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college

What living away from home teaches you!

September 1, 2008

++ The landlord is your lord. You must obey each and every command for you are his slave for the rest of eternity. ++ You can’t wash clothes with the same soap you use for taking a bath. Yeah you probably knew this already. You can’t use it to wash utensils either! ++ You’ll need [...]

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Finally Faridabad(I)!

August 10, 2008

I moved to Faridabad last week. That should explain my week long absence from the blog. I was recently staying at my relatives’ place in New Delhi and decided to shift to Faridabad with Ankur. We decided to rent a nice little room close to the college. The first impression I had about Faridabad was [...]

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HT says Engineering Seats for Sale. Duh!

July 6, 2008

HT carried out a minor sting operation to collect evidence that management seats in private Engineering colleges are being sold at a price. It surprises me. Not the news they uncovered but the timing. This has been going on for ages now. It is still going on. Management seats are openly sold out to students [...]

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Admission in a good university? Try Cram School!

July 1, 2008

Here, the students are denied everyday teenage items in South Korea. No cellphones, no fashion magazines, no TV, no Internet, no game machines.Dating, going to concerts, wearing earrings, getting manicures, or simply acting their age – all these are suspended because they are deemed distracting for an overriding goal. Instead, the students cram from 6:30 [...]

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Decoded: What your College Prospectus really means!

June 28, 2008

A college prospectus helps build the impression about the college for prospective students. Innocent students seeking admissions to various engineering, medical, management etc. colleges in India are totally conned by the college prospectus. The glossy pages showcase the amazing college infrastructure, shining class rooms, brilliant faculty from Heaven, bright future through campus placements and a million [...]

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What a 3 hour Maths Exam taught me!

June 14, 2008

Maths can be quite frustrating. To me it’s like you double the frustrating and you multiply it with infinity. As I sit down to give a Maths exam there are more than just butterflies  in my stomach. It’s a whole jungle in there man! As the question paper is handed out, I take one look [...]

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