A student of Electronics Engineering, Aneeq Dholakia, among other things enjoys writing. An avid Barca fan by heart and an analytical thinker by mind, Aneeq aims to be perennially involved with technology in any way he can.
FIRST IN FIRST OUT
In my post 'The Canteen: Heavenly respite for devilish hunger', I mentioned the term 'owl'. Let me delve further into the matter. The workload at IIIT-H is such that, in my opinion, unless you're ...
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As is the norm with all cultural events in IIIT-H, serious preparation begins only at most 3 days before the event has to take place. The inter-house skit competition, held on 24th March, 2012 ...
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Using a sorting hat, akin to the one in Harry Potter, is probably the best way to sort students in to different houses. The problem with this method is that magic is not real. So IIIT-H uses the ...
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IIIT-H is a relatively young University. In it's short history of around 12 years, a lot of growth has taken place. Student life has drastically evolved and one such achievement which we, ...
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Once one completes his/her registration on the first day of the admission process, one is handed a schedule for the next two weeks. We being the diligent students entering via prestigious ...
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Two hundred odd new students. Each discouraged (strongly) to bring their own laptops. What happens? "How do we use facebook?" is the majority response. The solution provided is a common workspace. ...
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Every ecosystem has a variety of species, basic habits and a hierarchy. There exists a set of protocols that every living organism knows it has to follow; these are not taught. Rather, they are ...
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If you're in college right now, most of you will agree with me when I say that wherever one looks, there's one scheme or another that claims to fund your Million, 'no Billion' (to quote Justin ...
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A core reason to IIIT-H's huge success has been it's unique course design. In IIIT-H, first year students are given hands-on experience in the subjects of their respective fields. This is unlike ...
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As I mentioned in my post 'Let there be clubs', a number of Clubs were formed in IIIT-H under the new initiative taken by the higher-ups. One such club that was formed was OSDG (Open Source Software ...
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