Think twice before you come here

Architecture was the main goal but i ended up in planning. Looking at how I could work just a few hours lesser than architecture students, i thought this would be easier. Its not. You need to be careful while choosing this course. Its not just an easy pie.

Internships you need to look for them yourself. The college/faculty members will give you a recommendation list of places you can go for. Paid interships are a hard fit to get. Unpaid govt interships help with your CV but then again, its unpaid. It does give you a different type of experience though.

Year wise, including the hostel fees i pay around 1,30,000. The hostel + mess fees takes up a lot but otherwise, just the college fee is less for an architecture and planning university. It is however not that cheap in terms of a government affiliated college.

The infrastructure is bad here. The campus is hella small but the perks are that in your first year you can just wake up ten minutes before class and run. Ofcourse its harder after you've left the ITO building. But atleadt you dont have to run around a big campus trying to find your class here. We have two annual fests in this college. Mini Utopia which is around September-October and Utopia in March. Mini utopia is a 2 day event mostly focusing on the first years and Utopia is a 3 day grand college fest. Both fests attract a good number of alumnis. We also have many societies like Cyborn (gaming), Sankalp Coda (music), Spandan (drama), Mudra (dance), Strokes (painting), Spatula (food), Spokes (cycling), Inmotion (film), etc.

Hostel is shit. Unless you have a good roommate, you are living in hell. Food is okay but mostly bad during lunch. Water is a big issue. Many get typhoid from it. And girls be careful of UTIs here. The fees is also high comparing the facilities. In ITO, its still fairly okay but in Maharani Bagh Hostel its a survival of the fittest. The seniors are also always about interaction this and that. Always having meetings.

I tried for some other DU universities. I even got into Miranda House but at the end I decided to come here because I had some friends who were here already and also because of some other connections. The course I got into in Miranda wasn't something my mother wanted me to go for as well so here we are.

The faculty to student ratio is okay. As a planning student its really hard to keep up with the technical work most times. You need to know many softwares to be able to work efficiently here. GIS, AutoCad, Photoshop and Excel are a must. We have two exams per year. The mid sem and final sem exams. Count depends on how many subjects we have in our syllabus that semester but mostly its around 4 to 5. The externals are usually either 50 marks or 100. Easy to score because we also have alot of internals. However, studio work is hard. It takes up all your time and energy. And the survey days are harder.