{"id":614,"date":"2016-07-11T06:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T06:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:55:50","slug":"what-defines-jgu-by-sue-don-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/what-defines-jgu-by-sue-don-m\/","title":{"rendered":"What Defines \u201cJGU\u201d? &#8211; By Sue Don M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"383\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_o8loldB1aa1un32nx_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"615\" data-link=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?attachment_id=615\" class=\"wp-image-615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_o8loldB1aa1un32nx_400.jpg 383w, https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_o8loldB1aa1un32nx_400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_o8loldB1aa1un32nx_400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The University is made, not of the brick walls, steel buildings, reputation or with publicity. The University is made up of the people within. So, what do you think defines Jindal Global University?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChai. I have a requirement of at least 2 cups a day to keep me functional. I didn\u2019t really drink much of it, I was always a filter-coffee person before I came here. My daily cups of tea have come to describe the contradictory experience that our college is. In all the rush, it\u2019s a warm feeling.\u201d &#8211;&nbsp;<em><strong>Sriya Sridhar<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JGU has five schools, the Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Jindal Global Law School, and the Jindal Global Business School. It has various groups of people, as in any society, with sportsmen, academics, researchers, dancers, painters, debaters, mooters, actors and more. It also has those quiet ones, the ones people for whom solitude is just as fulfilling as the idea of community. There are few people who have a lot to criticize about JGU, and there are many who find it to be a beautiful home. But through it all, there is a definition, there is a way to defend this place to all the skeptics and critics out there, and that is with the simple fact that this university belongs to us, while we are here and when we leave, we will still forever belong to it. It is the people, and many times the ones we never talk about, who make this university what it is. It is the unexpected experiences, the sudden decisions, the commitment to not let a single night go to waste, to travel, to do more, to be more, and still be entirely crazy people, that defines JGU. For no matter how much law, business or the humanities may matter to us, it is not that which will provide the most identity, but those unlikely moments. What unlikely moments, though?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo one Sunday evening, Viksit, Ananvay, Saksham, and I had gone out for dinner to Murthal. There, Viksit just at some random conversation tells us that he has never before been on a trip. So we decided to go to Agra. Drove there at night, saw the sunrise near the Taj Mahal. And the best part is, we came back just in time for class on Monday morning.\u201d \u2013<em><strong>Yojit Mehra<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forget all the cheesy stuff then. Let\u2019s focus on those things we know to be epic. Like the fear of a violent uprising of the Marxist Proletariat, we experienced the feeling of being caught in the middle of the warzone that Sonipat turned into, during the Jat agitations. The boys were evacuated to the academic block and made to spend the night there. Traumatic times, one may call them. But they were traumatic times watching movies, playing cards and a bit of poker, singing, and preparing \u201cbattle plans\u201d in our heads, just in case a mob entered campus and we had to defend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though there was the RAF and the university security force, we had to do something to defend it, or more accurately, defend us. If we had to do something, it had to be something impressive. So for an imaginary conflict with a mob with guns, we took curtain rods to the academic block. We were, for that brief period of time in our heads, the defenders of the hallowed land of JGU. And on that note of nights spent in the academic block, the only other time we do it is with the all-nighters before exams. And I think we learn enough about camping from that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce during the exams last semester, I pulled an all-nighter in the reading room and there was a girl who came in with a massive suitcase. And inside there was a pillow, blanket, water, coke and lots and lots of food.\u201c\u2013<em><strong>&nbsp;Aadya Malladi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s in these little things, the minor quirks of people, the rebellion, and the differences that makes life in JGU so much more beautiful. Like all those people who came together one night near the flagpole, with a bonfire, and the warm music of various languages in memory of a lost loved one, or perhaps playing Holi in the grass and rolling in a specially prepared mud-pit with the Vice Chancellor pushing you in, these moments never leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in most cases, we aren\u2019t always the same people all the time, we change, we grow. But we hope that by the end of it, we\u2019ll be able to leave memories in the minds of the people who we experienced university with. And that is what JGU is to us \u2013 we aren\u2019t looking to be just the greatest, or the most significant, but also the most different, giving importance to the usually unnoticed things that matter. We are the chai, the overnight trips, and the reading room campers. We are the sportsmen, the debaters, and the curtain-rod defenders of the campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat is JGU to me? It\u2019s about this growth, and coming to know with the utmost certainty that I don\u2019t know a lot of things. It\u2019s about realising that life is a lot about living the questions, because in my opinion, the most beautiful example we can have is the mysterious.\u201d<br>What\u2019s mysterious, what\u2019s so different?<br>What is the weirdest thing you know that is also most beautiful?<br>\u201cEverything. It\u2019s all perfectly imperfect.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em><strong>Ridhima Kohli<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because here at JGU, you\u2019re considered brilliant until proven otherwise. And some of those questions we have, like who were are, or what defines JGU, don\u2019t have to be defined by the answers. The questions are enough. It\u2019s the things you can\u2019t explain that define us most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Like my sudden love for a drink that I didn\u2019t really have a particular attachment to. Or like having a conversation in the quiet of the library, sitting with a group of friends and collectively procrastinating, or looking into familiar eyes after a long and argumentative day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is JGU.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em><strong>Sriya Sridhar<\/strong><\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University is made, not of the brick walls, steel buildings, reputation or with publicity. The University is made up of the people within. So, what do you think defines Jindal Global University? \u201cChai. I have a requirement of at least 2 cups a day to keep me functional. 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