Life Changed!! Should I be grateful? AMITY

My 4 years at Amity, or let’s say three and a half as of now, well to be very frank writing 3 or 4 is just a simple click but living it was very tough and enjoyable. Well I will start with the bad parts so that I end my post with good memories.

So we came to Amity from different states, me being a hosteller it was something bigger for me than the local delhites as I left my home, my friends, my whole life for a new one, as a 12^th class student would say “ It was a quest for knowledge, it was a journey to manhood” well a final year student who is almost an ENGINEER now says “ The quest is still a quest, and well manhood, who wanted all that baggage”.

                I still remember our orientation day we got up with alarms as our mom’s were not there to wake us up, I had breakfast at 7:30 which was by far the earliest I had ever had my breakfast after all the step to become an ENGINEER is to become responsible, so we came to college AMITY UNIVERSITY INDIA’s LEADING ENGINEERING COLLEGE with almost every ranking that has come or will come in near future, a fresher’s mind has so much curiosity, brand new shining anti ragging flex boards raised that curiosity to an unimaginable level but we were just going with the flow learning to adjust, enjoying the H Block, 3 days of orientation finished and we entered the mecca of engineering E block as we entered the first shock or rather bomb exploded on our heads and on our parents hard earned pockets, we just realized that department of civil engineering is just 2 faculties one HOD who primarily heads another department and 3 rooms. Ok, so india’s high ranked university did a pretty small mistake admitting 100 students in a department which hardly exists. Never mind our spirits were still high as 1^st year was common for all and the lack of faculties actually didn’t affect us.

We started studying or well I can say about myself that I started studying, “So what department hardly exists, still placement is something which is Amity’s forte” after all which college has the potential of 100% placement and which college has the guts of saying it on national television day and night, anyways so placement = pointer= hardwork=studying. A rather simple and kiddish equation for a first year student. So results were out and first moment of happiness a good result, so mind said great you got good result and according to the equation you are on the right path. Kudos. 2^nd year started core subjects came in faculties turned into “Visiting Faculties” classes turned into “Combined Classes” studying turned into “Self Study”, “Labs” turned into “Classrooms” and “Classrooms” turned into “Labs” but now I was satisfied somewhere inside, maybe because I was turning into an Amitian= Start enjoying stop thinking, and well when you don’t think you don’t expect you don’t expect you don’t question, pointers were on a rise marks were flowing in but as I said “Who Cares Now”.

Well how can I forget to mention the justification of the slogan of Amity “We Nurture Talent” well I came with a hobby of quizzing and well not just a hobby I was good at it and had proved my metal at national level also, so as an enthusiastic 1^st year kid “I said to myself that hey techfest is coming lets go” so we made a team, registered, etc. This was the first time in my life that I saw “Corporate Educational Institutions”. Well I was told by my HOD that we cannot simply go to the fest there is a procedure, so I thought “OK, How long can the procedure possibly be” well it was not long it was really loooong. So long that the documentation had to go through 4 departments, with 200 bonds, 2000 requests and 2 lacs recommendations, it was so long that the day of the fest passed, it was so long that it killed the enthusiasm of a first year kid to represent his college and pursue his hobby at the college level. Though as an amitian I stopped my thinking but still questions arose Why?. And my HOD the sweet helping lady said “Beta, that’s the system her” well so yup talent is Nurtured but be systematic only then.

Well I would now jump to the special parts and moments that actually changed me, my monotonous college life, and made it worth remembering and cherishing. Any college life is incomplete without friends and well in my case I can proudly say that I got great one’s, each and every person in my class is special in some way, I was never in favour of having a wide circle but today I can say that being friends with  everyone is really fun. We enjoyed, we travelled, we made fun of each other and gave each other names that were offending but still we enjoyed being called by them. Secondly Amity gave me Delhi, Delhi in itself is a whole life, one how learns to survive in Delhi can survive in any part of the country in any condition, Delhi has life that is really difficult to leave once you get habitual to it, travelling became one of my best hobby in college as according to me it is the biggest teacher, you come across different people, talk to them, see different conditions and situations and yes I can say that it is only because of Amity that I got to live this life and yes this gave us the actual manhood.

I criticized the system here, I criticize the management but I wont and never criticize the hardwork of some faculties of my department as the things that are wrong are above their paygrade and even they are equally helpless, but in terms of teaching some of the teachers have put efforts beyond their limits, we still have special moments with teachers which are unforgettable, these teachers have made us academically sound in every way they could, they have laughed with us, they have been strict with us, they have penalized us but they are special to us. As a department I would say that I am proud that I am a part of Department of Civil Engineering as I have seen the department coming up infact im not shy to say that we have contributed a lot in bringing up this department with faculties. And it is a well known fact but still I am never shy to say it I sincerely respect my HOD, the only lady the only shoulder that has never ditched us whether its day or night. If she wouldn’t have been there my college life would have been a complete disaster, she is an inspiration, a support system, and she put’s her faith in whatever you do.

At the end I would like to hope that after these 4 years  I take back all the good memories and cherish them and take all the bad memories as bitter lessons of life which were as important as the good one’s.           

Proud to be an AMITIAN

Drona Khurana

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