Romancing with SU!

This article,along with other attachments like the resume and proposal,might have helped my chances in the SU interview.Full of exaggerations,this article was written only with the panel members in mind.Read on:

I made my tryst with Students Union a month after entering PSG Tech.I still remember my senior Mr.Rajarajan coming into the class and briefing us about Intrams. “Everyone must be present for Intrams.Make sure that you do quality volunteering.”And then he made a passing mention about my classmate Ajay.”Ajay is very much interested in working for SU”.Suddenly,everyone in the class got jealous about Ajay.Everyone wanted to be in Ajay’s place.Everyone wanted to work for Students Union.And I was the most enthusiastic of that “everyone”.

I still remember the day I met Mr.Anto Dungston Inigo.The Chairman.September 2,2007.I went to his room to know more about working for SU.The firm handshake,the calm demeanour,the confident strides,the calculated words.Slowly but surely,the Chairman became my hero and rolemodel.

Then Intrams happened.Right from stage arrangement to flex printing to putting stalls to arranging chairs in the Quadrangle,we were everywhere.I still remember a group performing in the stage and we volunteers handling the screen on stage feeling,”We are small cogs in the big wheel of Intrams but vital cogs indeed!”They were really proud moments.

In the second semester,I became the class representative.I can proudly call the second semester as the best semester in my college career thus far.I did a lot of things for Kriya.Atleast twice a week,a first year representatives meeting will be convened by the chairman in hostel and I used to call everyone.I used to spend Rs.10 of my pre-paid balance daily for this purpose.I got to know a lot of people from every other department,thanks to the SU.

We took Kriya brochures and went around Coimbatore looking for sponsors.Many shopkeepers and corporate people never used to respect us.But we still kept trying for three days before the miracle happened.Naturals beauty parlour gave an amount of Rs.10000 and I still remember the electricity in my voice when I called up and told “Inigo anna!We got sponsors!”

Publicity was more fun.Ashwin,a senior from Msc will give us Kriya posters every day in the evening and we used to paste it in all prominent spots of Coimbatore.We went around Race Course,VOC Ground,Saibaba colony,R.S.Puram and Gandhipuram with Kriya flyers and distributed it to anyone who remotely resembled a student.”Hello sir!Do come for Kriya!All events will be great”.Naive words but enthusiastic nonetheless.

Then the night before Kriya.Attendance could have been taken.Each and every guy in my class was present in the campus doing one work or the other.One guy was not feeling well but he came to the college soon unable to resist the Kriya fever.Mr.Rajarajan used to check us all.He gave a new work to anyone who was free.We didn’t sleep through out the night.Even if we had taken sleep pills,we would not have slept.Kriya gave dreams which never allowed us to sleep.We went back to hostel at around 5 in the morning and came back at 7:30 AM.

Three days of riproaring work and fun came to an end.We were absolutely exhausted.Mr.Inigo addressed us promising us a treat the next day.Then he said,”The work for Renaissance begins tomorrow”.We did not complain.Sponsors again,Publicity again and Lots of work again.For all the three nights during Renaissance,I slept in the campus itself as I knew that I will get just 3 hours of sleep in the hostel anyways.With an old kriya flex as bedsheet and mosquitoes as my bed partners,we slept.Mr.Inigo scolded me and told me to get some sleep in the hostel.But I loved this all,didn’t I?

Thus a momentous year came to an end.Mr.Chandramouli,the best friend of Mr.Inigo,called us all to his room.He was in tears.He gave us valuable advice”I cannot even imagine leaving this college or Students Union.SU teaches you everything,gives you hundred friends,thousand lessons.No PSG Techian is complete without working for the Students Union.Whoever the chairman be next year,you must work for SU”.And yes we did.Under Mr.Balaji Sundaravel and Under Mr.Krishna Kumar.We worked our hearts out for SU.I still remember Mr.Chandramoulis’s parting words:”Never,never forget the SU”.

As years have passed,here I have been nominated for the post of chairperson in SU.From an awestruck junior looking at Inigo,I have transformed into a guy opting for Inigo’s post.I have been with all the three Chairmen right from my first year and I know what it takes to be the SU chairman.I feel that I have all the prerequisites for the post.But if there is a better guy than me who has been nominated,then I will console myself and still work for SU.A stroll in the campus wearing blue blazers with a SU ID card or a night in the old canteen with the SU flex and mosquitoes.Chairman or a guy carrying chairs in the Q-angle.I prefer both.Because I have learnt from my senior:”TO NEVER,NEVER FORGET THE SU”.