Forty years ago, Mr. M. Nagarajan 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…
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….
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…
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….
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…
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…
As a curious child, Sonali often found herself asking questions – how does a fan spin, how does a bulb glow? She didn’t always find the answers, but that curiosity stayed with her. Years later, when it was time to decide what to do after school, she also faced moments of doubt, like many students…
When Aditya Prakash Gupta first started thinking about his future, he didn’t have everything figured out. Like many students, he was exploring different paths, trying to understand what would suit him best. That’s when he came across the IIT Madras BS Degree in Electronic Systems, a program that gave him the chance to learn, explore,…
In the classic film The Karate Kid, young Daniel LaRusso is famously frustrated by the mundane tasks assigned by his mentor, Mr. Miyagi. Waxing cars and painting fences seemed worlds apart from the martial arts mastery he craved. In much the same way, when Rajat Goel enrolled in the IITM BS in Data Science and…
Aaruni Kale is one term away from finishing his BS Degree in Data Science and Applications at IIT Madras. He joined the degree standalone, straight out of a BCA he dropped out of when COVID shut his university down. Scared of Mathematics, he was skeptical about the qualifier until a group of strangers changed his…