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Innofest, 07
Redefining Innovation
Redefining Innovation
it all begins with an E-Cell meeting, where "mama" , "chotta" & "shasank" were fiercely opposing "bulb's" idea of conducting something "big" in campus, like a B-Plan competition, mama's argument was if a technical institute like ours doesn't have an techinical event then why the hell we should have an management event.
Asusual i was sitting in that room, not as a E-Cell member but doing some 'reddit'ting and 'orkut'ting, the meeting ended when no one had the energy to shout more, mama came to me and asked "should we have a technical event?", a landmark question that changed our life for next few weeks.
I had barely spoken to him before, i was happy with my own work and group but that was an opportunity for me getting closer to mirindastic(read fantastic, we don't like fanta) group, the most feared and kept away group by most commoners in the institute due to their love and affection towards "loud & strong language" also the unity among them when it comes to kicking or getting kicked in birthdays.
After initial mails to groups(janitors & sanitors, ha ha ha, Sagar i am sorry, that 'j' & 's' words popped in my mind yesterday night while going for dinner, an institute slang for Juniors & seniors) the initial response was non-committal encouragement, sagar was the only person to reply "we are a bunch of techies, & we can do it".(and he did it, more comes below)
in the mean time i volunteered for Magazine team(and not even a single meeting or contribution from my side), i became Intranet admin, took 5 subjects instead of four (this calls for another post) and started to enjoy life. after some initial mumbo jumbo mails, nothing really happened.
The time for organizing "spandan" came and people are very much interested in utilizing this opportunity to "go home", Imanpreet called for a meeting of all teams and asked "should we extend this as an inter event instead of current intra one?", that one question he asked and did some initial moves of talking with registrar etc (when he claimed credit for the event, people were angry at him, but guyz we should accept it, even though we started and did all the work, the networking of people from various teams was "at-least" initiated by him) .
The team was formed and we met Professor SS (one more post pending for him), and he was so happy that students are taking off their time to do something that is good for the institute and enhancing their organizing and inter-personal skills, and he happily said "NO", the reason that he gave was "you people have unreasonable expectation and you are not capable of doing an event where a lot of bad can happen along with the good, blah blah blah.."(sir, how did you get this too much power of convincing people to your way without them feeling hurt?)
And, we raised our voice, (if two counts for we, then its mama & me) again blah blah blah, ok, a "48" hour deadline to prepare a business plan that'll convince him to say go ahead, with a disclaimer "none of you can claim any discount in studies, no on-duty stuff, sir i went for this, i did this... kind of stuff".
at the end of 48 hours(all the dramas by our fellow mates, God, thank you for this opportunity to judge people), we were in his room with a business plan.
some silence, some questions and some answers (since i was the typesetter of the plan, i was obliged to answer the questions), he said "OK, looks promising, go ahead, but in very small manner. only bangalore colleges, quick and fast two day event, don't worry about finance institute will arrange for it, remember bad news propagates faster so whether you are doing good or not, don't bring bad name to institute",a weekly review and report was promised and we are on our way to create the first ever inter event of the institute.
Here come our struggle for next 30days, the bashing from my mom for not coming home for 3 months, screwed up 3 of 5 subjects, none of the projects are actually progressing, the fighting with mama over poster design (whenever he said "everybody liked it", I'd say "nobody will like it"), website downtime, campaigning planning, last minute postponement due to "Iron maiden" concert, brochures, flyer's, placement of logos, t-shirts, sitting with vijay for Quiz questions, bugging seema for any damn thing, begging for laptops to our classmates blah blah blah...
And its tomorrow, the event , prof SS said that he'll be there at 7.45 to wake up students if they are not seen in campus.
now the timeline starts:
10.00pm : WTF!!, where are the registration forms, ID cards, volunteer badges, ok relax, Ducky will take care(print out) of it tomorrow morning as his first job.
11.00pm:
me: what are you doing?,
them: indicators you know which room which event etc...
me: if you girls don't have any work please go sleep, cant we take a print out of them and put it. (now i know why i don't/won't have a girlfriend, kidding...)
12:00midnight
what wastefellow, two events are overlapping, aargh, mama, wait i am coming,
finally the schedule was reorganized so "only two events overlap".
01:00am
guru, started to arrange tables and chairs
someone: we can ask the housekeeping people to do it in morning
me:(go kick yourself, in mind of course)see they'll come around 7.30 and prof will be here by 7.45, i don't want to feel the heat.
03.30am:
fuck!, i need a double coffee
someone: infy will be open
me: if we go there it'll take an hour, so forget about it, get back to work.
05:00am Sagar cant walk properly, duck was okay, i was some how managing to keep myself awake, seema and others were doing the welcome ppt and schedule information.
06:00am: Sagar, "traitor" went to sleep, that effectively leaves me & Ducky in college.
06:30am:Ducky is going to sleep, fuck!!, ok the the most important thing to do in the morning is "get the event banners, fuck how can we forget about them", Ducky said, relax i'll make sure that the banner will be "up" and "flying" before the event begins.
07:00am: begging with some more seniors for their laptops, Ducky is a psychologist, knows how to talk to people.
07:30am: bathing, dont see the bed, dont see the bed, there is no bed in your room, all you can see is the bathroom and toilet, ok relax take the towel out of your room now run to take bath ...
07:45am: Wah, i am back to work, started calling seema, Mama, Ducky & sagar, everyone should be present before profes...,here he is, he did as he said went to hostel to wake up people(its embarassing you know).
08:00am: "where are the banners, guys?", aha, the inevitable question that'll occur to any damn person coming to the place where the event is scheduled, "Ducky"..i shouted, "it'll be here any moment..don't worry" was the reply.
the printer guy said "no power, no printouts", again prof came to our rescue, he gave his printer to take printout of about 500 pages.
and you know the real excitement ends here, as things start to roll, more people came in to help us, the usual thank you list goes this way
Laptop team, guyz you are the heart of the event, any little mistake from your side would have toppled the event
Guru, KP & others, u guyz rock, thanks for eveything, every minute you spent your energy is worth a million rupees (but dont ask me for it)
sumeet for his amazing website building skills
all our classmates, most people gave their laptops, few people went home, few people didn't mind to see what is happening in the institute, anyways thanks
there are few names deliberately left out, not because i don't want to thank you, but i don't want to just "say" thanks and finish it off, I'll be thankful to you all for my life, you gave me the hope that "we can do it" and "we are doing it" in this semester too.
thanks for everything (somebody help me!!!)
Day 1 of event: 10.00pm this is what will happen if you don't sleep for 40 hours straight
and JC gave a treat, "you did it", a nice person who acknowledged our struggle and effort, she was happy that we did it something that their class didn't bother to do it.(aha i can still feel the taste of that lassi & mirchi soda)
Asusual i was sitting in that room, not as a E-Cell member but doing some 'reddit'ting and 'orkut'ting, the meeting ended when no one had the energy to shout more, mama came to me and asked "should we have a technical event?", a landmark question that changed our life for next few weeks.
I had barely spoken to him before, i was happy with my own work and group but that was an opportunity for me getting closer to mirindastic(read fantastic, we don't like fanta) group, the most feared and kept away group by most commoners in the institute due to their love and affection towards "loud & strong language" also the unity among them when it comes to kicking or getting kicked in birthdays.
After initial mails to groups(janitors & sanitors, ha ha ha, Sagar i am sorry, that 'j' & 's' words popped in my mind yesterday night while going for dinner, an institute slang for Juniors & seniors) the initial response was non-committal encouragement, sagar was the only person to reply "we are a bunch of techies, & we can do it".(and he did it, more comes below)
in the mean time i volunteered for Magazine team(and not even a single meeting or contribution from my side), i became Intranet admin, took 5 subjects instead of four (this calls for another post) and started to enjoy life. after some initial mumbo jumbo mails, nothing really happened.
The time for organizing "spandan" came and people are very much interested in utilizing this opportunity to "go home", Imanpreet called for a meeting of all teams and asked "should we extend this as an inter event instead of current intra one?", that one question he asked and did some initial moves of talking with registrar etc (when he claimed credit for the event, people were angry at him, but guyz we should accept it, even though we started and did all the work, the networking of people from various teams was "at-least" initiated by him) .
The team was formed and we met Professor SS (one more post pending for him), and he was so happy that students are taking off their time to do something that is good for the institute and enhancing their organizing and inter-personal skills, and he happily said "NO", the reason that he gave was "you people have unreasonable expectation and you are not capable of doing an event where a lot of bad can happen along with the good, blah blah blah.."(sir, how did you get this too much power of convincing people to your way without them feeling hurt?)
And, we raised our voice, (if two counts for we, then its mama & me) again blah blah blah, ok, a "48" hour deadline to prepare a business plan that'll convince him to say go ahead, with a disclaimer "none of you can claim any discount in studies, no on-duty stuff, sir i went for this, i did this... kind of stuff".
at the end of 48 hours(all the dramas by our fellow mates, God, thank you for this opportunity to judge people), we were in his room with a business plan.
some silence, some questions and some answers (since i was the typesetter of the plan, i was obliged to answer the questions), he said "OK, looks promising, go ahead, but in very small manner. only bangalore colleges, quick and fast two day event, don't worry about finance institute will arrange for it, remember bad news propagates faster so whether you are doing good or not, don't bring bad name to institute",a weekly review and report was promised and we are on our way to create the first ever inter event of the institute.
Here come our struggle for next 30days, the bashing from my mom for not coming home for 3 months, screwed up 3 of 5 subjects, none of the projects are actually progressing, the fighting with mama over poster design (whenever he said "everybody liked it", I'd say "nobody will like it"), website downtime, campaigning planning, last minute postponement due to "Iron maiden" concert, brochures, flyer's, placement of logos, t-shirts, sitting with vijay for Quiz questions, bugging seema for any damn thing, begging for laptops to our classmates blah blah blah...
And its tomorrow, the event , prof SS said that he'll be there at 7.45 to wake up students if they are not seen in campus.
Cricket match screening, damn India lost the match
now the timeline starts:
10.00pm : WTF!!, where are the registration forms, ID cards, volunteer badges, ok relax, Ducky will take care(print out) of it tomorrow morning as his first job.
11.00pm:
me: what are you doing?,
them: indicators you know which room which event etc...
me: if you girls don't have any work please go sleep, cant we take a print out of them and put it. (now i know why i don't/won't have a girlfriend, kidding...)
12:00midnight
what wastefellow, two events are overlapping, aargh, mama, wait i am coming,
finally the schedule was reorganized so "only two events overlap".
guru, started to arrange tables and chairs
someone: we can ask the housekeeping people to do it in morning
me:(go kick yourself, in mind of course)see they'll come around 7.30 and prof will be here by 7.45, i don't want to feel the heat.
03.30am:
fuck!, i need a double coffee
me: if we go there it'll take an hour, so forget about it, get back to work.
05:00am Sagar cant walk properly, duck was okay, i was some how managing to keep myself awake, seema and others were doing the welcome ppt and schedule information.
06:00am: Sagar, "traitor" went to sleep, that effectively leaves me & Ducky in college.
07:00am: begging with some more seniors for their laptops, Ducky is a psychologist, knows how to talk to people.
07:45am: Wah, i am back to work, started calling seema, Mama, Ducky & sagar, everyone should be present before profes...,
08:00am: "where are the banners, guys?", aha, the inevitable question that'll occur to any damn person coming to the place where the event is scheduled, "Ducky"..i shouted, "it'll be here any moment..don't worry" was the reply.
the printer guy said "no power, no printouts", again prof came to our rescue, he gave his printer to take printout of about 500 pages.
and you know the real excitement ends here, as things start to roll, more people came in to help us, the usual thank you list goes this way
Laptop team, guyz you are the heart of the event, any little mistake from your side would have toppled the event
Guru, KP & others, u guyz rock, thanks for eveything, every minute you spent your energy is worth a million rupees (but dont ask me for it)
sumeet for his amazing website building skills
all our classmates, most people gave their laptops, few people went home, few people didn't mind to see what is happening in the institute, anyways thanks
there are few names deliberately left out, not because i don't want to thank you, but i don't want to just "say" thanks and finish it off, I'll be thankful to you all for my life, you gave me the hope that "we can do it" and "we are doing it" in this semester too.
thanks for everything (somebody help me!!!)Day 1 of event: 10.00pm this is what will happen if you don't sleep for 40 hours straight
and JC gave a treat, "you did it", a nice person who acknowledged our struggle and effort, she was happy that we did it something that their class didn't bother to do it.(aha i can still feel the taste of that lassi & mirchi soda)
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