BITSIANS ARE often branded as being "ultrageeks" who perform miracles in engineering studies in a remote village called Pilani in Rajasthan.
While the latter view is generally true, one has to see it to believe how things really work in the huge busy campus, where students are trained to take independent decisions as part of a process that prepares them for life.
With great enthusiasm and passion for work, she highlighted her career graph - from the time she secured a D grade in data processing to her present status - that of being the torch-bearer of Kenpeople.
A BITSian to the core, she dumped decent hobbies like reading or listening to music and enjoyed all the lazy lachchas.
Always the one to be approached for his unmatched class-notes, this guy also has an impeccable character, an ever-smiling face, a massive heart and a cute little nasal-twang that used to win a lot of hearts.
During her BITSian life she was a member of the Dance Club and captain of the BITS Volley team.
Most of us are carrying memoirs of our BITSian days in our brain humps and those running their term in BITS right now are filling up their humps with many interesting incidents.
Sometime last year (not sure though), there was this Google engineer Orkut Buyukkokten who developed the concept of orkut community (They decided to call it Orkut because Buyukkokten was hard to pronounce!).
So not just IITs, IIMs and AIIMS, the institutions which are brought into the 27% OBC quota net include Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani; Manipal Academy of Higher Education; Pune’s Symbiosis International Education Centre and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
At work, there are three BITSians in my team.
My roomie is a BITSian and so are a whole bunch of her colleagues.
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BITSians firmly believe in the now famous dialogue "Jo desh ke kaam na aaye woh bekaar jawani hai" (They who come of no use to the country are a waste of youth)..
Prof R Mahesh Incharge of The Recreational Activity Forum (RAF) of the Institute which regularly organizes film shows for the BITS community joined hands with Ms Pratibha the student secretary of Music Club of the Institute to present an evening of entertainment in the auditorium on 27th February 2006.
One Jon Bon Jovi song was enough to give a soul stirring feeling and the night ended with rendering of the all time hit patriotic song Mile Sur Mera Tumhara which reiterated the fact that BITS Pilani is indeed an All India Institute of the country and for the country
My BITSian life was not certainly most exciting, if you have to gauge it by the widely accepted measures of a college life.
Again, you could easily get better maintained lawns anywhere else, but the proximity to the institute builindg and the simplicity are bound to leave an impression on you.
The clock tower is synonymous for BITSians for other things, but you will know this towering structure better in those early hours.
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.
The idea for CEL was seeded by the BITSAA Center for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (CEVC), with the vision of promoting the spirit of entrepreneurial thinking among the BITSian community.
The students and the Institute shared this vision and came together in record time to set up the center.
s of my BITSian life.) There is a lot of options for someone intending to do stuff other than academic work.
Whatever be the reason, a popular BITSian name sticks to one for good.
To quote from the website of Kannada vedike (which was designed by me, Shashanka and Ashutosh Mehra on one winter-night some years ago), the aim of the organization is:
The clock tower is a landmark which bitsians always love to celebrate.
The Director is one of the most dignified and amiable persons Ive ever met and he suits the role to a T. One of the things all BITSians fondly admire are his short and memorable speeches at every occasion.
There is so much of extra curricular activities that anyone would feel blessed to have landed here.
I was trolling the blogosphere for locating other BITSian bloggers and landed on Rathish Balakrishnan's compilation of all the BITSian bloggers that have surfaced so far.
I have created a dedicated page on our blog with the list and added it to our blogroll.
If any BITSian blogger wants to add themselves to this list, please leave a comment on this blog or on Rathish's.
Rightly so, for it was the set of talented youngsters who came, performed and then conquered the hearts and minds of people during this year’s 6th Annual Dinner of the BITS Pilani Alumni Association held recently at the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto.
Their father Gopal Garg (BITSian from the batch of ’82) was the Director of the musical show on the alumni night.
Dwij strumming away on his guitar, and Trit matching the chords on his keyboard, were the perfect accompaniment for the artists who rendered the vocals as they dished out some of the most unforgettable melodies from Kal Ho Na Ho to Dum Maro Dum.
Or we used to read in the Indian press about accomplishments of our BITSian friends.
Then we realised the need to create a rock-solid Internet infrastructure to facilitate these global interactions and create a global village for BITSians."
"But the site soon grew big and became a virtual gathering of BITSians all over the world with almost 30 city specific alumni chapters across the globe associating with the Web site," says Sagar Dughrekar, co-ordinator for the Mumbai chapter of BITS Alumni Association
Birla Institute of Technology and Science : BITSian
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India (popularly known as 'BITS Pilani') is one of the most prestigious tech schools of India (ranked 5th by India Today).
On the other hand, it had might exhibit an interest in a large country-house.
Visual effects animator Mahesh Ramasubramanian had a hand in adding character to a disgusting, ugly, yet somehow adorable, computer-generated ogre who takes mud showers and uses earwax cones as dinner candles.
Click on this link for more on Mahesh and the other team members:
Check out this hilarious podcast by Shaggy (my BITSian batch mate) on what would happen if an Asian and a Gujju mated - http://www.sagniknandy.com/podCasts/pod-3.mp3