Waking up to the importance of Google groups

Of late, there has begun a concerted effort to enlist the contact details, hostel room numbers et al of all my batch-mates in the final year of mechanical engineering, and it's humbling to see the results. Everyone has come out in great support of the move, with details pouring in from each member of our Google group.

The question that comes up in my mind is: Why wasn't this done before? I mean, we have been together in the department for more than 3 years now. The group was formed just months back (ostensibly for placement representatives to co-ordinate with the rest of the batch). Are we just too careless about sharing a common platform and helping each other or was it because of sheer ignorance about the existence of a mechanism called 'Google groups'. It don't think it is the latter.

Now this is not a rant. It feels great to see such 'helping each other'  and 'I care'  attitude on Google groups these days, but one fails to forget those initial times when things never went our way, the way the 'batch' wanted it to be; activities were dependent on the whims and fancies of a handful of people. The bonding, the arguments, the good wishes; everything is truly appreciable now that we have only months to go, that we have so little time left to harbour any bitter feelings.

But then, it is sad precisely because of this reason; we have so little time left.

-Sumeet Seth (sumeets29@gmail.com)