Tag Archives: VIT

VIT University is now on Google Calendar

As the number of student events and alumni meetings keep increasing, it is no longer viable to share all the posts on VIT’s facebook page without spamming the news feed of people who like the page. So, we have decided to share all the events using Google Calendar. You can subscribe to the VIT calendar by …

September 22, 2011 – 8:37 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Personal | Tagged | Comments (1)

Moving Ahead from Turbo C

Ankur Sethi has done a brilliant blog post on the differences between compiler, C++, Turbo C, IDE (and if you are sane enough to be interested) GCC and Dev C++. Ankur has explained all of it very clearly, so I won’t reinvent the wheel. I strongly recommend that you go through his post. A couple …

April 25, 2009 – 10:13 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

Locking us in — Present Sir!!

Photo courtesy orange42 through FlickrTeachers have been a great part of my life — often encouraging, loving and caring throughout my school life. They really made you want to come to school. You felt good, right!! But coming to college, I have seen the other side of teachers. For me college was supposed to be …

March 12, 2009 – 12:19 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Education | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Lack of Entrepreneurship in India — Whats wrong?

Abhijit Nadgouda has written a great post on what is ailing entrepreneurship to really catch-up in Indian colleges. What started as a comment to his post became a full-fledged post of my own. Being in a college, I can really identify with his views. Outsourcing and thus the not-so-difficult placement has killed all initiative in …

February 20, 2009 – 7:28 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Startups | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Dorai Thodla in VIT

On Monday, Dorai Thodla — the founder of IMorph Inc. came to VIT. (I have wondered how VIT manages to get some good people here considering their bureaucratic working style!! As a part of E-Cell, (its a club to promote entrepreneurship here I am actively involved in the club and so played a part in …

December 18, 2008 – 8:07 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Startups | Tagged , | Comments (1)

I am in a rich college

Anyone who has been following me here or on twitter (@movingahead) will know the fact that Wifi is coming to VIT. Unlike other colleges, even the most minuscule ones VIT till now thought internet access to be a taboo, so the only way to access net was to use a proxy in the labs or …

December 5, 2008 – 6:37 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Education, Personal | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Exams n Airtel

So finally after one mysterious cancellation, exams finally started from 19th. the first paper was english, which went well. Archana Ma’am will be glad to see the attention that VIT pays to the language. The next paper was Math and it was complete bloodshed. Probably the worst paper I have ever written leaving apart the …

September 23, 2008 – 3:04 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Personal, Tech | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Images from VIT

A lot of things have happened since my last post. Foremost, I have been running around for longer and have completely lost control over my academics. Does it matter? I have been busy organising Linux User Group meetings last weekend and this weekend. The Robotics work kept me busy before that. I am running out …

September 7, 2008 – 10:50 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Personal | Tagged | Comments (0)

Finally Net access at VIT

I fear that this blog might paint a wrong picture of VIT in your minds. Internet facilities are the most neglected part of the otherwise quite good college. I have paid around Rs. 150 to the cafes surrounding the college, but cafes are not the best place in the world to blog. (Nor is this, …

August 13, 2008 – 3:03 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Personal | Tagged , | Comments (0)