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Preparing for Judgment Day |
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Nov 18, 2008 at 12:28 PM |
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I wrote an article for InsIght after a long while. Here goes... It’s that time of the year again. Placement season, case studies, puzzles, new clothes, résumés and what not. It’s a time of extreme joy and pain for us IITians. After all, most of us look upon placements as judgement day. The one month in our four (or five) year academic life where companies weigh our achievements, talk to us for a few hours and designate our rightful place in the food chain. With time, our fascination with getting an “A1 job” has only grown. We start to make planned tradeoffs between academics, organizational work and sports starting from our freshman years. Organizations get ranked based on how “successful” their alumni have been and clubs are formed (or joined) to inch closer to the perfect CV, the perfect interview and the perfect job. In a nutshell, we turn placement season into the environment we’re the most comfortable with; a fight-to-the-death competition for the best job on campus. After all, the more others want something, the better it must be. As über-competitive Indians, that’s how we make most of our decisions. It’s been three years since I went through the same phase and acted the exact same way (though at the time, I would have disagreed). I’ve since had several juniors ask me how to make these decisions, forcing me to think about this and talk to my peers and seniors in turn. The next few paragraphs are words of friendly advice, from a senior to a junior. Read More... |
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Feb 25, 2008 at 06:00 PM |
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Spent a lot of time trying to find an alternate download for the Google Adsense mambot, now that mamboforge seems to be down. For those still looking, here it is.Write Comment (11 comments) |
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A beginner's guide to editing videos |
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Feb 22, 2008 at 01:04 PM |
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I started piecing videos together somewhere in my second year at IIT. Somewhere in between my stint as InsIghT editor i began to get the hang of it. Here's a beginner's guide from a beginner :) What should you consider? Video editing is very simple if you look at it as one part photo-editing, one part story lining and one part sound editing. The best way to start is to run through your raw footage over and over again. You will typically find parts of the video that stand out, almost like flashes. Weave your story around these moments Pick a background track, it helps set the pace of the video and the length of your sequences. Even if you don't need a score, keep a tempo/rhythm in mind. Write Comment (12 comments) |
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Jan 26, 2008 at 11:17 PM |
| The only non-impulse buy of the season. Bought the Sony DCR SR-42 around a month back and cannot stop raving about it. |
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From brainwaves to buckets: What does consulting offer an IITian |
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Nov 08, 2006 at 05:00 AM |
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At IIT Bombay, we tend to tire of clichés. Over the time we spend on campus we learn enough about the ‘IITian’ to take the compliments showered upon us with a pinch of salt. What, then, does one make of the world’s best consulting firms showing up at the LT, showering praise upon us and (miracle of miracles) actually hiring a few of us in ‘consulting’ roles. Write Comment (13 comments) |
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