Blasphemy, Photocopy and Electromagnetic Theory

nostalgia...

this might sound like a hell-hole but the four years i spent at this university were probably the best of my life... that probably might have been the case even if i were at another university but i quite love my alma mater...

about photocopying notes.... it`s not that most students couldn`t do the assignments themselves.. they just didn`t want to expend their valuable time and grey matter for something so worthless…

and btw, theta is the most commonly used word for nerds at our university as well, though it is pronounced slightly differently (theeta) for some unknown reasons

great memories ahmed hayat...

but i think it`s a bit like your summer of `69... facts (the blasphemy case) with a dash of fiction (few details, though i may not argue)

it was my second year at the university, which makes me a year junior to you (2000 session that is)... i was a day scholar but usually didn’t leave the university till quite late, my house being at a five minutes drive on the famous ching-chi (or qingqi depending on what national u are) and some of my friends being boarders (or hostellites as we’d call them), but on that particular day, i had something to do and had to `flee` the university at about 3, of course after hopping over gate no. 6 near Begumpura because all gates were locked.... missed some classic scenes i guess...

when this happened, we had also thought that the ``puraana daur`` was back but it wasn`t to be... seeing our most noblest of `seniors` shouting slogans was a kind of a revelation... but most of these students were those who had seen the remnants of the `puraana daur` in their early days and were not very alien to it…

and how can one forget EMT… used to send shivers down our spines… the four days i spent preparing for the EMT before exam were horrible… i don’t think i’ve worked that hard for four days on the trot on any other occasion… but maybe it was down to the fact that before that i had “laughed and danced the whole year away”… i only bought the Chang book during the preps

but hey... u never pondered on the consequences of the students not being able to get the invaluable notes for EMT from the `king`... but was it really examination time... i fail to recollect actually

Yaar Ahmad Hayat, you had me interested right till the end. You have great story telling abilities my friend. Great work, keep it up.

Seems more like a Hell-hole to me than a University.
Universities are supposed to be citadel of learning and research rather than nurseries for future politicians and Al-Caponis.I don`t know what`s wrong with all the state run universities in Pakistan.Almost all carry the same stories of goon students, mismanagement of funds, petty campus and syndicate politics.You`ll never hear of these things in most of the private universities and institutes.What`s the reason behind this? Do they admit martians than humans? or people there are too noble to indulge in the activities that are trademark of the state owned universities.I personally think that there is no such thing as burger/chapatis or mummies and daddies, these are only figments of the imaginations of sideliners unable to assimilate into an urban youth or popular culture either due to their social phobias or simple lack of skills.Too much discipline sometimes becomes suffocating.I can recall my university days when we had all the time in the world, libraries and labs were open till late night.Conferences.workshops or group moots were matter of routine.That didn`t mean we were lacking on the entertainment side.We were avid supporters of our sports teams, musical or theatre groups and regular viewers of the fortnight cinema playing some of the well known cinematic maestros and their acknowledged works.We had our own terminology for the nerds, we used to call them ``thetas`` (just like the greek letter theta is entwined in its own self).
It`s outright shameful for someone studying at university level and still relying on photocopied notes or taking benefits out of others efforts.The real price for that ``easy learning`` comes before you when you enter the job market.The design plan is lying before you and you are trying to recognize the weird looking symbols while scratching your head.
Till then lets pray that sanity and maturity prevails into our university students and they make positive use of their energies and talent, and find other avenues than destroying public property to show their youthful exuberance.