All about IITK Alumni Top 10 at School, JEE Rank 101. Thought Conquering IITK was about Grades. But 30 Years Down the Line ……… I cracked IIT JEE with Rank 101, and went to IITK, considered academically the toughest and challenging of all IITs. IITK shocked this winner by awarding SPI of 6.7 out of 10 in the first semester. I proudly declared to my friends in Hall 2 Mess, “A mistake and fluke. I will score 10 in […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Alumni I was told that I had “zero possibility” of getting into a top 100 PhD program Today I am working towards my Ph.D. with the #1 professor in my field. Don’t lose hope. If you really want to do something, you will find a way …. From as far back as I can remember I have always enjoyed teaching and that was my long term goal. After finishing my BTech from the Bengal […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Events Faculty Students The Semester that was: GRC’s session with professors The Counselling Service joined hands with the Student’s Gymkhana to organize a ‘Session with Professors’ in all the Undergraduate halls intended for the Y13 batch . The session, a part of the extended orientation held by the Gymkhana Review Committee was meant as a means to bridge the increasing gap between students and Professors and […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Beyond IITK Rahul Ram: Playing to a Different Note After completing M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur in 1986 and PhD in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University in 1990, Delhi-based Rahul Ram should have been a top grade scientist or an ace academician or both. But Ram chose to be lead singer and bassist of the band Indian Ocean. It is very unlikely that […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Beyond IITK Institute Students The Semester That Was: Anonymity, Social Media and the Web, Part-I The frailty of genius is it always wants to push boundaries; moral, social, ethical, personal. A young student sitting in his attic somewhere in England with regular gizmos could get through the firewalls of NASA and Pentagon as a hot knife through butter. While, no one on campus has attempted, or more accurately put, succeeded […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Editorials and Opinion Pieces Students Grading Schemes for Evaluating Students It is well recognized by educationists all over the world that having evaluation in terms of discrete grades is better than giving continuous marks out of 100 (or whatever be the maximum marks). IITs and several other good quality institutes have been awarding grades for decades. Slowly, other universities in India are catching up with […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Gymkhana Prayas and its beginning Mrs. Vijaya Ramachandran, or Vijaya didi, as she is affectionately known, came to IIT Kanpur in 1968 with her husband, Prof R. Ramachandran of the Physics Department. She resides in the hearts of many people as one of the founders of the Opportunity School and the Karamchari Sangathan in IIT Kanpur and 21 other schools […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Beyond IITK Rajeev Motwani: There wasn’t a startup he didn’t love Rajeev Motwani, wanted to study mathematics and become another Gauss! His father, however, persuaded him to study computer science. Little did he know how closely the two are related? He graduated with B.Tech. in computer science from IITK in 1983 and PhD from Berkeley in 1988. Rajeev was a wise theoretician that had the rare […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Alumni By the time I graduated, I had 10 A’s and 11 F’s Everything that bothered me, everything that gave me shame or guilt, I had it discussed with at least one person; and people didn’t reject me. Today, I have a successful career with an MNC as Software Development Engineer. Academically, I went through a really tough time at IIT Kanpur. It is not an experience that […] March 29, 2014May 14, 2021
All about IITK Editorials and Opinion Pieces Institute Students Should New Programs at IIT Kanpur be Available to Existing Students In the last few months, IIT Kanpur has made its academic programs more flexible. For example, it has discontinued admission to five year BTech MTech dual-degree programs. Now, the students take admission to the BTech program, and in the 3rd year decide whether they want to spend an extra year to get an MTech degree […] March 29, 2014December 23, 2020