Kolkata: Sreyashi Dutta organized all the sheets and the certificate and sat in front of his cellphone, supported to see the right, on Friday morning.
When he was waiting since the last years of school arrived at 10 am, when a professor appeared on the screen and welcomed him and other students.
Dutta finally stepped into her college life, but on the screen.
As the first semester undergraduate class began on Friday, exploring the new academic session, Sanjay Chatterjee, a professor of physics, who had triggered thousands of previous refreshings, feeling, the buzz was gone.
The ordinary scene from a new face that is worried and chat is happy during the break replaced with a single face on the screen, waiting for their round to open up to introduce yourself.
This pandemic limits the campus buzz to a virtual platform.
Campus Lady Brabourne who is usually crowded, Maulana Azad, Bethune, Scottish Church, and Asutos and many others wearing a deserted look and classrooms remain closed, contrary to the first day’s scene, when young people who will not definitely wander, look for classrooms They are new.
, half engrossed and half excited about campus.
The professor this time did not have to make extra efforts to attract beginner’s attention, busy posting FB updates on the first day of college.
“I can’t even see the face of my classmates correctly because they appeared small on the mobile screen.
The first day of college should be a landmark event in the life and friends of the students we made today sometimes remain forever.
But we are busy entering And come out, depending on the network, “said Sreyashi, a student at Bethune College.
The first day in most colleges is provided for orientation, when students are updated on various departments, libraries, labs, and online resources.
The teacher also shares their schedules, syllabus and students must upload a copy of their markers and certificates.
Experience is also different for professors and principals.
“We try to interact with students virtually, as much as we can.
The lower virtual class is perfect, and students also interact well, but no one can replace physical interaction,” Chatterjee said, a professor at Maulana Azad College.
St Xavier’s College has started their first year class on September 11.
The main pastor Dominic Savio said, “Online class will be perfect, but students really want to visit campus.
They lost their campus and we also missed them.” The next destination from college is to complete the syllabus on time.
“We have a very short time to cover the complete syllabus under CBC.
From the next class, we will start full online class,” said Siuli Sarkar, headmaster Lady Brabourne College.
Jogomaya Devi Principal Sarbani Sarkar said, “We did an orientation program on Thursday and will hold classes from Friday.”