r/iitmadras

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Hey everyone! 👋

I’m looking to connect with a few genuine, kind, and growth-minded people from the IITM BS community who are also on this journey.

I’d love to build a small circle where we can learn together, share resources, discuss concepts, help each other when we’re stuck, stay accountable, and grow together throughout the degree. 📚💻

I’m not really looking for a huge group or just people to add on social media. I’m hoping to meet true, helpful, and respectful people who genuinely want to support one another and improve together.

No competition, no ego, no judging — just a space where we can respect each other, celebrate each other’s progress, and push each other to become better. 🚀

If you’re also looking for friends to share this IITM BS journey with, feel free to comment or DM me. Would be happy to connect! 😊

I want to discontinue my mtech degree .what is the procedure can anyone tell me .also is there any refund of hostel or institute fees

I just interviewed an IIT Madras student for an intern role, and it was painful. HR handed me a resume stamped with the insti logo, but the candidate collapsed on simple fundamentals. Asked the difference between mean and median? Blank stare. Overfitting? He rambled about neural networks. The CV was a wall of buzzwords like PyTorch, GenAI, Cloud with zero foundational math underneath.

As an alumnus, I am ashamed seeing such utter nonsense from students of IIT Madras.

Ps : student was an IIT Madras BS data science

Whenever I visited the library or ajanta hall, I see more laptops occupying the spaces more than students. It is becoming very frustrating at times to not being able to find a place to sit and study. The institute must take some action on this. I don't really find the hostel encouraging for study.

Please share your experiences and any possible solutions.

SO This fu*ing monkeys ruin my bit of life and it very frustrating...in this beautiful campus i cant able to eat anything outside..

So plan is im graduacting 2028 and in my last day of college i throw food when monkeys comes that all i need...i gonna fight them very hard (i started gym for this plan)...

be ready to see this fight...

cant say complete plan here cause monkeys have insider info...i want them to come that day and from next day campus is free from

Dear fellow insti mates,

I am a fresher at IITM and I am looking for the following facilities. Please let me know where I can avail them. They are:

1. Laundry service - with fast return times

2. good and healthy snacking options

3. is there a cycling club in our campus?

Please help me with this. TIA.

Is it possible to drop a course after drop deadline by pleading to the dean/ academic section?

I'm a phd fresher and Recently I went to a counselor at IITM. The one who was available at my hostel.

I went in to discuss that I had social anxiety, not an active one but something back of my mind like I'm in a movie or some sorts and there is a whole audience watching me, all my actions seem monitored whatever I do I feel like someone is seeing and judging me. Although I have been living with it for quite a while now it doesn't bother me as such but I did realise that it is restricting me from who I want to be, I want to be more free, talk to more people dance on the roads while listening to the music, perform on the stage learning singing dancing etc. but all that I couldn't do. So i went to him and told all that he listened to me for a good time without interrupting me. Later he said we'll work on it and for now practice this exercise which is called grounding (I came to know that later) he started asking me about simple stuff he said just be in this room for now feel everything around and then he started asking about everything like how do I feel? How does it feel when I touch the table, how does the sounds around me make me feel, what do I think about this table the colour of the table, what do I think about the poster on the walls what excites me about it does it make me feel and all such things basically it's an exercise to remain in the present moment which supposedly calms down a person and decrease worries and anxiety in the long term. And yes I did feel good I felt relieved i was a little happier, he then asked me to do this exercise on my own and I did but there was something different when I did it on my own I did feel calm and little relaxed but something was missing i didn't get that little happiness I got when i did the same thing in his guidance I was wondering what is it, but whenever I met him and we did that exercise in his office it was better there was something different. Then randomly one day it hit me what was the missing thing; it wasn't that I felt good because my anxiety reduced I have been living with this anxiety for a long time so I do know how to manage it, it wasn't the "grounding" which made me feel good either; it was really one subtle thing which almost made me cry when i realised it; what made me feel good and that little happiness was that he was asking me how I feel he was asking me what I think about this and that, he was geniunely interested to know what i actually think and feel about the things around and the fact that there was actually someone who was listening to me not just hearing what I say. Crazy self reflection moment I saw how lonely I have been being the bigger person always, always being responsible taking care of people around me always asking people how they feel and assuring that I will be there always listening carefully. In doing all this i had forgotten that I also need someone like this we all do

It wasn't that I needed therapy or a grounding exercise or different ways to deal with anxiety, i realised all I needed was just someone who listens to me and asks me about my favourite things asks me about what I like and what i don't and someone who is actually interested in knowing about me.... And really when this hit me i cried a lot... Like wtf where did i abandon myself and my needs so badly? when was it? what time was it? How did I do it? Why did I do?. Maybe I do have some insights in why and how i became so but that's not the point here. The point is those who are struggling with real anxiety and depression and all sorts of things or have lost interest in things or maybe keep themselves too busy in something, have you guys paused and asked yourself "what do I actually want?" And most of the time it's just as simple as someone who is genuinely there for us

Someone who just listens and asks about our day and the rest of the things we can take care of by ourselves.

I don't think I will be visiting the therapist again anytime soon or ever because whatever I had to know I came to know and the problem wasn't anxiety but some sort of mental isolation and negligence. Now even if i don't find such a person to be there for me listen to me, talk to me, I will try to be there for myself more I would care about the things I like I'll do more things that I love to do and maybe pen all those things in a diary I will not neglect the guy I saw during that self reflection moment and I'm doing well and good enough by myself just by changing little things and caring more about myself than other people.

I know it's a very long ass post but I just wanted to share it with someone hopefully someone who would listen

Like do you need to have any prior experience while joining?

Do you have to bring your own guitar /violin/flute/that dhol thing etc. If you join musical LTAPs?

Does this cause extra burden during quiz/exam period?

I am in a dilemma of choices between some good Careers, money was the major driving factor towards merchant navy and the perks, I am also used to live in isolation from school times not much friends but academically good >90% . I also didn't want to marry throughout my life and want to do social work later.

I feel iitm mess has too low standards, it might be menu,taste, hygiene or any thing, compared to any other top iit, they have lot of non veg options and we here feel lucky if we get one chicken piece extra, why cant they increase the fee a bit and change the menu???

I know there is protein mess but for a person like me who normally skips break fast and snacks is daily waste of 100₹ if i opt for protein mess and also it is more like a calories mess rather than a protein, our poor little mmcc is trying hard to get barely compared to iitb by keeping happy meals and etc but everything is in the hands of evil ccw, niggs need money to just waste them on unnecessary hostel entry auths, a sweet which are leftovers of previous days snacks are being served for independence day special lol, no offence to mmcc, they are just pawns who thinks they have powers but sadly not(mmcc guys also gets benefitted for their role btw)

Anyone else facing ping issue when playing valo on LAN ? Like the ping suddenly spikes up . Any way to fix this ?