Life with Untapped Potential

Admission is quite simple. All I had to do was appear for the CET exam and await my results. I could have applied through the management quota. When I discussed this with the then General Secretary, he suggested I go through counselling. My rank was enough to get me through. I recall there were seats reserved for SC/ST, OBC, etc. In fact, even in the library, there were shelves reserved only for them. They were locked all the year unless a student from the reserved quota needed any textbooks which were locked on those shelves. Books on those shelves were not accessible to the general population. The campus is very humungous. Football ground and basketball court for students. Large buildings for dorms and food were its best part. Infrastructure has improved over the years. Students have access to WiFi, usage of which is monitored by administrators. Campus placement isn't its strongest suit. But placement officer keeps ensures his network passes the information of any ongoing campus recruitments to him.

Back then, IT was booming. 2004 was the year when IT was at its peak. This reason drove me to take up E&C. I hoped it gave me a shot at Software as well as Network related career lines. There were always teachers available for each subject. Internal exams were conducted in a timely fashion. Passing isn't really a challenge if students do their part. Almost half the staff was newly graduated (ex) students.

I would say this is inapplicable to me. What I paid as a first-year fee, I paid the same amount for years that followed. The fee was quite low back then compared to what it is now. Second-hand books were always available.

Classrooms are spacious because the building was designed keeping this factor in mind. No fans ever needed to keep things cool. All the textbooks were mostly available in the library. Plus students who had challenges affording books always shared among themselves. Considering it was Men only college, students and supporting facilities manage to make the functions quite lively. There was no fest back then because the closest engineering colleges were over 100 km away. Each department had its own team for organizing functions for their streams.