Then again, there’s this mental image about what is NTU to an individual, which is different from one NTU student or staff to another.

It depends invariably on how involved an individual is in the NTU community, and the establishing (or the lack of) sense of attachment and commitment follows.

To a highly-involved student, it could be that hassles encountered at adminstration levels in obtaining the go-ahead to proceed in activities-planning and the like, be reason that irks the notion of donating back to a entity of hassles.

To a not-so-involved student, it could be how departments/faculties/other modes of influence on campus seemingly appear not as a wholesome entity of a varsity , but as fragmented pieces of a blurry administration body, that backfires the i-gave program.

I’m not excluding the happier encounters. I am happy with the range of professors i have to spice my academic pursuit. I am happy with the landscape of the campus. I am not so happy with the bus services and the canteen food though.. We all have our concerns.

But i’m not sure who i should smile at and say thanks for the wonderful upkeeping of the greens around campus when i walk past the empty field; i’m not sure who to give my thanks to for the efforts in providing wonderful academia when i walk past the icy glass doors of the staff office.

Probably, what needs to be worked on here, is to have the various departments/faculties/other modes of influence on campus to recognise and to have benefited from i-gave, making i-gave the common platform for donation across the varsity.