Suman Rao

Review of IIT Bombay

1. The landscape is a beauty. It does not belong t...

1. The landscape is a beauty. It does not belong to the overcrowded urban jungle that Mumbai is. The quality of the air is remarkably fresh. The potential encounter with an odd leopard or two makes for quite some excitement. The lakes have crocodiles that kill. Parents must sternly counsel wards on how to avoid/deal with such dangers.
2. Some hostels have quality food. Most of them ought to charge a little more and provide better food. Hostel rooms are tiny, with beds occupying almost all the space. Juniors have to share the room with another student. But excellent study and recreation facilities are available.
3. The Professors are brilliant (most of them). But they should adopt a more helpful and facilitating approach, especially to new students who do not know how to procure facilities for their projects. Professors' parental attitude should avert those suicidal cases.
4. Teaching vacancies and vacant student seats should be filled up after a deadline, if reserved category candidates aren't available. There is a crying need not to let vacancies go waste.
5. Professors who have become dated in their subjects should be debarred form teaching at post-graduate levels and from taking Phd candidates. Such teachers may be asked to appear for a friendly interview or open-book test to prove their state
of current knowledge.
6. Students should be counselled in advance, in the first year itself, about the importance of internship, attending lectures, selecting good projects and about placement and entrepreneurial facilities.
7. Ragging is discouraged by a levy of a hefty fine (Rs. 30,000). This step works! freshers are only expected to give some 'performance' relating to for example, a hobby. This serves as an introduction. However, seniors expect lavish funding of parties by juniors, which can be/ought to be jointly resisted by the juniors.