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“If you thought clinical depression was just sadness, only more extreme, you’re wrong. How do I know? Because I have been diagnosed with depression. I’m not ashamed of it. And I’ve something to tell you.”
T5E talks to the Music Club convenors about their plans for the coming year.
Smruthi Bala, a former student, talks about her experience as a Young India Fellow.
The 2013 batch of male freshers was allotted rooms away from seniors from their respective degrees, in other hostels. T5E attempts to look at the immediate impact of the change, and how Institute life and culture has changed over the past year.
Bindu Upadhyay (ED09), alumna and Ex-Student Head of the IITM Runners Club, shares with T5E her experience of being part of the running culture of insti.
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.
“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 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.”