I would say life changes more after joining IIM Ahmedabad than after graduating from it. The academic workload, strenuous hours, assignments and exams all prepare you for the hectic life ahead. So once you graduate from IIM Ahmedabad you might even welcome the hectic work schedule with amazing salaries. The changes in your life will depend on the field you have chosen.

If you join a big consulting firm or an investment bank or a PE/VC, chances are you will spend more hours in your office than at home.

If you go for a general management role, your life will have a blend of both work and personal time.

If you join a technical firm, then you will experience a casual work culture and a lot of personal time.

Working at e-commerce giants and start ups will limit your chances of a work life balance.

As far as the pay of an IIM Ahmedabad pass out is considered, literally everyone gets paid decently. In fact after a few years you will focus more on your responsibilities than your salary. You have to carry the weight of being an IIM Ahmedabad passout as everyone will have high expectations from you.

IIT Dhanbad has several girls’ hostels.

The newest among them is Rosaline. It is ten storey, and has spacious rooms. Each room accommodates two students at a time. Rosaline is available from second year onwards. 

In your first year, you’ll get the Opal Hostel. Opal doesn’t look as grand as Rosaline from the outside, but it has almost the same facilities. Opal has the main canteen area just opposite to it, which is an advantage in itself.

These are the two girls’ hostels that I know about. Rest assured that the girls’ hostels at IIT Dhanbad are well equipped with all the facilities.

Honestly, the academic environment of the ECE branch at NIT Trichy is deteriorating day by day. One of my friends, an ex-student of NIT Trichy, brought light to this matter. He told me that the labs are more focused on report writing than actual work. The exams conducted are based on rote learning and not testing the concepts of the students. They are expected to mug up the concepts even if they haven’t understood them and score good marks. 

However, there are some exceptional cases of professors who are proficient in their respective fields like digital electronics, digital VLSI, signal processing, computer architecture, etc. To do projects under them, you need to have a high CGPA. The placement training sessions are also pretty good with many intellectual questions in the respective topics. 

Ultimately, I will say if you are a true electronics fan then take ECE either in the new IITs or go to IIIT Hyderabad. Coming to NIT Trichy will only waste your time and money.

A senior I knew who graduated from IIM Kozhikode has told me that it was her childhood dream to become a civil service officer. She started reading the CSR or Civil Service Chronicles from class V. She belonged to a family of doctors and she had to go against the wishes of her father to take mathematics instead of biology in her 10 (+2). As she wanted to graduate from college quickly and completing MBBS would take around 5 and a half years.

In her final year of college, she appeared for the CAT examinations because firstly, she was curious about it. And secondly, appearing for Civil Service examinations is not possible without graduation. Not only did she manage to crack her examinations but she also got calls from IIM K, I, S, and the other new IIMs. 

Although she is still uncertain about what she wants to do in the future, she is confident that IIM Kozhikode was one of the best decisions she has ever taken. The institute helps immensely in developing the perspicacity of a student.

B-schools are much more than placements, grades, competitions, or committees. It is one of the pioneer institutions that help you overcome your shortcomings.