Well, this semester at PICT, there really was a compelling need to introduce this award... A very prestigious one.. To be selected and given by the students of PICT..
The "DEPARTMENT OF THE SEMESTER"
Well, and the winner of this award for the semester that just ended (Jan-May '09) is undoubtedly...
The E&Tc Department!!!
The department, which is always written off for its mediocre placements and considered a branch of secondary importance at PICT, made its presence felt this semester!! And that too, in what a way!! Nobody would have imagined this...
(Well, me not an EnTc student, so dont have the detailed or the accurate version of what happened, but this is what every student here, whatever be the branch, got to know...)
Well, I think, it all started with all this..
Consider this, an usual morning at the college.. Time around 10.15 a.m, and the lectures on.. And then, what we hear is a big sound... Bang..!! What was that?? Was easily audible through the college... An accident outside?? Or some transformer blown up??..
But what actually had happened, really was completely unexpected... A firecracker ('sutali bomb' as what many say) went off, that too in two classrooms and at the same time!! (I think, not both but one of them was in EnTc, not sure though)
Man..., that was something completely unheard of, for me till date.. Dont think, they ever got the person or group who did that.. But that really had become one big talking point...
The real impact was on the EnTc profs though.. And that was evident from the next few lectures that took place.. This was what one prof. was telling the students... "muzhe bhi udaa do!! 'Supari' deke.. I come from Katraj dairy route, daily.. U can execute your plan there..." Wat else to say..(!!)
And if this wasnt enough, i dont remember if it was just some days or 2-3 weeks later, another early morning incident shook the campus.. Well, the time table had changed with the lectures now commencing at 9 a.m.. And the EnTc were the ones to take most of the brunt.. Maybe it was coz of this, that the following thing happened...
Well, this morning as usual, the students turned up for their lectures.. As usual, the locked classrooms welcomed them, as even the helpers used to come late for opening the doors, 9a.m being early for them as well.. This time though, the locks didnt have the usual holes for the keys to be keyed in.. The holes were sealed off using M-Seal!! There was absolute no way of opening them.. And this was for an entire floor I heard.. It was really a devil's mind, to even think of this way.. They had to finally break all the locks...!!
The aftermath of this however was increase in security and checking and lots of other measures..
And for the EnTc students, some 'school'-level measures were adopted.. They were all assigned individual places to seat, and were compelled to sit in those places for every lect., with checks to ensure that the seating arrangement was followed!! The back-benchers had now become the front row bench-warmers..
Also recently, towards the end of the sem, another news flew in from the EnTc department, which finally stamped their complete dominance in the race for this award..
Well, it was submission time and the labs filled with people completing journals and doing those last minute changes.. Well, this 'x' guy was in a lab, was completing some journal, when the lab.asst asked him to leave and it seems, he resisted.. N coz of the hand movement from the lab.asst to drive him out ( really dont know how, so using this very generalized term), the spects of this guy were thrown off his face.. And this led to 'that' guy slapping the lab.asst and then chasing, trying to beat him as the lab.asst ran towards the HOD cabin..
This was it!! No further waiting for any other incident... The name was carved on the trophy, then and there, that very evening.........
