DE-BUNK THE SYSTEM
Dear DCEite,
I know you had been studying really hard for the recently concluded mid semester exams and faced a harrowing time due to their unfathomable nature. But what’s the fuss all about? You only had to study on the eve of each exam and I bet the professors won't dither from bestowing upon you a de-cent fifty percent marks! For those of you who and I bet the professors won’t dither from bestowing upon you a de- cent fifty percent marks! For those of you who are wary of the vagaries of that evil professor who is hell-bent on scrutinizing each and every charac- ter you have inscribed on the answer sheet, I can only offer ‘sympathetic pity’.
So after the ‘God-forsaken’ mid semester exams, we are invariably relegated to the habitual grind. Did I say ‘grind’? I thought a DCEite was accustomed to bunking classes! And he used to be an expert at that! Not anymore! Rumor has it that the teachers are turning strict (well above the DCE norms!) and will inflict their wrath on all those truant pupils who go about bunking classes unperturbed. So make sure you latch onto that seventy-five percent attendance notch if you don’t want to end up beseeching your professors for incrementing your oblivious attendance in their classes without incriminating you! So what is the next thing you are going to do after becoming cognizant of this impending danger? No, don’t continue to be an obstinate snob and don’t despise your attendance. Rather takea pledge that you are goingto act as sincere and diligent pupils and will eschewfrombunking.
I am not coaxing you into followingGandhian principles by seekingabstinence from alcoholor other intoxicating stuff that you engineers unabashedlydig into! I am just asking you to attend your classesregularly. And if Gandhijicould lead an austere life, whycan’t you follow an innocuous regulation? I wonderwhetherGandhiji used to bunk…..
YUVA STRIKES A CHORD
‘YUVA’ stands for Youth Unite for Voluntary Action. The 1st YUVA meet was held on the 2nd and the 3rd of February, 2009 at the Vishwa Yuvak Kendra (also known as The International Youth Centre), in Chanakyapuri, Delhi. Its prime motive was to actively involve youths by creating awareness among them on the issue of climate change and global warming. It comprised of various distinguished personalities from all over the world who shared their views on the global concern of climate change. YUVA was organised by TERI (The Energy and Research Institute), headed by Dr.R.K.Pachauri, who is also the head of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) which recently won the Nobel prize.
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PLACEMENTS GLORE AT DCE
Whoever said that the economic slump had the placement officials down in the dumps were duly mistaken. As the placements up to March 24, 2009 stand, we can unequivocally state that a total of 513 students have been placed in various companies. While the students of Electronics and Communication and Mechanical Engineering were the most rewarded of the lot with 97 and 107 students getting placed respectively, the other branches were not far behind with an average of 50 students getting placed per branch.
Among the average salaries garnered by the DCE students, the students of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology made merry by soliciting a staggering average package of 6.27 lacs and 5.79 lacs respectively. Meanwhile the average salary of all the branches combined, hovers at around 4.50 lacs. We are proud to affirm that motley of companies visited our placement cell such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, HCL Technologies, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Yahoo, Deloitte, Samsung and many others, with most of them belonging to the ‘A’ and ‘A+’ categories.
