Showing posts with label School of Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School of Engineering. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

How to make Friends in College

 It is not susceptible to speculate in anyone so handily, particularly when you have a terrible possibility in the past. But even if you had the nicest choice in the province of friends at your school time then don’t be much overconfident about college. Formerly I was in college my life guru told me it is not simple to cope up with pals in your college. She confided me school was just an aquarium where only specified fishes were held but college is a whole exotic ocean where you’ll meet all species of fish. She also spoke of that if I weren’t careful enough then it will not take me a minute to get relinquished in that ocean and will end up next to a shark. I thought about it a lot for several days. I am one of those individuals who had one of the best friends a girl can have in her school and tuitions. I was fortunate to have them but that doesn’t mean I’ll get those sorts of friends so effortlessly in college too. I would say, the best way to make a good friend is that always believe in your instincts. Every time I make friends I first believe in my intuitions and didn’t reckon them on their past blunders, indeed. It is not accurate that online friends are not substantial or close friends. Actually, in my case, I found my best of friends online-only, due to the virtual classes. And somehow it’s easy to find friends in NCU as in NCU you come across every manner of the student. There are students whose vibes are as equivalent as yours and many are there whose vibes are just antagonistic as yours. There are numerous ways to meet friends in a college. And one of the best ways to meet them is through college societies. When it arrives at making friends through society you both have miscellaneous topics in common to talk about while debating matters of any kind. And somehow it’s not crucial to have friends in your class. And frankly saying canteen is the promising location on the entire campus to meet your pals and enjoy the chitchat with them. Even I meet most of my companions in the canteen as most of my friends are from B.Sc, BBA and CSE department and I am in the ECE department. And I met most of these dumb heads through society and others online. It is easy to make friends but what is extensively tough is to conclude whether they are good to you or not. According to my, decent friends are those who assist me in most of my decisions but also correct me in my wrongdoings. If you do not feel very much affluent with any of your friends then it’s okay as not everyone can be adequately for you. For me making friends has never been a massive chore as I am an extrovert but for wallflowers, it’s a very great deal. But when you make one pal you are in a chain to make more of them as you get to meet some other friends of theirs.

Best mantras for making promising friends are:- always be yourself, be interesting while doing extracurricular, try to know a little about everything, ask questions and invite them to some of your activities and be nice. A handful of these mantras constantly help you to make friends and interacting with others. Invariably being yourself brings about the other individual curious to learn about you as they could have shared some mutual interests with you. Always engage yourself in varied extracurricular as it gives rise to you look fascinating and unique. One should know at least a little about everything as if you start talking about a particular topic you know what to say and what not to, you won’t felt left behind. Asking questions from others gives a good impression of you on them. They start to think that you are curious to know about them and after that even they start to get curious to know about you. Yes, it is important to be yourself while you talk to someone or spend time with them, but no matter what kind of person you are your should be polite to them, as it gives a good impression of you and your personality. Inviting others to some of your activities helps them to know about you and your interests. They feel special and honored when you spend your time with them.





Riya Jain

School: School of Engineering

Program: B.tech ECE

Batch: 2020-2024

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Online Classes and their impact on higher education

 It’s been almost two years since a man woke up one fine day and decided to treat himself with a bat as a delicacy for his breakfast and just like that the months that followed started to take the world apart piece by piece. Economies crashed, hospital beds overflowed, exuberance died and in some parts of the world anarchy took over. 

In order to keep the education going all the universities and schools transitioned to an online mode of teaching. Blackboards got replaced by MS paint and classrooms got overtaken by video conferencing platforms like zoom and teams. Now if this were to be written in a history book I would go on to explain the ways in which humanity as a whole came together on its path to survival but I’ll leave that for another day. Today I wish to talk about online classes and their impact on higher education.

Now given the circumstances switching to an online mode of teaching seemed to be the only logical choice but, and I want you to pay attention to what I’m about to say, just like this very pandemic, just like all the measures we took to fight through it, just like every solution humanity has come up with since March 2020, online classes are “temporary”. 

They have gone on for much longer than they should have, students are forced to miss out on their college life. Online teaching has been going on for 3 semesters now which has made the students miss out on various character-building experiences that they would have undergone in these crucial years of their lives.

A major problem that still remains is faulty internet connections which still haunts us when it comes to online classes. Fun fact, the most used sentence by both the teachers and the students has been “Am I audible”. There have been genuine cases where students have missed out on important lectures due to connection problems. And then there are the over smart ones among the lot who use this internet connectivity excuse to get a few extra hours of sleep. Which brings me to my next point.

In order to attend a class in your room, with all the comforts one can imagine, a need for immense self-discipline arises which let’s face it is the last thing students at this age want to inculcate. This may sound harsh but this has been the reality of online classes, students log in to get attendance and then go on with their day while “Database management systems: Lecture 1” plays in the background. (I don’t do that. Ok maybe once or twice :p )

When you as an educator want to teach a class full of students, you need to establish a connection with the class in order to get through to them. Eye contact often helps a teacher to make sure that the students are still with them and not day dreaming about a boy/girl next door. Online teaching completely obsoletes the idea of reaching through to the class and making sure that whatever is being taught is reaching the students. Barring a few percentage of learners, most of them feel a disconnect with the teacher and have a hard time concentrating thereby missing out on all the important topics, only to google “How to learn Java” a day before the exam. 

(A note for the reader: I know I am making bold statements but trust me all this is true and exists on a much larger scale expanding to all colleges and universities)

To sum up the whole debate I would like to conclude by saying that online teaching is a mere consolation which exists for the sole reason of saving the education system from sudden death. The only difference between netflix and an online class is that people pay attention to netlfix when it’s playing. No matter how insufficient this online mode of teaching maybe it was the only option we had when a deadly virus was plaguing humanity but it is high time that we transition back to old school offline teaching mechanisms because there’s a pretty high chance that a future prime ministerial candidate is going on with his/her day while “Database management systems: Lecture 1” plays in the background.


Sidhant Gumber

Roll No: 19CSU308

School: School of Engineering

Program: B.Tech CSE with Specialization in Game Development

Batch: 2019-2023