It Sucks Here

It Sucks & sucks bigtime. Its the system and as usual the general response will be that no system is flawless. But when you don't find a logical answer it sucks. Just now I heard that The Dean Students has banned the pizza delivery at the rooms. Earlier there was a rule that the pizza guy will wait at the hostel entrance and won't be allowed to go to the room for delivery. Now he can't enter the IIT campus. When I asked the gen sec the reason, he could not give any specific logical reason. Whatever he said is something like this. The pizza guys drive fast inside the campus and are a threat to human beings and the deers that stay inside the campus. Just two days back a frog was found in one of the mess in veg biryani. I don't know what action has been taken against this but I am not able to find any logic behind stopping the pizza guy to deliver at the rooms. According to the gen sec, the institute provides good food at hostel and why should we order a pizza from outside, and if we want we can go out and eat. Now if the hostel food is so good then why is a Dhaba there inside the insti in the hostel zone which definitely is hazar unhygenic then the pizza? Its not the first time that the system follows its own rule and the student community doesn't have a say in any of the decisions taken. They are just meant to be elected and have a right to remain silent. There are two gates near the hostel zone, one is Vels and the other Tarams. Both these gates used to be the lifeline of the students. A few months back a notice came that the Vels gate will be closed at 6 p.m which they stretched to 8 p.m.later. Reason? I have no idea. This gate had all the xerox shops stationary shops where students could take a xerox at 12 or 1 o'clock in the night when its required. There is a cycle shop which took care of all the cycle troubles. Oh ya students are not allowed to keep any powered vehicle. Every student signs an undertaking. Now that Vels is closed at 8 p.m junta go to Tarams for all their work. There is a fruit shop in the hostel zone which caters to all the students (12 hostels, each with capacities of around 250 to 350) and still sells relatively low quality stuff compared to outside fruit juice shops. There is a STD booth and a shop which sells everything under the sun. Students used to go to Vels or Tarams because the STD booth in the hostel zone used to be busy and there were long Qs. Fortunately the cellphones have made life a lil easier. When other IITs had internet connection in their hostels we at IITM didn't have this even if its an institute of Technology. It came just more then one year back. The reason it seems was that students will misuse the internet facility. What crap. Who has the time to do this so called misuse through out the day. And just because a few students will misuse it, keep the internet away from all the students. Crap, total crap. We used to have bus service from the hostel zone to the gate. Now they changed it into two stages. One from Hostel to GC which is just walkable and the next from GC to the main gate. And the frequency, it sucks bigtime. If you have to go to main gate you catch a bus from hostel zone to GC which will take N time because you first wait for the bus at the hostel zone. At GC you again wait for N time to get a bus to the main gate.And the frequency is so pathetic that students actually don't prefer going to the main gate and going outside somewhere. They just go to the Tarams gate and catch an auto from there. The reason behind this two stage bus service?? Again no idea. Btw it costs just one rupee from hostel to GC and one rupee from GC to gate. And from Tarams it will cost atleast 30 to 40 to go to anyplace. Students prefer giving 30 bucks compared to this two bucks. Why can't they make the ticket just 2 bucks and run it from hostel to gate? No they won't do it, they have a mind and logic of their own. Crap. When you register your computer with the hostel they are supposed to give a LAN wire. Now when I registered he didn't give me one, when I was taking my comp out for repair he was asking me to give the LAN wire back until I get my comp repaired. What crap? Why do they need the LAN wire in the mean time? Again no logic. A library gets closed just because one or two books were stolen or the timing is restricted. Forget about females even male visitiors have time restriction on visiting the students in the boys hostel. I can go on and on like this stating the N number of illogical stuff which goes on here. But the only thing I can do is write it down like this. I am helpless. The student community is helpless. The freedom is non existing. The secs just go to the meeting, listen to whatever crap is being told there and come back. They just get officially elected. That's all. Its totally up to the higher authorities to do whatever they want to do. You raise a voice and you endanger your life, your career. No one will do that. That's how the system is. These young bright minds whom the institute trains and imparts the so called knowledge to be responsible citizens, vanishes somewhere within the system. It sucks and sucks bigtime. So the only way is to beat the system within the system. Yes I don't think we are doing anything wrong each time we beat the system. Is this the kind of attitude only in this IIT or all? I don't know. But whatever I know from friends I think here its just too much. Anything is possible here where there exits an engineering college where boys and gals are fined even for committing the crime of talking with each other, yes that's true, there exits a college like this here. They just take away even the fundamental rights. And worst is the kind of parents who send their sons and daughters to such an educational institute thinking that it maintains a high degree of moral conduct. All crap. It sucks and there is only one way, beat the system.