Steppin Stone.

The college management was docile and had one philosophy. Die and let Die.

There were no entrance exams for this course. The admissions were based on the scores obtained in school final exams.

The course was tough. The sylabbus was exhaustive. There were some new subjects like linear programming and operations research added on to the curriculum from 1982 which is the first batch of BD university.

Nothing of that sort was ever there. All these modern phenomena did not exist in 1980's. Now, one must say that it did not deter students in any way. It was challenging to go company after company seeking a job and such hard earned jobs were satisfying.

No placements we had to reach out to companies and get ourselves gainfully employes. Competition in the job market was severe in the 80's. This was before the IT revoluyion in India.

Nacofest was as annual cultural event. This was short for National College Festival. One another festival called 'Muthamizh Vizha' was also celebrated from 1983 onwards.

Very inexpensive. Our parents who educated us felt it was very expensive as they compared it with free government schools of our days, they had to only spend on books and notebooks.

There were scholarships only for SC/ST candidates and since I belonged to the so called forward community I could not avail of any.

Robotics-one had never heard off. Extra curricular -The various activities like stone throwing,smashing bulbs, during the strike in campus. There were a few more which cannot be reproduced here.

The hostel-Less said the better. Food-what is that nevertheless these indeed developed our sense of tolerance and also made us adapt all kinds of alien food and culture during our later employment days.

There indeed is alumni network which convenes meetings in the campus every year in the month of February. Second Saturday I guess. I have never attended one till date but hope to attend one before I die.

No. Life was not hectic for students as it is now. We had a relaxed schedule. We had strikes for 100 days every year which made our annual holidays work out to 200.

The professors were extremely talented and dedicated. Most were from a old school of thought but their tireless efforts to educate the young is indeed laudable.