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Christ (Deemed to be University), has been established for over 50 years now and is vastly spread out through various cities in India such as Bangalore, Pune, Kengeri and NCR. Its main campus is located in Bangalore and I’ll be taking you for a virtual tour of the same through this article.
LOCATION
Since the main campus is on Hosur road, which is a prime location of the city, it is extremely easy to reach the college. Let us look at ways you can reach here:
• Bus routes: Taking the reference of the airport as the starting point, you can go to the bus booth present right outside of the arrival gates and enquire about which bus number to take to reach Christ university, Hosur road. The booth attendants would help you with the bus number to take and even guide you to the bus if you ask them to. Taking a bus is the most pocket friendly option you can get at just about 250 bucks!
• Cabs: On any possible cab app on your phone, be it Uber or Ola, even when you are stranded at some unknown location in Bangalore, just type Christ university in the destination box and the first option to appear is your go-to location. Simple, isn’t it?
FUN SPOTS IN CAMPUS
• Birds park, yes you heard it right! There’s a park with a few birds around it in the campus itself. It has a very popular food stall called Mingos along with benches all around the park. It is one of the most peaceful spots to spend some time at. Also, if you are at Mingos, don’t forget to try their bun-samosa and momo-chat, they are every Christite’s favourite.
• The best coffee on campus can be found in the Nandini booth. Here, you can also find many professors who come for coffee breaks (and to be more specific are in a good mood). Try striking a smooth conversation with them and you might as well have your assignment scores slightly increased ;)
• If you are a health freak who also follows a healthy no-junk diet, then the perfect niche for you to be at is Fresheteria. It is an open space seating arrangement with a booth which delivers healthy sandwiches and fresh fruit juices. One of the top selling delicacies here is their famous Fruit Bowl.
• Basketball court is again a very popular spot since it is right in between the campus which makes travelling distance to your class building, lesser. Apart from that basketball court is also near Gourmet (cafeteria) and Just Bake (best dessert place on campus), which makes taking lunch from these places and chilling with friends in the break very convenient.
• Red benches are continuously lined near the football field and have trees covering them from sunlight most of the time (big relief). This is one of the most crowded places in college and it’s so tough to find a place to sit here.
HACKS
Being a Christite is not a very easy job to do and here are a few hacks on how to survive through the college drama:
• ID cards (identity cards) are taken extremely seriously in the campus. You will not be allowed to enter the college without your id card no matter how hard you try since the security is quite high near all entry gates. ID cards become a part of your body as a Christite. Many times, even faculty refrain from giving attendance if your ID is missing. Be smart and carry it in your college bag always if you want entry to the campus and want to avoid getting kicked out of your class.
• Maintaining attendance is something that will almost kill you by the end of every academic year. A physical attendance of 85% by the end of the semester is a must, in order to sit for the end semester exams. One easy way to handle your attendance is to not start bunking classes from the very beginning of the sem. Maintain a good attendance record initially so that you have the liberty of bunking boring classes at the end of the semester. In case you are a sleepy head (like me) who happens to miss first hour lectures every day, download this app called Bunk Manager. This app would help you calculate the number of classes you need to attend and the ones you can bunk to maintain a safe 85% by the end.
• Network jammers are placed all over the campus because of which your phone would always be out of signal. The only network that works in the campus is Jio. Get an extra Jio sim or port your sim to Jio if you don’t want to go around asking your friends for hotspot all the time.
• Being in Christ, you are compelled to follow the mandatory dress code which is formals for guys and kurti with pallazo and a dupatta for girls. I come from the School of Business and Management, which is a department that gives immense importance to proper dress code being followed. Sometimes our professors walk around the class to check for the same and if any guy is found without a tie and is not groomed well (not clean shaved), or if a girl is found without her dupatta or in leggings, professors don’t think twice before throwing them out of their class.
What you can do to avoid this is:
Always carry a black dupatta or a black tie in your college bag in case of emergency.
Oh, if you’re a guy, don’t forget to carry a trimmer as well since you never know when faculty gets moody and starts checking dress code.
• One of the best things about the main campus of Christ is the diversity you find. With over 16,000 students from 20+ departments, networking can be highly beneficial for you as a student. Christ organises various fests and events that go on throughout the year (there’s legit no month that goes free, trust me). Don’t miss this opportunity, try getting involved in your area of interest through clubs and take part in these events that are conducted. Even if you’re not interested in registering for a fest, you can always volunteer to be a part of the organising committee. Such favourable chances help you increase your reach and can benefit you in unexpected ways through your college life and even post that.
Does all of this sound too pressurizing? Don’t worry so much, Koramangala is just a 10- minute walk from college. In Koramangala, you can explore amazing cafes, popular food joints and very happening clubs (for Christites, weekends are for parties)!
I will list down a few must try-outs down here and leave the rest of the exploring for you :D
• Cafes: The Hole in the Wall, DYU art café, Café D-hide, Echoes, Taco bell.
• Gastropubs/Restaurants: Reservoire, Crawl Street, Koramangala Social, Brooks & Bonds.
• Clubs: BOHO, Bombay Adda, Happy Brew, Indigo XP, Boomerang, Tipsy Bull.
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ONLINE EXAMS??? TAKING OVER EVERY NERVE IN YOUR BODY? HATING YOUR UNI FOR IT?
It might not be as bad as it looks, just hear me out completely with clear headspace.
Being stuck up for months at home has put us all in an extremely weird mental turmoil since almost everything around us seems uncertain. We don’t know when our colleges will reopen, we don’t know when we can step out of our houses without masks, we don’t know when we can start traveling comfortably. With all this cramming our heads for more than 4 months now, we are seeing how universities are gradually shifting to online platforms to conduct not just regular classes but also end-semester and mid-semester exams.
Not going to lie, when I first heard about online exams, I was highly infuriated and found this completely insensitive and unfair because none of us are actually in a good shape at this point, and an addition of giving exams online, just made me fear how terribly I was going to perform which would end up pulling down my overall GPA.
But after weeks of criticising the whole concept of online exams, I came across an intriguing perspective that made it easier for me to accept the “new change”. The very root of this thought grew from ‘can online exams benefit me in anyway at all?’ There were no solid realised benefits that I ended up with, but I definitely came to understand how it is the best alternative we could have and let me tell you how.
When we wonder how our colleges are going to promote us to the next year/semester, apart from online exams, we have 2 other options. The first being considering our scores in assignments/internals and the second being conducting exams physically once the pandemic subsides. Let us understand the consequences of both these alternatives.
1. Choosing internal grades to promote students is clearly a very weak solution, hence, universities avoid it because even they know the level of difference in the clarity of subject, that exists in students when comparing assignments and answer sheets. And promoting students or giving a degree to us based on internal assignments is only going to reflect the sinking credibility of the degree in the future.
2. Coming to the second option, conducting physical exams when the COVID situation nearly vanishes, the only question that prevails here is, “WHEN?” There literally is no certainty as to when we are getting back to our regular lives, and to be further unsure about when we can give exams to pass our academic year and move on ahead with our careers can only worsen our headspace.
Considering all these possible solutions and options and alternatives, this is how I came to realise that online exams might actually be the best we can get at this point of time, when the whole world is still trying to fight and recover from the damages and wrecks of the pandemic. Instead of looking at the many negatives, we really need to start encouraging the fewer upsides that exist, which might as well help us retain the little sanity and patience we currently hold.
Agreed we all hate exams, be it offline or online, but this is just a piece of my mind which I hope has made you hate online exams a little lesser than how much you hated it when you started reading this article.
Good luck with your exams and I hope you ace them! :)
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