India Votes

It's often the case that we like to vote for the right candidate without any partial treatment to any particular party/candidate but fail to do so, as we don't have access to the information to make that informed decision. For all of us, who fall in this category, please have a look at this video..

Few links that one should explore are:-
http://nationalelectionwatch.org/
http://www.myneta.info
SMS : MYNETA pincode to 56070

Scribble Day..

Whoa.. what hell of a day. Although I always thought final year would be fun, but never expected it to be of such a great magnitude.. man-o-man.. It was one of the most awesome day's of my life

But today it all ends, :( It was also the last working day of my college.. No more classes, no more back bench gup-shup, no more hollywood-bollywood.. , no class bunks, No more discussions etc. while writing this I am getting senti-, and memories of the past four years are rushing me..

I Can't express the feelings in words, but just marking this day on blog so that I can remember it for lifetime.. Thanks NSIT, espescially IT :) :) for the wonderful four years I lived with you all.. Thanks to everyone, for the love and care you gave to me..

With love
Anubhav
chhupa-rustam :P

Reminisce - Recalling the past

Everyone has an aim in life, and that gradually becomes clearer as one progresses in their college life. But rarely we get the right gyaan about the path that needs to be taken to achieve that target, as our interaction is mostly limited to our immediate seniors or seniors above them, and never with those who have gone the full stretch and have already reached their goal.

Reminisce is a novel initiative in this direction. It aims to bring students like you and me, closer to our alumni and get fruitful advice right from them. Alumni have always been an inspiration for us, for we look up to them and strive to carve out a niche for ourselves and in the process bring distinction to our institute.

Reminisce is NSIT's first official alumni magazine. We (Myself, and Ankur Verma- Founders of Reminisce) have split up the magazine in 5 categories,

1. Management Studies(MBA/PGDM)
2. M.S / Research
3. Entrepreneurs
4. Private sector(people without master's but great work-ex)
   
5. Civil Service(IAS/PSU service)

to serve to queries and common doubts of the respective field aspirants directly. After a lot of brainstorming we framed up a questionnaire for each category, so that alumni can directly provide pointers to juniors. Most of the questions are such that even we, fourth years have never been able to find an answer to, hence can best be answered by our illustrious alumni. The responses have been taken from alumni having great profile and sufficient industry exposure. Alumni that have contributed range from 1993 to 2005 graduating batch. The video below is a teaser as to how the magazine is developing as of 28-March-09[shown on NSIT Alumni meet].

N.S.I.T./D.I.T.'s First Official Alumni Magazine

We have presently a whole team of 20+ ebullient NSITians working on each and every aspect from Content gathering, Compiling, Designing, managing the work flow, etc. We are trying to make this magazine as informative as possible, and also make it completely funded by college so that it can be distributed freely to all students in college.

Personally, I have been receiving great feedback from alumni and also from peers and juniors and many are asking when will the magazine be released. For this, I would like to say that magazine is taking time only because we do not want to compromise on quality. We are still awaiting few replies, and as and when we get it we will be heading towards the printing press :) .

After the placement manual, for which also I received some great feedback, it feels nice to be involved in creating something substantial again, that would really help the juniors make some informed decisions and also better plan out their path. For me, It has till date been a great experience talking directly to highly illustrious & meritorious alumni of ours either on mail, on phone, or conducting face to face interviews, and while discussing their responses within team, interacting with team members from first to final year, having team meetings, collaborating on how the work is progressing at different ends, etc etc.

The best part about the magazine is that it's completely evolved from scratch in BH-1. I would particularly like to name few people without which this magazine would have never been a reality. First of all, Ankur Verma who along with me is the founder of this magazine. Pratik Prakash(ICE - 4th year) doing the excellent work on editing front, Neerav and Siddharth(ICE - 3rd year), who are working day and night on the design part of the magazine , Parasu Kishan, the relationship head, and Animesh Garg (MPAE - 3rd year) managing the team of 1st and 2nd years, and helping us in Administration work.

I would also like to say plenty of future opportunities are there to take Reminisce to great height, and we have hereby started and taken the first step. I hope that future editions of magazine keep coming and both alumni and students keep adding value by contributing to the magazine and the culture we intend to begin in NSIT. Juniors who would like to take the magazine further are most welcome to contact us on mail or group.

How you can reach us / share your views

1. Mail
2. Reminisce Site
   
3. NSITlounge Thread
4. NSIT-Reminisce group
   

Comments/feedback/Appreciation most welcome. Cheers!!

Google's April Fool

I am happy to tell that even I was made an April fool today, although I was particularly cautious and not by my peers, but by my juniors.. That was a great trick put up by Neerav and Sid who are the core designers working on Reminisce magazine. :)

Now, it's also the day when google plays april fool with the world. Last year I think it was orkut changed to Yogurt, and gmail custom day and time.. and till now what I have witnessed is Youtube videos being turned upside down, and CADIE. Well I can't explain what CADIE is here.. coz I am already quite flooded by the description they have posted about it, leave apart it's full form. But this was easy to determine as the post were timestamped 31st March 11:59:59

Google's CADIE(an entity) also announces launch of Google Chrome 3D (announcement timestamped 1stApril 12:01AM).

Nice ideas, must say.. something like this if really happens would be great.. A triumph of the goog-nerds.