Three Cheers to the Beginnings!

Sitting in a college lecture hall amongst hundreds of “yet to be known” people from around the country and listening to the administration people and then the faculties talking about the NORMS,DISCIPLINE,SCHEDULES, and STUDIES of college (all the students will get the irony behind highlighting these 4 terms), I was attending the first orientation of my college. I still remember the first thing that hit my mind as soon as I entered the room was the, GENDER RATIO!  Well it wasn’t a surprise that a room of 160 seats had boys filling the 100 seats in MECHANICAL branch of an ENGINEERING COLLEGE, but still it was odd to see such a huge disparity. In the midst of all this, there was a struggle going on to find people belonging to same batch and trust me I was scared like hell because in the whole one hour I was not able to find any girl belonging to the batch I was allotted!

Well! That was just the first hour in college and ice breaking was not that tough, at least not amongst the girls, as I was told! Till the time orientation ended, I was lucky enough to have found a girl having same batch as me and after almost an year referring her as “a girl belonging to my batch “  is so NOT DONE as now she is an integral part of my life J . The time passed and we had our share of fun in college with OFFICIAL FRESHER’S WELCOME, which I initially referred to as “official ragging”. Yes! , you have to move to the stage facing the first years as well as all the seniors and have to give your introduction, only if all the people present there STOP HOOTINGAND LET YOU SPEAK!! The line above bring up another interesting and most important part of college life, RAGGING!  Although in my college anything even close to ragging is totally banned, we still experienced a lighter part of it during the introductions we were asked to give. Actually let me put it properly from a fresher’s point of view “you can be stopped anywhere, anyhow and asked to wish your seniors “good morning” or “good noon” and call them sir or ma’am and then you can start telling your own not so important information! “. I still remember how scared I and my friends used to be, to enter the café during the lunch hours of seniors and super-seniors! And then came the much awaited “FRESHER’S PARTY”. The occasion where everyone looks there best, especially in a college like mine where we have to wear uniforms! An occasion where you can always fall in love with someone or at least have a crush on someone and entertainment is always unlimited! And with time you’ll see the groups of friends dividing into pairs of two!

And between all these “studies go on”!  Yeah!  In some lecture rooms, class rooms, labs, studiesgo on and that’s a different thing that 90% of the times we were clue less about them! And then one fine day you face EXAMSand interestingly while writing those exams I actually saw that forwarded message of a friend coming to reality, it says “after finishing every answer in an exam, I feel like writing LOL at the end!!”. And the best time comes when all the fun and frolic of your just started college life are evaluated in terms of your MARKS! And once you are familiar with them, there starts a phase of liking and joining pages on FB like “Trust me I am an Engineer!”. Throughout the first semester we had to cry for so many things like, attendance, internals, some teachers actually after your life, asking the seniors about the cut offs or actually asking the procedures for filling up supplementary forms!!

All in all, as soon as I reached college, my life gained a pace that made me forget lot of things and people that once mattered and I believe it has happened to every one of us. It’s like a new beginning leaving all behind, a roller-coaster ride making you go through all or at least few of these:
The “recently used” list of your cell phone will now hold the names of your college friends, and the school people who used to be on the top, will move down and might slowly…disappear!
Your photo albums having you with your school friends will take a back seat and now you’ll be boasting about your college and your new friends or boyfriends/ girlfriends too!
Your outings with people, who were important for your existence once, become yearly occasion now and after sometime you can do without them too but you can’t miss a chance to hang out with your present buddies!
Somewhere in the crowd you find certain people who make your previous break ups, crushes or heart breaks and everything bad happened to you as a past memory. They make your life easy with each passing day and your day is just so incomplete without them!
The people you rely on the most might ditch you, while the unexpected ones may become your lifeline!
You can always find a boy/girl whom you will hate for being just so perfect! While some will surely make you feel just “awesome”!
You can always find a savior in a senior, no matter how scared you were initially to even interact with them!
If you aren’t a sleeping fellow, you will learn a lot of POLITICS!
For the girls 1)- if you were a totally a “plain jane” types in your school days, girl’s washroom is the place to be!
For the girls 2)- if you are still crying for your ex-boyfriend or an ex-crush then please “go get a life!” , college is not that disappointing after all! ;)
For the boys- I wish I could arrange for some boy co-writer who could have provided with suggestions for you!

For those who think all this is picked up from somewhere:

NO! All of it has some reason or people behind it! They make my life special every day! The only reason I drag myself to college just to follow a 12 hour tiring schedule daily!

For those who wonder why I didn’t mention names of the people who matter so much to me:

Well! Few of them wished “ not to be named” ( starry tantrums you see :p) and without naming those “few” not only this write up but my college life would have been incomplete! J

What After 12th : Life is a race, if you don’t run fast, you’ll be like a broken Anda

“Life is a race; if you don’t run fast, you’ll be like a broken Anda…”

The lines above may come up with a rib-tickling sense but it has a profound meaning to deliver. We were told earlier to grab admission in one of the best collegefor graduation. Similarly, we would be told to hold a seat in any of the elite college for Post-graduation. For sure, we have to clutch a respectable job (because our job will give respect to our parents in society) and logically we have to buy a 4BHK flat too.Damn-to-abyss, how far do we have to run? We are running since we got kicked out from the school. There are no laps, no claps, no glucose and not even Cheer girls.


Ask yourself, why I am running?

It’s because everyone is running.

Ask again, why Everyone is running?

It’s because each “I am” is running.

It’s a race going on.

Be a part of the race anyhow or You’ll get apart from the race for others to run faster.


Now I can connect the dots. Now I understood why everyone is in so much urgency at Rajeev chowk Metro Station. Stand for one minute on that station and you will observe that every Tom, Dick, and Harry is running. It’s a race to get inside the metro before YOU. And these races get worse when people start overtaking you while riding back to home or waiting in a queue.

Life after boards is truly full of chaos, appropriately titled as “A PERFECTLY IMPERFECT LABYRINTH” by one of my colleagues DishaVirk. But there is one solution to all the problems. Give Fire to your missile of Dreams and you will land up somewhere on a utopian planet that you haven’t even dream of. Don’t get trapped in cobwebs. Don’t be a doctor because your father wants you to be a doctor. Just bleed red in your field of interest and then all the colours will be yours. Life is just for once, live it for countless times to get your paisa vasool dude…: D

Well, coming on the part, we are here answering some of the frequent FAQs which are usually asked by students.

1.      Which engineering college is best except IITs?

India Today, leading magazine come up with top 100 colleges every year based on the infrastructure, teaching facility, and environment and accommodation for students. That ranking has been approved by many and has a stand in itself. Still, some of the best colleges except IITs are

a)      Birla Institute of Technology

b)    DELHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEEING,DELHI

c)      Vellore Institute of Technology.

d)   aligarh mulim university

f)       NSIT,DELHI

g)   JNU,DELHI and etc.

2.      What are the changes in admission to Delhi University this year?

Delhi University is going through its worst phase of instability and unpredictability. Due to the hell furore took birth last year because of 100% cut off, DU is trying the best possible way to keep the cut-off relatively lower. Though the final changes in admission will be published at last time only but still we would like to mention the glances and rumours (may not be), which are as follows

a)      Restriction on filling “Number of colleges” in centralised form.

b)      Online Admission Process in Delhi University from 2012

c)       The committee also suggested that the whole process of students migrating from one college to another after completion of Ist year should be stopped.

d)      Besides, the trend showcases that many students block multiple seats in various colleges and cancel the admission after the last date. Due to which, many deserving students stay in a dilemma for a long time and sometimes also loose upon a prospective seat at a college of their choice. In an attempt to resolve this issue, the committee has suggested increasing the cancellation fee before the last date to Rs 1000/- and has suggested a ‘no refund’ in case the last date has passed.

e)      Till now, once the DU declare its cut-off list for admission, it gave a four-day time to take admission, but from now onwards there will only be two days allocated for students to get admissions based on the cut-off lists. After an interval of one day the next cut-off will be announced.

3.      Course or college?

If you are trapped in the maelstrom for the priority between course and college, my word is COURSE. One cannot hold the prestige of college for lifetime but the knowledge from the course you studied will be with you, lifelong.  The course will help you in career also but the college name will only shine on the degree certificate.

I know the competition is tough; there is a fight for 30 seats between lakhs of students. But today, there is a fight in every career and everyone is fighting their own battle. So there is no way to be gloomy. Tighten your shoe lace and run faster, otherwise you’ll be like a Broken Anda.

Standard and poor's rating for india

INTRODUCTION

Standard & Poor's (S&P) is an American financial services company..With offices in 23 countries and a history that dates back more than 150 years, Standard & Poor’s is known to investors worldwide as a leader of financial- market intelligence. Today Standard & Poor’s strives to provide investors who want to make better informed investment decisions with market intelligence in the form of credit ratings, indices, investment research and risk evaluations and solutions. 




S&P warned to india for  junk rating status  


The international ratings agency had warned that India may lose its "investment grade" and may become the first "fallen angel" among BRICS nations.
All foreign investors make their investment decisions based on credit ratings given by rating agencies, whether you like it or not. Most of them are not allowed to invest their money in a country that has a junk rating. Will you, for example, ever invest your money in Fixed Deposit scheme of a junk rated company? Even if the company publishes a convincing report rebutting the rating agency?
                                                             so a s&p junt rating for india will fully effect on GDP of india...


A/C  to FINANCE MINISTERY OFFICIALS OF INDIA;------

 Hitting out at the rating agency Standard & Poor, India has said that its methodologies were not transparent and the country's economy was better off than the peers it was bracketed with. 

"We are not happy with what they are saying...The process they follow is not very transparent..They have some hidden criterion which they have not been able to explain to us," said R Gopalan, secretary, department of economic affairs. 

The rating agency had on Monday warned that India could be the first BRIC nation to lose investment-grade rating citing economic slowdown and political roadblocks to policy-making. 

"I do not know if they have instituted a system of advance advance warning," he said adding that thefinance ministry will soon have a telecon with the agency to assert its point that country's fundamentals continued to remain strong. 

"We believe there is a need to engage with them to emphasise on various parameters including the steps the government had taken to boost growth, to contain deficit and to tackle the external situation," he said. 

Finance ministry officials had held intensive discussions with S&P representatives in April but the agency had cut outlook on the country's sovereign rating of 'BBB-' to negative from stable. 

"We had asked them to share with us their findings before the ratings are assigned so that we can explain our point of view. We don't seem to be getting transparent answers," he said. 

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had on Monday rejected the S&P report and expressed confidence that there would be a turnaround in economic growth prospects in the coming months. 

"You cannot judge us on a few parameters. We think we are in a much better condition than they think we can be," Gopalan said, who has just returned from a roadshow on the qualified foreign investor scheme in the Gulf. 

He said private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds in the region were willing to bet on India and were looking to increase allocations to India. Investors queried the government officials on tax provisions including the retrospective changes made in the budget as to how they

Best engineering tutorials for students ( Best six )

This is one of best collections of online tutorials, for free engineering lessons which were found on the web. We personally feel, getting educated from a single book or college will never be enough for creating a good engineering student. To achieve the impossible that we dream, there is always something extra to be done. So, Search for your subjects and topics from these links below and strengthen your basic concepts of engineering and top the industry.  All the best!
Make the best use:

This is a collection of best online tutorials. We have taken some effort to collect and listed them for our hello-engineers's readers. The list is to save our engineer's precious  time. Now you need not surf so long on google for a single doubt. Got doubt in the subjects? check it in the tutors available in the below links and get cleared immediately. All of these are links to various international and national educational institutions which are topping the engineering study across the world. This list also provides the opportunity for every student to have a different perspective on the same topic which they study at the class room, This can help them gain the courage and understanding that could make them feel at the top notch. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: (Best)

MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.

OCW is not an MIT education.

OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.

OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.

Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.

Khana Academy:

Many of these free resources are not only accessible online but are available for free download also — this means you can share and use them off-line. Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/), a wonderful educational resource, where one can find educational video tutorials on almost all topics taught at the school level (algebra, arithmetic, physics, biology, statistics and so on), is a good instance of this trend. If you wish to view the academy's tutorials off-line, you can download them through different means

NPTEL: (Video channel!) Indian website. (Best)

This channel provides technical lectures from all seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

The Video Courses are organized as PLAYLISTS under the following Categories:

1. Core Sciences

2. Civil Engineering

3. Computer Science and Engineering

4. Electrical Engineering

5. Electronics and Communication Engineering

6. Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: (Video channel)

Here is the official video for the MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 event: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds: A Milestone Celebration. The event celebrates the publishing of the 1800th course on MIT OpenCourseWare.

Williamson-labs:

This website, has a tutorials of the most basic and fundamentals of our electronics and electrical matters. They have made some really great efforts for making the site colorful. for newbies and kids this is an exciting site for laying the firm base for there engineering future.

Berkeley.edu:  (Video channel! )

Facts at a glance: Student-body makeup, campus statistics, tuition and fees.

National rankings: In a National Research Council analysis of 212 doctoral programs at American universities, 48 Berkeley programs place among the top 10 nationwide.

Faculty awards and honors: There are 8 Nobel Laureates, 32 MacArthur Fellows, and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners among the current faculty.

You engineers are definitely more source full than us. If your have more online free tutorial sites. please add it to the comments!.

Being active on Facebook and Twitter can get you the job you want

With increasing number of users globally, social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn are turning out to be happy hunting grounds for employees seeking new jobs.

Majority of employees surveyed felt that social media are helping them to find new jobs quickly and efficiently, according to HR services firm Ma Foi Randstad.

“… 82 percent of Indian employees are extremely confident on using the social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to enable them to find a new job quicker and more efficiently,” Ma Foi Randstad said.

The survey focuses on ‘mental mobility status’ of employees — reflecting their readiness to change jobs.

About 87 percent of Indian employees use social media to find information about an organisation’s work culture.

“… 75 per cent track movements and events of their favourite companies, so that they are up-to-date for attending job interviews and 75 percent would hesitate joining a company if their co-workers have given negative reviews about the company,” it added.

Moreover, the survey found that 90 percent of Indian employees have an individual accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and out of them, 81 percent use it for professional purposes.

Among the Indian cities, employees in Mumbai (85 percent) and Delhi (83 percent) are most confident about finding a job through social media.

As per the report, Indian workforce continues to be the “most mobile in the world”, with an index score of 145. India is followed by China and Mexico.

The index shows the extent to which employees are thinking of changing their jobs in a short-term as compared to other countries.

The findings are based on a survey of over 60,000 employees in 26 countries.

“Social media has become a potent tool for both employers and employees and as a low cost – high return option, recruiting through social media will soon become a key differentiator in the current global recruitment market,” Ma Foi Randstad’s MD and CEO E Balaji said.

AIEEE result and counseling

Around 10 lakh students appeared in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE 2012) at 1,735 centres across the country. Another 164,000 candidates more would take the online exam on May 7, 12, 19 and 26 at 221 centres.

The AIEEE 2012, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, was a three-hour long examination with four versions of question papers, each having 90 questions.
The exam had 30 multiple choice questions each from physics, chemistry and mathematics for total of 360.
According to overall reactions of students and coaching centres, the paper was relatively easier than last year. The physics section was tougher than the rest, but there too overall difficulty level was not set high..........
                                       
                                                         Mostly, everythng went smoothly, but there were some problems encountered in the smaller cities. Like lack of amenities at the centres located in Guntur, Warangal and Tirupati. While some of the centres had no power supply during the examination, others did not have enough space to accommodate all students. An estimated 7,000 students and their accompanying parents made overnight stay under the open sky at all available public places like railway station, bus stations and public garden after their arrival in the city on Saturday evening. This was the first time that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted the examination in small cities instead of major ones. The intention was to draw students from Tier-1 cities to take the newly introduced online examinations which will be conducted on weekends starting May 7 and ending with May 24...................

AIEEE 2012 OFFICIAL Cutoffs


FOR GENERAL CANDIDATES-----------48 MARKS



FOR 0BCs CANDIDATES-------------------45 MARKS


FOR SC/ST CANDIDATES------------------18 MARKS


FOR HANDICAPPED CANDIDATES-----18 MARKS

IIT Kanpur Will Conduct It’s Own Entrance Exam From Academic Year 2013.............

IIT Kanpur Will Conduct It’s Own Entrance Exam From Academic Year 2013,this is the result of ‘Sibal’ization of IIT JEE ENTANCE EXAM....

Many 12th Board test centres have an easy access to cheating in the exams and even the invigilators/supervisors ‘help’/promote the students for monetary and other gains. In some private schools, principals promote unscrupulous practices ‘just’ to maintain their school ostentatious fake results. Even in govt. school, there is a possibility of these practices because principal’s have to save their sorry asses from the pressure/vigilance from the ‘higher’ authorities due to bad results.

I would like to frankly describe a brief incident with me during my 10th Board exams. The teacher in my class during signing of the answer sheets, would narrate the answers to ‘needy’ students. It was a shock to me as it happened in my own school, considered one of the ‘better’ schools here. The situation was even ‘worse’ in other schools as my friends used to describe. These kind of experiences is common(irrespective of the legacy of your school) with all of us and I am pretty sure my experience would have been a ‘drop in the ocean’ compared to what others might have experienced.



Some test centres are not ‘guarded’ from the politicians or other people with the ‘jack’. ‘Goonda-raj’ can easily creep into these board exams.

The last and the ‘least important’, can any amount of analysis by Indian Statistical Institute bring parity among the boards? There are 100′s of choice of subjects even in the same board which have a easy scoring, while some are damn hard to score high!

The HRD ministry has blatantly in the media claimed to have ‘full’ support from the IIT Senates. If differences read support, Sibal, you need a treatment.

However, IIT Kanpur, stoic to the changes, decided courageously to have its own IITJEE from 2013. IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi are soon expected to follow suit. Now to the minister, ‘one nation,one test’ is resulting into a mockery of ‘One college,one test’. Is it good? Why are you playing at such a large level?
Trust me, many parents with their students at the verge of deciding their career options are in the doldrums after this debacle and fiasco becuase it has resulted into nothing but a melodrama from a reality show and it is sure to confuse them aggressively.
 The decision has serious effects and Sibal is acting freakish and with no responsibility. Kapil Sbbal, please resign(or better, die!) and don’t dare to censor this article in lieu of your recent announcement for ‘tarnishing’ politicians image on the internet

What to expect when you’re engineering

What to expect when you’re Persuring engineering


After months of waging war against countless entrance exams you’re finally here! And while you enter your college for the very first time you’re not thinking about your AIEEE rank or where you would have been had you scored 1 more mark. You’re imagining what you’re life is gonna be for the next four years. This is a place you can finally call your own.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      One of the biggest changes from school to college life is that you don’t have to dress up in the same uniform everyday. Engineering is not a fashion parade. I’m not being a hypocrite or anything. Its not like we like dressing up like nerds, but after a while you feel comfortable in your own skin. A casual top and jeans is all you need and you’re ready to go. Life in engg is laid back and you soon get used to it.And while fresher’s party, cultural fests, technical fests, concerts etc. become an integral part of your life, the real “carnival” is the exams. The real taste of engineering comes from exams. The last thing you want to do after spending last 2 years giving exams after exams is to give some more exams. Engineering is the art of giving exams. It just is.

So when you go for your viva, just keep this thing in mind “you have no dignity. You will spend the next 15 minutes being shouted at that you are not fit to be an engineer.” There’s no point preparing for it. They have lots of questions and you don’t have many answers. A viva isn’t meant to test your knowledge. It is a chance for bitter teachers who did not want to become teachers to vent their frustratAnd then the exams: A time for those who make notes feel good about themselves. Notes have brand value. If you get good marks last sem your notes are priceless. Exams make photocopying the most lucrative business in the world. Sitting for 3 hours in a stuffy exam hall and filling a full exam sheet when you clearly have never heard of the question before is a skill you need to learn quickly.ion on you. Respect their feelings. Smile a lot. And say thank you in the end.

So to all the prospective first years, you’re entering something new, something exciting. The hard part is done and now is the time to enjoy. Just remember- “you can call your senior any foul name in the world, just don’t call them bhaiyya/didi. They won’t like it.”