The transitionary period is under way. While the first years are abuzz with excitement because of the fact that they'll soon be SIFE seniors, the second years are going through the senti phase of realization that they are retiring from mainstream SIFE work; they will now be regarded as the wise elders from whom we, first years, have inherited the legacy that is SIFE SRCC.
Recruitment planning is under way. Soon, college will reopen, the first years will arrive, they will stare at the main noticeboard, they will stare at each other, they will stare at the noticeboard again, they will be torn between a million posters and not know which one to read. Some of them will stumble upon the poster calling out to first years to attend SIFE SRCC's orientation. Some of those stumblers will stumble into the actual orientation; and a few of those will be the new SIFE SRCC members; to be moulded over the next one year to show all the characteristics of a typical SIFE SRCC member.
What characteristics? See my last post.
For the select few who avidly follow this blog and want to know the important dates, the orientation is tentatively on 25th July. It's a Saturday. Girls and guys, men and women, students and teachers, ghosts and dementors, pets and poltergeists, dead and the living, the living and the non-living, angels and demons, all are invited. We're such an open-minded society; we welcome one and all to the orientation, that's that. However, that is not to say that everyone (and everything) becomes a SIFE member. We will rattle you in our interviews before we let you in.
Just kidding, we'll be gentle! ......NOT. *Evil maniacal laughter*
I apologize. I will be a bit more professional on this blog as soon as recruitment begins and there's professional news to update here. For all the SIFE seniors eyeing me with disdain, I will even remove this post before recruitment begins, if it makes you feel better.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Top 10 things you should know about SIFE SRCC
10. People who live around Campus take longest to arrive at a meeting, whereas people from Noida, Gurgaon and other places over 30 kms away from college always arrive first.
9. When it is time to cut the cake for the month's birthdays, 100% attendance and on-dot punctuality are observed.
8. When any SIFE SRCC member gets a haircut, it is the talk of the team for the next one week.
7. On a phone call with a SIFE SRCC senior, the first thing you hear the senior say is "How are you?" even if it is the 10th time you're talking on that day.
6. There is a way of telling if the team is going to be scolded at a meeting from the way Ashima talks and Mehak stands. There are premonitions all around the room.
5. Every year, there is one SIFE SRCC member who is known to eat like they will never eat in their life again.
4. SIFE SRCC non-vegetarians are under the impression that all vegetarians are paneer fanatics.
3. Freebies are a must and need to be collected irrespective of how unnecessary, useless, and ridiculous they are. The most important meeting of the year may be under way, the sky may be falling, or a rhinoceros may be ravaging the Campus, yet when a SIFE SRCC member hears of freebies being distributed somewhere, they will leave their brains behind and run to the distribution center faster than the rhino.
2. No matter how hard you try, you'll forget to take a photo when an amazing project moment occurs.
1. No one knows to pose for photos better than SIFE SRCC girls.
I hereby declare that to the best of my knowledge, all the information in this post are 100% factual. Any resemblance to a real person is entirely intentional, and not at all coincidental. Comments welcome.
9. When it is time to cut the cake for the month's birthdays, 100% attendance and on-dot punctuality are observed.
8. When any SIFE SRCC member gets a haircut, it is the talk of the team for the next one week.
7. On a phone call with a SIFE SRCC senior, the first thing you hear the senior say is "How are you?" even if it is the 10th time you're talking on that day.
6. There is a way of telling if the team is going to be scolded at a meeting from the way Ashima talks and Mehak stands. There are premonitions all around the room.
5. Every year, there is one SIFE SRCC member who is known to eat like they will never eat in their life again.
4. SIFE SRCC non-vegetarians are under the impression that all vegetarians are paneer fanatics.
3. Freebies are a must and need to be collected irrespective of how unnecessary, useless, and ridiculous they are. The most important meeting of the year may be under way, the sky may be falling, or a rhinoceros may be ravaging the Campus, yet when a SIFE SRCC member hears of freebies being distributed somewhere, they will leave their brains behind and run to the distribution center faster than the rhino.
2. No matter how hard you try, you'll forget to take a photo when an amazing project moment occurs.
1. No one knows to pose for photos better than SIFE SRCC girls.
I hereby declare that to the best of my knowledge, all the information in this post are 100% factual. Any resemblance to a real person is entirely intentional, and not at all coincidental. Comments welcome.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Nationals 2011
It has been a long journey for SIFE SRCC. The regionals, the nationals semi-finals, the nationals finals - and although the entire journey was over in less than a week, it feels like an eternity. We won second place in the Nationals 2011!
After all, who doesn't like having a platform to present what they've done throughout the year? It's nice to receive recognition for a year of hard work, and every team at the Regionals and Nationals throughout India well deserved it.
On behalf of SIFE SRCC, I congratulate every team for their effort to empower people throughout the year. A special congratulations to SIFE S.S.C.B.S - SIFE India Champions 2011 and representative team for SIFE India at the prestigious SIFE World Cup! S.S.C.B.S well deserved it and we at SIFE SRCC will be waiting for them to bring India the World Cup!
I'd also like to thank all fellow SIFE teams for their support for SRCC at the Nationals. It's nice when we can forget that we belong to different colleges and be united under the banner of 'Students in Free Enterprise'; be united in our goal to make a difference.
Mumbai is fabulous at this time of the year. We experienced much-awaited short, pleasant spells of rain. We visited the amazing Marine Drive, ate at the famous Bademiya, and roamed around all night in the NITIE Campus.
Feel, feel, feel.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
THE launch
SIFE SRCC has reached a milestone - we have officially 100 rickshaw pullers under our Life on Wheels project!
The launch was held on 21st January in SRCC. Guess who the Chief Guest was? Hon'ble Chief Minister of Delhi, Smt. Sheila Dikshit, consented to be our Chief Guest and attended the function.
The set-up for the function was elegant - the stage and seating area surrounded by our very special designer rickshaws designed by leading designers in Fashion Design Council of India. The Chief Minister was astounded when she entered the function and she took her time in inspecting each designer rickshaw, all the while surrounded by the media. Mr. Sunil Sethi, President of Fashion Design Council of India, and our guest of honor (AND an alumnus of our SRCC), showed these rickshaws and the inspiration behind them to the Chief Minister.
Our other guests of honour Mr. Sanjay Sinho, CEO of American India Foundation and Mr. V.K. Khanna, Field General Manager, Punjab National Bank.
The Chief Minister, in her speech, spoke about the need for a vehicle-free campus and said she will speak to the Vice Chancellor of the University to initiate steps for the same. She talked about how she herself was a student at Delhi University, and how the only noises one should hear in a campus like ours is the noise students make.
The launch was HUGE for SIFE SRCC folks - this was our first major event! 100 more is our target by the end of this year. Keep up the spirit, fellow SIFE-mates!
The launch was held on 21st January in SRCC. Guess who the Chief Guest was? Hon'ble Chief Minister of Delhi, Smt. Sheila Dikshit, consented to be our Chief Guest and attended the function.
The set-up for the function was elegant - the stage and seating area surrounded by our very special designer rickshaws designed by leading designers in Fashion Design Council of India. The Chief Minister was astounded when she entered the function and she took her time in inspecting each designer rickshaw, all the while surrounded by the media. Mr. Sunil Sethi, President of Fashion Design Council of India, and our guest of honor (AND an alumnus of our SRCC), showed these rickshaws and the inspiration behind them to the Chief Minister.
Our other guests of honour Mr. Sanjay Sinho, CEO of American India Foundation and Mr. V.K. Khanna, Field General Manager, Punjab National Bank.
The Chief Minister, in her speech, spoke about the need for a vehicle-free campus and said she will speak to the Vice Chancellor of the University to initiate steps for the same. She talked about how she herself was a student at Delhi University, and how the only noises one should hear in a campus like ours is the noise students make.
The launch was HUGE for SIFE SRCC folks - this was our first major event! 100 more is our target by the end of this year. Keep up the spirit, fellow SIFE-mates!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Larsen and Toubro visits campus
Work in full swing for the next rickshaw launch - and this time, it's HUGE! 100 rickshaws, folks! Life on Wheels has achieved wonders in such a short period of time! Rickshaw pullers are more than enthusiastic to have bank accounts to their names and rickshaws they can call their own. And not just any rickshaw, but SIFE rickshaws - modified to give you the perfectly comfortable rickshaw ride! Every other rickshaw on North Campus roads seems to be a SIFE rickshaw now.
On Friday, a few of us from the SIFE team went to Shiela Dixit's residence to invite her to the launch ceremony. We took flowers for her, and Calvin gave them to her. Now, he was all for publishing an article titled "Chief Minister accepts flowers from smart college boy and agrees to meet in future". But unfortunately I'm myself responsible for what I write on this blog, so I can't put the blame on anyone else if I wrote a post like that.
Anyway, she was more than enthusiastic to come to the event. She congratulated us on doing such a good job
for a needy community and said she would definitely come to the launch.
Later on Friday, we had another event with Larsen and Toubro. In an effort to help rickshaw pullers with their children's education, Larsen and Toubro very kindly provided those kids with school bags, a notebook, crayons, a pencil box and similar stationary. Rickshaw pullers came with their children, and the function formally began with a documentary screening of how Life on Wheels was conceived and implemented, followed by a screening of L&T's portfolio as an engineering firm. Dr. Abhay Kumar and our principal P.C Jain then addressed the gathering, followed by Mr. Anshu Gupta from L&T.
Did I mention how cute the children were? Most of them were little kiddos below 10 years of age. When they walked in, they were shy and wanted to hide behind their fathers. When they walked out, they were gleaming with happiness, holding their brand new bags and clutching chocolates in their hands.
Happy kiddos are cute - any day, any time.
On Friday, a few of us from the SIFE team went to Shiela Dixit's residence to invite her to the launch ceremony. We took flowers for her, and Calvin gave them to her. Now, he was all for publishing an article titled "Chief Minister accepts flowers from smart college boy and agrees to meet in future". But unfortunately I'm myself responsible for what I write on this blog, so I can't put the blame on anyone else if I wrote a post like that.
Anyway, she was more than enthusiastic to come to the event. She congratulated us on doing such a good job
for a needy community and said she would definitely come to the launch.
Later on Friday, we had another event with Larsen and Toubro. In an effort to help rickshaw pullers with their children's education, Larsen and Toubro very kindly provided those kids with school bags, a notebook, crayons, a pencil box and similar stationary. Rickshaw pullers came with their children, and the function formally began with a documentary screening of how Life on Wheels was conceived and implemented, followed by a screening of L&T's portfolio as an engineering firm. Dr. Abhay Kumar and our principal P.C Jain then addressed the gathering, followed by Mr. Anshu Gupta from L&T.
Did I mention how cute the children were? Most of them were little kiddos below 10 years of age. When they walked in, they were shy and wanted to hide behind their fathers. When they walked out, they were gleaming with happiness, holding their brand new bags and clutching chocolates in their hands.
Happy kiddos are cute - any day, any time.
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