Category: Musings BITS
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Musings on a BITSian Life: Epilogue
This post serves an Epilogue for the series on ‘Musings on a BITSian Life‘. There is a time and opportunity cost attached to everything. Everything. This is probably one of the most humbling realizations of adulthood. Its probably why people came up with the proverb: “Youth is Wasted on the Young”. (Not sure why more…
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The Future of Work: An Individual Perspective
COVID-19 has forced us all to rethink many aspects of our lives. I examine deeply the relationship between the 3 pillars of the knowledge economy: Work, Education and Value.
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The Future of Work: A Vision
COVID-19 has forced us all to rethink many aspects of our lives. I examine deeply the relationship between the 3 pillars of the knowledge economy: Work, Education and Value.
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The Not-so-Golden Ratio: What are the Odds?
This post tries to address the skewed representation of women in engineering education for the female perspective from first principles.
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The Not-so-Golden Ratio: Why Should I Care?
This post tries to address the skewed gender representation in technology and engineering education for the male perspective from first principles.
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The Not-so-Golden Ratio: Where are they?
This post tries to address the perception gap society has regarding women in engineering using first principles and a historic perspective.
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Musings on a BITSian Life: “Extracurricular”
This post is written as a supplement to “Basics” focusing on the time management aspects of student life. Somewhere in the space of the first few weeks at BITS Pilani, one goes through the semi-formal process of “Interactions”. It is an interesting melting pot where ideally you meet a wide variety of individuals. Variety in…
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Musings on a BITSian Life: Basics
I wanted to keep this short and sweet. I couldn’t. Over the past few years, I have received many questions from BITSian juniors about career, applications, relationships etc. The questions are very specific but I see an underlying pattern that doesn’t have much to do with the exact professional choice but which shares something more…
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The Swartz Fellowship
circa 2011: Brijesh, Saurabh and me were standing outside the LTC. The last hope for a Conquest sponsor had pulled out. We simply did not have the money to pull off Conquest the next week. (We eventually did somehow). But that day I went back to my room and wondered, “Why am I doing this…