
taught* lol