Its Happening at more places in SASTRA!!!

First it started with the students now its spreading all over SASTRA. Here are few interesting events that are happening in the college.

1. Going Green

Recently a good number of these bicycles were spotted in Chith Vihar. These are 12 fold, yellow SASTRA University labelled cycles are to be given to the staff members of the university for ease of movement between the departments. These cycles are manufactured in China (atleast this is what the boxes in which they come say :-)) and they have a very good shock absorber with a rear drum break! Now, it may be funny to imagine our staff roaming around the college in these machines but its actually a very good idea by the dean. Three cheers to the green revolution of SASTRA!!!

2. Trial Week in the Mess
The Mega Hostel mess has started a trial week this time. In this week, they are trying out new dishes for breakfast, lunch, evening snack and dinner. Some are good and some are not so good. Lets wait and see what the end result of these experiments are. After all, lab rats have no choice but, wait. :-)

3. Wifi in Mega Hostel
Works for creating new access points in the third floor of Mega Hostel were started on 25th and are nearing completion. The work is being done pretty fast and already one half of the floor is wifi enabled.

Hearty thanks to the administration of SASTRA and all the others who make such things happen in our university!!!

It's Happening!!!

These days every time I pass by the hostel warden's table, I see atleast two or three courier parcels containing Ubuntu or OpenSolaris of Kubuntu dvds. I can even find people talking about opensource technologies and other technical and non technical issues about opensource products. I found some computers on the LAN too with open source operating systems. It's hard to believe but its really happening in SASTRA. Some people can say this is all because of GLOSS while some others may say that its because the students are becoming knowledge hungry. I do not wish to find a reason for this but opensource is taking over everywhere in the world and this shift will have a very positive impact on the students. Now the companies coming for campus placements can expect better quality students and the students too can expect better companies. The management is also helping the students to move into opensource by building a new lab for opensource in Chith Vihar which is sponsored by Cognizant. Hats off to the management of SASTRA for coming up with such wonderful facilities and the students for their thirst for more knowledge!!!

Drought Hits Mega Hostel!!!

Well, here the drought is power . Once there was a time last semester when an awareness program started in SASTRA to make the students save power. Today, the once power hungry, Sastrites are now power starving. There are frequent power cuts in the place because of the govt's amendments to save power. Also, it has been announced that every Tuesday power will be shut down in our coll area from 2 to 6 pm. That's a full four hour shut down! Besides this scheduled shutdown, we have many frequent power cuts also. Today, power went off in Mega Hostel for 3 more hours after the scheduled power cut. This happened only in Mega Hostel. Also, wifi becomes unavailable very often these days in Mega Hostel which doesn't have even a single access point in the third floor. Thanks to the combined effect of a power cut and wifi failure in Mega Hostel, the college radio, 7cube was stopped by 10.30. This is an hour before the usual time. Mega hostel has one more problem. Water. There are frequent water supply shortages. So people find it difficult for the doing the daily essentials without water. The worse part of all of these is, there is not even a water cooler in the second and third floor of a hostel that is functioning for the past year. We have been promised water coolers but there is not even a single trace of them. So, the Mega hostel inmates are virtually leading a life in the hostel without power or water or wifi like cave men. Hope the administration does something soon about this.

7 CUBE PREMIERS "THE DEPARTED"

It's good news for movie fans in SASTRA. Oscar winner "THE DEPARTED" is being screened in NIRMAN VIHAR auditorium today(13th july) on 1:30pm. It is a very good initiative done by our Wadio 7cube. And already many have gone to see the movie. Hope it continues...........

Full portions for third Mid-sem

Today there was a circular reading that the third Mid-sem exam would have full portions so that it would be rehearsal for the final semester exams and it is compulsory to attend all the three mid-sem exams this time.This is the most annoying circular.!!!How come full portion can be covered in just a 50 marks paper....Would the three days time would be sufficient for preparations.Lots of questions in students mind and no one has the answer.
What is happenning to SASTRA?????

Freshers at SASTRA

On 2nd of July,our campus was filled with people.Reason:First day for freshers in SASTRA. It was nice to see them all and it reminded the first day in everyone. The number of other state students were restricted by introducing All India quota and Trichy students were given a 10% of total seats this year. And ANTI-RAGGING notices have been put up in all departments with more strict punishments. So,lets see what happens this time......