Madras Christian College BCA Review By Kavya Venkatesh

I smell nature right from the first step I used to take at MCC daily morning. Trust me that smell is haunting me even today as MCC was addictive. To make things easier for students who wish to join MCC, I will start from the scratch that how it all started at MCC. The college’s first day will start at Anderson Hall and the principal will welcome all the new students with a speech. During our time, the speech was more on how competitive it is to get to MCC and how lucky we are to get admissions here. I obviously believe that I was lucky that I got admissions here. Post that, Principal told us about the college history and its Deans. Many seniors and Deans too gave speeches about their experience and made us realize how lucky we are. This was the beginning and the same hall was the one where we were felicitated during our farewell. So, things started at Anderson Hall with smile on our faces and ended with tears rolling underneath our cheeks.

Expectations were high and MCC delivered on all expectations. One has to come to college daily because more than 5 or 6 absentees in a calendar month would mean, an official complaint letter sent to your house. The rules were same for locals and outsiders. Classroom seats were not fixed as they were occupied on first come, first serve basis. The academic calendar was tight and at the end even the faculty were out of fuel because completing the entire portions along with practicals was quite tough.

I used to call our faculty teachers but then I realized that we have grown up and therefore teacher’s synonym at college is professors. So, our professors were decent in teaching but amazing in experience and the wealth of things they knew. BCA requires some young faculty members as coding and languages are new age things. Thus, our professors were mostly young and cool. I shared a good rapport with them throughout and I would be cheating if I don’t admit that it also helped me get few extra marks at the practicals.

BCA’s placements were decent as BCA students are not seen with at par to B.Tech students but still, many IT firms have roles designated for BCA students. Many magnanimous IT companies like Infosys, Cognizant, and HCL Infotech among many others showed up for placements. Students getting on campus placement were lesser and I was not in that lesser category. Even though I didn’t get placed from campus, I will not criticize the college for that as companies hired the best available students. I was probably not among those best students and hence missed out on placements.

There are six halls for residence if I am right. The halls are named after our ex-principals. Being a Chennai girl, I had to stay away from the vicinity of the hostel as only the hostellers were allowed to enter the residential halls. If I speak about the hostels, that will be from my friends point of view as I haven’t stayed there nor have I seen it from inside. From what I know the hostels were potent in keeping student in best state of mind by providing them enough facilities and good food.

Out of 365 acres that MCC consist of, only 20% of it is accessible to students. Most of the area is forest reserve and so there’s restriction on entering those areas. 20% of that is enough to take care of students with all what they would have expected out of college. It will take me an odd day to write about all the points of the college, so I will cover the main areas. Anderson Hall is the main auditorium of the college and there is one more auditorium besides that. There’s an open amphitheatre which was relatively smaller though. GCC (Girls Common Room) made sure that girls can have their alone time as there was an LED, table tennis table, and headphones to tune into some music. Hyderabad may have produced some of the best Badminton players at the international level but MCC students are dominating at the sport because of its badminton court which is as good as any international court. It is inside the indoor stadium of the college and therefore students who are not playing can enjoy the matches from bleachers.

From first day to the last day of the college, my life was thrilling at MCC. I will not call it a college life as I will always call it MCC Life. Since the campus was so big, the campuses walk in evening was our unwinding sessions. Guys were little rude to girls and therefore one will not find boys and girls interaction at MCC much. Since nuns are at every corner almost all our activities are being watches not just with security cameras but from their eyes as well.