All about IITK Alumni Institute Students Reminiscence: Anurag Agrawal I entered IIT Kanpur with no formal training in sports. My only claim to fame was that I was the substitute goalkeeper of my class football team in school. So when my student guide at IIT Kanpur told me about CPA trails, I was naturally skeptical. He told us – Whatever happens, don’t get stuck in NCC; […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Institute Students Straight from the heart: Mayank Agarwal Home Inter-IIT; my last one as a player; opening match; Madras in opposition, the anger of previous years’ pathetic refereeing; all wingies, seniors and juniors there to watch – too much was really at stake ! When the last quarter of the first water-polo match of 2009 Inter-IIT started game had been stuck at 4-2 […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Editorials and Opinion Pieces Students Are we guilty of being provincial? “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller An inter block hall tournament’s final was being played. It was a tense stage. As the scorer gave the scores – “twelve -fourteen”, a section of the […] Written by Vox Populi August 1, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Events Institute Reports and Investigations Students 49th Inter IIT Sports Meet, IIT Guwahati: The Great Kanpuriya GC Campaign After days, weeks and months of gruelling practice sessions, carefully planned meals and workout schedules, and intense discipline and self restraint, the Sports Contingent of IIT Kanpur began its week long quest for the General Championship at the 49th Inter IIT sports meet in the spellbindingly beautiful campus of IIT Guwahati. Each one had a […] Written by Vox Populi August 1, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Beyond IITK Institute Students Anonymity, Social Media and the Web : Part-II 13th September, mid semester exams were just round the corner and like every exam you could sense the stress levels of the campus skyrocketing. This is usually the time when the average IITian, starts looking for an escape and “IITK Rage” proved to be a perfect platform to assauge the students’ pent up souls . […] Written by Vox Populi July 29, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Editorials and Opinion Pieces Institute Students Only two in top 100 So one more year of disappointment. Out of top 100 JEE rankers, only two have joined IIT Kanpur. For someone belonging to the era where more than 50 joined IIT Kanpur, this is shocking, but it has been this way for a few years. And last year it was actually zero out of 100.Every year, […] Written by Vox Populi July 28, 2014December 26, 2020
Administration All about IITK Editorials and Opinion Pieces Institute Students Convocation: Is there a need for a new format? We had our convocation on 18th June, 2014. This time we tried a new format. For the last few years, we had one main function where there will be speeches, a few awards, in some years, PhD degrees were awarded, and then we had two more ceremonies later, one for just giving away PG degrees […] Written by Vox Populi July 28, 2014December 26, 2020
Administration All about IITK Editorials and Opinion Pieces Institute Students Branch Change: Finally we are back to being very liberal Recently, the Senate approved the branch changes for the 2013 batch students. In a batch of 820, the number of students who have received a branch change after the first year is 54 this year, a significantly higher number compared to recent years since we liberalized our branch change rules last year. Given that we […] Written by Vox Populi July 27, 2014December 26, 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 […] Written by Vox Populi 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 […] Written by Vox Populi March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
