- Scholars Avenue
- Innovation Drive
- Khyber Road
- Luqman Avenue
- Bolan Road
- Indus Loop
- Iqbal Square [Its not even a square it’s a round about]
I don’t know what is the point of giving heterogeneous names to the roads. Either they could have had named them according to the places in Pakistan or they could have had altogether English names or names of prominent Pakistanis , but they should have followed one convention. Best solution would have been to assign numbers to the roads. In Islamabad all of the sectors have been divided nicely and systematically, we could have had a similar system. Considering from view of someone who is not accustomed to H-12 it would be very very confusing to get around the sector and find places.
Also In my search for all the road signs I noticed another anomaly in naming of the institutes and the names assigned to their buildings. For example the name of the building in which SEECS has set up, is known as Al-Kindi Block, likewise there are names for all the buildings in NUST which correspond to famous Muslims Scholars – Notice Roomi , Ghazali, Fatima, Iqra and Isra Hostels. Why not call the campuses by their names?
The heterogeneity doesn’t end here, there are three kinds of campuses at NUST:
- Schools [SCME, SEECS, SCEE, NBS, SMME……]
- Centers [CAMP, NCVI, RCMS,….]
- Institutes [NICE, NIT, IGIS, IESE, RIMMS]
Colleges – Since all of them reside out of H-12 so we don’t include them here
I was wondering why in the name of heavens would anybody make it so confusing? What is the status of Schools and Institutes? Is there a hierarchy ? or a nomenclature? Why not make every campus a “school” or an “institute”.
I thought Intel was the only one that used to confuse people with its series of products but we have even bigger candidates in this regard.
In the end is NUST-HQ building called “Rector” [Question Mark] ?
lol @innovation drive..
In fact naming the buildings by proper numbers, instead of names is most conveniant and versatile upto some extent….but NUST wale tu bus… chor yar…
What kind of round about is called a square?
Heterogenous names… are you from the SCME my friend?
Well, I guess it all has to do with the "versatility" of NUST
And "Innovation Drive", I love the name, I think it's awesome!
innovation drive is a cool name =D
Now that i have seen the complete picture that you've shown, i can clearly see this is the military tradition being followed. I guess because that's where we get half of our funds from, its difficult to let go of our armed forces background and function the way world class universities do. Good research anyway
@All Above [starting from farhan]:
- Not from SCME, Just couldn't find more suitable word.
- Agreed with the fact that there is nothing wrong with innovation drive, but what convention does it come in?
- I belong to a military background and irrespective of what is portrayed to everyone i would unbiasedly say that, its not bad rather its systematic, NUST on the other hand has strange norms, they don't think before doing something.
I belong to an army background as well and i never said its bad. What i meant to say was that, regimentation is not the right technique to be used in a public sector university!
Well, for all I know, regimentation or discipline is as desperately necessary in NUST as is in the whole of Pakistan, so it's not bad in any manner.
@Aeishah:
Agreed. Even regimentation is Uniform, At NUST, everything is done haphazardly.
BTW there is a Sir Syed Square too, i missed that one.
BTW i found some definitions of Square:
Square: (Social Science / Human Geography) (capital when part of name) an open area in a town, sometimes including the surrounding buildings, which may form a square.
square – an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
Square: an open area or plaza in a city or town, formed by the meeting or intersecting of two or more streets and often planted with grass, trees, etc., in the center.
how can you say that these names were decided "haphazardly"?
@Osama:
If a rule/convention is followed for something, it cant have entities which differ entirely. So is visible here.
Thought responded:
http://irnustian.com/2010/10/inspiration-nust/
haha
nice Osama..!
end of phada..
Personaly i thnink the names should be named after great muslims social and natural scientists. but i can't understand why we, muslims, are so fanatic in our thinking….