MY VISIT TO IITM FOR SHAASTRA-2008

It was emotionally a great day for me when at last I got a chance to visit the place where once I dreamed (only dreamt) of dwelling. Yes ,I am visiting the campus of IIT Madras as my brother was selected for the final round of project presentation for IDP-Industry Defined Problems. I reached Adyar around 4.15 pm as my brother asked me there to be in the college premises by 5.00pm . I walked up to the college gate and could see a lot of people there stranded waiting for the college bus to go inside for the biggest techno fest event in South India.

 “A bus facility inside the college”.  This reminded me of the size of the college. I got into the bus and it started moving I realized that it is not actually a college alone but a small town within the college. Residential apartments for staffs, hospital, fully functioning banks, shopping centre including coffee day , kendriya vidyalaya school inside a lot more . to say shortly its totally self sufficient in all aspects for people studying there. A school for the children of staffs working there and it s a mini zoo and the entire campus seemed to be like of a forest.

 Before me in the bus are two students (probably IIT ians) by the way they look who were discussing about complex chemistry formulae and their properties. One was telling that the component A ( I don’t remember the component name)  should be mixed with component B to improve the efficiency. The other was citing that mixing the component B may cause oxidation.  The discussion proceeded and I didn’t want to break my head which I didn’t even for my studies. I thought what creatures they are!!!

 I reached the Gajendra statue , the place where the event is held. With no mobile in hand I know it s hard for me to find my brother but to my good time my brother identified me in the crowd. Placed there was an ad by Google for hiring people. I took a photograph in front of that, the only thing I can do with Google .Again I dreamt of being in Google , the place where even now I want to work, but I don’t think it will come true forever. :)

 My brother won II prize in the project competition. The next statement made me more happy when he told the  first prize was bagged by PSG. I was all proud to be a techian. In the project presentation a participant from IIT was fired by his own IIT professor. He had told “If you have submitted this project as an assignment you would have surely failed”. This reminds me of one core thing of life “Never over estimate people by where they are and never under estimate people also by where they are”.