The first year classes are all shifted to the different corners of the campus...one here and another there, in a manner of speaking, due to the higher semester examinations to be held in the various halls. It means long helathy morning walks from the admin block to the farthest corners of the campus, like the Mechanical block. The students are happy, because their walks are cut short by a kilometre or so...

Anand, an old student of the Metallurgy department came to say hi to me...was thrilled to learn that the boy has done his M.E. in IIT, Kharagpur and is taking up research in a Canadian University. The number of boys going abroad seems to be on the increase.

Department of Computer Science is holding training programmes in C and C++ in the evenings for 62 students, including some who have registered from the neighbouring Karuppur village. This is encouraging news because otherwise students go out and spend more than four thousand bucks for such trainings. And, knowing the department of Computer Science, students can be assured of quality training. Such endeavours are of mutual benefit...

Everyone is busy these days preparing documents for many panels and committees from univeristies and TEQIP and college. All this means more and more book-keeping and documentation work. Perhaps, all benefits come at a cost.