r/Indian_Academia

Am currently pursuing B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture Semester 3rd. I took this as I had no option left. I don't like the subjects much and I am mot looking to do M.Sc then PhD like other people but thinking of MBA but confused if this is a good option.

If going for CAT is a good option, what should I keep in mind and take care of (internships and any other thing)? Is there any CGPA to maintain and what is the procedure of attempting CAT?

myquals

This Sunday, UPSC holds the recruitment exam for 46 permanent scientist posts at the India Meteorological Department. I have a PhD qualifications in meteorology. I can't sit it, and if I could, it wouldn't test anything I know.

Earlier this year I applied for this Scientist-B post at the IMD. 46 permanent posts - 30 in general meteorology, 7 in atmospheric sciences, 9 in instrumentation. The actual job of telling the country when the rain is coming.

The syllabus has 8 items. Current affairs. Logical reasoning. Mathematics and numerical ability. Basics of energy and environment. Basics of project management. Basics of material science. ICT tools and e-governance. Human values and professional ethics. I read it three times looking for the meteorology. There isn't any. No atmospheric physics, no fluid dynamics, no thermodynamics, no climate. There is nothing on that paper that could tell me apart from someone who has never seen a weather balloon go up.

Then I scrolled down to see what else was on the notice, and understood why. It's a combined exam. The same two-hour paper, same hall, same afternoon, also shortlists Assistant Directors for the MSME ministry — chemicals, food, hosiery, leather and footwear, metal finishing. One syllabus for the people who will forecast the monsoon and the people who will inspect shoe factories. I don't think anyone sat down and decided that. It's just cheaper to run one paper than five.

The paper is 75% of the score. The interview is the only place anyone might ask about my research — 25%, and you only get there if you clear the paper first. All fifteen centres are in India. So on the 11th afternoon there will be a hall in Delhi with my application in it, and me five thousand kilometres away.

But my application is the least interesting thing here, so let me say the part that actually keeps me up.

The monsoon is changing. The next twenty years of Indian earth science are going to be about attribution, about forecasting extremes that look like nothing in the historical record, about building models for this subcontinent instead of borrowing ones built for the mid-latitudes. That is hard, specialised work, and it decides how to implement adaptation and mitigation policies in the 2040s.

The people trained at the frontier of exactly that work are, right now, scattered across the world in Europe and the US. Not because they chose to leave permanently. Most of us went for the training, and we are, to a person, waiting for a way back. It's the job we have been pointing ourselves at for a decade. And the only door available to us is a general-aptitude paper we can't even physically sit, scored at 75% against an interview nobody reaches without it.

Some of the best meteorology work anywhere comes out of IITM Pune and IISc, and the candidates sitting Sunday's paper are doing the rational thing with the only door that's open to them.

But look at what the post actually asks for. The essential qualification for Scientist-B is a Master's degree. That's it. You can be appointed a Scientist at the IMD without having done a single piece of original research, not as a loophole, but as the advertised bar.

I don't begrudge anyone that. But then what was the PhD for? Those of us who spent eight or ten years actually doing the work, running the models, publishing papers, training on precisely the problems IMD exists to solve get no credit for it, no relaxation, no extra weight in the shortlisting. We aren't over-qualified. We're invisible to the form.

I would get on a plane tomorrow to sit an exam that actually tested the subject. I just can't work out who decided this was the right instrument for the job, or who I would even ask.

Has anyone here sat one of these combined papers? Did it feel like it was selecting for the job it was attached to?

I have been expelled from FLAME University before even STEPPING foot on its campus.

There was this groupchat made for the upcoming freshers, as they got to know that I was a 100% merit scholarship student, they started bullying me hardcore. They had a perception that their fathers are paying for my fees.

The above video shows how vulgar things got they threatened to rape my mother, all of them being the students of the university (the group had a verification process, and I have the admission letters of these boys)

The billionaire founder parag shah tells me to visit the campus to solve the issue and just say "sorry" to the registrar, and I packed my bags with 2000 in pocket as I had the confidence it was founder who recommended. When I reached the gates the security head said that he would not allow me in no matter what. I stood outside for 2 hrs, made calls and they did not respond. I have been living in the railway station, eating in gurudwara and ISKCON temples for the last 44 days. I miss my family.

I approached many lawyers, all of them said they'll take up pro-bono, at the end they come up with some sort of fees such as "counselling" and they say 30k rupees.

I don't even have much to eat right now, I am currently stranded in pune and don't want to waste my academic career.

We managed to talk to the university with the student union, they said I have defamed the institute too much otherwise they would have let me in.

This is the worst form of harassment a student can experience and I cannot sustain it for long.

I have done nothing wrong, or I wouldn't have come so far. These kids are in the university, and I am homeless.

The Adminstration made up a story "See even though he was a 100% merit scholar, we expelled him because he did sexual harassment" and spread across campus and used me as a scapegoat.

The kid in the video is probably still in the university because he is some politicians kid, and I am homeless despite no wrong-doing.

context: Flameuniversitytruths.in

myquals: 12th pass

guys I'm in my drop year and btech is my last option from pvt uni i don't have any intrest in coding and all that, but if i took btech i know i can pass the exams and all that ( i hate studies )

I am thinking to do Graphic Designing something different buttt I AM HAVING THAT INSECURITY AND HAVING A BIT FEAR OF CHOOSE SOMETHING DIFFERENT and i don't even know the G of graphic Designing 🙃 i just know that in graphic designing we design logo and uiux something like that

I saw soo many other career options but like architecture bsc psychology and all that stuff but these things are not my type guys

My qualifications 81 percentage in class 12th pcm

What advice do u have for someone like me who is feeling really clueless in college rn?

I recently started college at lady shri ram (lsr) in history hons. I have been a pretty good student throughout school but here in college first it's so hard to understand things. Where to study? What to study? Idk man i have never felt this confused in my life.

I don't even know what to do further. I have no interest in upse or government jobs. I quite wanted to study further in archeology but I don't think my parents would support my higher studies.

So there is the thing, i had to fight a lot to come to delhi. My hometown doesn't have any good colleges but my parents didn't want me to leave. After fighting like a crazy with my parents they let me come here but they have clearly mentioned that they wont support my further education and want me to get married right after graduation.

I know my choice of course is bonkers for someone in my situation but i was either just terrible in other streams or just lacked interest. And i knew to get out of home i had to score well so i took humanities. I did score well and i did get out of that hellhole but now what?

Recently i have been quite interested in learning video editing and lowkey marketing and social media stuff. But at the same time, I don't understand how to proceed. Where to start? What to follow? I kinda wish to maybe get more into marketing as a career. But I feel so clueless, i have never been this off track in my life. I just don't know how to proceed further.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Myquals - 10th (93%), 12th (97.2%)

{sorry if this is not the right format for my myquals, i just dont understand it}

Edit- want in title

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I am writing this for the safety of current students and, more importantly, for anyone considering joining IGIDR for their Master's or PhD.

There is a side of this institute that prospective students and parents are unlikely to hear about. Parents send their children to a residential institute assuming that the campus will provide a reasonably safe environment.

But based on incidents that students have experienced and discussed over the past several months, women's safety at IGIDR has become a serious concern.

Allegedly there have reportedly been incidents involving threats of deepfake images, disturbing and potentially life-threatening messages, harassment and intimidation. There are also people on campus who repeatedly stare at girls and make them uncomfortable, including, according to students, some workers.

And then there is the ICC.

What is the point of having an Internal Complaints Committee if students don't feel protected when they approach it?

There have been complaints where students felt that instead of simply being supported and allowing the matter to be properly investigated, allegedly they were questioned or victim-blamed in ways that made them feel responsible for what happened to them.

That is not how a student safety mechanism is supposed to work.

There are also recurring concerns about PhD scholars and TAs allegedly sending vulgar or inappropriate messages to junior female students.

This isn't some harmless "senior-junior interaction."

There is an obvious power imbalance when someone in a position of academic seniority approaches a junior student inappropriately.

And what happens when you reject or ignore them?

Students have raised concerns about retaliation through academic interactions, examination-related work, evaluation, or other institutional processes.

If a student has to think, "What if this person takes revenge on me academically if I reject them?", then something is fundamentally broken.

The most disturbing matter currently being discussed by students concerns an allegation of molestation involving the Dean.

Let me be absolutely clear: an allegation is not proof of guilt, and I am not claiming that the allegation has been established. There is reportedly an ongoing process, and the facts should be determined through a proper investigation.

But the concerns surrounding the handling of the complaint are extremely serious.

Students have reportedly said that the complainant was asked to withdraw the complaint while the matter was still being considered. These are not the definitive statement/ verdict so you can consider this with a grain of salt but even if 1% of this is proven to be the truth then it's a huge concern and it needs to be stated. It has also been communicated that the accused is currently on medical leave.

If an investigation is ongoing, students obviously cannot demand that confidential details be publicly disclosed.

But students can demand a system in which complaints (especially complaints involving people in positions of authority) are handled independently, fairly and without pressure on the complainant.

Because otherwise, what message are you sending to every woman on this campus?

"Don't complain. Nothing will happen."

And this is exactly why I am writing this.

The problem is bigger than one person or one incident.

It is about an institutional culture where reputation can appear to take precedence over student safety.

It is about students being afraid to complain.

It is about people accused of serious misconduct continuing to be present around students while the process is ongoing, without the student community knowing what safety measures are being taken.

It is about junior students having to think twice before rejecting someone senior.

It is about women wondering whether reporting harassment will create more problems for them than staying silent.

And honestly, having an ICC on paper means absolutely nothing if students cannot trust it.

This isn't about destroying IGIDR's reputation.

If anything, pretending these problems don't exist is far more damaging. Trying to subdue the voice of the victims just to protect the reputation by making the issue not public is very short sighted because by doing that you are indirectly encouraging predatory behaviours and if such incidents increases in future it will only leave more negative impression on the students about the institute.

An institution's reputation should come from how it protects its students—not from how effectively it keeps uncomfortable incidents out of public discussion.

To current students, especially women

Please be careful.

Do not assume that because you are inside an academic institution, everyone around you has good intentions.

Keep screenshots. Save messages. Document incidents. Tell people you trust. Don't let anyone convince you that harassment is "not a big deal."

And if something serious happens, don't isolate yourself.

To prospective students and parents

Please don't look only at placements, packages, professors, rankings and academics.

Ask about student safety.

Ask about the ICC.

Ask how complaints are handled.

Ask what protection exists against retaliation.

Ask what happens when the person complained against is someone senior or powerful within the institution.

And most importantly, ask current students—not just the administration.

Because there is a side of an institution that you will never see on its website, placement brochure or admission presentation.

This is that side.

I am writing this because students deserve to know what they are walking into.

No academic degree, placement package or institutional reputation is more important than someone's safety.

Stay safe. Look out for each other. And please don't let anyone convince you that staying silent is the price you have to pay for studying here.

I have deliberately not named individuals or disclosed identifying details of complainants. Allegations mentioned above should not be treated as established findings of guilt. The purpose of this post is to raise concerns about student safety and the institutional mechanisms available to students.

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our college has a mandatory research internship after our third year while that is weird rule in itself i would like to make the most of it so any ideas on where i can get a good research internship at a premiere institute which may boost my cv for upcoming placement season.

myquals: CG-7.2(3rd year ongoing)

a couple of personal projects and a couple of internships

Cse student

Project 1: a ai document searcher based on a rag Project 2 : a secure password manager (ongoing)