REAR VIEW:
The major reason behind the formation of this Blog,has been the inability of the management to invest on a good Website for the GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD CAMPUS,and this is where we all could capitalize,and this is where it all started.
THE FIRST SEMESTER:
Initially,the GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD campus,was essentially absent from the world wide wed scenario,and everyone including the management turned a blind eye to this major flaw.
The first semester passed through with a little online presence on Orkut via a strong number of ; but not all that interactive members,But in recent times,the activity has been quite high on the Orkut community too,which is a welcome sign.
But,there wasn’t any thing to GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD,beyond that.
SECOND SEEMSTER:
The second semester was when the Blog,was born virtually on the 04th of December,2009.
When a best friend of mine celebrated his birthday,and this was to be my gift,for 6 Months,I gave him my word, I would work towards making up an online journal for GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD,which would work on the tried and tested(and extremely time consuming) model of contributions.
And on 08th,December,the Blog made its physical appearance on the internet world,working as an anonymous Blog,with just two contributors,who actually wrote the initial blog posts from their point of view.
TWO MONTHS LATER:
Close to two months later,in February,2010,the Blog started to make its presence felt,backed by some seriously good posts,and lots of consistency which were a virtual reflection of the happenings on campus,We evolved with a strong readership and people warming up to the Idea of contributing to this blog,made things better.
The students of GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD CAMPUS,were mostly reluctant to move from their comfy lifestyles,they were reluctant to share their information,their daily experiences with US,But slowly they started liking it,Slowly they realized that the management was taking note of this Blog too..
THE BLOCKADE:
The blockade,due to two back to back Blog posts which contained “Bear ” in them during the month of march,the Blog was blocked on campus,GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD.
1.http://www.lifeatgitamhyd.com/2010/03/samardhapinkbearfestmidsday02032010.html
2.http://www.lifeatgitamhyd.com/2010/03/bearfestmidsday04032010.html
We didn’t feel the punch initially cause we came up with our WordPress Lite version,till the grades/marks of top contributors and especially those who had noting to do with this Blog started taking a beating right from OOPS to PHY,for ECE to be specific.(And I apologize for it,yet again!)
THE KALYAN CRSIS:
Then,once we moved on,we met the moment of peril of this Blog,the Kalyan crisis I refer to this term once again,the only other time being the parting of Krishna,and it was the only moment,This blogs existence felt threatened,and Krishna stepped out of his comfy life in Vizag(He was in Hyd during the crisis),and put up a brave face and supported this Blog.
I owe the transformation of the Blog into this custom domain to him,actually..:)
AND THEN..
And then came the turning of the colour tables,White to Black ; black to white,the change in the template was widely appreciated(And I actually had to endure that a lot,I was totally against the change in template..!!)
It brought with itself,the message of more changes which would eventually come up in the Blog and last night all those changes were nearly done..!
THE NEW DAWN:
I specifically owe this quote “The Rise of the new Dawn”,to R.Giskard,a marvellous creation of Dr.Han Fastolfe ,who was a creation of the sci-fi god,Sir Isaac Asimov.
And I make no attempts to claim it my own.
But,this post will mark the rise of the new dawn,of GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD CAMPUS,on the Internet scenario.
And we would love make this the de facto students communication portal,capturing the essence of GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD.
THE FIGHTS:
The first ID to have been created on lifeatgitamhyd.com,was mine as the tradition demands,it is admin@lifeatgitamhyd.com
Now,I am not gonna shift the inbox ,where the contributions keep trickling in,ala,lifeatgitamhyd@gmail.com,cause I have some kinda of emotional attachment to it.
But,Yeah,I am gonna be using this Admin Id,for the managerial stuff related to this Blog,I will keep it aside to deal with the controversies,that we seem getting into way to often.
Please,keep the inbox of this Blog at lifeatgitamhyd@gmail.com,free from vulgarity and abusive content,hate mails and stuff like that can be mailed to me at admin@lifeatgitamhyd.com,And we can have a fight there..
THE NEW TAGLINE:
The new tag line,I assume was making up some kinda of a rustle on campus,GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD,which was restricted to heated arguments over the Blog,and stuff,And not everyone liked the previous tag line “The apparent pride of GITAM hyd”,But we are over with it now,and have unveiled over new tag line which goes,
“The Overseer”(Of GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD)
And,the tag line is self explanatory..:P
THE SUPPORT TEAM:
A new support team will be in place in a matter of 45 days or so,and the preliminary paper work is still on,I cant just start giving out Id’s to all the people on campus,My resources are still restricted, I can only have 50 odd Id’s like name@lifeatgitam.com, And I don’t want to waste them.
The new support team,will be backed by a good chain of contributors and it will be dealing in sorting out the data into the required channels,and it will play a major role in the contributions system,next academic year when the juniors come into the campus of GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD.
The support team will be functional(and the members mostly anonymous ) by that time,and we would love to welcome and serve the juniors,effectively too..:)
THE CRASH:
My PC under went a major crash yesterday,my hard disk is currently slate clean,and I have lost all the valuable material in my PC,not to mention the loads of posts which were to be published once the transformation is complete.
So at this point,I express my inability to publish the post,But,I do posses the ability to get back my resources and re-built all those posts,but it requires,greater commitment from my side to GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD,and I believe I have all it takes to get the post mill rolling once again..
So cheers to the actual rise of the New Dawn,the Overseer has arrived..
Welcome one and everyone to the new avatar of this Blog,
We are have to have you hear,and we are determined to stay,and we will survive all the hardship,the 3rd semester will be bringing in..
And thanks a lot to everyone who made this change possible,and thanks to the critics,who actually served as the “Flash of genius ” :P
Regards,
lifeatgitamhyd
Note:During the course of reading this post,you might have wondered why I had to emphasise GITAM UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD CAMPUS,when a simple pronoun or just “the campus”,would have sufficed,the reason is this is the first full fledged post,and I want all those SEO to work right up to my new custom domain.
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