After the Massacre!

Exams are finally over!!!! and boy am I relieved. In one plain simple tiny little word , exams were as I have already said- a MASSACRE!

I was just reading Aman's blog

....What is the most important factor that makes an engineer a good one? Knowledge? Being innovative? Revolutionary thinking? Inquisitive nature? Well, thats what it should be ideally. But at TIET, thats not the case. What is it that makes a topper at this institute? Not knowledge, not being innovative, not being inquisitive, but rather the ability to score marks. Marks, marks, marks and marks. That is what a Thaparian is all about....

What you read above is what he wrote. The very valid point he raised was about our institute-TIET and how bullshitty it can get get sometimes. But I read this somewhere, that how good or bad an organisation or institute (in our case) actually is , is decided by it's culture which in turn is decided by the kind of workers or students and faculty members(in our case) and their attitude. Now our faculty is a synonym for the word hopeless but looking at us students, I am sure theirs gotta be something going on in our minds and actions too which is not the way it should be, that the culture in TIET is the way it is. I am sure you know what I am talking about. Just wanted to put my thoughts across that it always takes TWO TO TANGO!...;)

Coming to the Saturnalia front. We've made the impossible possible. Our batch will go down in the annals of Tiet's history as THE BATCH who revived it. Having been in the forefront of the Resource Generation committee which raised the money, I can tell you with total conviction that it's no mean achievement to go to any company A and ask them for a lakh rupees in exchange for something as trivial as publicity in a college which many hadn't heard of, at a festival they had never heard about. But, things worked out fine and I guess our numerous visits to Chandigarh, Delhi and trips within Patiala have paid off.

Talking of money, there is a lot of resentment among the final yr students who have 'contributed' Rs.200 each for saturnalia to happen. I'd just like to make it clear that your money is not the only money we have raised, as according to some people. It forms about 30% of the total money we have confirmed for sat. We have worked hard to raise the rest of the 70%. In this final lap, we need everyone's willing co-operation to make sat happen. Many of you might not share my enthusiasm for sat but as Aman rightly said- Thapar is all about marks, marks, marks and did I mention marks? and here's your chance to do something which is different and you've never done before and something you know will help you because of the kind of exposure you'll be getting. After all, have all of us been to a Mood-I or Rendezvous?. Agreed we won't get something as good as that, but something is better than nothing and this something will be better than any mudra or acumen or izhaar(for which you give 150 bucks anyways). I promise you that.

For those who still don't agree with me- eat your hearts out!...you've 'contributed' 200 bucks and you can't do shit about it!!!ha ha ha....;-)