From Questioning Systems to Building Them Better – Sayan Ghosh
The race of entrance examinations hypnotizes all into a rush of academic mania, however, Sayan Ghosh asked the question many omit. Why is it necessary for someone to hone their problem solving skills through Physics and Chemistry while pursuing Computer Science? With the allure of computer games and his fascination for the grandeur and social…
From Santragachi to Staggering Solutions: The Priyangshu Bala Story
In Sanskrit, there is a word “jijñāsā” , which lives on in Hindi and Bengali as “jigyāsā” and “jiggāśā” : a restless desire to know, a curiosity so deep that English has no perfect equivalent. Priyangshu Bala might not have used that word to describe himself when he enrolled in the IIT Madras BS Degree…
Chandan Kumar : The Teacher Who Went Back to School
Chandan Kumar spent years on the other side of the classroom – chalk in hand, explaining the elegance of Physics to students preparing to crack one of the world’s most gruelling entrance exams. His goal, every single day, was to get his students into an IIT. He knew the institution well, admired it from a…
Quenching the Thirst for More – Prahladh C
The monotonicity of college life, the hours of vacancy and a mind rushing with ideas is a cocktail for thirst; The thirst for more information, for knowledge and depth that Prahladh C sought in the comfortable afternoons after attending PMS college in Bangalore while pursuing AI and ML. Having missed the chance to attend high…
M. Nagrajan: The Man Who Refused the Post-Mortem Phase of Life
Forty years ago, Mr. M. Nagrajan sat at a desk without a monitor or a keyboard in sight. He was writing code not with a blinking cursor, but with a pen in a physical notebook. Lines of COBOL, Fortran, and Pascal were meticulously hand-inked, then mailed to a college in Madurai for evaluation. There was…
What Started as an Interest in Circuits Slowly Became Pratham’s Career Direction
For Pratham Tibrewal, choosing a career was never about following trends or chasing a popular branch. It began with a simple realization during his entrance preparation days – he genuinely enjoyed studying Electronics. That interest eventually led him to the IIT Madras BS Degree in Electronic Systems, one of the early batches of the program….
How Shivaraman Turned an Unconventional Choice Into a Meaningful Journey
Every journey has a moment where a single choice changes everything. For Shivaraman, that moment came when he decided to move beyond the usual path and pursue something that genuinely matched his interests, leading him to the IIT Madras BS Degree in Electronic Systems. Right after school, he explored traditional college options, trying to find…
Inside Abhisar’s Electronic Systems Journey
For Abhisar Prajapati, electronics was never just another subject in school. Since his early days, he was always curious about how devices actually worked – what goes on inside chips, circuits, and motherboards that power the technology around us. That curiosity slowly turned into a clear goal: he wanted to build a future in electronics….
Piush Das: Rewriting His Story Through the IITM BS Degree
There is a version of Piush Das’s story on paper that looks like a series of wrong turns. A Humanities student who avoided Mathematics. A college dropout. Someone who spent years studying alone at home, far from any campus. By most conventional measures, this is not the profile of someone who becomes a Teaching Assistant…
From Drafts Folder to Zoho: Sakthivel’s IITM BS Journey
The email sitting in Sakthivel’s drafts folder was a long shot and he knew it. Zoho was a real company, a good one, and he wasn’t entirely sure his resume was worth sending. But he sent it anyway, and within two to three weeks, he was shortlisted. A week after that, HR called, and within…
