An Academic Year in Lockdown
One year back, we were sitting at home uncertain about how our even semester would end. We can look back with considerable pride and satisfaction with regard to how the lockdown and online mode of learning did not seem to completely stop our academic initiatives…
Academic Series – Mechanical Engineering
A simple walk in the park, ever leave you pondering upon the working of a simple, everyday life machine like a stroller or a cycle? Or maybe cars appeal to you and their working excites you. If every small machine you see, probes your mind…
Freshers! We got your back
Welcome, freshers! You have worked hard and long to arrive here at NITK Surathkal. During these times, with an online mode of education, we are sure you have many questions looming in your head. Do not worry that you have no one to reach out…
Day 222: An Introvert’s Perspective to the lockdown and COVID-19
Day 222. 222 days ago, I came home after our college decided to “temporarily” shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I am pretty sure I never thought it would go on for this long – maybe a few weeks at best. But here we…
Placement Insights – Hear from the former Head PC
The placement and internship season has just begun as students from their third and final years race to complete, revise, and sharpen their skills which can provide them with their dream job. Naturally, a lot of questions are prevalent in everyone’s minds as to how…
Exclusive Clubs and their Impact – An Alumni Perspective
It’s the time of the year again when club recruitments are ready to begin. This is usually a great time of stress and anxiety among second year students as it is their first experience with tests and interviews in general. It thus made sense to…
Basic impact and overview of Coursera and edX during the lockdown
When college shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the middle of March, a lot of us were left clueless as to what to do and how to make the best use of our time during a rather uncomforting and troubling time. A lot…
NIRF Ranks Analytics – Where we are now and the way forward?
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a ranking method incorporated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. Launched by the Minister of Human Resource Development in September 2015, there are separate rankings…
Confession Pages : It’s Reality Hit
Confession pages aren’t a new thing. In fact ever since I came to college, there has atleast been one active page that was special and unique in its own right. Given recent events, with the lockdown and quarantine, naturally people are glued to their phones…
A Spin into the “Tryst with Time”: Incident’20 Part 1
Message from the Incident 2020 Convenor Incident 2020 is a dream we saw in 2017 after working for that year’s Incident as first-year volunteers. We wanted Incident 2020 to beat that and actually put the fest back on the national scene. Beginning of the year…