“The sands of time are steeped in new beginnings.”- Salman Rushdie in Grimus
It took longer than we expected it would. And we could not do all that we hoped to do with this opening issue of Renesa but there are certainly some changes-we have come up with a new concept of having a cover story in every issue. An online forum for Renesa is also in the works and should be up and running imminently. Of late we seem to have a crunch on talent. Where are all the good writers that we used to have in abundance?? We are confident of tiding over this for this year with a little of hard work thrown in but the situation for the future does look grim.
It is not anybody’s fault though. We are seeing a paradigm shift in the junta of the college in line with the changes happening to the college itself. We are finally looking more like a technical institute than ever before so much so that some of us who have been conditioned towards the easygoing life of mass bunks, the hectic politics of college elections and frequent events for the literary inclined have been hit with a feeling of obsolescence.
There have been a lot of changes both internal and external in the college. The removal of state quotas has brought in a different class of students into the college. The much vaunted multicultural social fabric of the college has taken a dent with little or no representation from certain states but then seen in the light of meritocracy it is probably a good decision. Other good things happening to the college include a sea change in the placements. More students are opting for core companies and we are increasingly being visited by good core companies as well. We hope this trend continues leading to slowly weeding out the software companies. This is discussed in detail in our cover story for this issue.
The college is seeing more intakes of M.Tech and Phd students which is definitely a good sign signalling our shift from just an engineering college to a research focussed institute. We hope the new crowd takes interest in the activities of the college but they can hardly be blamed for the college this year round has been pretty dry in terms of events. No I am not referring to the technical events. We had enough and more of those and as if just to drive home the point we have an addition this year. Where did all the jams, quizzes and generally fun events go off to? The final year is the only batch which has seen a normal year of college with Kashish et all. Even the occasional couple in the college is seen hanging out in the library clearing each others doubts. Other visible changes include new equipments being brought into the new gymnasium which has been around for more than a year. The stone benches near the main gate have also been reduced to rubbles. Rumour is that it was demolished because it was not sending the right messages to the girls in the college. Other items on the list banned for sending wrong signals include the notorious morning walkers in shorts, Valentines Day celebrations, rock shows etc.
The college has lost a lot of the colour and vigour of years passed by. The college runs the risk of the first years mistaking this languid atmosphere in the college to be the norm and graduating as boring white collar engineers with perfect technical knowledge( with weird ties and megalomaniac dogs for pets called dogberts). The students’ council and the committees connected to it including the LnD and CHRD are clearly over their heydays and have mostly been rendered vestigial. The jam packed main seminar halls, a feature of most evenings in an SVNIT of yore are nowadays used only for placement purposes. The once popular music club, the DJ nights after every exam have all become distant memories. Only technical committees like Drishti seem to have a future for first years never seem to get enough of radio controlled toys. Tough anti ragging rules have meant that the Drishti committee has not yet been able to brief the first years about the KVPY and that probably means a hit on the usually rich haul of selections managed by our college every year.
Well the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel may come with this year’s student council selections. Hope for the 9 pointers we have this year to be as good as that of last year and maybe you'll get to see the GS and the CS for the first and last time on the last day of Sparsh. Everything’s good, Everything’s fine @ SVNIT
It took longer than we expected it would. And we could not do all that we hoped to do with this opening issue of Renesa but there are certainly some changes-we have come up with a new concept of having a cover story in every issue. An online forum for Renesa is also in the works and should be up and running imminently. Of late we seem to have a crunch on talent. Where are all the good writers that we used to have in abundance?? We are confident of tiding over this for this year with a little of hard work thrown in but the situation for the future does look grim.
It is not anybody’s fault though. We are seeing a paradigm shift in the junta of the college in line with the changes happening to the college itself. We are finally looking more like a technical institute than ever before so much so that some of us who have been conditioned towards the easygoing life of mass bunks, the hectic politics of college elections and frequent events for the literary inclined have been hit with a feeling of obsolescence.
There have been a lot of changes both internal and external in the college. The removal of state quotas has brought in a different class of students into the college. The much vaunted multicultural social fabric of the college has taken a dent with little or no representation from certain states but then seen in the light of meritocracy it is probably a good decision. Other good things happening to the college include a sea change in the placements. More students are opting for core companies and we are increasingly being visited by good core companies as well. We hope this trend continues leading to slowly weeding out the software companies. This is discussed in detail in our cover story for this issue.
The college is seeing more intakes of M.Tech and Phd students which is definitely a good sign signalling our shift from just an engineering college to a research focussed institute. We hope the new crowd takes interest in the activities of the college but they can hardly be blamed for the college this year round has been pretty dry in terms of events. No I am not referring to the technical events. We had enough and more of those and as if just to drive home the point we have an addition this year. Where did all the jams, quizzes and generally fun events go off to? The final year is the only batch which has seen a normal year of college with Kashish et all. Even the occasional couple in the college is seen hanging out in the library clearing each others doubts. Other visible changes include new equipments being brought into the new gymnasium which has been around for more than a year. The stone benches near the main gate have also been reduced to rubbles. Rumour is that it was demolished because it was not sending the right messages to the girls in the college. Other items on the list banned for sending wrong signals include the notorious morning walkers in shorts, Valentines Day celebrations, rock shows etc.
The college has lost a lot of the colour and vigour of years passed by. The college runs the risk of the first years mistaking this languid atmosphere in the college to be the norm and graduating as boring white collar engineers with perfect technical knowledge( with weird ties and megalomaniac dogs for pets called dogberts). The students’ council and the committees connected to it including the LnD and CHRD are clearly over their heydays and have mostly been rendered vestigial. The jam packed main seminar halls, a feature of most evenings in an SVNIT of yore are nowadays used only for placement purposes. The once popular music club, the DJ nights after every exam have all become distant memories. Only technical committees like Drishti seem to have a future for first years never seem to get enough of radio controlled toys. Tough anti ragging rules have meant that the Drishti committee has not yet been able to brief the first years about the KVPY and that probably means a hit on the usually rich haul of selections managed by our college every year.
Well the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel may come with this year’s student council selections. Hope for the 9 pointers we have this year to be as good as that of last year and maybe you'll get to see the GS and the CS for the first and last time on the last day of Sparsh. Everything’s good, Everything’s fine @ SVNIT
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