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Came across this superb Venn Diagram quite more than a week ago. Just had to share it.
Where do you locate yourself on this?
Peace...
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Pic of the Week: How to be Happy in Business
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Came across this superb Venn Diagram quite more than a week ago. Just had to share it.
Where do you locate yourself on this?
Peace...
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Pic of the Week: The Complete Social Media Douchebag
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The next time you see one of those "Get 25,000 followers in 30 days" crap, just refer them here.
Peace...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
3rd Death in 3 Months, at India's No.1 Institute (?)
This morning, I received two "pings" on G-Talk from my batchmates at IIT-Kharagpur, and both seemed to be in an excited state. The first one pinged a link that most of them had put on as their Status Message, some story from Outlook. It seemed IIT-Kharagpur had yet again emerged as the No.1 Engg.college in the country in a survey that's normally conducted around this time of the year, during the admissions-counselling period. Not only did it beat the closest competitor, IIT-B, by a huge margin of 90 points, it had also topped the Architecture Schools list.
The implication might have been that IIT-Kgp was in fact the best place for an undergraduate student to be in the country. The 2nd ping, however, was quite in contradiction. It was not reconfirmed by anyone else, no news source carried it, and most said that the news wasn't being released "due to ongoing IIT-JEE counselling at IIT-Kgp." Somehow, a lone news source is carrying a report on the incident as of now. Oh, and the incident. Yeah, another student died at IIT-Kgp, nothing new...
A first year student of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture Department, Manoj Kumar, hailing from Rajasthan, was found hanging from the ceiling of his room in Madan Mohan Malviya Hall of Residence, IIT Kgp. It was just a couple of months ago, that another fourth year student had committed suicide in his hostel room. And who can forget the death of Rohit Kumar due to the institute run Hospital's medical negligence.
A 3rd year dies of Medical Negligence, a fourth year commits suicide a month later, and a fresher now. My batch had already lost Anshu to negligence in the first year itself. And we still are the best institute in the country.
Is this how complacent we've become? Is this the best place for a student to be? Is counselling for potential students more important than counselling suicide probables and taking care of existing students?
We have regular student-administration meetings at the campus, which all students are open to attend. I shall be attending them regularly the coming semester onwards, and shall raise and follow up on issues regarding the state of the hospital as well as allocation of doctors, counsellors and psychologists.
Will you be there?
Let's see...
The implication might have been that IIT-Kgp was in fact the best place for an undergraduate student to be in the country. The 2nd ping, however, was quite in contradiction. It was not reconfirmed by anyone else, no news source carried it, and most said that the news wasn't being released "due to ongoing IIT-JEE counselling at IIT-Kgp." Somehow, a lone news source is carrying a report on the incident as of now. Oh, and the incident. Yeah, another student died at IIT-Kgp, nothing new...
Police said they broke into the room at the Madan Mohan Malaviyya hostel in the campus and recovered the body of Manoj Kumar (18) after the hostel cleaning staff complained of a stench emanating from it.-- The Indian Express
Police said prima facie it appeared to be a case of suicide and investigations were on.
A first year student of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture Department, Manoj Kumar, hailing from Rajasthan, was found hanging from the ceiling of his room in Madan Mohan Malviya Hall of Residence, IIT Kgp. It was just a couple of months ago, that another fourth year student had committed suicide in his hostel room. And who can forget the death of Rohit Kumar due to the institute run Hospital's medical negligence.
A 3rd year dies of Medical Negligence, a fourth year commits suicide a month later, and a fresher now. My batch had already lost Anshu to negligence in the first year itself. And we still are the best institute in the country.
Is this how complacent we've become? Is this the best place for a student to be? Is counselling for potential students more important than counselling suicide probables and taking care of existing students?
We have regular student-administration meetings at the campus, which all students are open to attend. I shall be attending them regularly the coming semester onwards, and shall raise and follow up on issues regarding the state of the hospital as well as allocation of doctors, counsellors and psychologists.
Will you be there?
Let's see...
Friday, June 12, 2009
It's a Wiki World
Following up on the exciting sport of Wikigroaning, here's some more wiki-bashing for the weekend. CollegeHumor brings to you, Professor Wikipedia:
And yup, this was a filler post. By the way, I finally have some stuff to do in the summer, so while I don't have to go job hunting or bother you about it, it's leaving me little time for the Blog. :(
Anyway, I'll try to come up with two new posts every week (With no fillers, promise!) now on, mostly follow up on earlier posts, and some stuff I've been wanting to write about since quite some time.
Peace...
And yup, this was a filler post. By the way, I finally have some stuff to do in the summer, so while I don't have to go job hunting or bother you about it, it's leaving me little time for the Blog. :(
Anyway, I'll try to come up with two new posts every week (With no fillers, promise!) now on, mostly follow up on earlier posts, and some stuff I've been wanting to write about since quite some time.
Peace...
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