THE FINE PRINT

What’s Inside

Hello there, prospective engineer.

How can I put this? I’ve had this feeling before (well, we all will at some stage): that point when you reach life’s crossroads. When you have to gulp down that proverbial brave pill and take a decision to go ahead with only one of the few choicest alternatives at your disposal, after splitting your hair over the pros and cons of each one, listening to endless advice and clamour and enduring the all-important ordeal of the grueling entrance tests. Your attempts to correctly permute the best branch and college might have just brought you to a discerning choice at this moment of reckoning. You could cut your tension with a knife. You look ahead, with cold, sweaty palms and a quiver down your spine, and make that crucial judgment which will go on to shape your career and life. A choice is made.

Poppycock. I might have stretched it a tad too far. Let’s start over.

To be plain, we wish to create no drama in your anxious head already abuzz with thoughts and reveries of impending days in college. We believe that most of you seeking counsel on this front have already made up your mind as to where you’ll pursue undergraduate studies. Hence, the idea behind these pages is simple: to give you a succinct, yet all-inclusive glimpse into the defining elements of the engineering college we know as BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus) and to help you make an informed decision.

Being ardent students of the internet (which you were probably painfully deprived of for the past two years) you might already know where to look for what and get that decisive bit of data to make your call. We’ve taken it a step ahead though, and a big, far-sighted and calculated one at that, too. Flipping through these pages will make you privy to every aspect you’d want to know about the Pilani campus. We’ve painted an all-

encompassing picture of the life, culture and the courses offered here in these few pages.

Consider this a preamble to the most intellectually stimulating phase of your life. You’ll love this one. There will inevitably be that lurking anxiety, an inherent conflict in the mind as you jam-pack your suitcases with a multitude of dreams and step into the carriage that takes you to your dream college. Typical.

One must be earnest; passionate. And let me remind you this – never stop learning. Yes, you may have breezed through your tests over the past two months, but let that not get to your head (advice much?). And meet new people. As many as you can, which I’m sure you will. Above all, find yourself and the meaning of life (more on this inside). Cherish these years before they whizz past you, leaving behind a profoundly changed soul.

Welcome to college.

Editorial

E N G L I S H P R E S S C L U B P R E S E N T S

ISSUE 0, SEMESTER I, 2014 PILANI, FRIDAY, 10 JULY FACEBOOK.COM/THEFINEPRINTONLINE

ACADEMIC ATTRIBUTES Page 2-3

DISCIPLINE OVERVIEWS Page 4-14

SCHOLARSHIPS Page 15-16

THE PILANI GUIDE Page 17-19

FESTS Page 20-21

CLUBS AND DEPARTMENTS Page 22

The following section attempts to present a general summary of the various Integrated First Degree courses

offered at BITS Pilani. We hope to dispel your doubts regarding the course structure, job description and future

prospects promised by these disciplines. Apart from the general overview of the discipline, we have tried to blend

in valuable insights and statistics.

DISCIPLINE OVERVIEWS