After mid-sem exams, a very subtle thought came to me and had thought to discuss that with ppl. But unfortunately that didn't happen for some reason and then I thought to write about it. Though now-a-days I rarely do blog and at one point this activity was on the verge of extinction due to many reasons- the primary being lack of free time.
Just think we have some 8 courses of study- English,Maths,Physics, Chem, BET(Basic Electrical Technology), Programming in C, ED(Engg Drawing) and W/S(Worshop) and not to forget a Phy sessinal class as well... that makes it 9. 9 subjects in four and half months! It is but natural that one cannot learn all these perfectly as one wishes to do- with all those class hours and other activities as well.
Clearly, we have to give priority to some subjects over others but then is a even more difficult task to do and a dangerous thing . On what basis should one choose subjects- on the basis of interest, neccesity in future sems or according to grades- coz these do not always correspond to one particular subject. For instance, I love programming(in that way I am unique ;-) and most of the time being sighted studying C or in computer lab)- but according to getting grades this is one of the easiest subject- one easily scores full marks as the evaluation pattern is not so robust for this subject but yes in future sems we do need it.
Let us see another example. Chemistry! The least liked subject and most ppl(including me) open the book only when we have sem or class-tests... even in class-test we do manage to take copies with us. But it has 4 credits- the highest a subject can have! And I doubt if we do ever need it? And yes, I can say for sure, studying chem, dosent improve your problem-solving skills.
In this way, we have to choose subjects and the entire idea to learn various things-termed as "general study" in the first year is completely lost. No one learns ED,Phy is also managed somehow(though personally I like this subject),W/S and eventually sometimes to be an expert in everything ,everything is in doldrums.
What I think is that we should not be burdened with so many things... Instead less subjects, more learning. And I support this beleif fully that department-wise study should be started from the first day itself and we should not wait till 2nd year. I think atleast engg. students can understand my view-point!
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Blogging- A rare event
Ever since I returned back to Rourkela after Durga Puja,I was so busy that couldn't find time for blogging...ok, ok not that busy but yes, I made myself busy and sometimes unnecessarily. Then there were many assignments…this “assignment thing” has become a real headache-or should I call migraine!
Then there were too many classes and I had been busy doing some studies- after midsem went “not that good”- I am seen in the library often-as friends tell!
Again this blog is from home as was the last one!
Divali!!! Nothing exciting happened today-not the least. I was bored today as I had never been since the last month- life at home without didi and friends is really boring.
Anyways, now-as-days I am too much into reading books. I read some 3 books in a very span of time- Alchemist, Bill Gates way and Veronika decides to die. All three were fantastic but I had thought to blog my views upon Bill Gates way-which as usual was only “published” in my grey cells.
I will be returning to Rourkela on Thursday- bunking classes ;-) and will agin become busy with bloody assignments- hell to do with these and those profs!
But I love my college and am attaching a picture of our college-it's beautiful.....
Then there were too many classes and I had been busy doing some studies- after midsem went “not that good”- I am seen in the library often-as friends tell!
Again this blog is from home as was the last one!
Divali!!! Nothing exciting happened today-not the least. I was bored today as I had never been since the last month- life at home without didi and friends is really boring.
Anyways, now-as-days I am too much into reading books. I read some 3 books in a very span of time- Alchemist, Bill Gates way and Veronika decides to die. All three were fantastic but I had thought to blog my views upon Bill Gates way-which as usual was only “published” in my grey cells.
I will be returning to Rourkela on Thursday- bunking classes ;-) and will agin become busy with bloody assignments- hell to do with these and those profs!
But I love my college and am attaching a picture of our college-it's beautiful.....
Saturday, September 30, 2006
At home
Hoo...Back at home is a real pleasure- lazying around with a book in my hand,eating custard everyday,getting up at 11 in the morning(I call that morning!) is not what we get to do when at hostel!
It's good to get a break from the hectic schedule and boring classes.But this time I am very unlucky because I have no contacts with most of my friends and I even don't know whether they are at home or haven't yet come.But feeling good that my sisters have come so spending a good time with them.
I will be leaving soon,that is on 2nd night as I have got classes on 3rd-this bloody system doesn't even allow a 5 day holiday!!
Exams went well except for Physics as it was the toughest part as as I had written earlier that I was not at all prepared.After the exams I come to know how much study needs to be done for getting good marks.Regarding marks-I still don't know that what GPA need to be secured as to be enough-well that can be subjective one but I would like Mr. Ashish to comment on this ;-)
After the exams I have decided to be more sincere regarding studies or else if this continues then the end sem exams will be still worse!
It's good to get a break from the hectic schedule and boring classes.But this time I am very unlucky because I have no contacts with most of my friends and I even don't know whether they are at home or haven't yet come.But feeling good that my sisters have come so spending a good time with them.
I will be leaving soon,that is on 2nd night as I have got classes on 3rd-this bloody system doesn't even allow a 5 day holiday!!
Exams went well except for Physics as it was the toughest part as as I had written earlier that I was not at all prepared.After the exams I come to know how much study needs to be done for getting good marks.Regarding marks-I still don't know that what GPA need to be secured as to be enough-well that can be subjective one but I would like Mr. Ashish to comment on this ;-)
After the exams I have decided to be more sincere regarding studies or else if this continues then the end sem exams will be still worse!
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Exam fever!
Exams-the most hated word in the whole world. According to me and many, whoever loves exams must be from Mars!
Exams from 21st September and no preparation till now. I don't undersatnd what's wrong with this crap system! Studies,studies and only studies! Classes-8 to 5,NSS classes and functions. And then we need to sleep, to gossip, to spend time on the internet, see movies- when do we get time to study!
Well, yes this is funny. Though we have a hectic schedule here but one find time to study so as to suffice but somehow we didn't get it for the first month. Now we do study and have to study hard inorder to compensate but still then things are sailing that smoothly. Everyone is trying to cope and fight back but still there is always a backlog. And yes, someone had said- "Time milta nahin hain,nikal naa padta hain". (One dosen't get time,one has to fing it).
Exams from 21st September and no preparation till now. I don't undersatnd what's wrong with this crap system! Studies,studies and only studies! Classes-8 to 5,NSS classes and functions. And then we need to sleep, to gossip, to spend time on the internet, see movies- when do we get time to study!
Well, yes this is funny. Though we have a hectic schedule here but one find time to study so as to suffice but somehow we didn't get it for the first month. Now we do study and have to study hard inorder to compensate but still then things are sailing that smoothly. Everyone is trying to cope and fight back but still there is always a backlog. And yes, someone had said- "Time milta nahin hain,nikal naa padta hain". (One dosen't get time,one has to fing it).
Saturday, September 02, 2006
English Class Test
Now-a-days we are given many class tests now and then. Though I hate these, we have to give those. We also had a english class test-the subject is Communicative Englsih. As such I like this class-the only class in which I don't feel sleepy(besides Maths).
We were given a comphrehension and based on it there was a question.We knew the pattern in advance and I was expecting a passage on the ways of communications and that it would be intersting to write the answer-filled with my views.
But the passage was about Infosys and its rise named "Narayan Murthy and Infosys". The tilte quite impressed me and I thought to learn much from this. The passage was about how is Infosys "different" from other companies-all about employee-mangament interaction and their views being counted. Then there was a question-"Do you think Infosys adopted a new method and do you think this accounted for the rapid progress of the company?"
Though my answer was yes,frankly I was not at all impressed with the passage about the growth of Infosys. I mean every company does so and every company. I don't think that Infosys was any different(what I concluded from the comprehension). But I do think that Infosys must have had adopted something new but am unaware of what it is! Right now, I am searching for the history of Infosys and try to see if I can fing something new!
We also had class tests of BET & Maths-both were fine. We also have tests of Chemistry- on Monday,Wednesday & Thursday-not at all prepared as this subject is the most boring subject!
We were given a comphrehension and based on it there was a question.We knew the pattern in advance and I was expecting a passage on the ways of communications and that it would be intersting to write the answer-filled with my views.
But the passage was about Infosys and its rise named "Narayan Murthy and Infosys". The tilte quite impressed me and I thought to learn much from this. The passage was about how is Infosys "different" from other companies-all about employee-mangament interaction and their views being counted. Then there was a question-"Do you think Infosys adopted a new method and do you think this accounted for the rapid progress of the company?"
Though my answer was yes,frankly I was not at all impressed with the passage about the growth of Infosys. I mean every company does so and every company. I don't think that Infosys was any different(what I concluded from the comprehension). But I do think that Infosys must have had adopted something new but am unaware of what it is! Right now, I am searching for the history of Infosys and try to see if I can fing something new!
We also had class tests of BET & Maths-both were fine. We also have tests of Chemistry- on Monday,Wednesday & Thursday-not at all prepared as this subject is the most boring subject!
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Ganesh Puja celebrations
It's the day of Lord Ganesh and it's celebrated with real pomp and show in various parts of the country. Hers this festival is mainly popular among students and it's the students who worship Lord Ganesh on this day in their schools/colleges.
We too arranged for the Puja in our hostel's common room-it was great! The preparations for the Puja had started two days before-collecting money from the boarders of our hostel and planning out things such as what would be the expenditure and at what time the Puja is to be done. There was a group consisting of some 5 people who were in-charge of all the things but anyone suggestions were most welcome and everyone had an equal say in all the matters-this is the spirit of NITians freshers!
The Puja was done at 7 in the morning and though it's always a real pain to get up early in the morning and have a bath but there was an amazing enthu today and eveyone was ready and we got collected in the common room and the Puja was held very nicely and peacefully.
There is also a Puja in the AV Hall of our college but had not been there till now-because we had a cricket match after the Puja and I was the captain of the team- well we lost it ;-))) Not good at playing cricket nor at captianing a team! Will be most probably going to the AV Hall in the evening if I don't feel too lazy;-)
In this respect,our Hall was the the unique one as it was the only Hall to organise the Ganesh Puja in the Hall itself- the other Hall members had to attend the Puja in the AV Hall- ya,ya freshers are the best in this college ;-)
We too arranged for the Puja in our hostel's common room-it was great! The preparations for the Puja had started two days before-collecting money from the boarders of our hostel and planning out things such as what would be the expenditure and at what time the Puja is to be done. There was a group consisting of some 5 people who were in-charge of all the things but anyone suggestions were most welcome and everyone had an equal say in all the matters-this is the spirit of NITians freshers!
The Puja was done at 7 in the morning and though it's always a real pain to get up early in the morning and have a bath but there was an amazing enthu today and eveyone was ready and we got collected in the common room and the Puja was held very nicely and peacefully.
There is also a Puja in the AV Hall of our college but had not been there till now-because we had a cricket match after the Puja and I was the captain of the team- well we lost it ;-))) Not good at playing cricket nor at captianing a team! Will be most probably going to the AV Hall in the evening if I don't feel too lazy;-)
In this respect,our Hall was the the unique one as it was the only Hall to organise the Ganesh Puja in the Hall itself- the other Hall members had to attend the Puja in the AV Hall- ya,ya freshers are the best in this college ;-)
Thursday, August 24, 2006
IIT and NIT
(Disclaimer- The information about IITs and foreign universities given here are collected from various sources and no work has been done to check the authenticity of these.)
Lately, I heard that there is a proposal of upgrading our college NIT,Rkl to an IIT-which is indeed a great news for all of us. It brought a mixed feeling in me- both happiness as well as the past forgotten wounds of not getting into an IIT came alive once again.
Yesterday night from some sources I got to know about the atmosphere in an IIT and compared that to with that of a NIT- and concluded why are IITs "the IITs"and a NIT just a NIT and thought of writing about that today. So am I doing!
There are a lot of differences between IIT and NIT. It goes as follows-
Attitude difference. A very important aspect as such. There is a difference between students at the IITs and that in NITs. From the first day itself IITians are said to believe that they are the best unlike that in NIT. Infact we really do believe that we are inferior to the IITians and no one tells us not to believe that-the atmosphere is really very differnet here. Yesterday night,infact, we were discussing about our scores in JEE and most of the students missed by some very less marks-some getting the cut-off in total but missing it in a particular subject. So if one sees that way the people in IITs are not really the best ones-but are believed to be so-some smarter ones may be somewhere else. But what makes the difference is their attitude.
Faculty-student interaction. I heard that in IITs,the student-faculty interaction is excellent. Professors move to the hostels to interact with the students and help them in any way possible way leaving aside syllabus-but also with other forms of education-projects,and other things- which is much unlike in the NITS. Professors here are hesistant to move to hostels.
Scoring well. In NITs,the main emphasis is on getting grades and cramming up things rather than really understanding how can one use that in real life and enginnering-unlike the IITs.
So if really NITR is to be brought up to the level of an IIT,there is a long way to go.
This is purely my own thinking and there is no outside influence governing this. But I don't say that NITs are not at all worth studying in- it's really a good college if a comaprison is made with other colleges-the student quality is amazing here as well,which otherwise is thought to be just okay.
And yes,I completed one month in the NIT today and really it is a fantastic place!
Lately, I heard that there is a proposal of upgrading our college NIT,Rkl to an IIT-which is indeed a great news for all of us. It brought a mixed feeling in me- both happiness as well as the past forgotten wounds of not getting into an IIT came alive once again.
Yesterday night from some sources I got to know about the atmosphere in an IIT and compared that to with that of a NIT- and concluded why are IITs "the IITs"and a NIT just a NIT and thought of writing about that today. So am I doing!
There are a lot of differences between IIT and NIT. It goes as follows-
Attitude difference. A very important aspect as such. There is a difference between students at the IITs and that in NITs. From the first day itself IITians are said to believe that they are the best unlike that in NIT. Infact we really do believe that we are inferior to the IITians and no one tells us not to believe that-the atmosphere is really very differnet here. Yesterday night,infact, we were discussing about our scores in JEE and most of the students missed by some very less marks-some getting the cut-off in total but missing it in a particular subject. So if one sees that way the people in IITs are not really the best ones-but are believed to be so-some smarter ones may be somewhere else. But what makes the difference is their attitude.
Faculty-student interaction. I heard that in IITs,the student-faculty interaction is excellent. Professors move to the hostels to interact with the students and help them in any way possible way leaving aside syllabus-but also with other forms of education-projects,and other things- which is much unlike in the NITS. Professors here are hesistant to move to hostels.
Scoring well. In NITs,the main emphasis is on getting grades and cramming up things rather than really understanding how can one use that in real life and enginnering-unlike the IITs.
So if really NITR is to be brought up to the level of an IIT,there is a long way to go.
This is purely my own thinking and there is no outside influence governing this. But I don't say that NITs are not at all worth studying in- it's really a good college if a comaprison is made with other colleges-the student quality is amazing here as well,which otherwise is thought to be just okay.
And yes,I completed one month in the NIT today and really it is a fantastic place!
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