Hostel experiences

Hostel experiences:

Let me start off with my hostel and its culture. I stayed in a 3-member shared hostel room that was very crowded. After two weeks, I moved to another room shared with 2 people. My hostel’s food menu is really good and it has a lot of nutritious food items in it. Each hostel in IITD has a house secretary, and a representative for every club(like music club, dance club, sports, indoor games, competitive programming club, development club). Every hostel has a music room, gym room, dance room, and a ground or lawn which may have a basketball court or badminton which varies from hostel to hostel. And every hostel has some sports equipment which the hostel residents can use. Hostel-specific functions include house day and STIC dinner during which the mess makes special dinner and some events are hosted....

Academics:

Going into academics, in the first year all the students irrespective of the branch have the same set of courses which involves almost all departmental courses. The professors here are really good and their notes mostly suffice for preparation, most professors are friendly to approach personally to discuss about projects too. Classes constitute on average 5 hours per day. We got to do 2 projects in the first year one in mechanical and another in electrical. The evaluation scheme varies depending on the course and its coordinator. There are mid-sem and end-sem exams along with quizes(2 to 3 ) before the exams. Getting average mostly caters to a grade of 7 for most of the courses. The grading system is relative in most of the courses while few are graded....

Club culture:

Club culture is greatly diverse in IITD. It involves all disciplines. There are student organizations like BSW, BRCA, CAIC, etc. They conduct workshops and competitions regularly and they recruit members at the end of first year mostly....

Fests:

A lot of fests happen here like rendezvous- cultural fest, tryst – tech fest, literati – fest by literature club, becon- entrepreneurial fest, praviriti and other small fests. They include a lot of fun events and speeches of many well known experts of the focused discipline. Not just during the fests, these special guest speakers come but also regularly, many proffessors from many well known Indian and foreign universities come to the campus. Some examples in my first year include Bill Gates, Ankur Warikoo, Nitin Kadkari, Raguram Rajan, Kiran Bedi, Vijendra Chauhan , Tanu Jain and many more....