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MayerLansky Thanks for the link - I am aware of it. The problem goes deeper. It is epidemic at all level, from students to established Professors and scientists. When I came here, I tried to get students to do good work from the Bachelors Thesis Project (BTP) level and they did. My 1st 2 BTP ...

Seeking, Points well taken but again it is tangent to my thread of R2I. Latest situation is this. I am finding that many of my faculty colleagues are getting equipment & instruments through departmental funds and then making them their personal research property so that only their research students ...

Wow, this thread has 2nd highest number of views in The R2I diaries forum. Let's get to 100,000 quickly:)

Weather has improved in KGP with early morning chilly but then it gets warm during the day.

Cheers

Nattusbs

Returned back to IIT KGP this afternoon from Hyderabad after the Durga Puja holidays, which you know is big festival in West Bengal and IIT KGP was closed for the whole week. I left for Delhi on Oct 17th to do some experiments at DU Physics department with an old friend of mine (since 1985 at Queen ...

The chasing of marks is what I see every day at IIT-KGP. It is all about CGPA. Only a few students really understand the concepts or are interested in them. Many just want to make "money". That is why it is very satisfying that one student in our 5-year Dual Degree program (B. Tech + M.Tech) got ...

Soomdy Sorry for getting back so late. I have 2 full courses and 2 lab classes per week which keeps me rather busy. Thanks for the kind words. Nattu is doing fine. The funny thing with dogs is that they don't care which country they are in as long as they get their food on time and are with people ...

Wow, the new batch of M. Tech students are really enthusiastic. Nice to see that - they are all non-IIT students. I teach a new course called Principles of Nano-structured Interfaces and also do the X-ray an TEM lab. The 5th year B. Tech Dual degree students seem to have forgotten what they studied ...

Wow, the new batch of M. Tech students are really enthusiastic. Nice to see that - they are all non-IIT students. I teach a new course called Principles of Nano-structured Interfaces and also do the X-ray an TEM lab. The 5th year B. Tech Dual degree students seem to have forgotten what they studied ...

GCR

Thanks for the compliments, those were kind words. I am still getting my feet wet here. Will write the latest funny incident re: R&D funding possibility that I am in right now.

Cheers

Nattusbs

I have a few comments on all of this and I am going to list them in no particular order: 1. People R2I for various reasons, some of these are successful and others are not. It is a statistical phenomenon. 2. Sumedh chose to R2A. Full stop. There is no need for him to explain to anybody the reasons ...