When I'm supposed to leave, I'll probably miss it like hell. Believe me, I'm as bad as they come at goodbyes.
When I'm supposed to leave, I'll probably be the one who's sitting in the corner, not looking at anyone, because I'm afraid I'll tear up saying goodbye to one more person.
When I'm supposed to leave, I'll probably read this post and I'll laugh, and I'll cry.
But that doesn't mean I can't bitch about it now.
First of all, it's hell to wake up at 7 in the morning in winters, well its hell in the summer too, and go to class at 8. I honestly have no idea why I don't have any course backlogs, the number of classes that I've missed in the morning.
I drive to college, and the crappiest thing about that is the fact that students aren't allowed to park (forget drive) their cars INSIDE the campus. We have a perfectly large, and empty lot next to the parking lot they just constructed near the gates, and the reason why they did not include that empty lot in the parking area they've constructed, and allowed for at least fifty more cars to be parked inside, is beyond me.
It's no secret that there are about forty or fifty people who drive their cars to college everyday, and we park outside the gates, on the side of the road, or that 'parking khudda' we've all seen next to the gate.
What the logic is behind not allowing students to park cars inside, I do not know.
There's the fact that allowing cars inside would maybe result in people going on 'gehris' inside, but there's a very simple solution to this too -
Have a few barricades at the parking, so that no student can drive their car beyond the parking. Voila!
We're all above 18 here, why should we not drive to college? And if we do, why should we park our cars on the side of the road, where its potentially unsafe; and it's a traffic hazard.
RANDOMIZE!!!
What is it with the way people sit in classes?
Girls all together on one side of the room? Or is it just my class that does that?
Hell we never even did that in school!
I promise you, us guys in class aren't all that bad! We won't do anything unsavory.
We promise.
And oh, the girls at TU!
Maybe its just because the sex ratio is messed up, it is an engineering college after all, or maybe it's because engineers make do with anything and everything...I don't know what it is, but wow, every halfway-decent looking girl in this place walks around with her nose so high up in the air, we've begun to recognize chins.
Maybe we guys just build them up into something so extraordinary, for sheer dearth of any real beauty, but the things that pass for 'cute' around here, it's...well, never mind...
The flip side of that coin is that there are so many guys, saali koi value hi nahi hai.
RANDOMIZE!!!
There are far too many people in this college who take themselves wayyy too seriously.
RANDOMIZE!!!
Why is there no fortnightly, or even a monthly student newsletter?
We had one in school, and although I admit, that particular publication wasn't extraordinary either, but at least we had one.
All we have here is 'Thapar and I', which is only published twice a year, if that. And honestly, although I've heard about it, I've never actually physically seen a copy of T&I. If we're going to have to make do with what we have, then the least that should be done is to ensure that every student has a copy of it whenever it comes out.
I know it's all easier said than done, and I'm sitting pretty here, talking about it, doing nothing else.
But I tried in my time; at the end of my first year, I talked to a few teachers about a plan for starting a monthly newsletter. I was met mostly with blank stares and one word - 'Funding?'
Wait, isn't the college that takes about a lakh rupees, bi-annually(!!!), as fees from every new student, supposed to provide funding for such an undertaking. All it would take is money for printing. Let's say 2000 copies every month, at 3 rupees a copy, 12 issues a year. Comes out to seventy two thousand rupees a year. Less than half of what one student pays in a year in this place. There are all sorts of people who would be extremely eager to work on such a project.
But no, why would TU want its students to do something creative?
I realize I could be acting very naive here.
I realize I'm acting like I have all the answers.
But I have some. A lot of us do.
We, we're a generation of geniuses.
This post may have been affected by the fact that I have 'Blink 182' on very high volume in my room right now.
Rise, Rebel, Resist.
If you haven't turned rebel by age twenty, you have no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by age thirty, you've got no brains.
-Kevin Spacey
