Yes, I LEFT NSIT AFTER the SECOND SEMESTER

 

 

I am a student currently pursuing B.Tech at IIIT Delhi, but before this, I spend 1 year at NSIT. So I find myself in a perfect position to draw out the downsides of NSIT

These are the shortcomings and drawbacks which I realised during my stay at NSIT –

 

Harsh Attendance Policy-

Policies at NSIT focus more on attendance rather than concentrating on learning. They have a rule which states that

The student who has attendance less than 75% have to submit medical leave and those who have attendance below 50% are not allowed appear in end term exam.

Because of the fear of low attendance students are forced to attend lectures even if they don’t understand what teacher is teaching. They are compelled to attend the lectures even if they could understand better by self-study.

 

Plagiarism Issues-

A typical conversation between two students one night before the assignment submission –

Friend A:    Have you compleded the assignment?

Friend B:    No,I am halfway through

Friend A:    DOING IT ON YOUR OWN !!!!!!!

Friend B:     Not at all, copying it from friend c

Friend A:     Send its pic to me too.

Doing your assignment on our own is an alien thing at NSIT. Students spend more time searching the person who has completed his assignments that actually doing it. There is no restriction by the admin on plagiarism. Assignments submitted by whole class is the same. Those assignments do not teach the student about the topic but either they teach them how to copy.

 

Professors

There are a few professors who are genuinely interested in teaching students, but most of them either do not have any interest in teaching and some of them not even have an idea what they are teaching.

Here is a true story:                                                                                                                                In my second semester I had a subject named Applied Mechanics. The subject name was identical for my branch and MPAE, but there was a slight difference in the syllabus of the subject for both the branch. Our Applied Mechanics professor instead of teaching the syllabus my branch taught us the syllabus of another branch (MPAE branch).

This is an example of clueless professors. There are many more examples of clueless professors. Lectures of these clueless and tired professors are quite dull but due to the attendance policy students forced to attend these lectures. Because of this, you will find a whole lot of students either sleeping or playing mobile games in the class.

Some of the professors who are genuinely interested in teaching students are not able to do their work because of the enormous workload of other office activities(like checking test copies etc.). There is no concept of TAs at NSIT which leads to a massive workload on the professor hence sparing them very little time to teach.

Syllabus and Teaching Methodology not up to date –

This line quoted below is the same line written in syllabus booklet of NSIT

“We update our syllabus in a certain interval of 5-10 years.

Is that so??

They have a lot of subjects in their curriculum which do not have any practical use and missing out some critical elements which should have been taught. E.g. there is nothing like communication skills or explaining how to use the Linux terminal.

Moreover, the pattern of education followed by NSIT is old and rotten. There is nothing such as an online course management platform(e.g. Google Classroom, usebackpack.com) with no use of audiovisual support(e.g. ppt) by the teachers. Although there are projectors in every room, none of them is used.

 

Student Clubs (society)

Now, this is irony of the fact that NSIT is a technical institution, but it does not have any well-established tech club. Whereas they have very well established non-tech clubs like the DebSoc(debating), Capella(dance) and Ashwamedh(drama), all of them are great in their respective areas. In the case of tech clubs, there are some of them but none of them is active or host sessions and programs regularly. One of the reasons for lacking club activity is that there is no effective medium of conveying the message to all regarding the event. If once in a blue moon, there is an event organised by the club then they have to print posters and stick them around the campus to inform everyone about the event with is expensive and time-consuming or they send messages in Whatsapp groups which are again not very useful to convey the message. There is nothing such as a mailing list which could be used to notify students.

Another point of concern regarding the clubs at NSIT is that most of the clubs which are active have a closed group of members who actually avail the benefits of the club, and there is high nepotism in selecting these members.

 

Campus and Infrastructure-

NSIT has a big lush green campus with a lot of open space and is full of peacocks and other animals (snakes, monitor lizards). Although NSIT has a vast campus area but space not at all used efficiently. The infrastructure is archaic and is in need of a major reformation. No proper lighting in classrooms, fans and lights not working, old broken desks are some things you will find in classes.

Hostels are spacious, and most of them are single seater hostel rooms, but hostel availability is scarce with hostel having the capacity to accommodate only 276 students per year whereas 913 students get admitted every year. The Internet is another big issue at NSIT, especially in hostels. Hostel rooms are not equipped with LAN connection and WIFI at hostels has poor connectivity with slow connection speed.

(Canteen at NSIT)

 

Conclusion

There are a lot of points where NSIT need to improve upon by updating its model of management and education. To implement these changes, the first thing that needs to be changed is the attitude of the admin of NSIT.

NSIT could be a good choice if you want to do something like MBA, Civil services after engineering, but certainly not at all right choice from the perspective if you’re going to make your future in tech.