Why BITS Pilani Does Not Have a Suicide Club like IITs?
The debate over supremacy between India’s two hallowed engineering institutions, BITS Pilani and IITs, is reaching to a real controversial chapter with critics finally delving into the subject they have avoided till nowâ€â€suicides.
The recent news of an IIT-Guwahati student, S.M. Shohaib, ending his life under mysterious circumstances has sparked outrage in the country over IITs inability to deal with situations that lead students to take such an extreme step.
On the other hand, BITS Pilani sports a squeaky-clean image with fewer suicide cases than IITs. But the real question isâ€â€how? Especially when they are both brutal famous engineering institutions churning out the world’s best engineers. They are both teaching the same damn subjects! Why are students at peace in BITS Pilani?
Engineering aspirants who wish to join BITS-Pilani someday believe that the campus offers flexibility in education. Students are almost free to pursue anything in the campus. This engineering institution believes in giving opportunities to students and makes explore them with deep insightful strategies.
Students have flexibility to choose their subjects of choice as electives along with their main subjects. All of it keeps students at peace at BITS-Pilani campuses. There’s no way one can get depressed or feel mentally exploited by campus administration.
Single rooms and no attendance are two quite unique features only introduced by BITS-Pilani. That means students who are not comfortable sharing their rooms with other students can live in a single room facility. This not only gives them a sense of privacy, but also helps them concentrate deeply on their studies. Living with others in engineering institutions has as many benefits as drawbacks.
No attendance policy of BITS Pilani is its most talked-about feature. Students don’t have to attend boring classes just for the heck of it. BITS-Pilani don’t force its students to attend classes that they don’t want to. Of course, this does not happen in IITs. 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.
All right! Shortage of quality faculty in IITs was big news recently. All IITs are still grappling to deal with this situation. Shortage of quality faculty affects overall education system of just any institution. Depression among students has been closely linked to shortage of quality teaching staff according to many studies.
However, BITS Pilani has some of the world’s best teaching staff. They not only teach students, but also give their valuable guidance whenever they need. They understand them. Many decisions in the campus are taken by teachers and students mutually. So there is no point of students getting stressed over anything. BITS Pilani understands the role of right education in students’ life but does not feed it to them blindly. BITS Pilani believes in making teaching creative and smart.
According to reports, suicide rates in IITs increase by 18% every year. This clearly shows that the entire education system in IITs needs an immediate reform. Although both institutions teach the same thing to students, the difference between their ways of teaching changes the entire game.
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This post was published by Nishant Sinha, co-founder of askIITians.
“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?
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….
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.
lol. believe me there is a difference. Ever had the experience of spending a month bunking classes for doing the project you want?
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.
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 😀
@disqus_31DNcWUld6:disqus agree with your point of view.
dere r more suicides going on in MIT … search the web
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
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)
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