Dear Technical Team behind DU’s Websites and Portals,
Clear this out for me – are our application forms just very cleverly-worded disguises for agreements to sell our souls? Before you go ahead and call me a nutcase for asking such a question, step into my shoes. Do you see how that’s the only (un)reasonable explanation for the semester-ly torture each DU student is put through?
Okay so you have access to all sorts of information about us and you’re always the first ones to see our results. You’re the all-seeing and the all-knowing (heck, you can give all our country’s babas a run for their money) – we get it. But what’s with withholding all this knowledge for days on end or giving it out in highly irregular (also, annoying) patterns? Are you going for a sexy, dark and mysterious image? ‘Cause it really isn’t working.
As a second semester student who has been pulling her hair the entire month out of anxiety and anticipation, I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that the website that you handle, mentioned both second and sixth semester results, only to show just one of those up until today. And now that the second sem results have started flowing in, there are a lot of “no records found” and English and Eco students going from tweet to post asking, “what about us?” We all understand that ‘sabar ka phal meetha hota hai’ but I’m pretty sure that this phal starts to rot after a point of time.
Not releasing the results is one thing. But even when they are released, your website’s suicidal tendencies really do not help our case. Neither does clicking the “refresh” button away to glory, by the way (and of course, I speak from experience).
Moving on, I suggest that you get some lessons in doing “spontaneity” and “surprises” right, because your ways only give way to annoyance and not khushi ke aasu. Seriously, what was the point of uploading the results of the current FYUP batch’s 3rd semester results and withdrawing them in five minutes only to upload them again the next day? It’s not like the FYUP kids need any more reasons to curse you and to re-evaluate their lives.
Speaking of re-evaluating lives, exam season finds us all pondering over our decisions of choosing this method of self-harm called college instead of just backpacking away into the world. In these desperate times, we trust you to provide us with our saviors known as previous years’ papers. But well, of course they were inaccessible last semester, just when exams were around the corner! Moreover, the reason they weren’t was because you’d upgraded the website for students’ convenience. I wonder if this dance of distress you make us do is your way of getting your funny bone tickled because haha (hash tag) sadism.
Also, when did it become okay to make this entire process of getting to our result a game of treasure hunt? My friend from LSR who found her result under JMC’s didn’t exactly come across as a happy player, you know. If this is your idea of shaking things up a little, then please stop! This is NOT how you fit in with the cool kids!
Be it the endless crashing and burning that www.du.ac.in does or the fact that male applicants were made to fill-in preferences for even girls colleges while applying for post graduation, your ways are indeed bizarre, people-in-DU’s-tech-department. Here’s hoping that this letter has sufficiently conveyed our pain and misery and maybe, just maybe we’ll work out a system where neither the students nor the “refresh” button are given a hard time.
Regards,
A frustrated DU student
