The power of NITTians.com
Just as a great poet is known by the poems he writes, a great institue if known by the students that come out of it.
NIT Trichy is blessed to have some of the most enthusiastic and energetic young minds, who are not scared to do difficult things. RECTians and NITTians are to be found in every great company around the globe. Still, NIT Trichy does not have the brand recall that IITs have.
Why?
We have been unsuccessful to keep our alumni interested. We have not been able to keep them attached to NITT. RECAL, the official alumni association is a red tape association, sending out emails only when they require donations for yet another project. This is not the way you involve alumni. Alumni are a way to get more money for the institute agreed, but the real power of alumni is in the knowledge and experience they have gained outside of NIT Trichy. They would love to share this knowledge, experience, tips and tricks with the students still studying.
The best way to involve alumni would be to have to common platform where they and the current students can interact. NITTians.com is a big step towards this goal. As of now a blog aggregator, NITTians.com picks up blog posts written by fellow NITTians from around the globe and puts them together at a common place. What an amazing way to make one feel attached to NITT! I congratulate students who have taken this initiative, spent their own money, and put up this website.
The next step would be to involve alumni in mentoring programs, forums, sending out newsletters from the campus, arranging visits for alumni and for students to alumni’s organizations, and so on. I’m so excited. This is an opportunity to change the face of our institute as the world knows it.
Come, join NITTians.com and offer whatever support you can. Its all yours.
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Nice post!! It will be great if you can start writing one post every 2 weeks guiding juniors..
Even I am doing the same.. I am sharing CAT related experiences.. You can also try do something along those lines.. I think it will benefit our juniors.. What do you say?
Agreed!
We can even start an informal mentoring program, where people can ask questions that would be answered by alumni.
Even better would be to have chat sessions with alumni - students can chat from campus and alumni can reply from wherever they are - one special alumni every week. What say?
nice one manas ji ! I guess i never forsaw any of this coming when nittians.com was first thought of ! :)
Thats a great idea! Infact, I am thinking of bringing experts (from students perspective) who have apped, who have got admits from bschools, grads schools, ppl who for phd.. etc and try to put a small chat (Coffee With Experts)..
More importantly, I will ask junta to ask questions to that person.. And I plan to get the same person to answer those queries after 2 weeks..
What do you say?
All these after my iimi interview day after tomorrow. :-)