VIT University, Vellore is one of the most sought after colleges today. The admissions to the college are through the entrance test called VITEEE.
VITEEE 2008 will be held on 19th April 2008 (Saturday) across 31 cities (see the list on the official site) for 12 streams/branches of B.Tech.
VITEEE is considered to be an easy exam as far as the level of questions is concerned but the sheer number of application, that is sure to cross one lac this time, makes it a tough competition.
Any details about admissions can be found on the official website for admissions:
http://www.vit.ac.in/admissions/admissions-index.asp
VITEEE model papers/sample papers are made available by the college for just Rs 100. Also, the solutions to the last year's papers (VITEEE-2007) are available here where you can download them for free:
Physics
Chemistry
Mathematics
Biology
All the details regarding the VITEEE can be obtained from the official site of the college. For other details, you may ask the students of VIT available at Orkut. The link to the Orkut community forum on VITEEE is:
http://orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=1431087&tid=2583315046346480003&start=1
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Finally Going Wi-Fi
Long long back I had heard a rumor that we would be having wi-fi in our University in sometime. Sometime passed. More time passed. More and the wi-fi never came. Some days earlier we came to know that the Technology Tower and main building were already wi-fi. Yet another rumor.
But we found that the second 'rumor' was true when we saw teachers using internet on their laptops without any wires or modems attached to it. And then we knew that the college has provided the staff with the internet and now it is hardly ever going to be there in our hostels.
After sometime though, through some of my friends who have been to some meetings with pro-chancellor and claim to have an idea of things earlier, I came to know that wi-fi would be coming to the hostels. Though it was difficult to say how long it would take and probably it may not come during this academic year.
But today I saw a friend of mine using wi-fi in the hostel. He had been to the college to get the internet for himself as he needed it for his project and came back with a wi-fi connection which is working irregularly yet as it is being set. So most probably, finally, we are going to have a wi-fi in VIT.
It's working only in some parts of some hostels as it is in a two-week testing period yet but I hope it'll be working in all the hostels soon.
So finally VITians are going to have at least some internet in hostels, and if nothing, now they can proudly tell their friends in other colleges that we too have got a Wi-fi.
But we found that the second 'rumor' was true when we saw teachers using internet on their laptops without any wires or modems attached to it. And then we knew that the college has provided the staff with the internet and now it is hardly ever going to be there in our hostels.
After sometime though, through some of my friends who have been to some meetings with pro-chancellor and claim to have an idea of things earlier, I came to know that wi-fi would be coming to the hostels. Though it was difficult to say how long it would take and probably it may not come during this academic year.
But today I saw a friend of mine using wi-fi in the hostel. He had been to the college to get the internet for himself as he needed it for his project and came back with a wi-fi connection which is working irregularly yet as it is being set. So most probably, finally, we are going to have a wi-fi in VIT.
It's working only in some parts of some hostels as it is in a two-week testing period yet but I hope it'll be working in all the hostels soon.
So finally VITians are going to have at least some internet in hostels, and if nothing, now they can proudly tell their friends in other colleges that we too have got a Wi-fi.
While Getting Famous
It's not easy to cope with increasing fame. Many a time people are unable to cope with it because they do not try hard enough. Sometimes they are unable because they try too hard. And probably VIT is going through such a phase.
VIT. India's International college, as they advertise it. And to a lot of extent, it is. With the number of increasing foreign students, there is no doubt VIT is going international. But with the local practices it follows, shall the college be able to bring and maintain a respect for itself at that level, is a big question.
To start with, we can have a few lines from Deccan Chronicle, a Chennai based, relatively new, but popular newspaper. DC has a news about VIT cultural fest drawing huge crowd under a column called 'Paloma's Pick' (Chennai Chronicle, page 31, Sunday Feb 3) which writes: "The one big dampener on the entire event was the stringent separation of the sexes right from the entry to the food to the exit...". It cannot be said what effect would such a news have on the image of VIT at local, national, and international levels.
The practice of separation of boys and girls in the state is old and there are reportedly a number of colleges that have much more stringent 'rules' regarding the same. But with the international accreditations VIT has achieved, it is necessary for the college to cope with the international standards which probably the management finds impossible to deal with. In fact, the college management has been very diplomatic on the questions of inequality between the two sexes and the different practices followed for girls and boys, the one most questioned being the 'in-time'.
If you are not aware of the 'in-time', you can have a little idea here. The hostels for boys and girls are closed at different times, the time for boys being 9/9.30 daily except Saturdays when it is open till 11.30 in the night. Whereas the timings for ladies' hostels are governed by the library and the hostels close at 7.15 on weekdays and 5.15 on weekends as the library closes at 5 at weekends. Girls are allowed to extend their timings by a 'late-slip' till 8 on weekdays if they are in the library, subject to the condition they are in the library before 7PM.
And this is what the students have become habitual to. But when some event is there and people from outside come, it either surprises the outsiders or the insiders. All of the musicians who had concerts in the college have failed to conceal their amazement after seeing the wide barriers used to separate boys and girls. In an altogether different case, it was surprising for the students to see the college allowing girls to stay in the library till 12 in the night when it was the time of UK accreditation. But the earth went round again after a few days and the limits went back which surprised nobody.
The most surprising thing (for boys, irritating for girls) has been the day of VITEEE, the entrance examination for the college. That is a day boys cannot enter the college campus because of the exam going on. But unlike girls they can go out if they wish. Whereas girls cannot go out because the library is closed on the day.
There are a few more interesting facts and concepts like separate hostel id (for girls) to go outside the campus, fax from home (for girls) to go out of town, invisible cannot-sit-here boards throughout the campus (strictly followed for girls and boys found together), except canteens and library (thank God!) and whistling annas. By now you must not be surprised to know girls and boys have to be in different sides in the largest auditorium of the college.
Though we cannot expect much change in these things and sometimes they get even worse, it seems some things are changing for good too, as the new pro-chancellors of the college have been good enough to listen to the problems of students and give them necessary freedom at times. But there is more bad than good yet and there is a long, long way to go before the college gets truly international.
VIT. India's International college, as they advertise it. And to a lot of extent, it is. With the number of increasing foreign students, there is no doubt VIT is going international. But with the local practices it follows, shall the college be able to bring and maintain a respect for itself at that level, is a big question.
To start with, we can have a few lines from Deccan Chronicle, a Chennai based, relatively new, but popular newspaper. DC has a news about VIT cultural fest drawing huge crowd under a column called 'Paloma's Pick' (Chennai Chronicle, page 31, Sunday Feb 3) which writes: "The one big dampener on the entire event was the stringent separation of the sexes right from the entry to the food to the exit...". It cannot be said what effect would such a news have on the image of VIT at local, national, and international levels.
The practice of separation of boys and girls in the state is old and there are reportedly a number of colleges that have much more stringent 'rules' regarding the same. But with the international accreditations VIT has achieved, it is necessary for the college to cope with the international standards which probably the management finds impossible to deal with. In fact, the college management has been very diplomatic on the questions of inequality between the two sexes and the different practices followed for girls and boys, the one most questioned being the 'in-time'.
If you are not aware of the 'in-time', you can have a little idea here. The hostels for boys and girls are closed at different times, the time for boys being 9/9.30 daily except Saturdays when it is open till 11.30 in the night. Whereas the timings for ladies' hostels are governed by the library and the hostels close at 7.15 on weekdays and 5.15 on weekends as the library closes at 5 at weekends. Girls are allowed to extend their timings by a 'late-slip' till 8 on weekdays if they are in the library, subject to the condition they are in the library before 7PM.
And this is what the students have become habitual to. But when some event is there and people from outside come, it either surprises the outsiders or the insiders. All of the musicians who had concerts in the college have failed to conceal their amazement after seeing the wide barriers used to separate boys and girls. In an altogether different case, it was surprising for the students to see the college allowing girls to stay in the library till 12 in the night when it was the time of UK accreditation. But the earth went round again after a few days and the limits went back which surprised nobody.
The most surprising thing (for boys, irritating for girls) has been the day of VITEEE, the entrance examination for the college. That is a day boys cannot enter the college campus because of the exam going on. But unlike girls they can go out if they wish. Whereas girls cannot go out because the library is closed on the day.
There are a few more interesting facts and concepts like separate hostel id (for girls) to go outside the campus, fax from home (for girls) to go out of town, invisible cannot-sit-here boards throughout the campus (strictly followed for girls and boys found together), except canteens and library (thank God!) and whistling annas. By now you must not be surprised to know girls and boys have to be in different sides in the largest auditorium of the college.
Though we cannot expect much change in these things and sometimes they get even worse, it seems some things are changing for good too, as the new pro-chancellors of the college have been good enough to listen to the problems of students and give them necessary freedom at times. But there is more bad than good yet and there is a long, long way to go before the college gets truly international.
Riviera Review
4 days.
129 colleges.
2125 external participants.
More than 30 cultural events. Plus gaming and sporting events.
More than 3 lacs rupees worth of prizes for cultural events only, which doesn't count informal events' prizes from sponsors like Airtel and the enormous number of chocolates given out to the audiences in almost all events.
1 Rock night.A concert by Shankar Mahadevan.A laser show, fireworks, an international juggling show, one DJ night, and Prakash Raj for the valedictory function of the festival.
That was Riviera 2008. In facts and figures.
But that is just a little fraction of the story.
Riviera 2008. Four holidays for some people, starting 30th January. And four 'work' days for many. When they worked day and night, and made the event a success. All the people who did their work with full devotion, or less than that, or more than that.
It was a show an entry point for some and a last event of its kind for some others like me. It was meeting new people, getting to know more about many, and enjoying with the old ones. It was watching people perform, seeing them doing things with a passion, it was watching teachers dance like anything, even with us and it was learning about students who thought these things weren't good enough to go out for.
Riviera taught me a lot. Till its last moments. In fact, even after the actual thing was over. It told me that even though I have worked on a lot of things, I have missed a lot many things in my college that could have done. My few hours at the reception desk made me realize that it's not just wastage of time or some boring piece of work given to people which they do sitting at these places. It's not just responsibilty but equal amount of fun (or maybe more) also. And, it has told me that even being the good guy I am, I am not the best guy out here (that much I knew for sure) and that there are people who are still hundred times as good as I am. (actually they call it being stupid, not just good, at both the levels, mine and 100 times that)
Truly speaking, fests like Riviera tell us the importance of work and activity in life. They tell us how important it is to think, to have new ideas and implement them. The same events, however interesting, if simply repeated, do not touch our souls the way they do for the first times. That is the reason 'Salad Dressing' and 'Kite Flying' were welcomed whole heartedly and were liked more compared to the old events like 'Wordsworth' which were removed from the list this time. The want of having something new made the 'Bluffmaster' as successful an event as the parallelly going ad-zapped which has been a favorite for years. 'Sand Castle Sculptures' and 'Rangoli' were liked a lot and people kept on clicking pictures of them even two days after the competition was over.
Anyways, now there are just two things. It was a great fun to be in the Riviera '08. And that it's over now.
129 colleges.
2125 external participants.
More than 30 cultural events. Plus gaming and sporting events.
More than 3 lacs rupees worth of prizes for cultural events only, which doesn't count informal events' prizes from sponsors like Airtel and the enormous number of chocolates given out to the audiences in almost all events.
1 Rock night.A concert by Shankar Mahadevan.A laser show, fireworks, an international juggling show, one DJ night, and Prakash Raj for the valedictory function of the festival.
That was Riviera 2008. In facts and figures.
But that is just a little fraction of the story.
Riviera 2008. Four holidays for some people, starting 30th January. And four 'work' days for many. When they worked day and night, and made the event a success. All the people who did their work with full devotion, or less than that, or more than that.
It was a show an entry point for some and a last event of its kind for some others like me. It was meeting new people, getting to know more about many, and enjoying with the old ones. It was watching people perform, seeing them doing things with a passion, it was watching teachers dance like anything, even with us and it was learning about students who thought these things weren't good enough to go out for.
Riviera taught me a lot. Till its last moments. In fact, even after the actual thing was over. It told me that even though I have worked on a lot of things, I have missed a lot many things in my college that could have done. My few hours at the reception desk made me realize that it's not just wastage of time or some boring piece of work given to people which they do sitting at these places. It's not just responsibilty but equal amount of fun (or maybe more) also. And, it has told me that even being the good guy I am, I am not the best guy out here (that much I knew for sure) and that there are people who are still hundred times as good as I am. (actually they call it being stupid, not just good, at both the levels, mine and 100 times that)
Truly speaking, fests like Riviera tell us the importance of work and activity in life. They tell us how important it is to think, to have new ideas and implement them. The same events, however interesting, if simply repeated, do not touch our souls the way they do for the first times. That is the reason 'Salad Dressing' and 'Kite Flying' were welcomed whole heartedly and were liked more compared to the old events like 'Wordsworth' which were removed from the list this time. The want of having something new made the 'Bluffmaster' as successful an event as the parallelly going ad-zapped which has been a favorite for years. 'Sand Castle Sculptures' and 'Rangoli' were liked a lot and people kept on clicking pictures of them even two days after the competition was over.
Anyways, now there are just two things. It was a great fun to be in the Riviera '08. And that it's over now.
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