Editorial Three

My third issue thankfully comes equipped with more information about the date. 8th October, I am informed by the bold tiny letters below the header. The hiatus since the last one can be explained by BOSM and Electrical and Electronics Engineering Compulsory Disciplinary Courses. The hiatus hence can be explained by OASIS and Electrical and Electronics Engineering Compulsory Disciplinary Courses. There has been one EPC issue brought out after this that was solely for creating hype about Oasis and thereby did not have an editorial. So here goes.


Third year has a weird way of putting things back into perspective. I had meant to write this editorial with a strong punch of CDC-induced cynicism and talk about the more important things in life. But then again, there are just so many scenarios in which a  bunch of smiling second year-ites (and a first year-ite) walk into your room at 3 AM in the morning, wake you up for your editorial and ask you about tooth fairies. And even  after a severely exhausting day goneby and a similar one yet to come- such random act cannot but bring a hint of a smile on your face.

Welcome to Pilani, the Neverland of half-baked technocrats and shikanji addicts. There are weird times when you feel like you are stuck between two non-happening panels of a boring comic book. I guess it is this Garfield like existence that often forces us to look at things with a bit of drama forced in them. So, yes, we have book fairs in the single floor of a book shop, we have 'dates' in the Oyster Labs, we have 'trips' to a mela at a ten minute walking distance from the campus and so on.

A good friend of mine gave a lecture this Sunday on Higher Studies and the way to get to Grad Schools and the like. And in between the very intense questions asked (" Aur Soumyadeep, weekend kaisa raha?") there were a lot of important points that were raised by the Speaker and the audience alike. During the course of the lecture, while explaining the priority order of the way Grad Schools evaluate applications, he was asked the importance of extra-curricular‟s in that order.  "Somewhere about the sixth in the list I think..." he said. I am guessing that's somewhere near the place where you mention your achievement points in FIFA or your striking likeness to Frankenstein.

It makes you think, statements like that. Here I am typing away at the sixth priority while the first and the second languish for attention at the back of my dusty shelf. And even as we walked out of the lecture at around 11, thoughts of the future were kind of a heavy shadow that all of us carried. There is solace in company they say, as a group of us low CG guys launched into a tirade on the CDCs and our sad lives in general. And even as I took our dejected little path back to my hostel, my ancient phone hummed with the arrival of a new message.

"Meeting about Oasis at 12."

Ah well, sixth aint so bad. After all, its also somewhere near the position where Laxman  comes out to bat.


If anyone is jobless enough to have a look at the issues, they can be downloaded from the 'Read Our Issues Online' section in http://epcbitspilani.wordpress.com/ .

P.S. - Special Word of thanks to Angad and my formatting team who took the pains of keeping me awake and even helping out with the last sentence when I finally did sleep off.