And the year begins.

Firstly, sorry for putting all of you freshers through such a tedious and rigorous recruitment process. Although it was tiresome, we certainly had the time of our life getting to know you all. All our little bonding sessions with you guys in the waiting room, the solo singing and the group singing, (and no matter how much you argue, it WAS a bonding session and not even close to ragging. SIFE SRCC wouldn't DREAM of ragging a fresher.) - fun, fun, FUN! For those of you who missed it, one of your batchmates was in fact audacious enough to sing the national anthem for all of us. It was a hilarious sight, with all of us standing on attention while she sang, and trying SO HARD not to laugh! To save her the embarrassment I won't name her!

Secondly, congratulations to all the freshers who made it into SIFE SRCC this year! We're more than excited to start working with you guys. Your enthusiasm and more importantly, your patience, through the week-long recruitment procedure was just refreshing.

Thirdly, this goes for all of you freshers out there. Please don't behave dead around your fellow freshers, the way most of you did at the waiting room. It was a real ordeal for us to get you guys to loosen up and talk (and sing. :P) SIFE SRCC humbly requests all of you to be as noisy and annoying as you can in a public space.

Whether you made it into SIFE or not, each and every one of you is special and talented. We at SIFE SRCC sincerely hope we can all remain friends.

Welcome Freshers!

The orientation was a huuuge success!

Never in a million years did we anticipate that so many freshers would turn up. We were doubtful if one classroom would fill up, and we ended up running 3 orientations simultaneously, and each of the 3 classrooms was JAM PACKED!

This is not to brag or anything, but we'd like to thank all the freshers who attended the orientation. You guys rock! We hope the orientation helped you understand how SIFE works and helped you make your decision.

Oh, almost forgot - congratulations on making it to SRCC! You're the first 100% batch this college has had, so surely you guys will make SIFE rock if you join, with those 100% brains of yours and what not.

As you all know, application forms for SIFE are available at the Xerox shop. We'll be collecting forms on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday at the auditorium steps from 1.15 to 1.30 pm every day. In case of any queries, either leave a comment here or on our facebook page or simply call us on the numbers specified in the info part of our facebook page. We're good, kind kids too - we'll be happy to help you out!

Transition

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.

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.

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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