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If you’re seething with rage at being a good-for-anything-but-a-good-non-core-intern Dual and lust for revenge on your smirking can-sit-for-DB and can-sit-for-GS BTech batchmates, American Express feels for you. For the learning experience seekers (*cough* maggus *cough*), AmEx also does imbibe some pretty important skills in you though this varies from intern to intern.
“I’m glad to share my experiences on my internship on ‘Community Participation in Palliative Care’ at the Institute of Palliative Medicine, Calicut. Those days are the most important days of my life as they made me understand what life is all about.”
As IITians, we know better than anyone that any problem can be solved if we really apply ourselves and go through the pain of recovery. It’s hard. But take it from a person who can talk both from the perspective of a person who attempted suicide and from that of someone who overcame depression – we will always find a way to be happy. It’s human nature.
This issue of Re:Play takes a sneak peak at how the Water polo finals be fought, reviews team performances and looks at the contenders for Best Swimmer title.
Dr. Devendra Jalihal had been the warden of Godavari Hostel around 10 years back. He prepared this ‘questionnaire’ for potential applicants for IIT hostel wardenship. The ‘questionnaire’ is based on some of his real-life experiences and takes a light-hearted look at student life in IIT Madras.
Re:Play, is T5E’s newsletter for the Inter-IIT Sports Meet being held at IIT Madras. This issue contains Day 0 and Day 1 highlights of the Aquatics Meet. Read on!
Nagendra Kumar Reddy, a final year M.Tech student in Civil Engineering department, was found to have committed suicide in his room in Tamaraparani hostel yesterday. The circumstances of death seem unclear at the present as he did not leave behind any suicide note. A police investigation has been started to look into possible reasons.
In yet another seasonal outbreak of Dengue, many students have taken ill with the viral fever in the past one month. While the institute’s marshland and tropical weather are some common reasons cited for the annual outbreak of dengue, many hygiene-related issues have also surfaced in a recent investigation in Narmada hostel.
Prof. TT Narendran is one of the longest serving faculty in IIT-M, having recently retired after serving as a Professor in the DoMS department for nearly 40 years. In his time here, he also served as the head of the then Guidance Counselling Unit (now MiTR) and President of the Music Club. On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, he talks to T5E about things that close to his heart – teaching, research, education, students and music.
“To our classmates and a lot of the people who knew us, we were the ‘Muggu Wing’, a moniker that we weren’t particularly fond of in the beginning but soon began to cherish.” Read the chronicles of an Alak wing which graduated this year.