You might have wondered how is our college’s name actually pronounced, its too big, University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, in short we call it as “UVCE”.

But are you aware that it was referred to with multiple funnier names earlier. Once around 1975, it was called College of Civil Engineering. Another such weird name is “You we see yee”. Amazed right?

Our college’s location is very spectacular, beside the busiest KR Circle, very near to busy centers such as Avenue Road, DC Office, BEL, Court Complex, etc, yet it stands calm and uninterrupted. Our college design has been surely made by a genius. It is an assortment of structures of all possible shapes and sizes strewn about.

Our college building has its own ups and downs, like yeah, it’s true, you keep walking on the first floor, you’ll reach the second floor and be back without your knowledge. So as the design is made. The rooms are numbered from 211(CSE A), I don’t know about the first 200 rooms, where they got disintegrated with the passage of time.

Moving into the premises, we have the Minchu block currently that hosts Marvel but earlier there was nothing there except the most striking building,” the library”, sitting snug in the quadrangle. We have an unique library in all aspects and respects, the building, the books and the officials.

At that time the college library didn’t have a catalogue until then. But it is mentioned that there was given a time for this, because “the world is not to end tomorrow”.

Regarding the books it is said here that, at that time there was partiality in providing the required books, or materials or guides to the students. The REFERENCE copies were given or handed over only to the so called “men” of wisdom and who were more close and did the works of the library staff,

There used to be a reference section separately it seems, It was said to be an ideal place for mid day “Siesta”(I literally searched the word meaning in google, and it turned out to be “a short nap of the afternoon usually after lunch, in equatorial countries), it was ideal place of taking a short nap, because all were not given reference materials and books, hence the only available resource that was available to any common indivisual student was his own personal material and nothing else.

Next part is interesting, funny and somewhat disgusting too.

“The Bisi Bele Bath & Beyond: The Canteen Culture of UVCE through Decades”.

All are surely familiar with the existing Nandini Canteen right? Next article, we’ll have a glimpse on the canteen of 1975. There’s much yet to be discovered which we’ll see it in the next article of tomorrow.

This article is being written with the reference of an article written in the college magazine of 1975.