NITH Calling

Kumar Digvijay Mishra (Batch of 1999-2003)

NITH Calling

Structures speak and they did so when I visited NIT Hamirpur during 27-29th November 2006.
The older ones stood firm holding the responsibility of bygone years and the younger ones are
coming up to nurture the family of NITians. Evidently, transmutation is an important feature of
perennial change, any academic institution nurtures, while it grows and meets the demand of
nation and global community. My first glance to a normal looking display board when I entered
the academic block this time was the Vision Statement of the college. I took special note of the
two words “multicultural” and “global”. With the diversity of people coming from different parts
of the country and getting shaped in the short span of four years into different fields of
engineering, I feel the word ‘multicultural’ is an apposite and just addition to the vision
statement. While our seniors struggled to get inside the industry, academic institutions and
corporate world, the increasing placements of our alumni into these domains will gradually
enhance our global outreach.

“Creativity matures in isolation.” – Isolation galore was our most controversial topic during the
undergraduate discussions in the closed corridors of Applied Sciences to bedraggled alleys of
Hostel Messes and sometimes even reaching the reserved time zones when faculty delivers
lecture. But we enjoyed as not being alone, but awarded the time to plunge into creative
discussions in numerous areas of interest. I remember those four years not only learning the
basics of mechanical engineering but more of learning about the skills and dimensions each one
of us were developing at the same time. Mostly we used to be puzzled how we did even some of
the smallest tasks like getting the first reserved ticket from Hamirpur Railway Reservation
Counter, finally passing a dreadful subject, and able to tolerate kicks during birthdays (when
personalities whom we had slightest of acquaintances will take innumerable pains to travel inter-
hostel distances with lightning speed to deliver the final blow). I feel that these experiences truly
made us see the world as a gateway to discoveries and multifaceted individuals.

With an ever pervading air of nostalgia any alumni will sense when he/she enters the college, I
was influenced with the transformation, the college has undergone. The Auditorium and Internet
Connectivity to hostels are the two most basic requirements that have been very well addressed
since I passed in 2003. The Auditorium can further be used for weekly or monthly technical and
managerial presentations from industrialists, researchers, software professionals, patent writers,
entrepreneurs and even from fields of economics, biology, music and others. Sometimes lack of
facility can be supplemented by the optimum use of available facilities. When I joined DRDO
one of my fellow workers commented that we lack certain facilities and design softwares
required for our work. Although the reservations were addressed afterwards, the Director of our
program answered that we should first make optimum use of the present facilities. I extend this
notion to the students of all the disciplines that they must utilize the available resources in
colleges. Invest the time in extending your knowledge to different fields of interest and forecast
your career eight years from now. To answer what you want from yourself can only be answered
when you know what is available to you.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it. We often prove
this when we pull the chair in canteen just in time when our friend is confidently going to sit on
it. We deliver our best even when we doesn’t feel like it. The result is always achieved (person
finally grounded) if we are confident and dedicated. The continuous urge to know more and to
accomplish beyond what is already achieved must bring dynamism to our character. No doubt
Rotaract Club, ISTE Student Chapter and Hill ‘ffair suffices the gap of cultural lacuna. What
remains is to explore the unexplored minds and to increase the participation of students in such
communities.

Further I expect gradual yet marked changes to come when finally through our MTech programs
we will open up the challenges in research.

At the end, I extend my wishes to the NITH community and vibrant students for their
commitment to excel and make me feel that we thrive to become the best in coming years.
“I never knew the I inside others until I explored the I inside me.”

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