Does college need to make a chaos.

Having cleared JEE and gotten admitted and shifted to Pune’s Indian Institute of Information Technology would have been a smooth transition from coaching to college life if I did not have to wait at relatives’ home for a fortnight till the institute authorities alloted us rooms, and  to encounter a small incident on the very second day of my stay in the hostel that almost shattered the hopes of my next 4 years of B-Tech.

After having suffered from Network issues for a day, did the aforementioned interesting incident take place. It forced me to question “Does an Indian college always need to make chaos?”

Had it been a private college, I would still have convinced myself with an affirmation on this question, but I had really expected that national colleges would be different. You might expect similarly until you pay a visit to IIIT Pune.

I will tell you why, but let me make two things clear beforehand:

First, I am not trying to defame the institute. I am just trying to express what most of my mates feel.

Secondly, if somebody disagrees with the truth that I write here, I must tell you this is your wake up calls; it is time for you to open your eyes.

When I arrived at the college, its hostel situation was worse than pathetic. However, I don’t complain much about that. Some problems do occur when you have to shift your whole campus with a lot of infrastructural work still in progress, I agree. Yet, there are some fundamental amenities that every college student is rightful of and whose absence in a college can’t be ignored. One is…the wi-fi system in hostels.

Through a very exhaustively disappointing experience have I come to know that the only the answer we are supposed to get in this college to any question on its numerous unfulfilled promises of world-class facilities are”Bas agle Monday ko ho jayega.”

Well, it was my second day in the hostel and I was severely suffering from data and network scarcity. I approached the hostel warden and inquired “Sir, is there any wi-fi?” I expected a clear YES or NO or the most famous “bas agle Monday ko lag jayega” answer. But I guess I had accidentally activated his THANOS mode. He snapped in an aggressively offending way “Tumhare pass chance tha na college change karne ka, kar lete. This was his exact answer for which I can’t fully blame the college. This was the conversation that gave me an idea of expectations I was to keep with the institute in future.

   Some days later, the Lord heard our prayers and Wi-Fi was set up into our hostel. It turned out to be Race3- good trailer, bad movie. Everyone was using it except me-the resident of the last room in the corridor farthest from the router. There was no network in my room. It was exactly like SHIVSENA’s atom bomb on BJP hopes in Maharastra. A lot of requests were made and put on hold every day but once again they were answered. Location of wifi routers was changed and finally, the area near my door started getting slight tinges of the network. I was satisfied but there still were two unhappy people in my room with no network. We managed to drag the situation for some days but the college craves to make a chaos.

One day I rushed back from classes to download a movie that I had been desperately waiting for, and I was wholeheartedly welcomed with a surprise…our routers had disappeared into thin air. “Kaisa laga August main April Fool?”. I still remeaned optimistic. Rumors spread that they were needed in college for some reason and would be returned in some 4-5 days, but our Karan-Arjun never came back.

R.I.P.

We understand that there are

There are issues in every college but we are an IT College with M-Tech’s there and we still have no internet connection in our hostel.  Although it sometimes seems that they also want to solve this problem but at other times they tell us to be grateful for just whatever we are getting. Their official records show a bill of 12 lakhs for internet for 3 months exclusive of the hostel- an amount that could buy internet to the whole town.

 “You should not say these things (commenting on Wi-Fi problems), they show your character”, they tell us. Well, I don’t know about mine but it does show their intolerance of any complaint or question. I didn’t say much that day but I think I did today. These are not just my personal feelings, rather an expression of the whole student community.

It is a pure tragedy to see that an IIIT can’t even pay for Wi-Fi (as per the guy who was taking the routers away). I don’t know whether this silent agitation will ever reach the authorities. And if it does, whether they will take actions or not. But it is worth a try.

 Goodbye, everyone. Do leave comments.