Wednesday, February 23, 2005

The Great TUM Learning Experience!

Guys!
Welcome to our own space in the Virtual World!For a long time,I was considering de signing a website for our class that would be available to everyone as a 'shrine' to visit and reminisce about the 'Freising' experience.Unfortunately,the webhosting options I explored turned out to be quite expensive.Yeah,we have our SRMTUM Yahoogroup,but you know,it's kind of basic and utilitarian.I mean, it doesn't a have life of it's own.You send messages,you receive messages.That's it!It's not interactive in a friendly sense and you cannot unleash your creativity without stepping on someone's toes.Let's say an enthusiastic classmate of ours,I cannot think of anyone but INGO,creates a large collage of his memoirs and sends them to the yahoo group.Many of us would be delighted,but I am sure there would be Grumbling voices like'What's this @%&# doing in my overcrowded mailbox'? Well Ingo is a nice guy and surely doesn't deserve this.So I thought,why don't we have a Collage on the WWW?A place where we can PLACE our things and invite people to come over and see and interact instead of sending over the whole collage to the entire class!No grumbling,no overcrowded mailboxes,and plenty of space to fit in everyone!

To sort these things out we now have our own webspace,an online Magazine that gets printed everyday(nay,every nano second)!Write some thing and invite opinions,argue,debate-in short,EXPRESS yourself!Tell us if you are happy,heartbroken,feeling mischeivous, want to share something or simply(yawn) bored!
From personal experience,I know that class groups often fade with time,everyone carrying on with their own lives,leaving little time to interact with old buddies.Here and there,small groups form,but one group doesn't know about the other,except if they accidentally run into each other.'Hey!I met Macarena while I was in Paris!' and that sort of thing.
This is the electronic age and we should make most of it.So,with this I,Raveendra Nath Yasarapu, start this archive for the class of Resource Managers from TUM.As they have often declared in the Roman colloseum,Let the duel begin!

P.S:In the meanwhile,I am working hard on the website,rest assured!