Explore the New Destination of GATE

Many of the GATE aspirants appeared in GATE 2012 today. Majority of them have made their mind to get admission into IITs and IISC, accepted. But many people don't know what good GATE score can offer them. 

Majority of the post graduation courses offered on basis of GATE score are in the field of technology (MTech/PHD). So it might be that many of you would not be aware of one the best institutes of India in the field of management, i.e. National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai. Lets have a look what NITIE can offer you: 

• What is NITIE? 
• It is one of the best institutes in India for Management studies specializing in field of Industrial Engineering. It is one of the 15 centers of excellence along with IITs and IIMs. Due to its expertise in the field of Operation and Supply Chain Management, its also popularly known as "Karmabhumi of OPs and SCM" 

• Course Offered - PGDIE 
• Though people refer NITIE as a management institute, but its core competency is in field of Industrial Engineering & Management. The course offered by NITIE to GATE student is Post Graduation Diploma in Industrial Engineering(PGDIE). It is the flagship course of NITIE and very well reputed in industry. 

• Industrial Engineering in IIT or NITIE 
• I won't comment on the course offered by IITs, but the course offered by NITIE is not only technological, it is more of managerial i.e. techno-managerial course. You will be taught technical aspects as well as managerial aspects of the real world. You are free to explore your choice of subjects whether they are technical or managerial, as electives offered to PGDIE students are as diverse as other managerial courses offered in different managerial institutes. 
• After NITIE you will be called Managers, but after IITs you will be still called as engineers. 

• Admission Procedure and Fees 
• This I will leave to official team of PGDIE. You can contact them for more details on ietimes.nitie@gmail.com

• We are not managerial material. We are technical people. 
• Believe me we also thought same when we came in NITIE. The best part of the PGDIE NITIE is the culture to groom first year students by seniors. Senior invest three months to transform first year students into managers. Starting from soft skills, presentations, public speaking, GD, PI to technical aspects, they gave us sessions on everything that would help us to improve ourselves. 

• What about placement? 
• I don't need to comment on this. You can check NITIE site and see placement report. Believe me placement offered by NITIE is in line with IIMs. Top notch companies from every industry visit NITIE every year. All students of NITIE will go through same placement procedure and eligible for all companies that visit the campus. 

• How will we compete with CAT students? 
• As I have already told you after your grooming part, on time of placement you don't have to compete with peer batch. Keep my word in your mind, your biggest competitors will be your own batchmates. 

• But at IITs we can have stipend. 
• Good news. PGDIE students in NITIE also get stipend as decided by MHRD (i.e. 8000 per month) 

• What about work load? 
• I won't comment on this much. But you won't get better work life balance in any other managerial or technical post graduation institutes compared to NITIE.

Life at NITIE: NITIE Pond

એક પત્ર એમના માટે....

જે રીતે આવનારા વરસાદની ચાતકને, જે રીતે આવનારા અતિથિની કાગડાને જાણ થઈ જાય છે એમ મારા દ્વારા આ પત્ર તને લખાશે એ ભાળ તને જાણે મારા મને આપી દીધી હોય એમ મને જણાય આવતા આજે મેં  તને આ પત્ર લખવાની હિંમત કરી છે. હું નથી ચાહતો કે આ પત્ર આપણી મૈત્રીની પવિત્રતા પર પ્રશ્ન કરે. તેથી આ પત્ર વાંચવા માટે હું તને જોર કરવા ઇચ્છતો નથી. પત્રનું કોઇ પણ પદ કે કડી તને આપણી મૈત્રીની રેખાને ધૂંધળું કરતું જણાય તો એ જ ક્ષણ એને પડતો મૂકી દેજે. સાચુ કહું તો આટલી મોટી વાત તારી સામે આવીને કહું તો કદાચ કશેક શબ્દ ચૂકી જઈશ એ બીક છે. મારા દિલને અનુભવાતી દરેક ભાવના તારી સામે વ્યક્ત ના કરી શકું એ બીકે હું તને આ વાત પત્ર લખી જણાવા માંગુ છું.

દિવસો મિનિટમાં ને મિનિટો ક્ષણમાં ફેરવાઈ ગઈ. કાળે જાણે પોતે કઈ રચના કરીને એક વરસ જલદી સમાપ્ત કરી દીધું હોય એમ પ્રતિત થઈ રહ્યું છે. હજી હમણાં જ તો આપણી મુલાકાત થઈ હોય એમ લાગી રહ્યું  છે.  જાણે છેલ્લા એક વર્ષની આપણી મૈત્રી એની એક-એક ક્ષણ મને એ મૈત્રીથી કઈ વિશેષ હોય એમ જણાવી રહી છે. તારામાં પરોવાયેલું મારું મન ક્યારે મને મિત્રતાની બીજી પાર લઈ ગયું તેની મને ખબર ના હતી એવું નથી પણ હું જો ચાહતો હોત તો પણ એને રોકી શકું એટલો પ્રબળ ના હતો. તારી સાથે વિતાવેલી એક-એક ક્ષણ આંખો સામે હજી પણ જીવંત છે. જે રીતે વરસાદી વાદળની અથડામણથી વીજળીનું ઉત્પન્ન થવું નિશ્ચિત છે, જે રીતે સૂર્યકિરણોમાં સ્નાન કરતા પુષ્પો પર ભમરાનું આકર્ષાયને બેસવાનું નિશ્ચિત છે, તે રીતે, હે સુનયના, તારામાં ખોવાયેલા એવા મારા મનનું વિચલિત થવું નિશ્ચિત હતું. હે લાવણ્યમયી, મારા હૃદયમાંથી વારંવાર એકજ પંક્તિ નીકળે છે,

તારા તરફ ન જુએ એ આંખોને ક્યાંથી લાઉં,

તારા અવાજને ન ખોજેએ કાન ક્યાંથી લાઉં,

તારા વખાણને રોકી રાખે એ જીભને ક્યાંથી લાઉં,

રોકવા તારી અસરને હું તારાથી દૂર જાઉં,
પરંતુ તારામાં ખોવાય ગયેલા દિલને હું પાછું ક્યાંથી લાઉં.

હે કામણગારી, તારા રૂપને સંપૂર્ણ રીતે માણવામાં હું નિષ્ફળ રહ્યો છું. મારી આંખો તો તારા સ્મિત માત્રથી જ મંત્રમુગ્ધ થઇ જાય છે. ગુલાબને પણ શરમાવી દે એવા તારા ગુલાબી અને કોમળ ગાલ પર જયારે ખંજન સર્જાય છે ત્યારે જાણે સક્ષાત કામદેવ તારી મનમોહકતા વધારવા આવ્યા હોય એવું લાગે છે. હે નિતંબિની, હું તારા સ્વરૂપથી નહિ, પરંતુ તારા સ્વભાવથી આકર્ષાયો છું. જે રીતે પડછાયો દેહને છોડી શકતો નથી, એ રીતે નિખાલસતા, સહજતા અને કુશળતા તને નથી છોડી શકતી. હે સુગંધા, મારું આ નાદાન મન તારા પ્રેમમાં ખોવાઈ ગયું છે. હું તને શું કામ પ્રેમ કરું છું એ વાત નો ઉત્તર મારી પાસે પણ નથી, પરંતુ હે મોહિની, તને મળ્યા પછી કોઈ પણ લલનાને તારા સમક્ષ માની સકતો નથી. બસ તને જ ઝંખતા મારા હૃદયનો સંદેશવાહક થઇ હું આજે તારી સામે ઉભો છું. આજે તારા માટે મારી પાસે માત્ર એકજ પ્રશ્ન છે,

"શું તું મારી જીવન સંગીની બનીશ?"

હું તારી રાહ જોઇશ......

Gujju's GD/PI Experience in NITIE

Thanks to Prem Rupareliya (PGDIE-39) who insisted me to fill the NITIE form when my moral was down in the dumps due to another pathetic Gate score (709). Considering the outcome  I lost hope for higher studies and started concentrating on my so called IT job, luckily I got call from NITIE. I got something which is not easy to digest. Call from NITIE. First 24 hours, I was in heaven. But line from my manager brought me down to ground. His line was “Vishnu. NITIE is totally different league.”

Considering that I started preparation for GD/PI. I talked to Prem, Amit Pranjpe (PGDIM-17),  Amit Bhatia (PGDISEM-10) about their GD/PI experience.

On 11^th May 2011, I came to NITIE Mumbai for my life’s first GD/PI.The cademic staff, faculties and seniorswere really cooperative and process was very smooth.

Process:

Slot 1: GD

I was slotted into group 3; panel 3 (I guess)

Number of people present in group: 10

Number of faculties to observe GD: 5

Time for thinking: 2 min

Time for discussion: 10 min

Topic for discussion: Revolution in retail industries has changed spending habit of average Indian.

GD Environment: Discussion was good. No one had created fish market. (Though we had one funny character in GD, but that’s out of topic right now) As for me, I entered 3 times in to the GD. Presented 2 new points. Outcome of GD was obvious, out of 10, 5 people had cleared the whole process and right now they are studying with me.

Slot 2: PI

Five to six faculties are there in each interview panel.

Prof 1: Tell me something about yourself.

I: Briefed about my engineering and IT experience. I tried to give more emphasis on my work experience and projects but they didn’t interrupt me in between. When I was about to finish my introduction, I purposefully mentioned about an application that I had developed during my college tenure. (So that further discussion would go in that direction.)

Prof 1: What was that application?

I: It was a virtual stock trading simulator

Prof 1: Don’t you think number of such applications is available in market. Why did you make that application again?

I: Answered.

(Kind of satisfactory answer, as no further questions came from that.)

Prof 1: What was your final year project?

I: Based on the application that we had developed but previously application was web based, which we had converted to standalone application.

Prof 1: Tell me 3 things that were there in your application and were not there in other market products.

I: Answered 2 differences.

I was interrupted by other faculty. By that moment almost 70% of interview was done.

Prof 2: You mentioned about traffic system in your current company project. Do you know ***** this algorithm? (I don’t remember that name)

I: No sir. There is a system already exist working on this we are just communicating with that system for further process.

Prof 3: Tell me three differences between Wipro & CTS. (As I have 23 months of work exp in Wipro and 10 months in CTS)

I: Working hour system, Culture and Growth strategy.

Prof 4: What kind of facilities is available if you want to start your business?

I didn’t understand question and started answering about my dream business, he interrupted me in between and repeated question again.

I: Venture capitalist, blah, blah…

(I thought that would be the end of question answer round and I was happy that question about which I was most feared didn’t come.)

Prof 1: Vishnu, you grades in 10^th and 12^th are excellent then why sudden decline in engineering, from 80+ to 69%?

I: Answered. (Had well prepared that one with help of Amit & Rahul Bajaj)

Prof 1: Ok, thank you.

Comments about PI: As always my interview was finished earlier than other candidates (5-10 mins before I guess) I tried to be myself. No mugged up answers. No fake answers.

Results: I am proud student of PGDIE-41 batch of NITIE, Mumbai. :D

MI4 v/s DON2 – Difference In Mindset

Those who have opened this blog in search of movie review sorry guys. And also sorry to guys/girls who has  habit of reading good blogs. My blog might be having lots of English mistakes 

Recently, I have seen “MI4” and “Don 2”. Well thanks to “freecharge.in” and “ticketplease.com” it cost me 20 INR each. For me movies were great. This post it dedicated to citizens of first world the mighty English lovers. (P.S. – Those who had watched these movies with me please don’t feel offended, this post is not for you.)

Let me tell you few comparisons that I made out from their thought process. Following are the scene from movies and comment on that scene from our own the first world citizens:

Scenario 1:

·         MI4 – Frequent use of disguises masks

o   Comment – “Awesome suspense yaar, really nice trick.”

      ·         DON2 – SRK used disguises mask and became Hrithik

o   Comment – “Kuchhbhi. Hrithik and SRK height, voice and style are different; these people show anything.”

Scenario 2:

      ·         MI4 – Use of hand gloves to climb the building

o   Comment – “Sahi!! Awesome technology!!”

      ·         DON2 – Use of hand gloves to reach to the safe

o   Comment – “I think they forget that gravity force is there on earth!”

Scenario 3:

      ·         MI4–Even after hit by car Tom Cruise chased the villain

o   Comment – They chewed their nails in support of hero, showing their concern that he can do it.

      ·         DON2–SRK fight when he got a bullet in his hand

o   Comment – With a Kamini smile on face, “Indian actor can fight in any condition.”

Scenario 4:

      ·         MI4 – Jail break

o   Comment – “Nicely planned. Too good!”

      ·         DON2 – Jail break

o   Comment – “I think they forget that they are not in Indian Jail. Kuchh bhi dikhate hai!!”

Scenario 5:

      ·         MI4–All the technology shown in movie

o   Comment – “They only know how to use technology.”

      ·         DON2– Watch to detonate bomb

o   Comment – “What they are showing man? How can a watch have such extreme range of signals?”

Scenario 6:

     ·         MI4 – End moment bomb discharge

o   Comment – “Too close man, still he did it.”

     ·         DON2 – End moment bomb discharge

o   Comment – They didn’t comment in this case, they simply gave “Kamini” smile.

I know Bollywood movies still lack of innovations; we still have years to go to match our sci-fi or action movies with Hollywood movies. Though our movies use to copy things from other language movies, what you are accepting in other language movies, you can also accept in Hindi movies.