I was watching "Happy Days" film after many years, the film took me to my college days and brought those sweet beautiful memories like a flash.
I opened this folder by name VVIESTA in my system after 4 years. It gave me Goosebumps and yes i had a very beautiful college days.
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| Student Placement Secretary |
Being student placement secretary for the college it gave me lots of opportunities to interact, co-ordinate and deal with the companies and HR people.
Creating an SMS gupshup community with ~700 student subscribers was a great help to all of us in reaching right placement related information at their finger tips.
Creating and maintaining Http://vvietmysore.blogspot.in was a great fun during college days. I wonder for getting mails and calls from many people, parents asking about the college and it's facilities :)
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| From L to R - Rohith T.D (President Computer Science & Engineering) Ganesh Prasad E (President Information Science & Engineering) |
I proudly say that being the presidents for Information science & Computer science branch me and Rohith TD had great responsibilities in organizing a college cultural and technical fest during our tenure which we achieved with 200% success :)
It gave us wonderful leadership lessons to learn and showcase, no fest till date in the college was successfully organized and executed in that level. Right from bringing sponsors for the fest our team had highly talented people. I'm laughing while writing this, being the part of sponsor committee remembering the strategy we implemented the truth, lies and facts that we presented in a manner which impressed sponsors for granting higher money as sponsorship till date to our college fest that year.
It was a shocker for me when Rohith met with an accident right before few days left for the fest it became more challenging for the rest without another pillar. But somehow he recovered and was back on track at the time of the fest.
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| Dept of IS&E logo |
The logo for our branch which i designed was inspired by a guy and a gal holding an umbrella in a rain :D.
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| Different ID cards designed for the respective groups |
Dealing with the sponsors was extremely good experience. It gave an insight into financial risk management and how to have win win arguments. A good experience was on font size of the sponsor and our college, fest name. At last we won! we achieved justice for both fest as well as sponsor during banner designing :)
Bitter experience was that the sponsor didn't gave advance money on time, the 7 hills people refused to switch on the speakers at 6 pm on the fest day without half payment, we had to rush and arrange the money from our hands for the fest to go on. No one knew it except me and rohith that day. Phew else it was a great disaster on the fest day. It gave us great experience that day for our lives.
Dividing the tasks to manage technical, cultural, games etc with different groups and people identified made the work easier and resulted in success :)
It was an extreme co-ordinated
effort from all (many names are there to be named without which it was
not such a successful event) which made it a success. Now we call it in
corporate terms as good team work :D
The beautiful posters were designed by narasimha and shankar very talented ppl.
We never expected such a huge crowd will get gathered for the fest in a college which was in the outskirts of Mysore. Providing security to the girls present there was our prime task, dealing and helping policemen on this task was nice.
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| During Technical Fest |
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| Releasing our branch magazine Infozine |
Fest Pics:
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| VVIESTA 2008 |
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| Vibhin Group wonderful performance on stage |
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| IS Juniors dance |
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| Magazine committee working tirelessly to get the Infozine out |
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| Enjoyment to the max level |
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| Enjoyment to the max at the end of the festival |
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| With CS friends :) |
And at the end it was rocking to remember the happy, bitter, sad, experiences during college days. Yet with all these, it was nice to go back and remember those days and moments, everything comes like a flash in front of my eyes if i close my eyes.
Recently i had been to college, the path, atmosphere made me feel like everything was moving slowly, the breeze brought me those voices from my college times, images of people standing laughing, enjoying, walking etc.
I went to college library, the librarian recognized me and was happy to see me after so many years, i went through those book racks, i could see the memories flowing there, tears rolled in.
Walking along the corridor, steps, i sat at the same place where we used to chit chat and made fun during our time, i went near the classrooms, i could see my classmates sitting overthere, me too was enjoying to the core laughing, and yet a bit later it was silence over there, there were another set of people having there happy days.
There was no junior whom i would recognize, i could see a new set of ppl/batch living a happy life yes college life once we had experienced.
I sat near the cafeteria watching groups of people having fun. For a second i remembered my batch people waiting for the college bus to start.
I saw my mobile phone it was afternoon, i left with my friend in a deep silence. Yes today i have achieved so much because of the same college. I feel proud to say that i am alumini from VVIET.
