IITs - not so student friendly!!
IIT’s were recently ranked as amongst the top 100 universities of the world. They certainly have helped thousands of people in realizing their dreams.
But, after being a part of the same system, I have realized everything is not okay with them. These institutes are very callous about needs of the students. Let me give you an example.
We are having a convocation on this Friday. For that we were asked to come to campus on Monday/Tuesday to pick up the uttaria (the convocation dress), take part in dress rehearsal on Thursday and finally attend the convocation on Friday. Just imagine, why would anybody take a whole one week off from his work just to come and collect his/her degree? All of us are just one or two months into our jobs, and its extremely difficult to take 3-4 days off in a stretch.
We tried to voice our concerns to the IIT authorities, but without any luck - they say it is mandatory. If all this is so much important to them, they could have scheduled dress rehearsal and convocation ceremony on the weekend. Or else, could had allowed students to attend the main ceremony straight away without the dress rehearsal.
But, I guess they have forgotten the primary reason they exist for - for the students.
And, mind you, this is not the first instance, where they have taken a decision on their own and not considered student’s preferences. There have been plenty of such instances.
Comments (6 comments)
This is really not good on their part….then, what are you all planning to do…3-4 days ki chutti kaha milti hai aajkal yaar…chal hope something good happens in the favor of the students..i mean ex-
Mehak / August 8th, 2007, 7:45 pm / #
that really sucks! and why do they need a dress rehearsal anyway!????? thousands of students here get their degrees each year without a dress rehearsal. Oh yea they have a dress rehearsal in high school
Congrats and have a blast!
kaush / August 16th, 2007, 12:50 am / #
arrey mil gaye degree…update karo.
Mehak / August 16th, 2007, 1:56 pm / #
Mehak: Yeah.. degree mil gayi. Finally took couple of days off from office, and attended the convo. Was good fun!!
Kaush: I really feel that we don’t need the dress rehearsal. It’s just that authorities want to make sure that everything goes as planned on the d-day.
Manpreet / August 16th, 2007, 11:23 pm / #
I missed the convo because of this 3 days compulsary attendence confusion :(((
kulveer / August 20th, 2007, 3:50 pm / #
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