Hello
everybody…well not exactly the best way to open up a blog but I guess the
situation demands a motive and explanation to “why a blog?” apart from the “to
do” task list of green campus challenge, and here it is.
Let me start
from the very beginning, the day when my roommate came in a hyper excited stage,
kicking through the doors declaring “dude, I am the college co-ordinator of
green campus challenge for IIT BOMBAY Techfest. Our team is in and you are
doing the blog task.”
My first
response was like “yeah cool”, and then I was like “blog task?” I mean isn’t it
amazing that when it comes to doing things attached to big names just brings
the most enthusiastic kid in you, but nobody quite realizes the smaller aspects
of “the goal of task”.
Confused? Well let me put it this way; every person who
was in college or is in college LOVES his/her campus. Take my college for
example, when you enter the campus from the hustling, cramped streets of
Varanasi, you feel like entering into heaven. You just get the feeling of how
good the campus is, we love the taste of a “samosa with tea” in canteen hangout
place by the college garden, we definitely love idea of meeting our college
“someone special” under the shady tree by the department. We just love the big
and flashy things in the picture but did any one of us ever ask why we love the
food and meetings? Let me answer it for you, well to be honest, NO.
Just wonder
would you really love entering your campus if it was anything like your city
streets, would your “meetings” be anything special if it wasn’t for that tree
or that nearby bush providing those pretty flowers for you. Imagine having
samosa and tea by the dirty gutters or busy roads.
Well if you
haven’t got my point then let me tell you straight, you are missing the “green
things” out of your picture my dear friends. If it wasn’t for the lovely trees
or the clean spaces, life’s most important years in college would be just the
same thing with different places. And sadly, our campuses are losing the aura. Honestly
I see my campus and compare it with the stories given by my alumni; I know I am
missing something good. I know change is required and someone have to start it.
I would
really like to thank IIT BOMBAY techfest for giving us an
opportunity, maybe an excuse to think little differently from others. And if
anyone of you still didn’t understand “WHY” then I don’t know how you will, for
others, you can call our team just a bunch of average green guys who like to
look at the “smaller things in the picture”.
Thelo chloros
Your Average Green guy
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