DDIT, Nadiad

The author wishes to remain anonymous:

You all may hav read somethin or the other abt doin engineerin in colleges abroad so let me give u all a brief insight into the education in india especially gujarat.

i hav had 2 years of experience in engineerin in DDIT which is counted as the second best college in gujarat after Nirma. but let me tell u all frankly, even if u r studyin in d best college in gujarat just dnt expect tht u'l be gettin d best education.

i hav studied in Snk for 15 years n according to me if a person has these many years of experience in SNK, then he/she should not opt for admission for graduation in engineering in gujarat n tht implies to all colleges in gujarat. The standard of colleges here is really not comparable to our school's level.

The students of SNK's calibre just dont deserve to be in gujarat. Im not saying tht these colleges are bad or anything but if one wants to excel then he/she cant do tht while he's here.

The best choice would be to go abroad after 12th for higher education coz the students here just dont get the enough exposure in these colleges though d syllabi or courses are similar to tht taught abroad.

Another major advantage of going outside India or for tht matter to US is tht we can choose our courses n classes according to our will i.e. they hav the credits system whereas in india once u choose a course u dnt hv d freedom of choosin different classes. u hav to go for the classes pre-decided by the college n u hav no other option.

One of the main drawbacks which atleast i hav faced while studyin in my college is tht we tend to lose tht touch over d english language, we just dnt hav enough control of it as we used to hav earlier. Tht is coz we'l be among Gujarat board students n teachers as well. Im sure after 4 yrs in DDIT i'd hav forgotten all the grammar n vocabulary n d basics.

Let me share my experience of the first few months after comin to DDIT. Being among gujrat board students i just didnt fit here. For the most part of the 1st yr i felt very uncomfortable n constantly felt like running away from this place. This was mainly coz d teachers over here are nothing compared to those of our school. Only a few of them are very good, others are just the pass outs/ freshers n thus hav no experience in teaching. Constantly bein under this type of guidance suppresses one's curiosity as tht teacher is not able to answer our questions satisfactorily. And im not sayin tht there r no good teachers. Some of them hav so vast a knowledge but they are hard to find.

Another disadvantage of studyin in gujarat is tht there are very few seats of CBSE/ISC Boards in all colleges. Only 4 out 120 seats is just too scarce a ratio!! This further downs our chances of getting admission into best colleges.

Now lets look at some positives abt studyin in gujarat....

• here once u hav made good friends group which is very easy over here, one can hav quite a good social life n can enjoy life to its fullest.
• there's very less work load or u can say no workload at all, no pressure from d teachers to study, no tension of submittin assignments. Thus u can be very carefree.
• Sometimes u may hav heard tht a student has gone into depression or he may hav been harassed beyond limits during ragging. U needn't worry abt stuffs lik tht while u r in gujarat especially in DDIT. Its not at all severe unlike other states for eg maharashtra where sometimes students leave d college just coz of ragging.

So in all i'd lik to say tht you get to enjoy with ur friends here in guj very much unlike US where one can enjoy only on weekends but if you give preference to ur EDUCATION rather than other factors lik good social life, the best choice would be to go to US.

And I’d be glad of course to answer any queries which may arise.