About 2-3 months ago Halley wrote a pretty long and debate triggering post about the state d'affairs in IIIT. He raised more hell then good points in my opinion. I thought of writing a counter view to each issue raised. But Nirnimesh already did it. But recently Halley rewrote the whole thing(i found it only now !) so i decided to write a counter blog instead of counter comments.
1.Research: Do you expect miracles in research from UG students? The "research" work we do here is like a small taste of what research is like. It's like a "Intro to reserach" course or something. I have read people saying that honors and MSBR are useless. Well own their own they are but that's not what these things are meant for. They are supposed to put you on the track to research. And there is a limit to the amount of research and new ideas that can come up in a year so it's natural for the same things to be repeated in XoR or R&D though mind u things that are repeated are always improved models of the previous year.
2.Faculty suks: This sem i have had Prosenjit, Kannan, Kamal, PJN, and Sanghal teach us courses. I don't think any institute in India can do that. And sometimes we have Faculty members straying outside their areas of expertise to teach us courses(eg OS, ITWS) so they are bound to look dumb. But that doesn't mean they are hopeless.
3.HSSM suks:I have taken just one HSSM till date. (Industry n Society) last sem. I went to most of the classes had cool discussions with the prof(Dr.Janardhan from HCU) and enjoyed the course. i think taking a HSSM is like taking a course. You don't take dumb courses and similarly u don't take stupid HSSM's like fine arts.
4.Mess suks:If u employ private caterers this is going to happen. The institute should have it's own cooks who are like employees. This is the sytem followed by most colleges like IIT's
5.Canteen will commit suicide: This canteen is reasonable and it will survive coz the quality is ok. Honestly i think it's difficult to have a fancy canteen coz people aren't willing to spend money to eat in it.
6.Mag team suks: I have never seen the college magzine. I think the collection of blogs in IIIT does a good job of replacing the magzine. Blogs are the new age journalism tools. Blogs rock
7.Campus Life suks: Everything is in the hands of the students. We form the councils and even control the budget. But what do we do nothing? Faculty can't help us on this.
8.IIIT as a university: I agree with u. I also see IIIT as a corporate college. To be a university the institute has to sincerely encourage other acivities. This includes Cultural, Sports and social acivites. The present management sadly, doesn't see beyond academics
9.Misuse of resources: As far as computer resource allocation is concerned whoever is incharge of computer stuff deserves to get his a$$ fried. I dont have a lab PC. When i really pestered the labcom he said i have a room pc so i shouldn't demand a lab pc. Ballz. Institute is supposed to give us atleast a pc. Finally got a pc but it had no ram, no hdd and no drives. UG2 had a meeting with the director last sem to discuss the situaton with regard to pc allocation. He said he would do something but then again....this is IIIT nothing happened
10 Grading system suks: I agree. But isin't this a risk u are taking when u make ug students tutors? and by the way 70% tutors are honest. It's some guys who do some "hera pheri" but dishonesty is dishonesty.
11. Democracy suks: Well when we have elections we vote for people we know won't work once elected and then we complain how the parliament suks. The parliament is only as good as those that are a part of it. We all know how hard Pranav works for campus life issues. But i think this is the first time he is part of the parliament. This shows how irresponsibly the students vote.
I have nothing against Halley. Personally i admire u for standing out among the crowd and speaking ur mind. Hope u read this and leave some nice commets :D
9 comments:
Quite optimistic!
I agree with u on most of points !! Nice job
Totally convincing...
Since IIIT is flexible, its responsibility of students to think of ways to improve it. And the good thing is that they get to be part of decision making and improvement in most cases as Dr. Abhijeet Mitra said recently.
Almost forgot to mention this post that you are talking abt is a month older than the "Debate triggering and Controversial Post :P"
pretty convincing ... esp. abt the HSSMs which are seen by many as a means to improve their CGPAs ... can somebody compare a course like OS & STS Note: Both of them carry 4 credits ... btw we never faced problems in the lab regarding allocation of PCs ... do u think this canteen can survive in the summer with this kind of a menu
lol @ Halley.
Halley,
you are a moron.You keep on writing against each and everyone one can think of in a pessimistic way.When they reply to that you'll say "Owe!! it calls for a celebration..my blog is attracting a lot of visitors(blushing)".You keep on searching for an incident to take place to write some post.You are going to library for the same.You want yourself to be kicked out by the G4S security gaurd,and guess what!! you'll come to your room immediately to write a post on that..Just give me your username and password with a promise that you'll not start any blogs in future.I'll change the passwords and that will save IIIT and You(some day,people will become so frustoo reading your blogs that,they'll kick you and slap you the instant they see you).
one question to other readers:
Why halley resorted to torturing IIITians with his blogs?.. answer anybody..?
why are you deleting my comment?.. its true right?
My dear wingie(i know ur not and i also know ur IP) i don't know how ur comment concerns this post.
Secondly posts like these attract the attention of the faculty. So in the interest of decency i deleted ur comment. Personaly I don't find ur comment insulting or cheap or anything. It's just that this is not the appropriate forum.
@halley-sux This post was not written to insult halley. And i would appreciate it if you would also be consideratre and not make personal comments.
ok!!,you've a point.I'll agree with you,..yeah,it didn't occur to me that faculty will read this ..
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