Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology B.Tech Review By Ankush Patel

At MANIT, the main lingo is Funda. Funda just means that there are some rules of the college and that has to be followed irrespective of you are junior or senior. Those rules are mostly for the students staying at the hostel and there’s no way you can go beyond Funda’s set by the college seniors. Some were good and quite easy to follow but most of them will make you feel lame and downright stupid. All in all, MANIT was about the Glam factor because not many engineering colleges will have these many girls and also many NRI students. The All India Ranking of MANIT baffled me because if I leave our infrastructure there are many flaws and no one is ready to look upon them.

Dismal teaching at MANIT was inevitable. However, with time I got indifferent to that and also adjusted because I knew this is how it will be. You will be guided for entrance for further studies but for job you will have to prepare yourself as no one will come to help you apart from one or two sessions. The semester breaks were small but the turnaround time between years was too high. A break of almost two months literally broke the momentum on many occasions and even after complaint the problem was not solved. The admin department functioned unprecedently slow and the computer lab had computers out of which most of them were not working.

Teachers were good but their lame teaching made sure that we can’t ask any doubts and have to nod our heads in whatever they say. At the end of each lecture, you will have to deny yourself that life has probably played a cruel joke with you because such a vast portion has to complete on our own. All the combined outcome of the faculty was zero as nothing productive was taught that could help us grow. I was extremely sad by teaching standards at MANIT and I wish I could specifically name a few as they were the worst teachers I have ever seen.

MANIT is known for placements but only on papers. Companies from India, Poland, Argentina, US have come but giving jobs that are definitely not worth engineers. Coforge, and TCS were the key recruiters but only 60% students were placed from campus. The average pay package was around 4 LPA. Industry programs were something that we were hardly made aware with and that played a major role in students not getting placed. Many of the students even found internship on their own. Thankfully, on the basis of the college, we easily got internship and some of us even got off campus placements and for that I would like to thank college for having maintained such a high rapport in industries.

There are 7 boys and 3 girls' hostels inside the campus. Three boys were cramped in a single room for the first two years was again a cruel joke. There were just bathrooms in a floor that had 20 rooms. Thus, 4 bathrooms for 60 students are all what we had. The hostel was the worst part in MANIT’s infrastructure. The mess food again was pathetic and managing food at the college was the toughest ask. Hostel life was great after the first two years, as we were shifted to Hostel No. 8 in which we had to share the room with one more person and some rooms also had attached washrooms. Predominantly we would ask juniors to get us water and help us with our projects which we did during the first two years. Thus, hostel life can be divided in two halves. First half was pathetic and second half was relaxing.

The campus size was so big that it took me four years to explore each and every corner of the college. I may be sounding a little over ambitious but if one doubts me, they can probably see the campus themselves. The campus has a ring road, a central library, and a CCF (Central Computing Facility) which were most used by us. The ring road of the campus had an Incubation center, canteen, and Bank. Apart from that, the campus had a VIP Guest house, an auditorium and an open amphitheater which were world class.

MANIT life was lame as called Sir every senior that we see every time was a huge ask. Some students were magician as they would hardly study but will maintain high CGPAs. I wish I was one of those but perhaps made friends with some of them and that made my life little carefree. College hosted a lot of events, both technical and non-technical events. Thus, life was mixed as some portions were good while most of them pathetic.