tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post3616266820346998275..comments2024-03-16T11:03:09.893+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Internship request lettersAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-85832272182298987732011-02-28T09:42:55.549+05:302011-02-28T09:42:55.549+05:30"I still don't know how important this su..."I still don't know how important this summer internship business is for the students"<br /><br />Could be pretty important for *some*. My internship in your department was at a juncture when, a little frustrated with the way BTech was going along, I was toying with the idea of jumping on to the software bandwagon after graduating. The internship was an opportunity to explore a topic which seemed interesting to me, and in the process add to my skills doing stuff that I wouldn't do in a regular undergrad course. But, at the same time, the internship was also an opportunity to try out research and make an informed decision as to whether I should drift away from metallurgy or stick to it. <br /><br />This last part, I suppose, is a third type of motivation for some students for these internship. I know three other friends of mine who did a research internship to try out whether this was their cup of tea. One out of those three got hooked to research, while the other two have eked out bright careers in the industry.Pratik Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12991612512085384857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-35764345910392406722011-02-25T17:54:06.982+05:302011-02-25T17:54:06.982+05:30In an ideal world it is surely nice to be able to ...In an ideal world it is surely nice to be able to expose college students to how research is done. However, the typical IIX is doing this big time already. E.g. most IITs have mandatory MTech project. In a batch of 100 MTech students, perhaps 10 at most may be really cut out for research, and still IITs overinvest in defining a research program for them, with extremely poor yield. But as long as IIX policy remains that way (as against MTech by coursework, for example), faculty members are likely to have little or no free time to gamble on external students. It's a simple matter of triage. The faculty members are paid for primarily taking care of registered students, after all.Ungrateful Alivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536084262681072181noreply@blogger.com