01/12//15/; 17:14:
It’s the start of a new month, the last one of this year. It’s surprising to feel that the year is nearly over; there’s this thing about student life that’s really nice- you get to spend time reminiscing the year gone by and celebrate the new year, twice each year, once with the rest of the world, in December & January and another time when the academic year ends and begins, in April & July.
The Rural Immersion Programme kicked off, yesterday. People have headed off to different districts in the state; the aim of this year’s Programme is to work with the Ministry on the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, with specific focus on curbing the problem of open defecation.
Meanwhile, some of us are stuck here, giving IGNOU exams. We went out for lunch on Monday, since the IGNOU papers were to being only on the 1st of December.
I had a ‘Communication Skills in English’ paper at 2p.m. today; it was to be a 3-hour paper and got over some time ago.
Recently, we were talking to the guards at Gate 2 about the growing dog population on campus. In addition to grills, metal net has been put up on the gates since it was thought that the dogs were entering through the space between the grills. Some guards then reported to the authorities that the dogs were in fact scaling the campus boundary wall to get in; the boundary wall is at least 7 feet high and no one seemed to believe this. Two security guards were then posted on either side of a suspected spot of the boundary wall, with recording equipment. After 8-10 days were spent gathering evidence, there was recorded proof of dogs jumping in over the wall and even jumping out at leaving! The walls have since been fitted with barbed wire on top but the dog population seems to keep growing. They’ve even gone past the point where they eat fallen/thrown food and straight up jump at people to grab whatever they wish to eat.
After we’d been receiving an average of 4 e-mails a day about lost stuff, ranging from lost bags and wallets to lost money and reading material, someone decided to create a Google Spreadsheet dedicated entirely to this lost/found business. Whether it’s actually being used or not is uncertain, but, the number of e-mails have definitely gone down!
Perhaps, I should get some more details about the RIP and write about that, but, well.
