The months of September and October mark the beginning of the fest season for B.Tech students. IIT Madras is all set to unveil the magic with their annual technical fest SHAASTRA ’09. The celebrated technical festival of IIT-M is all set to begin on the 30th of September and will continue till 4th of October.
Shaastra is conducted every year in the first week of October. The fest is conducted for 5 days and attracts a lot of students from all over the nation. The Golden edition of IIT’s Shaastra ’08 was a big crowd puller with interesting... Read→
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a renowned educationist had once quoted, “The students always deserve more than what they usually get because they are the real patrons of young India.” Similar quotes like this one are losing their ground in today’s times, where education has become a monopolistic scheme. A student joins a professional college by paying hefty sum of money, hoping for an independent future, hoping that there would be some aid for his / her talent, some monetary benefit from the college, which will relieve his / her parents’... Read→
“Some like to follow, but very few like to lead.”
Sumeet Kumar Barua, a fourth year student from Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology falls in the clan of those very few, who not only led his team but went beyond fringes of his country to represent his team at the International Congress held in Singapore by IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, to mark its 125th anniversary held a congress 2009 held from July 16th to 19th at the National University of Singapore. Aimed at finding a new set of student leaders,... Read→
How many students are still planning to go abroad for higher studies? How many are still burning the midnight oil for the preparation of GRE, TOEFL or GMAT. Above all, how many are still unclear, unprepared and LOT confused about choosing a career path. All those, who fit in any of these read on…
They say at IMPEL Overseas “Stop Dreaming, Start Searching”. On 11th of August 2009 at MRCET – Malla Reddy Engineering College, Kompally; a seminar was organized especially for the final year students of engineering stream across the Malla Reddy... Read→
Opinions: one really cannot keep them bottled up for long. Whether or not people like something, they always find a way of telling the world. Whether it is our esteemed politicians opining on the socio-cultural impact of soaps today, which they undoubtedly feel is an issue relevant to the governance of the Indian democracy, or one’s next-door neighbour expressing his/her concerns over America’s latest ploy to subordinate the developing countries, opinions always find a way of being expressed. It doesn’t matter whether or not one... Read→
Quite a horde of eager and anxious students and equally excited parents by their side, were seen on the 11th of September, 2009. A new batch of students was welcomed with open arms by the students and management of Ace Engineering College on this day. Yes, the long wait for the counseling has finally come to an end, putting to rest the days of suspense for the students, who were nerve wrecked as to which college they would end up in. (Picture – Kudos for organising the event without a hitch! Credits: Insanity Personified)
Four different... Read→
Monday dawned on a high note for all the freshers and was quite a lazy one for the seniors of Sri Indu. It was the freshers’ first day of college and the lot was quite excited. “The juniors are a lucky lot. They even have Volvo buses now to travel like princes and princesses. We have absolutely no access to them”, exclaimed the jealous seniors. Many seniors thronged the college buses just to have a glimpse of juniors but the management played spoilsport by allocating separate buses for them. “Damn! I had come to college just to rag a... Read→
Hot cuppas, steaming hot snacks, surprise birthday parties, happy bunking hours… all this and much more! They are the images, which flash in our minds at the very thought of college life because every college student spends more time in canteen than classes. Welcome to the world of incessant chatting, blaring mp3s and ek dum masth attitude ka ilaaka (fantastic hangout to exhibit attitude).
“The best part of our canteen is that it is a separate building and consists of two floors. This gives a lot of scope for us to while away our time unnoticed... Read→
“Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable like a talking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change. Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.” -Dean Gordon Brown
“Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.” -Albert Einstein
Engineering is one of... Read→
‘Happy Days’; listening to these words, one immediately conjures up images of the hit Tollywood movie ‘Happy Days’, where a set of happy-go-lucky friends are shown enjoying their Engineering life in CBIT. However, this is the title of the program, which is aired on NTV every week. Sri Indu college got a chance to showcase its talent on this show.
The day started as usual and all of a sudden, a lecturer informed the students to gather in the portico for the shooting. A few interested students from IT, EEE, ECE and CSE... Read→
