Wednesday, July 22, 2009

SOUTH HOSTEL...a synonym of life

It becomes the first spark in the first sight of the VSSUTians. Really a home away from home.............our beloved SOUTH HOSTEL. May be for the first time or may not, leaving the parents, the students arrive this VSSUT from remote corners of not only Odisha but also the country for higher studies like B.Tech., M. Tech., MCA and other courses. Taking the admisson, the 1st year students put their first foot steps into the SOUTH HOSTEL after filling the 'entry register'. Caretaker distributes the room no. and room key. Each of the new comers goes to respective rooms & meet the other roommates. Rooms are three seated and well maintained as it drags the first attraction of students. As it is the first meet, some of the roommates feel awkward to adjust but it hardly continues. To know all the hostelmates, it nearly takes 5-6 months within which a semester comes.

The most ability under the discussion bears the fooding system of the hostel. It is supervised by the warden then to the mess manager........a well known person in the UCE family, 'LALU'. We get served a tiffin and two meals a day. When the food tastes very delicious, Lalu doesn't get any credit but to the contrary, if the same is bad, the boarders rub him and drag the situation in quarrel and sometimes strike also takesplace.

Also our canteen drags the attention which is maintained by a very polite and kind hearted man named 'Sesha Mausa'. In the beggining of the session, he prepares a few items like tea, coffee, some breakfasts like snacks & bread. But after the 1st semester, foresighting the demands of the items, he prepares some more varieties. Some students maintain a register known as 'Baki Khata'. It sometimes contains nearly more than 10,000 rupees.

In addition to the above features at the South Hostel, a store of 'Sushant Da' is also there. At the first day of the hostel entry, boarders buy the necessaries from the store. Actually, in that day and the following 2-3 days, he earns a lot. Some of my friends (including me) think that he is a cheater. Whatever it may be, we can't live in the hostel without him and also his store.

In the 2nd semester, the friendship among the hostelmates gets concentrated and most of the students remain busy in 'khatti' (a type of gossip) and rarely study. Also all the functions of college get celebrated in the same semester. So the result seems to be not good in the 2nd semester in comparison to the 1st semester. Also a interesting view that i forgot to explain; that is the phone communication of a few boarders with their g'friends with sweet voices.Actually I don't mention their names here........wait for the next.

Many a obstacle comes in our way but those get crossed by the help of friends. Ragging occurs to some extend but that we enjoy. We live the life in our choice. There is no fence for us. But all those happy moments get a fullstop when the 'Hostel Change' occurs at the end of our 1st year. We lose that freedom.........those friends...........those khatti.........and all those things with which we were acquainted throughout the year. My hearty saying " The god might give us an imperial palace, I couldn't live my life with that much joy and felicitations that I got in the South Hostel."

'LOVE'..........what does it mean ???

'Love'.........a word that means a lot......
Starting from the mythologies up to the modern civilization, the act of love is positioned in a very high position. Love is any of no. of immotions and experiences related to a strong affection and attachment. I am now in my mature state in the means that I am able to distinguish between the good and the bad things that occurs in my surroundings. Also a different type of view comes to my mind when I visualize the happenings........ really this I can feel.

Many a thing I have seen and many decisions I have taken myself.
But the word 'LOVE'- that I couldn't understood yet. I have scrutinized various speculations of my friends those range from my school(high school) up to the B. Tech....

Truly saying, in the very first of my college life, I thought that I have understood it. The then opinion that arose in my mind was " it's is just an attraction that is possessed in a boy for a girl or vice-versa". But I had few friend contact at that time... so I dominated on my opinion.

After twelfth, I prepared for one year. I got my first friend circle...but they had no ideas those I have wanted. after preparation, I joined to the continuing college....oops....a university named V.S.S.U.T., Burla.

For the first time I lived a hostel life, those morning, those friends, those khati, those late night sleeping......ya ..I was far away from these things in my +2 life...

The new friends in my 2nd year may not believe that I was a usual 2nd bencher in the class because now-a-days I have a very close relationship with last bench. Commenting on girls was a very bad thing for me, But now I am a great commenter in the class. What happened to me .....I don't know but my image-conscious nature is gone.

I have seen the boarders wandering on the corridor busy in gossiping with their girlfriends at night....I have also taken the speculations of my friends about the 'LOVE'. Some says it's some sort of attraction.....some says it's the time pass....some says it is done for our fun and revelry. I have seen students succeed in their love....also the unsuccessful ones.

In my view, people take the meaning of 'LOVE' in their own way. But whoever it may be....for what purpose it may be...achieving own love is really a success.... "Is it true what I believe???"....."Are 'LOVE' and 'ATTRACTION' equivalent???".....please answer me....I want to get rid of this dilemma... I am waiting for you...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

{ UCE --> V.S.S.U.T. }......A TRANSITION

A college that in my words actually not a college but an organisation where a student can see his / her future was the 'University College of Engineering' shortly known as UCE in all the people who has a little idea about the educational system of our Odisha. By its great achivements (actually the success of the members of UCE family), it had created a very dignitary position among the plum pudding of the institutions throghout the country. The 'Electrical Engineering' department of the college was once the best in not only the Odisha but also in the country. For the "High Voltage Lab", the "electrical dept." in this technical institution was ranked 9th in India. The UCE had the other wings like Civil, Mechanical, E&TC, Manufacturing Sc., Comp. Sc. & IT etc. With all the facilities, well equipped laboratories and the highly renowned mentors, one day it set on a struggle demanding the deemed status. The govt. gave the assurance to make it IIT. But all waitings came to an end; nothing was happened. On the year of 2007, govt. tried to seal the violence by declaring the institution academically deemed. But the students of the same again put the demand with some higher attempts. A boy named Biswajit Parida (pre-final year at that time) caught the rein of the voices of the UCEans and that of all others who loved the UCE atleast once. For this time the govt. could not stay silent. The bill passed in the Assembly ('Bidhan Sabha') and at last the dream came to be a true; the mother UCE became an UNITARY UNIVERSITY; the fourth unitary university of the country. Really the children served to their mother. On the date of 15th February 2009, the then C.M., Sri Naveen Pattnayak inaugurated the "the Golden Jubilee Validiction Ceremony com the V.S.S.U.T. foundation ceremony.
The uce became a university, but still under the delay to post a Vice Chancellor for the only one technical unitary university. A renowned person named Ganapati Panda was appointed as the V.C. but a murmur was heard that he joined the IIT-BBSR. See the activities of Govt. of Odisha......... "being a family member of the UCE-->V.S.S.U.T., I feel proud but not only me but also all members of our vssut family are on a shame to enjoy this felicitation because it seems to be a blunder of our state govt. ( delay in posting a V.C. ....), I think we have to again come out of the den and to roar for our better future..................."