Articles in IIT Bhubaneswar
For most first year students in an IIT, the thrill of a new beginning is overwhelming. From exploring a new city to campus life, hostels and lectures, there is so much more that a first year student looks forward to. But somewhere in all the excitement, there is this little uncertainty about how the students […]
After success in the Preliminary round of IIT Guwahati ‘Technothlon’ competition, teams of Kota’s coaching institutes gear up for ‘Mains’ which is the final round of Technothlon from 3rd to 6th September. A total of 12 teams from Allen Career Institute, and 5 from Resonance Eduventures Pvt. Ltd., Kota were selected in the first round o f the […]
I interned at the Bangalore office of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking service. This internship provided a great learning experience with a lot of fun. Selection Procedure Let’s walk through the only dull and boring part of this internship experience, the selection phase. It involved a coding round for short-listing, followed by an interview. The problems […]
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, […]