Articles in IIT Ropar
IIT Kanpur has the e-Summit 2015 just around the corner, (28th-30th August, 2015) and guess who is on their list of Chief Speakers? Here is a brief that describes the man himself. He dropped out of IIT Bombay and started his own online venture. He resigned from the very same company he started, only to retract […]
‘Gathering of more than 5 students is not permitted anywhere inside the campus.’ ‘Inter-Bhavan movement of students is not permitted after 11 p.m.’ The above lines are diktats from the authorities at IIT- Roorkee. All this is because of the upcoming Student Council elections in the campus. The students are all charged up, and this electric atmosphere has […]
When it comes to core interns for students with an average CGPA, the options are pretty less. You either aim for universities or a few industries, both of which will filter you out if your CGPA falls below 8 (for the most part). Well, there is always the option of mailing professors on your own, […]
It was in August, 2014, that my experience with ITC started, when I decided to try and compete for their KITES Internship program. After a Group Discussion and two rounds of interviews: one technical and the other HR-related, in which I was mainly asked about my previous projects and some basic technical questions, I […]
The building for the Hobbies Club Who would have thought that star gazing, gardening, painting, philately and numismatics are hobbies that aspiring engineers at IITs would pursue? But here’s the thing, the Hobbies Club at IIT Roorkee was started 56 years ago to make sure that these would-be-engineers’ hobbies don’t vaporise in the humdrum of equations […]
IIT Kanpur not only encourages students to pursue their academic goals, but also provides them with ample opportunities to follow their heart, to explore their extra-curricular interests. In line with this, a bunch of students have been working on a project named ‘Raavayana’, which perhaps, is the first of its kind venture on our campus. Raavayana is a web […]
It is that time of the year again when a lot of the pre-final year students face the dilemma and problems of finding a suitable internship, and I had felt no different. The only things that kept revolving in the mind were: what to prepare, how to prepare, resumes, GDs, interviews, quoting big company names, […]
The first batch of IIT Kanpur (from March 1961) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, believed that ‘the world will ultimately be saved, if it is to be saved, by the method and approach of science.’ With a vision to achieve industrial and economic freedom, IITs were set up: the one at […]
It is not easy getting into an IIT, be it the general category or reserved. Though the cut-offs for the reserved lot are lower. However, despite being lower, for a variety of factors, the seats for reserved students often go empty in the IITs. To address this problem in the mid 1990s, the IITs wrote […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ( IIT Bombay) is a public engineering institution located in Powai,Mumbai, India. In global rankings, IIT Bombay has emerged as India’s top university. It is the second-oldest (after Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) institute of the Indian Institutes of Technology system. IIT Bombay has invited candidates for the various […]