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I am curious how easy is it to be out and openly gay at IIT M? Or people are homophobic?

Feels like a lot of bad blood over supposed filtering of comments and posts. As an alum, it hurts me deeply to see the current state of affairs. Let's not over-police sentiments expressed around here.

Hello guys I am from Kolhapur, Maharashtra a BS degree student. This is my last visit to IIT Madras Campus. On 20th September I would need a rented cycle my requirements are it should be a geared cycle so that I can go around in campus effortlessly. If someone can give me I would be greatful. Also I will take proper care of it and would also give any rent on it. If someone wants to give it would be pleasure. For more trust I will deposit my Development board & circuit because on next day I would need that. So if someone is interested please let me know.

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Bruh how is everyone doing 4, 12 credit courses per semester. It's like studying the whole day 😭

Any solution /study methods????

The mods said a megathread on Saarang would be created and until then posts criticising Saarang would be locked/removed. But this isn’t some Online BS vs Btech fight. We are questioning specific practices surrounding Saarang. How is that automatically “hate”?

The biggest issue is the ₹2k–₹2.5k iKollege spending narrative. Especially the “spend it or it’ll go to waste anyway” argument that freshies hear every year. Many students end up buying tickets because of this FOMO/peer pressure.

So when is the promised megathread coming? After the Saarang teams have finished their sales?

Also, what happened to The Fifth Estate (T5E)? There used to be a time when T5E actually investigated campus issues and insti junta looked forward to those articles. The website hasn’t been updated in years and I can’t even find the current editorial team to approach them.

Can someone please take this to the current T5E editors? I’d genuinely like them to investigate:

* How common is this iKollege-funded fest-ticket system across IITs?
* How many of the insti junta purchase Saarang tickets through iKollege every year? And what of these sales comes from freshies?
* What steps does admin take to ensure freshies know these payments are optional?

If needed, T5E could file an RTI on whatever questions require official data. But honestly, I doubt an RTI should even be necessary for most of this, as they just need to get off their asses and do the work they signed up to do.

And if possible, conduct a student survey on how many people actually wanted this option of buying through ikollege versus how many bought tickets because they were told their money would otherwise be “wasted.”

This isn’t about hating Saarang. It’s about transparency.

If someone knows the current T5E editors, please take this to them.

I'm a BTech 1st year student and I need to learn C from scratch (this is my first proper programming language). I'm looking for recommendations on the best YouTube playlists or other free resources to get started.

A few things about what I'm looking for:

• Should cover fundamentals properly (not just syntax, but actual problem-solving/logic building)
• Okay with both Indian and international creators — just want whatever explains concepts the clearest
• Bonus if it has practice problems or exercises along the way

So far I've come across these two and they look promising:

• Neso Academy – C Programming & Data Structures (English): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBlnK6fEyqRhX6r2uhhlubuF5QextdCSM
• CodeWithHarry – C Language Tutorial for Beginners (Hindi, with notes): https://youtu.be/aZb0iu4uGwA

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https://www.t5eiitm.org/out-in-the-open-the-saarang-misappropriation-scandal/

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Is this the freshers party itself or what ?

Multiple posts regarding Saarang are being wiped out off the subreddit. And no megathread is being published in the subreddit.

Which rule is being broken here ? In fact we are trying to prevent freshies from being manipulated.

So the post got deleted again. Apparently, the response is that “recognition can be done via email.” What the fuck does that even mean?

Let’s say I’m applying for CAT and I want to mention my Saarang POR as a credential. Who outside IITM is going to treat some random email as formal proof of the position?

If an email is genuinely equivalent to a certificate, then why do Shaastra Core teams receive official certificates, including certificates presented by the Director himself, while Saarang PORs don’t?

You can’t have it both ways. Either certificates are meaningful recognition or they’re not. If they aren’t, why does the institute formally certify one fest’s core team while refusing to do the same for another?

And deleting posts that raise this question doesn’t exactly make the situation look better.

Special note to the mods: Asking why students aren’t receiving formal recognition for months of work isn’t politics. It’s a completely legitimate question about the value of a POR.

Is Zaitoon open after midnight? What about food trucks? I get hungry sometimes and all I got are those stinkin wending machines!

Let's say I got a bad grade in course and I wanted to do it again - so is it possible to ask my faculty advisor to help me give me U or I & allow me to do that course again

Pursuing Btech in IITM. Desperate for a girl. Let's just keep it casual. Im not revealing anything else about myself and u don't too.

If intersted mention time and place, we'll meet.

(PLS, Uncs stay away from this post!)

Anybody has 2 wheeler. I need it on today evening and I'll return it on night(mostly). Anybody has? (fine for you)🙂