People this is a copy of the mail I sent Megha. If there is anything you want to say other than this please mail to
studentsunion0809@gmail.com.
Hi Megha,
I’m mailing you this coz I have a third comp on Monday and I’m not sure whether I’d be able to come. These are not only my questions but some are the opinions of our class as a whole.
Well, as I said we need attendance for the classes we miss because we’re participating in an event representing the department or the college. We go to Sanskrit cultural and get the third place but we don’t get attendance. You can sort of justify that. But we miss classes to practice for the cultural program we’re supposed to present to the Germans who come for the seminar – the department tells us to practice- and we still don’t get any attendance? Hello? We do the election duty for the college and still don’t get attendance. I don’t care whether I get to expose my ‘talents’ or whether my college wins a particular event if I have to lose attendance and end up standing in front of the Deans’ office every semester. I’m not jobless yaar.
As I told you after the GBM, allowing me to write the exams is another issue, but if I’m not writing then why should I pay the fees? Maybe others are different but my husband works hard to get that money. Why should we simply give it away? I’m sorry but I’m not this ancient princess who is generous enough to give away her money to people.
The sick room issue. We’re not saying it’s not open when we need it. On the contrary whenever we go it is packed with people always munching corn puffs and meddling with their mobiles and once when I was there, talking about boys. As far as I had noticed none of them looked least bit sick. And once a girl happened to get these how-dare-you-barge-in-when-I’m-bathing kinds of stares because she interrupted their cozy get together because of her ill mannered bladder. (She’s from Physics or Zoology I’m not sure.)
The Reverse Osmosis crap we have in C block. As a girl said, sometimes we don’t have water in the taps otherwise the water comes so ‘fast’ that we have to hold the tumbler for ages before it is full.
Well it might an illusion or may be it is true, we felt like the sun is literally showering us with burning coal after the campus became partially bald. (I mean the trimming of trees. Stella was a lot prettier with Sr.Annamma’s beautifully blossoming bouquets. )
Talking about bio degradable and non biodegradable rubbish, sometimes we’re not sure whether what we’re throwing is synthetic or not. For example, when you distributed the Cornettos on the Sports day, our class girls didn’t know whether the paper peels was just paper or synthetic whatever, so we threw them in the blue ones.
I’ll be honest. Except Mira, our class is not this bunch of studious, sincere, Sneha Krishnan or Tejasvi Ravi types. Seriously yaar, we don’t mind if the lecturer is not interested in teaching us. Anyway, most of the time, we’re learning the syllabus ourselves. One of our teachers is very robotical that we comment that she’s actually talking to the board and not us. On Thursday, when only four of us were in the class and the others were in the CC Block paying the fees, she came in and simply started dictating the notes and doing the sums on the board and we were like ‘Huh? What’s going on?’ We suspect that she will teach even if there is no one in the class. There is another teacher who is very lenient with us and all that. She is “”VERY”” interested in GC that she actually blabbers in her excitement! Her English is not good but I’m not talking about that. When compared to us I feel she has a minimal knowledge about the subject. We have a suggestion. We don’t need the robotical teachers. Give us Sr.Rosy instead and for people like GC ma’am why don’t the college help them with the subject? We’d be happy to have teachers who are interested in their subject even if they are taking tuitions from others. (Check out
http://sahithyahindustani.blogspot.com the posts from Nov 19 to Dec 28,2008 and
http://sahithya-ilovestellamaris.blogspot.com for more info on them if you have the time.) (Very confidential yaar. I don’t want to get into trouble in the final year. My plate is more than full already)
Library
We understand that we can’t take our bags inside. But only one notebook and one pen inside is unfair. This issue is being talked about since Priyanka Patel’s time. She and the teachers assured that we’ll have a study room soon. Thanks a lot, but common room is NOT a study room. It always looks like it was an ancient abandoned temple or something. The dust in this room is equivalent to the dust in whole of the college. It’d be more useful if we have a study room nearby the library and we’re able to take the notebooks we need and also the books from the library for reference.
The next issue is not heard about much. The fines. Last November I went into the library after a long time and to my shock I saw the system saying that I have a fine of Rs.24/- due. I told the staff immediately and an exceptionally friendly one set right the ‘mistake’.
Last week I came to know that Preetha and Vidya are being forced to pay the fine for the books they never borrowed (1000 bucks! Are they kidding?) . Even my lethargic brain was able o figure out that something nasty is going on.
I’m sending this because I’m not sure whether I’d be able to come. If I can, I will.
