St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology M.Tech Review By Yethi Nair

College has become a troll machine and if you don’t believe me find a Facebook page of SJCET memes and you will know. Education and residential facility wise very little complain as college is strict because they want to make the best students. However, if at the cost of such discipline then only God can rescue them. If you communicate with a girl at the campus means you both are seeing each other. Trust me, even if you are standing together in a queue means the management will call you and warn you that if they found such mishap again, they will rusticate you. If you are found catching with some entertainment devices, the devices will be taken. Mine was taken and trust me I am not taking any revenge by writing such a critical review but as I said one can check the FB page and other mediums to know how strict and bizarre rules do they have in place.

Academic wise the college is as strict as Indian army. You are allowed to take less than 10 leave per semester. The leave too will be allotted only after your parents call and beg the management for leave. The classrooms were fine and the projectors were of top quality. Even the teaching pattern was amazing but this is it. Now comes the paper checking part. The college has imposed a rule of getting bonus, if you get 90+ in a subject. In a batch of 200 only 2 people could get that bonus. 120 out of 200 have failed in first attempt. I vomited all the theory that I learned in the classes and read from books and still managed just a little over passing marks.

They will make you cut-off socially entirely as they are more paranoid than the robots. The catastrophe that they follow is make students machines and makes them work as hard as they could. We were asked to take at least 5000 pages of Xerox every semester in the name of notes. The best part is not even 500 pages of those were taught in class but it can come in exams so you better read entire. Some of them were helpful as they gave maximum marks in the internals so that students could at least have the passing marks.

Did I hear placements? What is that but because there is nothing like that at the campus. Some industrial consultant came and told us how a degree from here will get us a favorable job. I passed out almost 2 years ago and couldn’t find a suitable job. Yes, working in an IT firm but a M. Tech student from such a strict college is earning less than the ones who have just done B. Tech. SJCET is such a huge name that parents feel so proud when their kids take admissions here. Little did they know that we have come at an army camp where we just have to study, study hard, and study hardest just like the army men who train hard, harder and hardest.

Hostels are inside the campus and that was the only good things about the hostel. There are two boys and two girls' hostels inside the campus. The rooms were fine as at least they were clean even if small. The food part was such that onion and garlic will become your elixirs for life. Except water you will find them in each food item whether it is served in breakfast, lunch or dinner. Even the rasam and buttermilk will have some flavor of both. If you are a die-hard fan of onions and garlic, you will surely love the food but for those who aren’t had to sleep hungry on most occasions.

The college is quite big as the area in which the college is spread is around 60 acres. Buildings are good both residential and academic buildings. The academic building is the best as we can only use the library of that building. The college is upward to hills so one will not face humid weather that exists in other parts of Kerala. Also, the campus has quite a bit of greenery so weather remains pleasant. There’s a medical team at the campus always and a canteen that only serves beverages, tea & coffee. So, it was all good about infrastructure other than the college bus. It was almost identical to dog catching vans. If you are six feet and above then better find some other means of commuting because it won’t be possible for you to stand tall inside the van.

I don’t want to even give a one star because the strictness was worse than a school. Once I left the college even without a job, I felt so blessed. The college has a fest with so much of limitations as costume check is mandatory because if you have worn something which hampers the college rules, your program will be cancelled. I got out of the jail three months before due to the lockdown and for that reason; I will thank Corona for coming into our lives and saving us.