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…
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 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…
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…
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…