IIT BOMBAY
Review - 1
Hey. I am a Btech student who just joined IIT Bombay this July.
This is a wonderful place to be. The only thing that I feel can describe my experience till now is that the efforts you put in JEE are worth it if you get here.
There are so many things going around it is sometimes difficult to decide where to go.
You have so many clubs that I can guarantee you,you will find something that interests you and also that you will find people with similar interests.
Believe me, I am living by myself for the first time and yet I don't wanna go home coz there is so much I would be missing out on.
As for acads, well there are mostly amazing professors although you may find some very pathetic ones too.
I can say that there is always help at iitb for those who want it.
So basically the day starts off with going to lectures then going to events,talking to people, hanging out with wingmates,exploring the institute.
A major thing that I forgot about, MOOD INDIGO…..if you don't know about it just Google it and I assure you you will be amazed.
Another perk of being at iitb is that celebrities come here almost every week for a lot of events.Believe me it's been just 3 months here and Bret Lee, Narendra Modi,Yami Gautam,Ankit Kumar,singers of huma,bolna,Laila ,Sadguru Mohit Chauhan have already visited the institute.
IIT BOMBAY
Review - 2
There is no exact answer to this question. Some students say that life is great here and some may tell that life is hell here. Life at IIT Bombay is highly dependent on who you are and what you want. I will explain to you why.
HOSTELS AND MESS
Students who have come far from home for the first time, literally cry after seeing the condition of hostels and food. From the last 3–4 years the newcomers are allotted Hostels 15 and 16 which are nice and adjustable for a newcomer, but senior hostels from Hostel 2–9(given to undergraduate students from second year onwards) are too congested. Currently, my hostel room has size of around 9ft*7ft. Food is not as good as compared to home but is edible (except some days). Compared to general hostels or mess, Food Quality is good at IIT Bombay (trust me, it’s my 9th year in hostels). Hostel 10 -11 (girls hostel) is too good compared to hostel standards. Hostels 12–14 are for MTech and PhD students. These hostels are also good enough.
ACADEMICS and ATTENDANCE
Just like most of the other colleges, it also follows the rule of 80% attendance. Failed to do so results in a DX grade which means that you have to repeat the course. Grading policy used here is relative grading, which means that a particular % of class would get a particular grade and this thing depends on the professor. It seems that relative grading would be easy and would help in getting good grades, but here you are wrong. Relative grading makes the competition too worse. This is the place where many students think that if they would have chose some other IIT, they wouldn’t have felt this much academic pressure and could get a nice cpi with lower efforts. More than 10% of students fail at least in one subject each year.
SPORTS
IIT Bombay provides an excellent opportunity to excel in sports. It has got excellent sports facilities for cricket, football, athletics, hockey, squash, table tennis, lawn tennis, basketball, volleyball, badminton, weightlifting, swimming etc. In the beginning of first year some students are selected for each sport and they are trained well in that sport under the program NSO. Leaving it, beginner camps are organized from time to time for enthusiastic students who want to learn the fundamental skills required for the game. Advanced summer camps are also launched in the summer holidays to provide excellence in that particular sport.
Nearly all hostels have a basketball court, badminton court, table tennis, foosball, billiards, football ground, gym facilities etc. Due to these facilities, students are highly enthusiastic about sports here and this time IIT Bombay was the winner of INTER IIT SPORTS MEET 2017.
CULTURALS
IIT Bombay is no way behind in culturals. Be it music, dance, photography, fashion, dramatics, movie-making, design, speaking arts, etc. , IIT Bombay has got clubs for each of these which are managed by students.
Students here take part in many national and international competitions also. Silverscreen, design, and the debating club has won prizes at national as well as international level also.
At last but not the least, this time IIT Bombay stood second in the INTER IIT CULTURALS MEET 2017.
TECHNICAL
There are many clubs which are doing great work in the field of technology.
AUV-IITB(autonomous underwater vehicle)
INNOVATION CELL
SSP(student satellite program)
IIT B RACING
etc.
People who love to do technical stuff join these teams and these are the teams which win many international awards too. If you want, you can check on google.
EXPOSURE and MANAGEMENT
At IIT Bombay you get that level of exposure which you haven’t even thought of.
Similar is the case of management. In general students’ haven’t done much courses of management here, but the way in which they manage events like
MOOD INDIGO (Asia’s largest cultural fest)
TECHFEST (Asia’s largest technical fest)
ABHYUDAY (Asia’s largest social fest)
E-SUMMIT(Asia’s largest entrepreneurship fest)
is truly appreciable.
While working in these fests, you develop many types of soft skills.
You get to interact with International famous personalities, visit places like embassies, attend seminars which are not open for the general public and what not.
Now you would ask me that since IIT Bombay provides such excellent facilities, students should only love it, why do they hate?
IIT BOMBAY
Review - 3
It came as quite a shock to me that, yes, you still have to study after getting into IITB XD.
Life at IIT Bombay was good in the beginning, just a bunch of orientations you need to attend and there was no homework, of course. Our first lecture was of CS 101. But that was easy, as I had already done some coding in school.
Gradually the weight increased.
We were told we would have graded physics lab every week, graded mechanical workshops, and compulsory CS labs.
Then we had our first quiz. Calculus. I managed to score well, but there were people around me scoring very low. Midsems weren’t a pleasant experience either.
Life in IITB is how you want it to be. Right now (first year), especially. You could spend all of your time studying for AA grade, or bunk classes to sleep, and chill the entire rest of the day.
IIT BOMBAY
Review - 4
A few days ago I attended IIT Bombay E-Summit 2019 as a guest speaker.
I was simply blown away by the scale and size of the event. Honestly, for a moment I thought I was in some Silicon Valley conference. Anywhere you look, you would see banners and sponsorship hoardings of every major startup. The speaker lineup was amazingly diverse and impressive.
