समय
मेरे झरोखे से समय का पता ही नही चलता फूलो की खुशबू भी नही आती बारिश आकर गुजर भी गयी मिट्टी की खुशबू कहा मिल…
The Teach For India Experience
TFI is wonderful. You will love the time you spend in it. It is also tiring and you don’t get paid much. There are limited prospects after the fellowship, don’t fall for their publicity.
Digging for “Gold”: TechSoc Manual Robotics
The annual TechSoc Manual Robotics competition was held on 5th October at SAC. The event began at 5.30 pm and went on through the evening. This year’s task was to make a ‘Gold Miner’. Due to the obvious unavailability of gold, Cosco tennis balls were used instead. Two teams were pitted against each other in a race to collect a maximum number of balls in the stipulated time of five minutes.
Sportsfest 2013
The courts resounded with praise for the host college as Sports Fest drew to a close on the 30th September. With 23 colleges from around the city, the games indeed brought about a festive mood to sports in insti and, of course, much needed exposure and a confidence boost for Inter-IIT. With almost all the teams clinching a medal, there seem to be good bodings for the Inter-IIT General Championship.
How (not) to Lose Opportunities and Alienate Professors
Emailing professors all over the world asking for research internships is not always a bad thing. However, there are many instances in which professors find this an unnecessary intrusion.
Science Diet: Into the Cloud
Science Diet is a weekly selection of five science/technology stories that are timely and relevant, fascinating and inspiring, and certain to stimulate your mind.
Buzzing Their Way to Victory
Organised and conducted by Siddharth Srikanthan and Rushabh Menon, Buzzer Quiz took place on 25th September. The questions can be found here.
“Why is India Against its Women?”
Is there a sign of hope in this? For one thing, after the Delhi rape case, people who earlier dismissed articles like this as ‘women’s stuff’ are now reading and getting involved, trying to understand what happened.
The Return of Freshie Night
With Dobby welcoming you and Voldemort demanding an “intro”, it quickly became apparent to anyone who walked into the SAC on the evening of September 22nd that even Lockhart would have trouble “Obliviating” the experiences of Freshie Night 2013, which was themed on Harry Potter.