r/KathmanduUniversity

Bida ma k garum k garum vairacha? We’re trying to organize a mini chemistry olympiad in Kathmandu University for high school students, It’ll be a one day program, 3-5 members ko team banayera aauna milcha.

There’ll be physics, chemistry and maths ko questions with the majority being chemistry. So buckle up ani bring your nerdy sathi haru or tell them about this. This is organized by the Chemical engineering students of KU under their annual event ALCHEMY.

What participants and winners will get:

-Participants will get a free guided university tour and participation certificates
-Winners ko lagi prize pool, certificates, medals ANDDDD a VIP invitation to the annual event.

Registration jamma 100 rupee per member ho,

Interested ppl may comment or DM me ani y’all can give feedbacks on if this is a good idea at all.

• Does behavior change the moment you become the “boss” at the office?

• As soon as someone becomes a “senior,” do some people start doing the same things that were done to them?

• When the role of the “elder” comes at home, does authority come on its own?

• Slowly, does a person begin to identify with that very role?

In August 1971, Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment at Stanford University. 24 ordinary students were divided into two groups: 12 were made guards and 12 were made prisoners. The experiment was supposed to run for two weeks, but it had to be stopped in just 6 days.

They were ordinary students, but in 6 days everything changed, and despite all the students having been screened beforehand, the moment they were given roles they began to mould themselves into that very identity.

What happened in those 6 days

The first day was normal and everyone knew it was just an experiment, but on the second day the prisoners protested and the guards suppressed them with force. On the third day, without being told, the guards started extending extra time, and on the fourth day one prisoner broke down mentally, after which the situation rapidly kept deteriorating.

On the fifth day, humiliation and harsh behavior began, and on the sixth day the experiment had to be stopped immediately. The most shocking thing was that many prisoners refused the chance to come out because they had forgotten they were volunteers and had truly begun to think like prisoners.

What the research says

No one had been told to be harsh, but the role itself changed behavior. Insensitivity increased, distance increased, and people began to take their temporary identity as the truth—so this experiment was considered so serious that it cannot be repeated today.

24 ordinary people—no criminals, no violent history—only the roles were changed, and within just a few days the personality changed. The most dangerous thing was that this change happened so slowly and so naturally that no one even realized it.

If a temporary role can make a person forget that they are free, then how many roles are you living in right now?

🌟AP Framework's Take:

What you think you are, you are not—but to say that “you are something else” would also be wrong. *Stanford Prison Experiment* shows that as soon as a person adopts a role, they get completely lost in it, and the moment they become a guard they start thinking like a guard, and the moment they become a prisoner they start thinking like a prisoner.

But who is it that adopts the role? It is the ego, which says, “I am this, I am that, I am a guard, I am a prisoner, I am successful, I am unsuccessful,” and in this way keeps creating different identities.

The ego keeps changing roles—sometimes a guard, sometimes a prisoner, sometimes a doctor, sometimes a patient—but the thing that changes the role remains the same. What you think you are is only a role, and what you really are cannot be bound into any identity.

The question is not “Who am I?”, the question is “Am I really?” because this experiment shows that however powerful the role appears, far more powerful than that is the grip that adopts it.

Circumstances only provide the opportunity; the grip is from within, and even though the role is an external thing, the identity is formed within. This is where a person loses themselves and, without knowing it, starts living in that very role.

The most important question is this: Can you see your role as just a role, or have you too slowly become what was given to you?

Sources

https://www.britannica.com/event/Stanford-Prison-Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford\_prison\_experiment

I came across these posts yesterday and I have tried asking few of my friends who have no clue as to what is happening. If this is true then the KUSOL administration needs to do smth ASAP. Coming from a law student is genuinely concerning.

CS padne dai didi haru how is the experience in KU. Ma lai khas ma engineering vanda ni CS padhna man xa. Aaba aauni entrance dine soche xu. KU ma CS kasto xa k xa tapai haru ko experience haru share garnus na. :)