IN SYMPHONY WITH LIFE -SYMPHONY 2011

"We participated in 5 events and bagged the 1st prize in Collage Making, 2nd prize in Debatte, 3rd prize in Photography and Rangoli making. Winning is one very small part of  our trip to Mumbai, the larger part lies in the learning that took place. A wise thinker once said 'we’ve not lived a day if  we haven’t grown from yesterday ,' " say the students from the Bio-tech department who represented Manav Rachna at SYMPHONY 2011 at  K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai.

The Festival at the  K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai truly lived up to its name. 'SYMPHONY 2011' brought colleges and universities from across the county under one roof. And for us, the students from FET, it was a dream come true and participation brought symphony into our lives and we shall cherish our memories to Mumbai for a long time. 

We began with hurdles to cross and had a difficult time convincing the Management that we would make a mark at the cultural festival. That this was going to be a good opportunity and we were granted official permission to participate in the cultural festival 'Symphony 2011.'

We boarded our train for Mumbai on the 2nd of February 2011, and arrived on the Mumbai platform on 3rd February. The fest was scheduled to be held from 4th February to 6th February and we had registered for five events i.e. Debate, Photography, Rangoli making, Collage making and Model United Nations.

We participated in 5 events and bagged the 1st prize in Collage making, 2nd prize in Debate, 3rd prize in Photography and in Rangoli making. Winning is one very small part of our trip to Mumbai, the larger part lies in the learning that took place. A wise thinker once said ”we’ve not lived a day if we haven’t grown from yesterday” And rightly it has been said, we’ve also grown in many ways. We stayed in Mumbai for four days and every day brought us a new learning experience, every little moment or incident taught us a new lesson and made us wiser.

Sonali Khera, one of the participants from our team said, “being all by ourselves in a new city does certainly sound fun, but its equally difficult”, while Sumit Kharbanda of 4th sem BT said “waking up every morning, sharp on time, and all by ourselves is one hell of a task, because we always had to be on time.” Mansi Sharda put it correctly, “we now know how to manage money (laughs)”, and Sutirtho Ghosh says “this trip taught me tricks for regularity.”

This trip to Mumbai certainly taught us regularity, punctuality, discipline,  social awareness;  socialising and we’ve made some very good friends for life. We learnt how to adapt to new people and places, it made us come out of our comfort zones and explore new horizons. Golden opportunities do not walk up to you, you have to look for them and this was one such example that we certainly could not leave to chance.

The credit for this learning and winning is not ours; we owe this to our Management for being supportive and having faith in us. We could not have gone a step ahead if our HOD Dr .Sarita Sachdev would not have agreed to send us. We thank our Director, Dr.Soni, our HOD, Abhishek sir (D.R), and Nidhi ma’am for supporting us at every step. And the personality behind it all could have been none other than Dr Amit Bhalla, Vice President MRIU without whose support just nothing would have been possible. 

THANK YOU MANAGEMENT!
 

NATASHA SHARMA, BT 4th year