Articles in IIT Bhubaneswar
ORM. Sounds like a fluid replacement therapy or an operating system developed by a techie doesn’t it? It’s not. It is a social welfare initiative started by IIT Indore’s social welfare club, Avana. ‘One Rupee Miracle’ (ORM) is an initiative where students of IITI donate one rupee a day, whose collection is later used by […]
At 8 in the evening you realise that an assignment is due tomorrow and you don’t have blank assignment sheets to write on. There is no stationery shop in a radius of 10 km near your hostel and there is no transport facility to take you to college, which is again 10 km away. What […]
The Fine Arts and Crafts Club staged its competitive event “Split Painting” on Wednesday the 16th. With participation capped at 39 teams, an enthusiastic turn up by 35 teams was encouraging and is strongly indicative of the passionate interest in the fine arts harbored by the students. The theme for the event was “Paradigm Shift” […]
Monkey raids a dustbin in IIT Madras hostel. Doors of the hostel rooms left open invite, not just fellow hostel mates but, a bunch of monkeys in IIT Madras. Amidst the students and faculty, monkeys too seem to be equally a part of the entire grind. From raiding open hostel rooms, dust bins, and even […]
Summer of 2014. Ten of the most precious and enjoyable weeks of my life. Two and a half months that changed me from an average guy, with little experience in public transport and habituated to the comfort of air-conditioned rooms and cars, to someone who can get by on his own in a completely alien […]
Strategies & Mistakes on CAT Preparation : Every management aspirant dreams of getting 99 percentile in CAT, one of the most coveted management exams in India. However, only a handful of people realizes this dream. Yogesh Mehra – 99.03%ile CAT 2014 Nagendra Rawat- 99.10%ile CAT 2014 What drives these people? What motivates them? What does it […]
IIT Madras is one of the few IITs that provide a high level of curriculum flexibility to the students in their academic programmes. The institute offers electives that make up 40% of their curriculum; the highest elective composition amongst those provided in all other IITs. Students have the option to choose their subjects spanning different […]
PET bottle filled with water and bleach, refracts sunlight to illuminate Did you ever think that the empty PET soft drink bottles you throw can actually brighten homes and light up people’s lives? Yes, you read that right. A slum just behind IIT Delhi, Munirka, where even sunlight inside homes seems to be a luxury, […]
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), is in the last few weeks of the third and final phase. Though amongst the ‘Most Viewed Educational Channel‘ on YouTube, the rural populace seems to be far from making the best use of it, resulting in it being beneficial […]
The inter-IIT Student Exchange Programme is a programme wherein IIT students spend a semester in other IIT campuses and study different courses. This programme is regulated by the MHRD and through the mutual understanding between the partnering IITs. No formal documentation or MoU is required for this, unlike with foreign institutes. Despite such efforts, it […]