THIS UNIVERSITY IS GOING TOO FAR WITH IT'S UNJUSTIFIABLE AND INCREASING FINES ON STUDENTS

Your university, by all the definitions in the world, is not a university. You, by all the definitions in the world, are not treated as students. You are not treated fairly, and that should be enough to shake your conscience. But I don't think you even possess a conscience. Your conscience comes alive when your university only wants it to, as we all saw recently when the parking was seized. Your conscience was never nudged before, not even slightly. Your conscience is never nudged when there is a fee hike, or when administration shuts you down vehemently.

So, the thing is that degree of oppression has reached its pinnacle. Now is the time for you to raise your voice. Do something. Do anything. Challenge them. Resist them. Show a symbolic fight. Change things. Change things because time or system or any help from any other side won't change it for you.

University is changing your course timings, without even consulting you. Because lets get one thing straight: you are not important enough to be consulted for things that directly affect you. Students are the last thing this university will ever think about, unless you do something to change it, but would that ever happen? Are you even willing to resist the draconian administration? Your course timings might not have been changed, but there'd be someone in the university in his last or second last semester, and there'd be conflict in course timings, so their degree will be delayed. And then there be someone else. So on and so forth. Ad nauseam!

Parking should not have been seized. It was a bad thing. But why university was even expecting us to protest? There's a perpetually shrinking space for dissent. There's no protest culture, no student activism, no student body. Nothing! So, where exactly are we studying. What exactly are you willing to do? What exactly are you even afraid of? Stand with the oppressor or stand with the oppressed. Don't stand in between. Don't stand with both of them. Do something for heavens sake.

By love serve one another, they say. What an ironic motto. The only apt words that should replace the current motto should be taken from Dante's inferno. The hell gate on Ferozepur road should read as “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.” This will go on. If you are not affected now, someday you might be. This is not about you and me. This is about current and upcoming students, and it's about their future. More importantly, it is just wrong. This is about time you force them to revisit their regimented modus operandi.

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SHEER HARD WORK AND HUMBLENESS MAKES A COMMON MAN A LEGEND.

In the world as we are moving very fast and our lives are so prone and caught up into technology and we are so engaged in rationalizing our society that we have forgotten the basic norms and the value of small bit of things that could actually matter if we just give a little focus to that it would not waste our time or make us apart from our everyday activities but by just looking around of yourself for a while and indulging yourself in the busy atmosphere could give you many answers to un ask able questions.

But noo we are just sooo busy in interfering in others lives and complimenting other that we do not give a damn that if we give importance or just few minutes to people who are actually putting some time on us or for our environment.

So basically all the above speech was just about to think a little deeply into another perspective of life, so we all spend our time in university and in university canteen so you might have definitely seen a person who cleans the tables and some sometimes brings food to us or brooms the whole place or you might do not remember because you might have not given that much importance on the work he is doing there or may be you could have glimpse of him in your mind.

He is catering us in our university for past 22 years and doing amazing, such a humble and nice person if you talk to him you get to see how happy and satisfied he is with his job no ,matter how less fancy it is, it diverts your thinking in a way that even though in this era and time people do exist who does not value superficial luxuries of life but they are happy for what God has chosen for them and they are not disappointed but they are satisfied because they have faith that if this is the way God wanted them to be then maybe it’s the best for them, they do not try to de motivate their selves just because they have less luxuries in life or no luxuries but they gives us a lesson that they look at those people who are even below them that they cannot even work for themselves just because they are handicapped and they have some disability so they thank God for what they have.

So the moral is we have to stay synchronized with such type of people so that we can thank God for what he have enchanted us with things and only the real beauty of life lies in the happiness and how much you are contented with it because simplicity also has its own beauty which only few of us can see.

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AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL THE STUDENTS WHO THINK ABOUT LIFE AFTER GRADUATION

Studying in one of the most competitive institutions and among individuals aspiring for more than the usual goals that an average human being has, my definition of success and my goals in life have altered immensely over the two years that I have spent here in LUMS. From the very beginning, when I first got my toy stethoscope set in grade three, I wished to become a doctor. The wish slightly altered to become a dentist by the time my school came to an end, and now when I am about to step into the third year of my university, I happen to seek a future in business analytics.

The point I am trying to make here is that my dreams also point towards the ultimate goal of becoming a self-sustaining money machine and at times when I take a step back from this thought process, I realize that I have immensely narrowed my way of thinking. It is completely fine, in fact brilliant, to be focused on what one wants to achieve but there needs to be an addition of a few important things whilst this achievement takes place.

This incident might make what I am trying to say, a little more clear. A couple of people in my family went abroad in the past few years to complete their education saying that they would return after a certain period of time but we saw that there was no coming back. They settled there leaving their parents, who are living on medication back at home. There is no harm, in fact, it is important to equip oneself with good education and exposure but that education is (in my opinion) utterly useless when it doesn’t teach a person how to become a human being.

If in the twenty eight years of a person’s life where he/she learns the most and enlightens him/herself with a vast amount of knowledge; he/she is unable to discern how to balance his/her routine, how to respect relationships, how to divide time between each and every individual of one`s family and work, and make time for one`s own self-development, then life has been wasted and lost its purpose.

Realizing all these things makes me want to become an influencer. I want to leave an impact on the lives of people through the example of my life. I want to make people understand that they need to shut their laptop and phone screens, and sit with their families and children in a room and talk to them, ask them about not just their day but their life, how it has been in the past when they weren’t there for them to discuss their life goals, their new friends, their new crushes, their favourite songs, their recently watched television series and most importantly about their time with God.

I want to tell people to educate their families about the correct ways to connect to their Lord, to know that in the midst of their school, their friends, their phones, their Facebooks, their Instagrams and their summer goals, there is a Higher Power that needs to be connected with, before they return to Him without knowing Him and not knowing that they have responsibilities to fulfil towards Him and the people around them because otherwise the journey back to Him would not be a pleasant one and they’d certainly be left with their work laptop eulogizing them beside their coffins.

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A STUDENT OF PIEAS UNIVERSITY COMMITS SUICIDE !!

An engineering student was found dead in his hostel room in Islamabad on Monday in what police say is a suicide case.

Muhammad Hassan was a student of systems engineering at the government-run Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) Nilore.

The police said the student had hanged himself from an iron rack fixed in the wall using a rope and the body appeared to be two or three days old.

The dorm room, where Hassan lived alone, was locked since Friday evening. On Monday, residents noticed a stench emanating from the room and informed the administration. When the door was opened, the student was found dead hanging inside, the police said.

Hassan, 27, belonged to Lahore. He had received a scholarship and was enrolled in the MS Systems Engineering programme at the PIEAS since November 2016.

Homicide investigation officers said they were probing into the case and trying to determine the reason behind the apparent suicide.

The student’s family in Lahore was informed about his death on Monday, while his autopsy is scheduled to take place at the Poly Clinic Hospital on Tuesday.

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