All the best!

Hey there everyone !

Greetings from Lifeatgitamhyd,We,The LAGH team are publishing a post after a very long hiatus,and hopefully this will  not be the end of everything ,we have worked so hard on.

Decision:

The LAGH team met one final time,this Monday,for probably the last time this semester(or is it for eternity ?),and it was for a very strong reasons,Next week our exams will be over,and the gates of GITAM University will be closed for the next 45 days be it for us or the seniors.

That doesn't bother us much but there is something else which bothers us,lifeatgitamhyd has invariably become an integral part of our life,and we can’t  but help thinking about it,and come this May 9th.

The domain name,www.lifeatgitamhyd.com will be expiring,and  we had to take a call.

For the first time in over 1 yr of our association with lifeatgitamhyd,We never had to take many decisions,be it in good times or bad times,especially during the turmoil times  which were created by some controversy or the other,and this time we felt orphaned,our head mentor left us,and has started exploring various online projects and seeking out opportunities,And we are still stuck onto lifeatgitamhyd.

Last month when The Hive was launched,Many of the authors moved over to it,and hence we decided to close LAGH,but Somehow some of us,still feel,that LAGH is supposed to live,and do the work it initially.

But we had other things to do.

First when we met this Monday,we knew we had to decided on two things:

• The expiration of the domain.
• The future of LAGH

We are still confused over what we are supposed to do with the domain,and we have decided to postpone the matter till the evening of 30th April,and wait for some divine intervention,and hopefully We will get the required funds to run LAGH for another year,the month is coming to an end,the year as well,and our pockets ?

They are as empty as never before,and We are still scouting for our secret “investors” ,and we have also sent out a mail to Prajeeth(the person who initially funded the LAGH project ),to check if he is willing to support us for one more year,We are hoping for the best.

if things work out fine,and Prajeeth or anyone else is ready to fund us,We will be able to keep the domain with us for another year,we will have all the time in the world to decided onto the future then.

GAT 2011:

The GAT 2010 admission guidelines provided by LAGH was a huge success(Reason,why we are part of GITAM and LAGH eventually :P),and with the current GAT 2011 session going on,we are still unable to take a call on the roadmap for GAT 2011.

The road ahead looks messy,and the view forward is all but blurred.

We at the LAGH are determined to keep things going,we will keep meeting on campus GITAM University,We will keep LAGH alive,and we have but taken a step back,But haven't yet accepted defeat,Someday,it will be the rise of the new dawn.

Looking forward to keep LAGH alive,not necessarily with the campus news,but with such updates :)

Regards,

The LAGH Team.

p.s.We got a request from the admin of www.pakalast.in , for a copy of the previous content of Lifeatgitamhyd, the LAGH team has unanimously decided to donate all the posts and comments of LAGH to Pakalast! ,with the view that if for some reasons,We are unable to keep LAGH alive after May 9th,at least the content will be immortal and safe in the vault provided by Pakalast.

This open confirmation of the aforementioned request ,stands to show that we openly accept the donation of our posts to Pakalast! and that we are the actually writers/authors/owners of the posts ,and Pakalast! is our safety vault,and obviously our insurance as well,If we are ever subject to a hack :P,which will require some really good brains to actually do it :P

The Hive: Share your passion!

The Hive:Share your passion!

LAGH is dead,but its authors have moved over to The Hive,have you ?

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Meeting for The Fest - 28/2/11

Meeting for the Fest - 28/2/11

The college was abuzz with talks about the so called fest as a few seniors (ECE and EEE came to my class) were going room to room to announce that a meeting will be held at 3 PM to decide a few things on the fest that is to be held on 18th March if it is an intra-college thing and 17th-18th if it is an inter-college one..

The meeting started with the ECE HoD (forgot his name. From now on will be reffered to as HoD.) introducing himself as the convener for the fest. Hod said that it has been decided that the fest will be a science-cum-cultural fest and it will be made an inter-college one if only the students are able to get sponsors. He also gave a choice of letting this one go and next semester promised it to be a really big one.. Here an ECE senior interrupted saying that whenever we go to other fests the students always ask us about our fest. So this is the opportunity to prove ourselves.

So all the students present there from almost all classes were asked to use their networks to look for sponsors.. The most important point being that sponsorship doesn't always mean monetary one. It can also be in kind.

So guys, work up your connections, look for sponsors. If you need help contact Kartik, ECE Senior. He will help you with all the details and stuff. This is our first chance, let us prove ourselves..!!

Entries for the fest logo and the name are also welcome. It should be a combination of science and culture. Rack your brains for it.

Now the last date for finalizing the sponsors is Saturday (March 5, 2011). That will be the day when the management decides whether it is an inter-college one or an intra-college one, depending on the number of sponsors.

Let's wait and see what saturday has in store for us.

Devil_dog signing off.

The new face…LAG 2.0

Hey everyone!

LAGH has been very dull for a very long time,And everyone wrote LAGH off as a one off blog,and that it was a blog and will always remain to be one.

But we at LAGH are back again,with no fireworks or anything but with a simple message,A month or so ago we launched LAGH 2.0,but it never actually came out of the alpha state cycle.

LAGH:

We are here to inform you that,lifeatgitamhyd.com domain will be expiring on march 5th,2011.

And it wont signal the end of LAGH,no we will be back with more users and authors and a full fledged website this time.

March 5th and you will see what we mean :D

Money matters

MONEY MATTERS!!??

DAY: 20/1/11
Boys Hostel

Battle lines were drawn in the hostel again.. This time for the sudden increase in the bill by Rs. 748. The earlier displayed bill was a bit less than the average of the previous months and the hostelers were very happy on seeing this.. Most of them saw this as an opportunity to get some unaccounted money from their parents. All the plans were shattered when on Thursday a new bill was put up with an increase by Rs. 748 under the heading contingency charges. WTF!!??

Hostelers were seen standing in front of the notice board and even swarming the office bombarding the poor accountant guy with queries and demands to see the statement for the month.. I personally went and checked the statement after getting permission from Pathrudu Sir (god bless that man). Well here is the deal.. Apparently the older bill had been made by omitting the charges for water, electricity, house keeping and mess workers' salaries.

WHO THE HELL MADE THE BILL...??? WAS HE DRUNK??

Then one fine day they realize that all these things have to be added.. So up the fees goes after adding the contingency charges and down the levels of contentment amongst the students..!

A few more points to be noted are:

• The demand for the house keeping should be included in the 2000 bucks they take as "room rent". I mean they don't even open the rooms and clean them..!! Why the hell are they paid Rs. 90,000 (approximate) per month for it.
• A student should be on leave for at least 5 days for the mess bill to be deducted. (This is okay). Here is the nonsense part: If a student goes on leave for 15 days then the mess bill will be cut for 15-3=12 days.. !! Now that is plain bullshit.. Why the hell do we have to pay for 3 extra days when we aren't staying and eating in the hostel. When asked for an explanation they say it is a "rule" follow it.. Yeah right.. Tomorrow you come up with a rule that go to the toiled once in 3 days.. and you expect us to follow that..?? :D
  
• A student will not be charged only for the mess, when on leave. He will have to pay the rent, housekeeping, water, electricity etc. even then..!! Huh?

The demand for the members of the so called committee to be elected and not selected is still lying in the dust.. !!

God knows what they will come up in the upcoming days..

Hosteler
Civil-A

LAGH's reply:

 Please go through the following pictures of the notices(to be uploaded tonight),the management has put up on the hostel notice board giving all the parameters,and the method of calculating the bill.

• The excess of the ~800 rs has been due to a calculation error.
• We accept with the authors view,that the 3 days rule is kind of absurd as pointed out(Leave for 10 days,they will deduct only for 7 days)
• The third point is really Childish,be logical,they can cut the mess bill,but it is way to much to ask them to reduce the water bill,electricity bill for the days you are not present on campus,put a lil brain into it and you will end up seeing the light,this is how things will have to work,if you want your suggestions to be implemented.

Regards,

The LAGH team.

DAY:21/01/2011: To ma'am with love :)

DAY:21/01/2011:

What looked like a pleasant day,turned out to be more than that,lets get rolling right from the beginning.

The weather around the city(and the village :P),has been warmer than it was this season,we couldn't hazard a guess that we would hardly have any time to enjoy this weather.

Everyone was busy wondering why the weather has gone so nice,all of a sudden,little did we know that a political storm was overlooking the campus of gitam university,with the seniors,juniors,and the faculty aiming guns at each other,ready to fight for their equal rights in organizing or rather ripping the science fair apart :P.

JUNIORS:

Lets cover the fair and the large number of controversies as the way juniors see it,first the selection of the commitie was under the wraps for most part of it,and it was being spearheaded by a particular section of juniors,with the support of Madhrui ma'am,out of the 25 members,only 8 odd students were being dominant,and the rest of the voices were virtually unheard of,as the saying goes a "voice not heard,is a voice not spoken",well what happens when no one gives a f**k to what you are saying ?

You get pissed and start looking at other ways to pull the dominant asses down,and how do you do it ,when the the people responsible,are not willing to hear anything against their "gem" students ?
Well,take a pot luck and approach the seniors :)

Did it work ?

Initially it did work to an extent ,but it a pathetic situation going on right now,as the seniors were not officially informed of the Science Fest,every other senior,who had some kind of a political clout in the campus started pulling strings and reprimanding their juniors,since the seniors were kept in the dark about the fair/fest,they got re pissed and it was visible on their faces,after all how would we juniors feel if we were in their place ?

Cheated.

And then there were the others in the committee who were trying hard to make a make and rescue the fair/fest from the brinks of the abyss,but they have hardly been successful,at least they know that someone is listening to all their problems,and trying to make a difference.(We don't crib,We do!).

They we believe are the true members,who ought to be in the committee.

The way we see it,given the freedom, people in that 25 member committee can do marvels,not all but at least 50%,as some are our very classmates,and we know their potential.

Seniors:

Well,trouble trouble and trouble,the seniors were basically perturb due to the capricious behavior of the juniors,and rightly so,having hardly any scope to explore their bounds,and being nip in the bud,due to their initial strike(in the month of August we believe),except for many demands most of them have been lying in the dirt,still unsolved,for further details please visit the blog :reallifeatgitamhyd.blogspot.com,which covered those two days of protests made by the seniors.

Most of the junior faculty(those who joined work in the last 6 months),simply pushed away the fact that there were other beings present on the campus called "Seniors",who We must admit underwent a lot of hardships,and we juniors are not going to take away any due credit from them,we being the students of the second batch ,ourselves are under going psychologically hardships,given the facts that the campus is barely 2 yr s old,So keeping the egos aside for a while,we decided to close our eyes and imagine how the situation was exactly 1 yr ago,when the campus was new,new as in brand new.
We spoke to some seniors,to give us an idea as to how GITAM was initially and here are the quick facts:

• No proper transportation for first 6 months(private buses,which used to keep failing all the time)
• No labs for close to two months.
• No working canteen,(they used to buy food from a nearby mess in rudraram and get them to the campus)
• The second sem,for a month or so,there wasn't any canteen.
• The library was hardly sufficient.
• Construction work all around,and loads of disturbance(it used to be more like a construction area than an educational institution,the management lacked proper planning,says a senior).

Being in their shoes itself scares the shit out of us,imaging how they must be feeling,having been neglected entirely by the new faculty,gives quite some shivers.
And the course of the cursed set of events that followed are spreading like wildfire,for the record lets build a constructive timeline of the events:

Monday:

• The list of the organizing committee starts to take shape.
  

Tuesday:

• The list is approved by the director,but no reference has been made about the seniors.
  
• Some senior,we refuse to name him, "apparently" threatened ,madhuri ma'am that he would complain/report her to the director Blah Blah,if she doesn't involve seniors.
• Other seniors start,calling their juniors,asking them to explain their actions.

Wednesday:

• Things start moving,with the organizing committee putting the drafts for the financial support required.
• The initial ground work starts,and the rumored name is technytes.
• The banners/drop downs preparation,starts and cracks start appearing within the committee,with respect to the design and dimensions of the banners.

Thursday:

Things go dormant for a while,with respect to the seniors,but the cracks deepen in the organizing committee ,since everyone wants to be a leader,and become the undisputed head of the committee,since all are juniors,their egos come in the way and the path to the fair,is temporarily derailed,the fair/fest looks to be a distant dream.

The hostel gets a new bill today,and the juniors are mostly pissed ,with over 4700/-,monthly bill,more on this later.

Friday:

• This is when the things seem to be going extremely out of hands,with various juniors showing contempt,not anger towards each other in the committee,anger looks so tame in front of contempt,and once this started spreading,the initial so called squad,was infiltrated by the gods of emotion,no one can stand the bricking,nor can the feeling of contempt got over easily.
• Then came the bitchy part,people started bitching about each and everyone and everything whether it concerned them or not, the campus was on a bitching frenzy, bickering was the norm of the day.
• In the morning,apparently some other quarrel brewed up between the concerned faculty,and the seniors.
• The management then got a wind of the ongoing events,and a quick Seniors meeting was called at 3:45,ECE had a lab session,CSE had a free hour,so they were busy in the ground with sports,EEE had a lab,while the IT seniors took a day off,as they have to prepare for their Industrial tour,which begins tomorrow :).
• The meeting was apparently unsuccessful,as the concerned faculty,seemed to have vented all her anger on the few seniors who were present,this attitude actually pissed off the rest of the seniors,obviously,those present might not have been aware of the fair,and they need an explanation in that sense,they didn't want to be shouted at and reprimanded,they wanted answers but what,actually precipitated from the meet is that the faculty at least the one person concerned had a dig at the gathering,We quote "Venting off anger on us,barking at us isn't the key,We Need Answers !!"(unquote),complained a senior in rage..
• What will now follow still remains..

THANK YOU :)

The LAGH team,and all the members associated with it,would like to extended a very big "Thank You" to Prabha ma'am(Prabhavati ma'am,English Department),for recognizing the Blogs(Not actually referring to LAGH,per se),we will put in more effort,and with this post we would like to make a bold statement,of having good standards,and maintaining the "uber-cool" status that we have always had :P

We are back,And LAGH will live on,Who ever thought we were shutting down,think again...

Regards,

Lifeatgitamhyd.

Article Details:

Written By: The Mule

Contributions from:EEE ,Mech,CSE,EIE.

Blog Lashing: insufficient/irregular lockers and a/c.

Feeling cool nowadays, NO, isn’t it?? It’s getting hot day by day and so, on behalf of every one we demand the management to provide complete air-conditioning for the floor’s 3 & 4 asap. Yeah, this is a demand coz it was well described in our university brochure that the university is completely air-conditioned. Beware management, you’ve a dead-line before the heat picks up. Donno what they were doing all these days sitting in their rooms and wasting time on thinking how to provide high quality whistle’s to the security guards that’s so insane, why the hell are those guys running behind everyone with those whistle’s, so irritating and so foolish.
And the locker system, so idiotic to share a locker with 3 persons. Donno who is advising these people, god save that guy. Even an average engineering college provides every student with a locker, and ours being a so called university(world’s smallest university, any doubts??) is providing a “share with two” locker system. Point to be noted about the last row, what do they expect from us, we’ve to roll over the floor searching for our articles inside OMG!! that’s so insane, thank god no one took them. Though it’s a sharing system, the funniest part is that they are not sufficient.
Immediate response anticipated!!! NO
Immediate response DEMANDED!!!!
Regards,
Padfoot.

RUMOUR MILL:Reults Scare

Results,results,results…this word’s coming out of some students mouth at the rate of 5 times per minute, Donno why everyone is worried so much about them but the things that disturb them the most are the “rumors”. If u hear the word “results” at the above said rate, I swear the rate of hearing rumors is fare more greater than results. And many persons out there are enjoying these and scaring the shit out of others (funny ideas eh??).
Anyways, I’m gonna tell you my personal favorite but mostly this may turn out to be true:
According to the UGC(some kinda university’s regulatory board) rules, the papers of the students of a particular university needs to be corrected by other people also(from other universities), this is the basic point of the rumor. So, when the papers corrected at the vizag campus were sent to Andhra university as per the rules, the verifications varied by a huge rate. And so, the papers are being re-examined at the vizag campus and hence got delayed. Interesting isn’t it??? (Comment your responses on this and do give your versions of the rumors).
DAY:-19/1/11:
Today, the attendance picked up very well and most of the classes were full (but we naughty kids never left our manners ), but most of them bunked the afternoon session . And there were a bunch of mechanical students campaigning for their SAE colligate club in every class in the afternoon session. Sources say that they got a good response and they’re gonna put up the complete notification on the notice board tomorrow. Rest of the day was calm .
coming up tomorrow: an article full of lashing, get ready to face the wrath management(“crucio ”)
Regards,
Padfoot.

DAY 18/1/2011:low attendance,results scare,science fair

From the editor:
Due to the respone generated by the articles of padfoot(aka alba fox),we are seeing an improved number of visitors in the past two days and also the articles are finally trickling in.
thanks padfoot for reviving LAGH.

LOW TURNOUT:

The vacation mood doesn't seem to be leaving the students,juniors as well as seniors have had a very low turnout today too..
after the start of the new semester,we first saw the wave of 'unofficial' holidays take over ,till the end of December.mixed with the results of Sri Krishna report and the Telangana bandh scare.
once January started the vacation mood was still on what with the Sankranthi vacation,even though the seniors got a notice of having only 3 holidays,they later got their way and shared the same number of holidays as the juniors did.

RESULTS SCARE:

Its been well over a month since we completed over semester end exams ,but the results are not yet in sight,but as the rumour mill have it ,not a day goes by without someone or the other coming with their own version of why the results are being delayed or ,the date when the results will be released.

SCIENCE FAIR:

No it isn't a fest.but the fact is the event to be conducted on the 19th of fed(tentative) is a science fair and not a fest ,like everyone is talking Abt.
it is being organised by the science club.

The name is tech night,we believe according to sources,and this is tentative too..
more will follow.

regards,

Mule.
for LAGH.

Start Engine, Accelerate :-p

First, we apologize for the delay in the launch of LAGH 2.0. It’s not an unknown fact that every single person was busy with their sems , both the jrs and srs had back to back exams and most of them ended up sad(especially “programming with c language” ). Even then, everyone was hopping with joy all around>that’s the spirit . The idiotic part was that jrs didn’t get any holidays after the completion of their sems, but trust me we were way too smarter than the management and we took a 2 week break . And then the new year celebrations came up and every one was partying like hell. As this was the first new year celebrations in engineering , the jrs were unstoppable. And later on, the college reopened and functioned for 5 days and on the 6th of jan, the riots started and we were sent back home in the break and started our well awaited vacation up to 16th of January .

Welcome back everyone to an ultimate journey of live feeds and gossips happening around the campus. And we expect more from our readers , try your level best to contribute to us any articles,photos etc. and send them to chief.lagh@gmail.com .

And here we are, ready to mark the beginning of a new era. I proudly present to you LAGH 2.0 (unplugged ). More attractions yet to come(We promise you a joy ride ).

Regards,

Padfoot.

Freedom Zone:The Third Decade Of Our Lives

Yes, this is the third decade of our lives, most of us didn’t even notice it. We are into a totally new beginning for something which is going to pave the way for our lives, our future and what not, everything!!!

Our first decade(1990’s) ended up before we even knew anything, before we gained the consciousness over the remaining world, but every one does remember the new millennium celebrations, very memorable to every one.

And the next decade was the first brick in building a wall called life,Our Life. In this period of time, we remember sharing our feelings and what not ; all with our so dear loved ones-our friends.  This is the time we wont forget, we have memories to which we can come back at any stage of our life and feel happy that we were a part of it. School days are never to be forgotten one’s. School taught us not only how to live but also how to care,feel,love and share(the list goes on…!!!). Next we experienced a new way of life, junior college-the place where we made friends in a gap of two years and whom we forget never ever..there is a chance that we may forget one or two of our school friends but in this case, if you think so then you’re half dead .That was the time when we made a decision to choose something very important to us..something which would fetch us a bunch of lovely friends who were going to be a part of our lives forever. Yes, we decided our career and everything and today we are here with our dear friends promising to stay with’em until our last breath.

We don’t remember how the second decade might have started but everyone does remember the end of it-the most memorable one,  coz we got our new companions who would last forever with us. At that time, we realized what life really means, and we were still learning about the world around us but in a new context. We decided what we were going to be in the future and learnt many things, made countless friends and started partying and everything.If we didn’t like anything, we bunked,but this time it was not a lonely bunk,it was a mass bunk living up the spirit of unity . Everyday, we learnt new things, not in physics and chemistry but in values and friendship.

And now this third decade welcomes us with a great smile and joy which would last forever, in which we are ready to create a few memories which we never ever forget. We are going to live “the time of our lives” with our most loved ones.
So, lets welcome this decade with happiness and joy,Happy New Decade everyone…!!

one last advice>> Stop worrying and Start partying !!!

Regards,

Padfoot.

SCOOP!!:Boys Hostel,Reading Room.

Many students have been lobbying to get a decent reading room for the boys hostel,and the management has finally decided to pay head to our needs.

POST DUSHERA:

After the hostel reopened for the post-dushera session,the major developments “promised”,were not implemented like the Wi-Fi ,and stuff.

But,reading room was always something which was always solely in the hands of the management.

The hard work of many students,especially the seniors and not to forget the Wardens(Vijay Shekar Sir and Patrudu sir),who have been pushing forward for the reading room since ages.

NEVERTHELESS…

With the exams around the corner,they are but still only about 30 days away,the addition of the reading room(late,but nevertheless here :)) to the Hostel will surely help those students who find it difficult to read in the company of others,or simply want a getaway from the hustle bustle of hostel life,to study/read.

MOVING IN..

DETAILS:

As of now,reports indicate that two long table has been moved from the campus to the boys hostel,the reading room will either be located in the Second floor(The room has a TV which is not being used) or the third floor(vacant floor),but the probability of the reading room being the B Block can’t be ruled out.

OPEN:

The reading room is expected to be opened in a couple of days after the tables are cleaned and arrangements made for chairs as well as cleaning the room.

More details of the Reading room will follow.

Regards,

lifeatgitamhyd

ID Card mandatory..:( DAY:26/10/2010

INTRODUCTION:

Waking up early in the morning has always been an issue with most of the students be it in GITAM or else where.

The day for most of us starts, with rushing about the daily routine(food/bath then brush) ,forgetting the minute but important things,like carrying the ID card!!!

OLD RULE:

The management of GITAM University Hyderabad campus,has finally decided to play it the hard with making the ID cards mandatory,with only one available entrance for the campus,a student(as of now),can’t escape the clutches of the security guards who are simply reluctant to send us in if we don’t have the ID cards.

The problem is that this rule was never in play during the time of our seniors,and there was very little review of the rule,except for a couple of months in the starting,by some faculty members,later on it was all like “lite”.

But,now since a strong force of 1000+ juniors have made a way into the campus which is well crowded,the management has probably thought it better to strictly implement some rules.

F.A.Q:

Why the rule ?

Simple:Every college has it :P

But Why Now ?

It has been three months since the start of the year/semester,but them management was never so hell bent on the rule,we absolutely have no clue over why the management has suddenly decided to act so tough.

DUAL CHECKPOINT:

The worst part is that every student has to go through the ID check twice(If you are planning to attend the classes ,else once if you are bunking :P),so if you do get to slip the first point either being part of a large group or simply making a believable “bahana”(excuse),but only once in case of seniors,as their buses are allowed into the campus,unlike our junior buses.

BUNK MASTERS:

We expect quite a lot of readers following us to be waiting for the article titled “Golden rules of Bunking”,which is going to be published soon.

Those who do plan to bunk periods in the early session don’t have to go through the check only once near the gate.

RAIDS ON “HANGOUTS”!!!

No we are definitely not talking about either IT raids or stuff like that ,we are talking about “raids” by faculty members on students hangouts,okay we were a little bit melodramatic,but come on it definitely wasn’t a PJ :P.

Some faculty member walked into the canteen and was shoving out students from there,and within 10-15 mins the canteen was absolutely empty,when normally it would have been bubbling with energy.

And where did we go ??

We had no option other than heading back to the classes(been ticked off by our lectures for being late,Who instead of being pleased that we at least turned up for the classes,than scolding us for being late..!!

They don’t understand the traumatic pressure we go through attending their lectures,on dumb topics..:(

Bless those clever souls who were able to find other hideouts on the campus,which isn’t pretty large btw,and subsequently the faculty hit most of the common places,but Hey there are about 6-7 places which still remain exclusive to students :)

 

The list of exclusive students  bunking places,will be sent via SMS,spread over a period of time,via our GOOGLE SMS CHANNEL.Please register yourself.

CLICK HERE!!!

RECORD WORK!!

Why do we need records ??

On top of that they need to be backed by “Sincere” observation books(Don’t ask us what the faculty means by it,they just say it!!).

A random poll conducted by LAGH reveals that C record is the most popular of the record works,and closely followed by Mech/Phy , Chem,CAD.

And not to forget the GD(Geometrical drawing) for Mech and civil students,which is pretty complicated thanks to all the drawing,using weird instruments which we left behind in our 10th grade(Remember the geometry boxes ? :)).

With Lab internals lurking around the corner,every gitamite is seen busy with various records,completing them in the canteen(bunking periods,mind you!),or waking up at 2 in the night to complete the pending work.

TO make this even more bad we have the other two headaches “continued lab internal assessment” and “observation book”,which make life at GITAM university Hyderabad even more difficult.

MASS BUNK ??

MBA seniors,were probably on a mass bunk today,with only 4-5 of them being spotted on campus,where did they head too,no idea!!

Regards,

lifeatgitamhyd.

 

 

catastrophe Strikes…!!! DAY:24/10/10

INTRODUCTION:

A Sunday morning,and most of the hostellers wake up pretty late at about 9:30-10,but this Sunday wouldn't be like any other Sunday,due to the various events surrounding the Boys hostel.

The building which collapsed in the early hours today ,belongs to a landlord who is quite rich,and the College of Management(Those who don’t know the story and history of the building will call it a pharmacy college,but the fact is it isn't a pharmacy college,but a management one :))

According to the data  present in Wikimapia,the college is called Goud’s College of Management.

The Past:

The owner of the building in question is supposed to have been waiting for this to happen,the story of the birth and death of this building/college is pretty filmy  but true,according to the village sources.

The story has it that since the owner had plenty of black money he wanted to convert it all into liquid cash or call it “white” money.

So he started constructing this building/college close to 3-4 yrs ago,spending a couple of lakhs but showing bills worth double the amount it is the filmy style ,which you always see in loads of movies where the Bad guy  tries to convert all the black money into unable money,and tries all the possible means.

this is a good example of one of it.

FUNCTIONAL:

One look at the buildings and you can be shit sure that it was meant to crash down,the pillars are way to thin to support a single slab forget about the two slabs which were raised.

Seeing it since the past three months,anyone could have easily guessed that the college was never meant to have been functional,since hardly any construction work has taken place in the last three months.

SENIORS:

A small chat with our seniors and they reveal that the construction of the building hardly progressed since there first year.

Those who have visited the college confirm that it is indeed a management college.

THE CRASH:

Each and every rudraramite,has got his/her own story on the way the building crashed and the time of crash.

Tough many claim that the building might have come down about 1:00’ odd.

But after a rudimentary research by the LAGH  team,we would like to place the crash time at about 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.

THE DOMINO EFFECT:

  

The building crashed down in the wee hours of today morning,and it was accompanied by a “Thud”sound,which many villagers heard even those who were located at the other end of the Village,but we gitamites/hostellers hardly hear a whisper,this surprised many villagers  they probably don’t know that many of the us in the hostel hit the bed around 2:30-3:00 and once we hit the beds you can blow trumpets near our ear,but we will never wake up :P.

 

DETAILS:

It is pretty pre-mature to come out with the minute details and the exact timeline of the events,and we prefer having some basic ground work done on the incident prior to publishing the timeline of the incident. :)

BIRDS EYE VIEW:

The terrace of the boys hostel was abuzz with activity for most part of the day with most of the students coming up to have a birds eye view of the building,and it was a sight to see,no one has ever seen such a structure collapse,and that too ,up,close and personal.

THE BREAKFAST:

The discussion at most of the tables today morning,wasn’t the about the food( Dosa’s,which were very delicious and We would also like to commend the excellent chutney served with it :)),but it was the missing neighbour of the boys hostel,and everyone had some theory or the other.

Note:Sorry,no pictures of the dosa :(

 

        

THE LAKE CONNECTION:

This part(the one which collapsed in the below picture) of the building is supposed to have been built on the area which was previously covered by the lake(We call it the GITAM  lake),this is also the most effected part of the building Relatively,mind you :))

CAUSE:

This is the best part,We present a stunning five point explanation for the crash of the building.

• Heavy rains/Wind.
• Earthquake.
• Conspiracy to tap into the insurance.
• Devils handy work(Yes the boys hostel also experienced the haunted stories :P)
• terrible construction

RAIN!!

The first choice and most probably the fact,even thought the rain which lashed the village last night wasn’t all that powerful,the rainy season has been very harsh around here in rudraram,the prolonged lashing of the rains ,might have weakened the structure as a whole,complimented by the pathetic construction work/low quality material used,the building crashed down.

 

EARTHQUAKE:

The comic cause of all the causes,Earthquake.

It is simply not possible,since the boys hostel didn’t even feel a tremor,forget tremors there isn't a single new crack for the boys hostel,and right adjacent to the boys hostel a whole building came down due to an apparent earthquake!!

 

CONSPIRACY:

The owner of the building was waiting for it to happen.

The locals of rudraram,shared with LAGH under confidentially,that the owner might have played foul,and brought the building down,over a prolonged process,by using low quality material and everything for the reasons mentioned above,which are the conversion of black money to white.

This is quite possible,since the construction is pretty bad,and a member of LAGH who is a student of the Civil department,thought a novice in the field of construction,shared his view on the building.

The way the building is built ,is against the basic concept of bringing up a structure.

It is totally flawed,and even a layman can notice it.

DEVILS HANDY WORK:

This is even more comical,but a reasons never the less since they are quite some “believers” of the Ghost stories,which haunt this part of Rudraram.

Chop!!Chop!!

Ghosts don’t exists,but the theory is fun,may be Flying Fisherman(Those who directed the haunted Stories ),may team up with LAGH productions,and bring out a detailed documentary on this incident :P.

WHAT LAGH BELIEVES..

A combination of all these factors,(void the earthquake/haunted theories),mostly contributed by the way the building was construed ,is the reason the building collapsed.

CONCLUSION:

The hostellers are now confident,that the GITAM management did put up a good structure,and they are housed in a safe structure,or so they believe..:P

Post details:

Contribution     : LAGH correspondent(s).

Picture Courtesy :  Shutterbugs,Part of Lifeatgitamhyd.

Campus          :Block A,Boys Hostel, GITAM University Hyderabad Campus.

Regards,

lifeatgitamhyd.

Bunks,New sport,Old Canteen:Still alive !! DAY:20/10/2010

Contrary to the reports that the old canteen has been in political turmoil,the fact is that the old canteen is under  actual renovation.

Scan our old SCOOP!! files and you will find an old file named AC canteen,which was due by June/July,2010,but it never materialised.

Rest assured gitamites,the work is back and the old canteen will now be pepped up with AC units(Yay!!)

ROUGH WATERS:

he old canteen has been bleeding since the new canteen opened,amidst much fanfare and the way the new canteen quickly pulled up it socks and introduced loads of new items,and everything the old canteen couldn't offer.

It the saw downfall of the old canteen,yes profits were coming in but sources put in that the margins were pretty slim,and the old canteen since then has been sailing in rough waters,maybe the AC will play a crucial role in pulling itself up from the dirt,but the fact that Winter is going to start,it doesn't really matter.

WORK UNDER WAY:

The work is expected to last about 10-15 days,give or take a few.

While the work is underway the old canteen won’t be functioning.

MAD RUSH!!

Since,the old canteen is temporarily closed,the full strength of students are using the new canteen premises,which implies the canteen is totally packed during lunch hours,hardly giving anyone space to breath!

NEW SPORT “MARAMPETE”:

Call it whatever you want but it is one of the undisputed best games of our  childhood times,and prior to breaking from the routine campus life for the Dushera vacation,we saw the EEE seniors start off this hugely popular Indian game,on a very large scale,occupying close to 70% of the ground,and they were definitely having a good game.

Someone none of the previous posts covered this,but this sports deserves the place,since it made a come back today!!

BUNKS!!!

Arguably the best part of any engineering students life is the bunking part,and what makes bunking fun if it doesn't come attached with a sense of exciting or the sound of music a students has to face when caught bunking.

Who all were bunking today ??

Everyone who hated maths,phy,C programming ,blah blah!!! ,were bunking today.

Most of the afternoon session the ground was a buzz with activity/sports of some kind of the other,but the bunking spectrum was clearly dominated by the CSE dept(Seniors and Juniors, Unity ? You bet !! ),and then it was the turn of the Civil Sections to showcase their unity,followed by Mech and the rest of the branches contributed very few students to the ground.

CONCLUSION:

The day ended on a pretty beautiful note,with the sun setting over the campus,which was a picturesque moment,pity Shutterbugs contributors were probably not able to capture it,but if the pictures do come in we will publish them :)

Regards,

lifeatgitamhyd.

SCOOP!!:Heritage Parlour

DETAILS:

(assumed)INVESTMENT  : 1-2 lakhs.

EXPECTED ON                : October,2010

STATUS                         :  Waiting to start operations

DEADLOCK                     :  None

CURTAIN RAISER:

In one of the most important development in the life of GITAM University,the arrival of the Heritage parlour will make the campus a better place to be a part of,yes the long due Subway will easily topple this development,but there are reasons to believe that the opening of the heritage Parlour will signal a change of campus life.

                                                                                                                     ESTEEM:

Let it be put frankly,as of now Hyderabad gitamites don't have anything good to brag about their college.

Yes the centrally air-conditioned building can be flaunted upon,but when we ourselves know that it doesn't work in the upper realms of GITAM University(Read as: above the 3rd floor,which are void of AC vents forget about AC working!).

As and when the heritage parlour comes the students will finally have an opportunity to flaunt about their Branded (Ice cream) parlour.

Which other colleges,have such stuff on campus ?

Well,in the next couple of weeks,the campus is sure to grow into its avatar of a University.

WHY HERITAGE?

Well,GITAM and heritage both are backed by TDP,and this is reasons enough to get the heritage parlour on campus,the assurance of a good price,and partial subsidization of the prices(if not now,at least in the future),makes heritage a safe beat.

It also makes business sense to the heritage guys since they get an exclusive market of 1000 students(Most of whom are heavy spenders :P),and added to that the Hostellers who number about 400 members,many of whom rush to Isnapur for dairy products,won’t have to look anywhere.

PRODUCTS:

Sources confirm that initially the heritage parlour will be housing a limited range of products,but with the business picking up,the heritage parlour will bring all the contents of its regular pan-India range of products.

The highlighted products are a sure shot :

• Full Cream milk
• Toned Milk
• Cow Milk UHT Milk (Tetra pack)
• Butter
• Fresh Cream
• Curd (Cup & Pouch)
• Flavoured Milk ( Bottles & Tetra packs )
• Butter Milk
• Lassi
• Doodhpeda Ice Cream
• Bread
• Cookies

Waiting to set our eyes on the parlour :)

Regards,

lifeatgitamhyd.

 

GITAM University : Re-loaded !!(??)

Note:As you all known visible developments have always been a concern with respect to GITAM University Hyderabad campus,So if these developments don’t materialise,We at LAGH have decided to use the same post over and over for the Diwali vacation,and Semester break(Sankranthi vacation),Since it is pointless to compile the same thing all over again :P

GITAM University Hyderabad Campus: Reloaded !!

Really??

Well,not for sure,but our sources rooted deep into the systems of GITAM University,have confirmed that the Hyderabad campus management is struggling hard  to gear up the Campus for a post-Dusheera session,As a net savvy team we would like to call it GITAM 2.0,and in this post we seek to go into the depth of various “new”(pun intended!) stat ups,which will be seen on campus(As usual,We expect our readers to realise that we are dealing with an entity called GITAM University,Which from our past three months observation,has had a director who promises the stars to us,but doesn't even give us dirt!!,So these are what we are expecting,and don’t hold us at ransom if they don’t materialise :P )

DEVELOPMENTS:

The list of new start-up's include the long pending issues of Subway which our dear old director promised,like what an year ago to our beloved Seniors ?,and yet to materialise,We are under the impression that,the Subway might,Might be up in the post-Dusheera Avatar of GITAM.

The other sure shot stuff include:

• Heritage parlour
• Union bank of India(ATM and bank)
• Wi-Fi(GITAM Hostels included )
• New play area(GITAM boys hostels)
• Library expansion
• Student Lockers

 

HERITAGE PARLOUR:

The heritage parlour is expected to come up with about 50% of its regular offering,and once the business sees a good turnover,more products will be added to it.

The heritage parlour is projected to be located in the new canteen premises.

For more details,we will be running an exclusive coverage over the heritage of heritage foods,and also an extensive list of products which will make inroads to the Hyderabad Campus,in the next couple of days :D

UNION BANK OF INDIA:

The bank is here,at least in its virtual form,the Union bank forms have been doing the rounds among the faculty(Who also received their International Debit cards/ATM cards),while the students are still filling up the forms.

The hostellers were the first set of students to receive the form,and most of them are yet to submit them.

The good thing is that the prospect of Union bank setting shop isn’t as bleak as it was a couple of months ago.

The structure,which is set to house the Union bank ,is ready and fully decked up to serve the students of GITAM University Hyderabad Campus,the previous deal to have Indian bank has been scrapped  due to unknown reasons.

The ATM vending machines,and the furniture is  expected to arrive after Dusheera.

WI-FI:

Wi-Fi,yes the seniors got the privilege(at least some senior classrooms ),of having a CISCO router in their classrooms,the juniors are yet to spot on,but the sources say that the projected 50 access points will be up and functional,once the campus reopens.

HOSTEL:

Coming to the internet connectivity of the hostel,the girls hostel is set to have 4 CISCO routers,and the boys hostel on the other hand will have about 12 routers.

With a speed of 300 mbps, the Wi-Fi can be used by more than 3,000 people at any given time through 50 access points on the campus(Including Hostels we presume). The Hyderabad campus is connected to the Visakhapatnam campus which is connected to the internet with a speed of 1000 mbps.

PLAY AREA-LANDSCAPING:

Another massive extension for the GITAM boys hostel,the area between the Block B and the Mess has been converted into a play area.

The landscaping of both the main campus as well as the hostels is under way,the roads are to be laid but,will this all happen before we open the doors again,still remains to see,We desperately want to see it happen :)

The landscaping/construction plan for hostels include:

• Road
• Pavement
• Green cover
• Compound walls :((

STUDENTS LOCKERS:

GITAM University is all set to house a large number of  lockers first to be implemented for the Seniors.

The demand for personal lockers has been long standing,and finally answered by the management of GITAM University,here to the management has decided not to compromise on the quality and has gone in for one of the best makers of personal lockers,Godrej interio.

The brochure for the lockers can be had from here,Click Here.

Yes the corridors will all be packed up,but that is the only draw back for this new facility :)

LIBRARY EXPANSION:

This has been due for a very long time,the Library and reading room will now be combined into one entity.

this will pave way for the library to house more tables,and more racks to hold the books which are all placed on the tables.

Not many will be interested in this development,but it is  nevertheless a development :P

Regards,

lifeatgitamhyd 

Note:Some of you gitamites,and ardent followers of LAGH will be aware of  these developments from our SCOOP!! articles,this article is published to given an insight to the campus updates for our newbie readers,and also to keep the blog active while at it :D

 

Shutter Bugs: F.A.Q.

IMPORTANT:ShutterBugs is a platform for one and all,everyone who is or has been a member of GITAM University is invited to contribute to it :)

Make it a big place by joining the Fan Page:

*POST UNDER DEVELOPMENT:keep reloading the page for the latest post*

Shutterbugs is a photo-blog brought to you by lifeatgitamhyd( LAGH ),a blog which covers the campus news of GITAM University(Hyderabad campus to be specific :))

The contributions to Shutterbugs are supposed to follow the guidelines mentioned below :

• Plagiarism will strictly not be entertained.
• The pictures should not be abusive or pornographic in nature.
• The publication of contributions is at the sole discretion of the Shutterbugs Team.
• SB reserves the right to store and share the pictures,when and if necessary with its sister blog, lifeatgitamhyd.
• The contributor is entitled to remain unanimous,as long as he/she wishes too :)
• SB reserves the right to change the format of an image to fit into the blog’s theme.

Why Shutterbugs ?

Simply to give space to all the “ShutterBugs ” of GITAM University a place to share their pictures :)

Where do I send the pictures them ?

Well,they are quite some  ways of sending pictures to Shutterbugs:

• mail it to Shutterbugs@lifeatgitamhyd.com
• users mail it to lifeatgitamhyd@gmail.com with the Subject as “ShutterBugs”.Neat!
• Or you can also simply drop it in Our Facebook Fan page,and we will pick it up from there :)

Is there a specific Format ?

We would like our contributors to stick to the following format ,If not LAGH will do the work for you and publish it :)

Date:

Place:

If possible Additional info:

Camera type:Mobile/Digital

Megapixel:

Branch :

I am from the Vizag campus of GITAM University ,Will I be discriminated ?

Not even close,ShutterBugs is a platform for one and all,everyone who is or has been a member of GITAM University is invited to contribute to it :)

I am not a GITAMite!!!

ShutterBugs is open for one and all..!

Can I meet/talk with other Shutterbugs Contributors ?

Yup..!!

LAGH already has a platform for communication where ,contributors/mods/admins of Shutterbugs can relate to and talk.

The following thread in Our discussion page is totally dedicated to ShutterBugs :)

http://www.lifeatgitamhyd.com/p/forums.html#/shutterbugs/

Can I become an Admin ?

Definitely,we at LAGH believe at growing at every opportunity,If you think you have it in you to become an admin,then all you have to do is prove it to us.

First we would like to see a constant inflow of pictures from you,and as they grow on us,we will make you an author and consequently a Moderator/Admin :)

Fine!But What Do I gain ?

Well,we are in no position to give you any monetary benefits,but your photography marvel(if it is the best of the Month or the fortnight),will be made our Facebook fan Page profile pic!!

And in addition to that,We can also have it as the background image of the ShutterBugs Blog..aint it Awesome ?

(Probably not ,but this is the best we can do :P)

Sounds Fun *pun intended*,Do I really have to have a  really good cam..you know..and be..like you know..really good at clicking pics ??

Not even close!!

We never specified any such regulations,If you observe some of our first pictures to be hosted on the blog,were all clicked from a mobile Camera!!

WHY IN THE F**KING WORLD DID YOU WATERMARK MY IMAGE?????

Okay cool it..!!

it is a very simple thing,As you see,plagiarism  has been effecting the blogging world and copyrights a lot..!

For example:The following blogs ripped apart quite some content from Lifeatgitamhyd,with no due credit to it.

www.it-gitamhyd.blogspot.com : http://it-gitamhyd.blogspot.com/2010/02/sad-starting-for-month.html

www.gitambuddies.blogspot.com : http://gitambuddies.blogspot.com/p/meet-us-at.html (a Copy of http://www.lifeatgitamhyd.com/p/contact-us.html)

So We need something to protect our copyright work from the bad people on blogosphere,hence we use a Watermark.

Btw,We usually don’t watermark images if we think,it will spoil the look of the picture :)

And if you still hate,it then tell us ,we will be obliged to remove it :)

Hey!I sent a zillion  pictures,but you only published some of them ? :(

We employ a process of screening,in which we segregate the good from the bad and the worst,most of the time the good make it onto the blog.

What about the worst ?

They go into the trash,or else we can have a feature “How not to click pictures” and post it there :)

IS that all ?

For now yes :)

For more information ping us using the contacts provided in the Connect page :)

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