Education
Mela (Fair): Stories from Sambhaavnaa-1
देखिये हम ज्यादा इकोनॉमिक्स नहीं समझते। बस इतना जानते हैं कि अगर घर में एक बच्चा भूखा होगा, एक की स्कूल की फीस भरनी होगी और एक को मेला देखना होगा, तो हम पहले क्या करेंगे। [Translation: Look, I do not understand a lot of economics. But I know, if I had three children, one [...]
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Objectivity
I am hungry, I am tired. And this should be an excuse for my mind to take over me, while I struggle with myself to work. I don’t know much how these four months passed by, but I got to know myself a lot more. It is not pure respect, I hated myself too. But nevertheless, these were four months following which I would like to pat myself, take three days off, sleep, read Jeffrey Archer, or maybe Paulo Coelho (any suggestions?), and come back to work again.
5What we lack in our education…
Whenever there are cries against our education system, there appear many ‘saviours’ who cry hoarse against the critics. They say we have one of the best education systems, which makes us ‘rough and tough’, due to its incessant grinding of students. What they fail to realize is that our education system, apart from its weak [...]
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Roller Coaster of Dreams – Looking for myself (Part II)
Continued from my old blog post Roller Coaster of Dreams – When your Dreams Come True (Part 1). So JEE results are out. Becchare fucche (the word used for freshers over here). And this reminded me of my first semester. I remember first time I visited IIT, it was a very hot day which made [...]
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December 2011: What a month!
The month of December 2011 has been really nice to me Just after the Major exams, went to Chennai for a wedding in the family. It was really nice getting to meet family members after so long a time. The fun and frolic lasted quite a bit, and to top it, it was during one [...]
2IIT needs a Anna
It’s my first blog I will be posting on this site,so I wanted to be true,comprehensive and appealing.So I decided not to pen down any broken hearted songs or concoct a work of fiction.I stand by here to pen down a fact which I have found the most irksome in my life at IIT Delhi. [...]
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Common Misconceptions about Mechanical Engineers
Mechanical Engineering is one among the holy trinity of Engineering Disciplines. The other two of course being Civil and Electrical Engineering. The following are the most common misconceptions people have regarding Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineers:- 1. Mechanical Engineers are not MECHANICS – I`m just sick and tired of hearing this stereotype over and [...]
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Lighting the torch !!!
Me : Hey, are you Rajat from civil? Rajat : Yeah. Me : Remember, we talked earlier before you joined IIT. Rajat : No. (Some interruptions) Me : Hmm. You asked me about Civil batch, when I probably replied to you that perhaps if you join civil Engineering you would have a strong contendership to [...]
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Things to do at Stanford
I don’t know how to use a strikethrough in the title of a post. Otherwise I should have named this post: ‘Things to do I should have done at Stanford’. Stanford is a super cool place. You work hard, you party harder and then you work the hardest. This is how my story went. I [...]
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No, this ain’t the right way.
This post is dedicated to Abhishek Gupta one of my best friends. It happened when we were in our middle of our third semester. It required a documentation and the implementation with a deadline for both. We started making the document a little earlier, read books and materials, collected data, developed ideas, contacted mentors, developed [...]
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A short story, a bigger question
I was going through a short story by Chetan Bhagan which recently got published in Hindustan Times (You can find the story here). He wrote about a boy eager for a suicide after failing to get admissions in so called prestigious institutions like SRCC and Stephens despite getting a ninety two percent in his school, [...]
17Getting Interested
I am not too good at selecting titles, but this one is interesting. I recently wrote a post called getting bored which did not get a good response. People perhaps found the post boring. What else could they have expected from a bored person? But things are changing now. I am getting involved and getting [...]
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Getting Bored
Now this must be a first. I have told you how angry I was at knowing that Abhishek Gupta had peeped into my drafts. This is revenge time, people. I peeped into his drafts this time and stole his title. This title belongs to a post Abhishek plans to post. I wished to call this [...]
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