College Memoirs Part III – ICE BVCOE & The Batch 2K10
As always, its been a while since I last wrote here, or rather, typed.
This post is specially dedicated to the ‘Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering’ at Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, and the ‘Exclusive’ Batch of 2010.
Talking about the department, we’re proud of the exclusivity we have of being one of the only two colleges that are privileged enough to have provided this stream of engineering to its students. Yes, ICE exists only in Amity & BVCOE in IPU! A fact we’re reminded of when talking about performance – “Being on top in a batch of 120 in the university is no big deal!”, and a fact we’re asked to forget when talking about poor performance – “It shouldnt matter if the branch is only in two colleges; you ought to have been better!”
I C E – Three alphabets, which when combined together, lead to utter chaos in the BVCOE campus.
ICE? Useless!
ICE? Unmanageable!
ICE? Rude, irresponsible!
ICE? Dumb engineering students!
ICE? Troublesome!
Ah!
Such are the lavish praises bestowed upon us year-after-year, semester-after-semester, until we get used to them.
I C E – The only department to have one huge multi-purpose laboratory, and four staff-rooms!
I C E – The only department to have survived without an HOD for more than two years!
I C E – The only department to have declared the MAJOR PROJECT GUIDES 4 days before the External Viva!
I C E – The only department to call students on March 30, 2010 through a notice put up on April 10, 2010!
I C E – The only department to cast doubts on its students’ proven calibre!
I C E – The only department to have organized ‘GENESIS’!
I C E – The only department to have an ORIGINAL song dedicated to it!
I C E – The only department to have… well… forget it!
In a nutshell, Instrumentation & Control Engineering is fabulous…. ICE @ BVCOE, unfortunately, is not so much great 😐
No, I dont regret being a part of it; I just wish things could have been better.
Question – If ICE pissed me off so much, why am I still sort of patient and happy, after 4 years of continuous harassment?
Answer – Undoubtedly, ICE Batch 2K10!
I’ve been one of the few lucky ones to have had such an amazing class in college, and when I say ‘Class’, I mean the ‘Entire Class’, including even those with whom I haven’t had a chance to interact properly.
Since the day it has come into existence, ICE 2K10 has been looked upto by the students of other departments, and looked down upon by their respective teachers; and its not just because of the presence of 20 females in the class. The jealous looks or stern scoldings, we’ve had it all; and yet, cared naught.
Be it Sourabh ‘Daddy’ Bajaj’s initiatives or Soumya’s tension filled way of working, DK’s infamous mood-swings or Karina’s dance moves, Rachna’s laughter or Garima’s arguments, Trevor’s pneumatics or Jayant’s robotics, Hash & Sid’s logics or Rana’s patient wait for the results, Bhatia’s absence or Varun’s gyan, Moksha’s marks or Seema’s attitude, Megha’s silence or Manisha’s glib talk, Govil’s MICA or Manish’s GATE, Rishika’s slow nature or Neha’s bindass attitude, Chayanika-Pramit’s li’l quarrels or Parul-Ritambhara-Jiby’s behenchara, Shalabh-Vavita’s dhoop-chhanv or Garg’s original projects, and many others with whom I might not have interacted much, but who’ve equally been instrumental in making our class as cool as it seems to be 🙂
And how can I forget the Prac Batch P1! Pramit’s devastating experiments, Sid’s scribbling on paper, Karina’s up-to-date files, Varun’s understanding of the experiment, Shalabh’s figuring out the working, random gossip, or simply my practically performing every experiment in every lab all 4 years 😛
And the vivas we’ve given together… NO Thank You to Shalabh for screwing them up for me half the time 😐
Another thing, this post will be incomplete without any mention of THE big event we all organized together.. Yup! You got it right! Its G-E-N-E-S-I-S, or Gen-Uh-Sis, as I like to call it 😛
Well now, THAT was something that made us roll up our sleeves and work as a team. Just to bring it to existence, we had to fight; and to retain the process, we had to fight; and to ‘organize’ it, we had to fight; and to talk and act sense, we had to fight; and fighting all the way, we did manage to pull it off, and decently too 🙂 I think in all the 8 semesters, it is this very festival that really brought us together as a class, as a team. No ego hassles, no hierarchy issues, everyone helping everyone, just so that we could make it happen together. And, needless to say, it was an altogether different experience in its own!
So many memories to cherish and so little words…
All I can say is that I’m much more than glad to be a part of such a wonderful group of people who have made my graduation memorable 🙂
Thank you ICE 2K10!
Nidhi
Serenity 
hhhaaa…very appropriate !!
Finally i feel the 4 years summed up 🙂
Great post!!!
i liked all 3 parts of this series bt i think liked this one the most
Thumbs up for the description of the ICE dept..and all those phrases v get 2 hear 😀 “irresponsible,troublesome..” again i say- it made for a great read 🙂
I like it.. Good one 🙂
haha…….pramit had the anti-midas touch in the labs…..and i think the up to date files baton was taken from karina by seema….i dunno if i can say ours was the best batch ever ‘coz u were the only batch i knew but given another chance…i’d choose u over the rest…never interacted with u all much but 4 yrs same place counts…so long then….