A visit at my Alma mater

It was Friday 19th Feb 2010, i visited my alma mater, a place where i would say i never enjoyed in real terms of enjoying a college life. When i reached there this time, all those days started coming back like a replay of the events in my college life. Seeing students in the classroom, library & of curse roaming around the most famous (or rather infamous) college Circle, now beautified with all the trees and fountain. Of course my alma mater has grown and grown tremendpusly big in terms of Infrastructure. But one problem that still looms around it (after talking to most of the students) is the problem of good faculty.

Well, I began my day by meeting all my previous profs, it was lovely talking to them but something was missing, I don't know what was it? My next stop was the director, who to my surprise was more interested in talking about the college infrastriucture & how he has beautified the campus. My conversation with him lasted for about 15 minutes but no talk about how students are doing? How have we worked on faculty (if at all)? Nothing on that. Well, then came the time when i had deliver my first lecture ever at my alma mater (of which i always dreamt of, when i was a student. The topic that i chose was a bit technical but still i was overwhelmed by the response that i recieved from students and their eagerness to learn more on that topic. All in all it went well.

Next day also i chatted with lots of students, heard some good and some bad things that are happening on the campus. But the best part of my visit came in the evening, when I saw a group of final year students sitting in an under-construction building with a herd of small kids aged between 10-15 years. when I approached and asked them what they were doing? I felt really happy & proud, when i was told that they were teaching Maths, Science & English subjects to those little kids, who were from the slums near the campus. This was really something that gave me a lot of pride in feeling that i once belonged to this place. Hats off to all those students who have taken this initiative to teach these poor kids, who can not even attend school.

I finally left the campus with a note that I would love to be a part of my alma mater in any way I can, be it taking lectures for the students or even be it by way of becoming a part of those students, who have taken an initiative to teach those poor kids.