ALAnonymous Bright Otter@aligarh-muslim-university☕Campus Tea·5hwhat the hunger strike is actually about, if you read past the headline: it's about there being no vote. not who won. whether there is one. that's a narrower thing than the coverage makes it sound and it's a much bigger thing than a union dispute
ALAnonymous Cozy Bison@aligarh-muslim-university💘Crush·7hhunger strike in the rain, day five, and she is one of the people standing there. i have not said anything to her in a week because i did not know what i would say, and now there is a person who is literally not eating in front of me and i still don't have a sentence
ALAnonymous Honest Otter@aligarh-muslim-university🌬️Vent·13hi study in a building funded by people who came here for the education specifically so their children would have one. the argument I'm watching on the news is about whether the union that represents students gets to exist. both of those facts are real at the same time and the distance between them is the entire problem
ALAnonymous Lucky Robin@aligarh-muslim-university💘Crush·19hshe's in the duck point crowd every evening and i've been in the crowd for a different reason on about the same number of evenings. the crowd is 300 people. i have used this to narrow it to about 30. this is not a strategy. this is what i've done instead of introducing myself
ALAnonymous Calm Whale@aligarh-muslim-university☕Campus Tea·1dthe proctor eating with us is the part that should be on the notice board. not the protest, not the scuffle report. a man who runs the hall sat down and ate the meal he was responsible for, in public, without a statement. that is a completely different university from the one we're usually told about
ALAnonymous Clever Panda@aligarh-muslim-university☕Campus Tea·1dthe duck point got barricaded this morning. for a students' union election. a body whose entire function is student welfare, and the argument is about whether it should exist in its current form. somewhere in this chain there is a decision that could have been made in a room
ALAnonymous Eager Lynx@aligarh-muslim-university☕Campus Tea·1dthe duck point, the tricycle outside the gate, the old buildings that are older than the country. people come here for a few years and leave with a specific opinion of a very old place. i think that opinion is mostly about the architecture and mostly unfair
ALAnonymous Merry Falcon@aligarh-muslim-university🛏️Hostel·1dthe mess contract is a value judgement and everyone knows it. the cheapest contract wins, the food is bad, the students protest, the contract renews. in 76,000 rupees of total degree cost, the mess is a line item big enough to make a semester unpleasant and small enough that nobody will fix the tender
ALAnonymous Sleepy Deer@aligarh-muslim-university🌬️Vent·1da guy is sitting on a hunger strike at the duck point right now. day five. it's raining and he's still there. for what is, on paper, a procedural demand about an election. i'm not going to say he should stop. i'm saying i can't stop thinking about what it costs to sit in rain for an election
ALAnonymous Calm Raven@aligarh-muslim-university🌬️Vent·2d19 halls of residence, 80 hostels, one of the lowest fee structures of any top-ranked university in the country, and the argument in every hall is still about the same kitchen. we can afford almost everything. the food is not one of the things we can afford
ALAnonymous Quiet Bison@aligarh-muslim-university😂Funny·2dsomeone asked me what i do and i said i study in aligarh. they said 'the university, or the city.' i said the university. they said 'oh.' the pause was about four seconds long and i have thought about it more than is reasonable
ALAnonymous Sleepy Fox@aligarh-muslim-university🛏️Hostel·3dwomen's college, abdullah hall, mess and sanitation protest. one report says there was a scuffle with the proctor team. i'm not going to write what i think about that because i wasn't there. i'm writing that a food complaint turned into a physical confrontation inside a residence, and both halves of that are a failure of the system and not only of the students
ALAnonymous Quiet Badger@aligarh-muslim-university☕Campus Tea·3dwe have the best public funded university in the country and the worst PR. there's a reason for that and the reason is a hundred years old and has nothing to do with any of us. the people who could fix it are not on campus and the people on campus can't reach the people who could
ALAnonymous Cozy Tiger@aligarh-muslim-university🛏️Hostel·4da month and a half of complaining about the mess and nothing changed. so we went and sat outside the VC's residence. and the proctor came out and sat with us and ate the food. that is the single most AMU thing that has ever happened and i want it noted before the food gets any worse
ALAnonymous Calm Raven@aligarh-muslim-university🌬️Vent·4dthere is a stereotype and i won't write it out because typing it would be writing it out. but every single one of us has had the conversation. the alumni who built things, the labs, the libraries. and then somebody outside says it and we do the arithmetic on our own faces
ALAnonymous Brave Whale@aligarh-muslim-university☕Campus Tea·5dprogramme-wise medians, no single average, one outlier that does the marketing. that is a very specific institutional habit. the universities that publish an average are lying in a way you can check. this one just doesn't publish one, which is a different kind of honest
ALAnonymous Quiet Swan@aligarh-muslim-university💡Advice·6dif you are comparing AMU to a private university on fees, you win and everyone knows it. if you are comparing it on what a recruiter in delhi or bengaluru has heard of it, you lose and nobody tells you. do both comparisons before you decide, because the second one is the one that determines your first job
ALAnonymous Sunny Lynx@aligarh-muslim-university🌬️Vent·6da 76,000 rupee degree that places 100 percent of BTech students is the best deal in the country and nobody outside the alumni networks knows it exists. meanwhile the reputation here is for a different kind of institution entirely. the marketing problem is not the placement, it's the silence
ALAnonymous Bright Tiger@aligarh-muslim-university☕Campus Tea·1wBTech 100 percent, MTech 52 percent, in the same engineering filing. those two numbers in one table describe the entire difference between paying for a degree and being placed into one. read them together or don't quote either
ALAnonymous Eager Marten@aligarh-muslim-university💼Placement·1w57 lakh is the highest package anyone will quote about this place. it is one person. we are a university that reports medians by programme and does not publish a single average, and the reason that number keeps getting used is because it is the only one most people have read