New Admission Process to the NITs

A few days ago, I heard that there will be a change of admission pattern for the NITs from this year. If you are not aware yet, the change is that unlike before, the non-home state seats of any NIT will not have any state reservation and will purely be decided based on a students AIR. Now some people might say how the hell does this affect us. Directly no, but there are bound to be a lot of changes.

Let us first see what this means to different people. People in states like Rajasthan and Andhra will rejoice at this. Clearly these two states produce are the ones that produce the highest AIRs. But due to the limited no. of seats reserved for these states, people with high ranks are bound to lose out. But now, this rule comes as a blessing from the heavens and we will surely see many more people from these states. On the other hand, the states where competition is not that much like Karnataka or Tamil Nadu are luckily blessed with the best NITs, so i doubt it affecting them that much apart from the competition for spots in home NITs gets tougher slightly because of people's subject preferences. Apart from that there are states like Goa,and the North Eastern states which stand absolutely no chance to getting in to the good NITs because they seldom produce high AIR's and have thus far been helped by the state reservation. But i think the most hit will be the intermediate states like say a Kerala, or a Bengal. These states are often caught in the fix between choosing their home state NITs which could be classified as second tier, and choosing the higher rated NITs and that will now be difficult because of this new rule. Some may argue that this rule is fair, because everyone should be given an equal opportunity, but there again is where the other side of the equation is highlighted too. Since the methods of training/coaching/schooling are not that advanced in some states, and are not upto the mark of Hyderabad/Kota, is it fair to deny them admission to some of the best institutes of the country. You could argue that, this will create the study environment of a Kota in other states also because of the competition but its not very realistic.

Coming to how this would affect us NITKians, you can almost say goodbye to the party system, which would mean a first step in getting rid of dirty politics, but it also means there will almost be no diversity in the crowd of people. The college would have probably seen the last of North East people (God bless the football team). And there will be an overflow of gults and the likes.

What does all this mean to you? Do you think this is the best thing to happen or not? I personally am against this because it defeats the purpose of creating NITs to give people from all states the right to a good college after the IITs. Also there will not be as much diversity anymore and the balance of things would be lost. Only time will tell what difference this change will bring about.

Fairy Tale : Shipping up to Boston

If ever you thought fairy tales were not possible, stop right there and think about the recently concluded NBA Finals. Boston Celtics, were the team with the worst record in the Eastern Conference last season. That's worst out of 15 teams and they finished in the bottom three in the entire league that consists of 30 teams. After such a season, a fairytale tag can be associated with this team only if they won the championships next year. And guess what they did? This year they were the best team in the regular season with a stunning home record of under 10 losses. And in the playoffs although they lost almost all road games, they had the best home record. How did such a remarkable comeback happen? What are the changes that this franchise made? What did this team do in order to justify their name as the greatest franchise ever and lift their 17th title. Here's 3 reasons why I think all this was possible.

3) Doc Rivers and his philosophy : The head coach of the Celtics, is a practitioner of the defence is the best form of offence philosophy. He has revitalised this team to the strongest defensive units. They have come across one of the best offences in the form of Bryant's Lakers and James' Cavaliers. With the ranks of KG and hardworking talents like Powe and Perkins, this is a hard defense to score over.

2) Trades and players : Strategic trades involving their draft picks,and existing players strengthened the team with the arrival of the big presence of Kevin Garnett and the clutch shooting of Ray Allen, along with the presence of their charismatic captain Paul Pierce. This is quite an exceptional team on paper and boy, did they not live up to it on court.

1) Desire : Pierce has been with the Celtics throughout his 10 year long career and he could have easily transferred to a stronger team, but he chose to stick with them because he wanted the championship ever so badly. Garnett is a player of high value. He has been the league MVP, the best defensive player of the year on numerous occasions, and until last year probably the best player ever not to win a championship and one can only imagine how much he would have wanted one. If there is just one second left on the clock, and you trail by one, who is the one person you want to have on the ball ? Nope i would not choose Jordan, Allen is my man. He has one of the most smooth shooting actions and is your go to guy in clutch moments. Apart from this you have the young Rondo, who has got a touch of class about his game and other noteworthy mentions like Perkins,Powe,Brown and Casell. You knew on day 1 that this team wanted to go all the way and restore the pride associated with this franchise.

These are the three reasons as to why the Celtics are once again back on top, and worthily enough their court was resounding to Queen singing We are the Champions.

A Few Good Men

When an assortment of 400 odd people collect at a college after an elaborate procedure, these are the kind of characters that so peacefully co-exist for the most part of 4 years

One guy who does nothing but play FIFA and WoW
One guy who can be used a substitute for a loudspeaker
One imba writer who spreads the afro-american message of peace and respect.
One guy whose nick name translates to a penis in his native language.
One athletically challenged supposed tech God who breaks up with his girlfriend once a month.
One semi-dasa who blasts techno music so that people in the other wing can "groove to it baby"
One guy who does the same on the other wing only with technical death metal instead.
One old aged guy who thinks he should play only in DoTA games where pros play
One self proclaimed stud who in answer to the above mentioned person's cocky statement of "I didn't get any 6's this sem" said with a smile "Neither did I"
One guy when drunk asked the Chief Warden , "Who the fuck are you?"
One gossip king who is not so accidentally in love with a certain Barack Obama and the US Elections
One supposed circuits God who tells his mother everything including facts like his roommate is going upstairs to watch porn.
One guy who is always in the reading room or on the phone with his girlfriend in Madras.
One guy who has man-boobies and cannot get through more than fifteen minutes if there is no electricity
One of his partners in crime who spends most of his nights at Gamedrome under the pretext of a KC Project, who also by the way has atrocious spellings to cancel his legendary mathematical skills.
One guy who is part of the most diverse groups in college, the GCG,the basketball group,and his wing.
One guy who has a million cousins and just will not go to a movie or eat out with the above mentioned guy.
One god level percussionist who quit drinking for his girlfriend.
One god level guitarist who told his girlfriend he quit drinking.
One guy who repeats whatever people around say, and now anyone else doing so calls for the usage of a verb that derives its name from this guy.
One ardent Manchester united fan who's daily activities consist only of sleeping,playing dota, and saying Shata Thu
One supposed con to be who blames the above mentioned guy for his gpa for dropping from 8.5 to 7.5
One guy who started stalking a girl who in the first place started stalking him, so much so to an extent the girl's brother threatened to launch a police complaint.
One guy who owns most of Kulai, and has Tavera's at his disposal at the call of a few Tulu words.
One guy who did not deserve to pass second standard and has a name that co-incidentally rhymes with 'Gay one'
One guy who's music taste range from Carnatic to Led Zeppelin and who gives 'points' when he appreciates acts of people.
One guy who is fat,gay and always messages
One guy who can never be seen.
One sardar who thinks he is the greatest singer ever born.
One guy who has a godly aura about him and defines the word Imba in any respect, who even has a cult following under his name.

Now, with such a collection of people, its not hard to see why people generally tend to prefer college to home.

PS: Amul Treat to anyone who puts the correct names to each of these descriptions :D