The Transformers

It has been 3 years since the beginning of this college and hostel journey. But never have such turns been experienced.
Being a premier institute in IT insures us of uninterrupted power supply.
That is the only insurance that has not been backed out on.
The network is down in the boys hostels , most often. People console themselves with that being a step by the authorities to make us attend classes . The reality seems otherwise.
Twice in this week , there was no water in the loos , I had to use water from the water cooler.
Yesterday itself , water stopped coming from the shower when I was bathing , I had to , again seek rescue from the water cooler. I cannot comment much except that it was ' way -way cool '.


The water problems are not the institute's fault , rather it is a side effect of global warming . This and the refusal of the rain Gods to show mercy on parched lips and broken earth this summer makes me panicky for the need of immediate and adequate steps to be taken , even if the motive be as selfish as survival for me.
The infrastructure that I once boasted about my campus seems to have vanished in the recent months . The major transformations point to only a couple reasons .
Firstly , according to the directives of the central government on reservation, the number of students enrolled for a course have gone up by 20% , which now comprises an additional 400 student population.


The planning and the network infrastructure has fallen short of satiating the need of 1500 students . This might be a result of the administration which simply ignores the needs of the hostels. A network which was designed to serve the needs of 500 students when the institute was conceived simply is overburdened with the deficient infrastructure of only 1 router for 3 hostels. One has to brute force for an IP for an hour to get connected.
The government has been cavalier in its attitude towards quality education , for pleasing its vote bank it seems to have forgotten that only excellence would remedy development , which it blames to be the bottleneck in every issue.
Yesterday , no matter how frivolous we were , the main reason we could identify for we being attractive for placements was us being 'sasta' and 'bikao' , which I see as a manifestation of the maldirections being given to us.
It seems that , especially in the case of government institutes, that we are on the course so vividly depicted in the epic Atlas Shrugged.
IIITA was visioned as an institute of excellence , clearly we have lost that vision , in the murky fog of reservation , social altruism of the government , insufficient planning , and most of all , a compromise on quality education.