Yesaaiyes. Review on SIES College, Mumbai

Official Name: South Indian Education Society College of Arts, Science and Commerce

Better known as: Yesaiiyes (old)

Location: A 10 minute walk from Sion Railway Station through heavy duty traffic or a 5 minute walk from Sion bus depot or a 5 minute walk through a road full of muck from GTB.(close to everywhere so even if something is on strike the others are working! Damn!)

Crowd: About 50% saudhindians plus the usual mix of gujjus,marathis and marwadis.Most are pretty well off which is a sort of prerequisite, especially if you have taken vocational subjects with steeeeeeep fees and in order to bribe your way through. Most are either complete scholars or are total wastes.Beech kaa kuch nahin!

Campus: Hahahahaahhaaha!!!! What does that mean? Gurukripa and CCD nearby are the most popular hangouts.Cineplanet and the street outside are also generally crowded.

Canteen: Is located in the basement, under the staircase. Food is pretty much ok. samosa pav beats vada pav hollow here (probably the only place in Mumbai)! Idlis and dosas are in great demand.Rates are standard. Few plastic tables and chairs. Child labour is highly prevalent.Drinking water tap has turbid yellow water(yuck)!Strange notices on the walls such as ?Give others chance to also sit-By order?! Is so crowded and suffocating, especially during break time that I?d prefer the sandwichwalla outside on the street anytime.

Layout: 4 floors with a quadrangle in the middle used only for NCC and festival.The ledges and parapets decrease in height from ground floor to the fourth floor(so don?t ever lean against the wall on the 4th floor or??).Plenty of exercise since due to the dumb architect, some classes are only accessible by some staircases so prepare to be climbing up and down for the first month atleast.

No auditorium. Reading room is closed more often then it is open.library has a stupid system where you get a book only on the next day and that too between 9am and 3pm only(not even at 3:10 which is break time).Water coolers work for about 15 days every two months or so.

A dingy hall with carom and chess boards is complimented by calling it a ?Gymkhana?!! Famous for window-panes with no glass or cracked ones at the most! A maximum of 5 to 6 dustbins may be found all over the college.

Faculty: Is full of professors who seem to think that teaching means solving ?solved? examples from some textbook or dictating notes from some obscure website. A few good professors are there, but are constantly overshadowed by their eternally bumbling colleagues. Be prepared to learn to understand a strong southie accent. For example, the letters of the alphabet are: yay,byee,cyee,dyee,yee,yuff??yum??yes?? yux etc. Derives great pleasure in setting 100 marks papers for two hours whereas other colleges have a 50 marks paper for 2 and a half hours!

Attendance: Is prescribed as 75% compulsary but since nothing is done except putting up a blacklist and giving ?stern?warnings is not really necessary except for physics and chemistry where you are?nt allowed for practicals.

Festival: Held annually and known as ?Visions?but unfortunately has no publicity outside the college, so few seem to know about it. Pales in comparisons to Malhaar, Brouhaha etc.

Xtra Cirrulular: A lot of societies which encourage everyone to sign up??..only problem is they hardly do anything besides hosting inauguration functions!

Courses offered: Arts and science-Jr. college,BMM,BMS,BA,BSc etc etc.(not to sure?!)

Alumni: Shreya ?Devdas? Ghosal and a lot of other Southie TV stars.

Do?s and don?t?s: If your dad is rich, no problem, you could probably bribe your way through anything. Low attendance? No problem! Low Marks? No problem! Otherwise is advisable to butter up all the professors.Wearing specs and having a darkish skin can?t hurt. Coming late to a lecture is a no-no. Otherwise pretty much, do anything you want!