Between the Stethoscope and the Algorithms ft. BVS Madhavi
Every year, students across India are asked to make a choice. Mathematics or Biology. Engineering or Medicine. For most, that decision marks the beginning of two very different careers. BVS Madhavi never believed those worlds had to remain apart. Medicine hadn’t been her first choice. Yet once she found herself there, curiosity kept pulling her…
The Classroom Without Borders: The Suryanshu Gupta Story
Brothers often inherit the same stories. Sometimes, they write different ones. Suryanshu Gupta first heard about the IIT Madras BS Degree from his brother, who was already pursuing BS in Data Science and Applications. The programme intrigued them both. The disciplines did not. While one gravitated towards data, the other found himself drawn to something…
Capacity for a Dozen Passions – Devi Shreya
There exists a proclivity for students who enter college to lose sight of what makes their life colourful and fade into machinic personalities capable of just doing what their job asks of them. Devi Shreya saw that future and wished to refuse it, for losing all that would amount to losing herself. It was here…
Odyssey into the Unknown Domain of Data – Bhabani Shankar Samal
Coming from a background unlike that of what one would assume to have an interest in Data Science, Bhabani Shankar Samal simply took a leap of faith hinged on a belief that it would take him to places he did not have faith he could. That belief came from an online platform where he stumbled…
Beyond the Breadboard: The Sayantan De Story
Sometimes, the opportunity you’re searching for doesn’t arrive in an examination hall. It arrives in your inbox. Sayantan De had cleared JEE Main but narrowly missed qualifying for JEE Advanced. Like countless engineering aspirants across the country, he accepted the outcome and moved forward, enrolling in the Power Engineering programme at Jadavpur University. Then came…
Close to Home: The Yash Kumar Dubey Story
Every ambition asks for something in return. More often than not, it asks us to leave home. Yash Kumar Dubey wasn’t ready to make that trade. He has a younger sister, nine years old, and he knew there would come a time when work would almost certainly take him elsewhere. There would be jobs in…
The Long Arithmetic of Success ft. Prashasti Sarraf
Success usually arrives in milestones: an examination cleared, a rank secured, a degree completed. For Prashasti Sarraf, it appears instead as a habit, repeated so consistently that individual achievements begin to lose their ability to surprise. ICSE AIR 5. ISC AIR 7. St. Stephen’s College. IIT Madras BS Degree. Academic distinctions, TA roles, research initiatives…
Abroad from The Mathematical Airport – Sarath Sai
The passion for a subject is oftentimes the key to open doors to a broader world, and Sarath Sai knew exactly that. From being unable to take Aerospace Engineering due to eligibility criteria to falling back on a Bachelor’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in his home-state of Andhra Pradesh at JNTU, he…
A Pamphlet, A Path: The Aathi Sankar Story
Most stories begin with a decision. This one began with a leaflet. Someone pressed it into Aathi Sankar’s hand outside a JEE Advanced examination centre. It looked no different from the dozens of flyers routinely distributed to students. But he kept it. He knew little of Data Science then, harboured no five-year blueprint, no smouldering…
A Story of Defense and Freedom – Prachi Trivedi
Everyone has felt the suffocation of being stuck in the cyclical routine of 9 to 5, how it clips one’s wings and relegates them to mindless tasks. Prachi Trivedi found herself at the edge of entering such a world and could only imagine the color that would be lost should she choose such a route….
