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  1. “Students are required to maintain a good attendance rate in IITs, which many students believe takes toll in their lives at one point or another”
    One word HOW?

  2. There are lot many activities that a student may be involved, like departments-clubs. Apart from this, off-campus activities, like projects and other learning resources. On-campus regular exams, and projects for technical festival. When thing comes to competition, it becomes immense, because a student depending on her/his capabilities may not handle all activities together, while not doing extra activities leaves an impression on one’s mind that rest of the people are doing hell lot more than what they are doing… And this story of competition, comparison and depression continues…. I guess you’re not in any of the institutes mentioned in the articles, that is why you must be wondering… but anyways, here is what I had to say….

    1. So here is the thing, Firstly it is true that we are supposed to maintain decent attendance through out our semester, but this doesn’t prevent us from getting into activities(cultural or technical) that we want to pursue, most professors in IITs are chilled enough to give you grace attendance if you are doing some project or so and are keen enough to help you out in any damn personal projects as well. So all this is just a mud-thrown-since-forever over IIT culture which is in all its essence supreme. I believe mandatory attendance is not a bad thing if you can anyway talk to professors about leave and things like that.

      1. lol. believe me there is a difference. Ever had the experience of spending a month bunking classes for doing the project you want?

  3. The only reason that there are more suicides in IITs in comparison to BITS Pilani is that the people who surround you in IITs excel & achieve so much that one can get depressed to the point of considering suicide as an option.

    In contrast, the quality of students entering BITS Pilani is not so damn good that one can ever feel so low. There will always be one BITSian struggling more than you however screwed up you are.

    1. lol. dude then there must be a hell lot of suicide cases in MIT,STANFORD,CALTECH etc. The problem is that iitians measure greatness with one single thing : cgpa. and placements (ha!) The atmosphere is horrible for a creative jack or an entrepreneur. @Bits you are free to do whatever fuck you want. iitians are awesome people. But they are kept in concentration camps/pressure cookers 😀

  4. I’m final year student Computer Science Goa campus, “””BITS Pilani has some of the world’s best teaching staff””” seriously ? BITCH Please !! Once thing i can surely say about BITS Pilani Goa Campus its not know for its faculty

  5. Seriously world class faculty in BITS Pilani!!! Dude I am student of BITS Pilani I know what shit our saddest faculty knows !! (don’t mislead others)

  6. About BITS , You got 1 thing right … attendance many other things are just myth … for eg. ” BITS Pilani has some of the world’s best teaching staff” and ” There’s no way one can get depressed or feel mentally exploited by campus administration.” . Beleive me the teachers are not even as good as your high school teachers who trained you for IIT-JEE and BITS-Goa administration is one big ego-istic community of prof’s

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