Confronting smart people

Rome was not built in a day. And any place or organization is revered by its people, so I hope that we the people shine out for our institution to be illuminated.

I gave GATE 2015 and I had just completed my M.Tech from NIT, Bhopal. One of my friends had already enrolled in IIT Indore, but in a different stream. I thought of trying my luck and visiting Indore for the first time (even an IIT).

PhD doesn't require a rigorous course curriculum. Instead we are allowed to choose some subjects to brush up our previously studied concepts before we start with our research in a rigorous manner in the following semester. The subjects are chosen in the first semester. For a M Tech pass out, one needs to do course for a semester, whereas for a Bachelors 2 semester course work is required.

The amount of internship varies with from where the scholarship is coming from. Generally the scholarship of PhD student goes above 28,000. This amount can be felt more or less depending on how materialistic the individual is.

These figures are given on our institute website, but I can say that the placements happen on virtue. Since I am a research scholar, I can say about the conferences and journal where you have to submit your research works. And according to our institutes, you have to maintain a certain standard for selecting particular avenues where have to submit your work for acceptance and I can say, its not easy.

There are a lot of workshops, technical meet-ups, Course sessions and Industry-Academic linking events. Most of the events are research and information oriented but we do have cultural festivals. Mostly the BTech students participate and organize these events and thanks to them we get to enjoy a lot!

As this is an IIT, comparatively the fees structure is not that expensive. You can get the detailed data fro out website. For the doctorate students, it is even less. One can easily endure the fees and daily expenses within the stipend provided for PhD scholarship. But as I already said, it depends on how materialistic you are.

I have applied for Deity and Intel Udian scholarships. Both are great. Currently I am under Deity and it gives a lot of scope and financing for research opportunities and travel.

I am not a hosteler, so no idea about Dorm parties, but yeah the above mentioned activities keeps on happening some day or the other. The campus is pretty lively and the organizing committees do not leave any stone un turned in giving a lively campus experience. There are inter and intra-IIT sport, competitions, robot wars, debates, etc

We hate our Mess facilities and food here and we are continuously trying to make things bearable in this section. The food is terrible but the hostel is pretty good. I am not a hosteler but still I haven't heard anything bad about it. But the mess, yuck! We repeatedly revolt for changing the mess facility, but still, no output. May be it requires more effort.

No experience in that till now. There have been a few PhD pass outs from our department. They are just settling down (mostly in renowned colleges) so I am just waiting for some opportunity to interact with them.

Well you come to an IIT to be a know it all. So it is about how much time and effort you can put to improve and expand your skill set. So most of the students here chill out in labs where the enjoy working and learning. And yeah there are enough exams held to let you know where you have to put more effort.

Getting into PhD in IIT Indore requires a written exam (after your name is on the eligible list), followed by 1-3 face-to-face interviews (depending on your luck I guess) on the same day most of the time. When they are satisfied by your credentials and previous work done, they let you know in a couple of weeks if you are selected. The same is listed on the college website, so you know if you have been rejected.

Well we cannot openly comment on any faculty as far as I know. But still going vaguely over this matter, I can state that, the Good and Bad are everywhere. One can get to know people who are excellent in academics or research or both, while some are in none. It is up to an individual as to how he/she can use these resource (here Faculties) and to what extent. One thing I can say is that, especially in an IIT, every individual Faculty or Student wants to stand out, be that special one. It is only in the hands of each one as to how far you make the effort to work everything out.