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“Under the club conveners, Srishti Jain and Prudhvi Raj, the volunteers quickly organized themselves into groups and set out to paint the bins just as evening began to fall. Supplies were aplenty, excitement ran high, and everyone was free to paint what they pleased.”
The new mess allocation system, the construction ban and conditions in hostels — these were among the burning issues that the panel of admin members and an audience of students tackled at the second Townhall Meeting of the year.
“With regard to experience, perspective and other long words, this was an eye-opener. The learning curve is really steep, and unlike anything one encounters in college. The office is formal — both in attire and conduct, and helps you develop a corporate and professional approach to work. It gives you a business perspective of the investment banking industry.”
Swapnil and Nishad, who interned with Deutsche Bank this summer, talk about the experience.
“If there was one change I would like to see in insti, it would be for the mini-institutions that we have created to do more than just make the rich richer – to become less elitist, to foster learning and not competition, to value initiative over reputation, and talent over popularity. “
T5E brings to you a collection of precious moments from the insti lives of some of our ’14 passouts in in this mini-series. The fourth in the series, Sneha talks about her five years on campus as an MA student.
The third graduate in our convocation series, Jithin Sam Varghese, tells us about his time at Insti, PoRs and more.
“I’ve gained much from insti, on the academic, cultural and social front; but I believe what I really, and truly, have gained the most is a sense of perspective. I have gained perspective on what it really means to be passionate about something, work towards it on my own, and either succeed and bask in its glory, or fail and pick the pieces up. I have gained perspective on the essentiality of certain life skills I had tried to avoid in school, but have learned to embrace now. And I have gained perspective on whose opinions are important to me and whose are not.”
“I looked up to the amazingly talented seniors who had the urge to do something good for the community, the drive to excel in whatever they chose to pursue, and yet had the time and patience to address the doubts and concerns of juniors. With that admiration and the constant company of an extremely supportive peer group, different layers of life at insti unfolded.”
Has the newly begun Life Skills Course for the freshmen made an impact? What do the freshies say? T5E finds out.
“And remember, we’re in this together. Persistence. Perseverance. Thirst for knowledge. Curiosity. Not your past. Not your background. Not who you were.
What matters is who you want to be.”
Sujeet Gholap, an alumnus from the Computer Science department who graduated in 2013, tells us his story, and about overcoming the odds.