Soaring dreams: the fest season

Soaring dreams: the fest season

As the fest season engulfs the students all across Delhi and other parts of India, Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology gears up for its the Annual Techno-management festival AVENSIS 2K12. The motto remains the same—knowledge with a touch of creativity.

Brimming with exuberance after the success of Avensis 2K11, the team and the students this year have just a one point objective in mind: to make it the most decorated fest of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Making it bigger with good marketing of the events and decent sponsorship is the secondary objective, the primary vision of M.S.I.T has always been to bring about creativity in all their endeavours, by introducing new events and concepts and this year won’t be an exception.

                                             

Derived from a Latin word, Avensis was chosen as the scientific name for the skylark - the male bird of which flies very high, reaching apparently, to the heavens. Allying our unceasing efforts to be reliable and responsible with the objective of accomplishing the peak in Science and Technology thereby providing a platform for the budding minds of India to help them showcase their stupendous talents.

 Being a coordinator in the flagship Robotics event: CARNAGE, I could see the excitement and the aura the fest has. It does not only serve as a dias to watch your talent come to the fore, but also helps to inculcate holistic development of a student through team work and resource management. Last year saw events like ‘Bluffmaster’ making its debut, with the robotic events also underwent more challenging tracks and treacherous terrains, this year we plan to take it a notch higher. All the 33 events of the fest were a treat in itself and surely it felt proud to be a part of the organizing team.

The spirit of healthy competition is what Avensis seeks to inspire amongst its participants. Theoretical knowledge is essential for a sound technical knowledge base, but its application adds another dimension to a budding engineer’s repertoire. And what better way than two fun-filled, interactive and exciting days with a variety of events that test the student in all the relevant departments!

                                      

The students are encouraged to use their talents to the fullest, in a creative, open, and holistic environment. The organizational team strives to ensure fair play and just treatment of all those participating, and the aim is to keep the processes involved as transparent as possible. This year, the team hopes to carry on with the good work and take the event to a brilliantly higher level, with the help of the teachers, sponsors and everyone else involved.

The dates of the fests are tentatively determined to be the 23^rd -24^th  March, 2012, the team has already started working on it to ameliorate on any of the flaws that remained last year.We are all working to make it the best techno- management fest for all you guys.

Watch this space for further updates, till then its Udit Bhatia signing off.

MY ORDEAL WITH B.Tech -1

Yawn, Yawn…another piece of repetitive crap.. a grumpy engineer castigating the holy grail of all professions, blah blah…disgusting.Isn’t there another topic on this damn planet.Can’t we talk about entities other than education, girlfriends, crushes, heartbreaks.Well, go ahead and think whatever you wish to…this is my blog, the very first blog of this novel year and I get to write it the way I want.

Alas! It ended.The fifth semester ended at a near perfect time, giving me and my fellow disgruntled engineering students a chance to actually celebrate Christmas and New Year(a far fetched dream if you happen to land in IPU by the stroke of fate).IPU and enjoyment are oxymorons.For the past two years, our  Christmas and New year were spent slogging with the loads of perplexing text written by confused authors for equally bemused students.Nevertheless, this year was kind of better.I may not say this again in my life ever as it is against the laws of humanity and morality, but here it goes—‘Thank You IPU’.

From a bird’s eye view, this was the most active semester so far  in my engineering regimen.With the kind of mental acumen I have, I was baffled to see myself winning as many as three quiz competitions and coming a runner up in as many. Another eloquent  bonding was that with aglasem and cupidspeaks;web portals for the students, encouraging writers and bloggers to come out and bring about a change with words, with articles. Well, I don’t know if I succeded in bringing about any change with any of my posts, but I got to know people and students who shared common interests and penchant for writing and reading. Also, the formation of the Quiz Society in our College was a momentous event of which I was a part. I earnestly hope and believe that this year is going to be path-breaking and brimming with resplendence and would be testimony to the highs of this society.

                                                                     

 Coming to the most insipid part of the semester: Studies. Supposedly, this is the part which ought to consume the most time and efforts in a semester,but we deprive it of both.What to do yaar, padhai hoti hi nahi hai. Asynchronous circuits always failed to find any synchrony with the grey cells of my cerebrum.On top of it we had a blood- sucking professor, who made this already disgusting subject even more disgusting.Control Engineering was a subject I considered my forte but for the end semester.Attempting the CE finale was like playing poker blindfolded.You never know what is the answer, you can just hope that it would fetch you marks, in installments of course.Then the core subject for an ECE sudent: Communication Systems and Circuits,ummm…the lecturer of the subject(I’m in a dilemma whether she was actually a lecturer), made apparently an easy subject seem traumatic. It was so somnolent and sleep-inducing that..well, leave it It does not deserve more than two sentences in my prestigious article.Last but not the least, Organisational Behaviour, an innocuous subject which threatened to blow the guts out of many students.There were more than two dozen chapters which are revered Varsity expected us to mug and subsequently puke on the answer sheet, but they should instead have kept a pre-course on OB titled: ‘How to mug 24 chapters in 24 hours’.

Dear Lord, pass karwa dena, next semester mein pakka solid waali padhai karunga….

As I step into a new year and a new semester, I hope I can foresee many opportunities and challenges on path ahead.I implore Him to give me strength so that I can overcome the treacherous route and the harsh terrain.

As the ordeal continues…..I, Udit Bhatia , sign off.