My laptop, barely a year and a half old,  crashed...had a fight with Dell...and so had been missing from blogspace for quite sometime. 

The new batch of GCEians was admitted on the 30th. The hustle and the bustle associated with this, it is said, was really taxing. Office assistants were in college till late in the evening, till about 8.30 / 9.00 p.m winding up the accounts. 

I report this as 'it is said', because I missed the admissions on account of a training at British Council. I know I will miss the odd student or two who will tell me shyly when in their thrid or final year that I was the first person they met in GCE! However, the training that I attended was of a quality expected only from the best in the country.

I believe that on the 8th August 2010, there is an Alumni meet. I'm sure old students are waiting to meet, greet and hug one another in glee at meeting after many years. 

Today, there was a very important development - the first SWOT meeting of TEQIP, under the stewardship of Prof.Subramaniam, was held, to facilitate the second phase of TEQIP. This second phase of TEQIP will focus on research. The good news is that students from various departments with whom he interacted have given very happy feedback about the benefits of TEQIP Phase I. The faculty  also actively participated in a SWOT analysis and everyone had a say. 

Classes will begin on the 6th for the first years...this time, due to the increased intake of 120 - 60 each for Civil and Mechanical, classes will be held in D1, EEE block, ECE block and so on. I shall certainly miss going to classes in the admin block; instead, we'd all be running to the classes in different directions. May be a good solution for burning calories! 

Weekly meetings are being held on Mondays by the Newsletter editors and student correspondents...we might try Adobe Photoshop to try the layout and desktop publishing. 

Why should we seek professional publishers ( might save time and effort, all one would have to do would be to collect articles and information and get it published, but that wouldn't be the same as effort from student artists and journalists, would it?) It's a challenge and I'm sure that the biscuits, puffs and cakes that we have before the meetings will spur us on to achieve success in bringing out the newsletter creditably.