As a senior I would advise you to never compare your hostel with your home. Hostel life is a unique experience, and you’ll meet people from various backgrounds and cultures. Hostel life will have something in store for you, irrespective of who you are and where you are from. 

Fresher boys are allotted Gajjar Bhawan at SVNIT. It is a four storey building, located at the end corner of the campus. The building is in a good condition with proper air circulation. It is furnished and painted. It is huge enough to also house M.Tech 2nd years and hostel workers. The fresher rooms are spacious and double seater. You’ll get a single room from second year onwards. The rooms are allotted randomly at the time of hostel admission. 

Each room contains two beds, two mattresses and mattress covers, two pillows and pillow covers ( depends upon availability), two chairs, two study tables, one big iron cupboard, one white board, one green board, one LAN connection port and a LAN cable, curtains on the windows, mosquito nets, one fan, three charging slots, one tubelight and one lamp.

The hostel has common washrooms, payable but affordable laundry facility, unlimited Wifi and LAN facility with high speed internet, clean surroundings, the lounge room has English, Hindi and Gujarati daily newspapers, along with some monthly magazines, there is a cycle parking on the ground floor, there are 2-3 table tennis courts, a volleyball ground, a small library, a study room, a TV room, a night canteen and a computer lab with internet facility. 

These are some of the facilities available at the first year hostel. Overall, the hostels at SVNIT are good enough.

There is no fixed pattern for the interview conducted by CMC Vellore in the last stage of the admission process. Usually, the shortlisted candidates are categorized into groups of 5 or 6, Boys and Girls, separately. There are 2 group observers for each group, called G.O. Students have to go through a number of individual tasks, group tasks, group discussions, and multiple interviews with their group observers.

• Individual Tasks : These include a combination of complex and simple tasks man to evaluate your intellect to identify the doable tasks instead of focusing on the undoable tasks. This actually is the medical concept of triage wherein during an emergency, the doctor should prioritize the patient for whom their immediate care would mean a difference between life and death.
• Group Task: These may include building a school classroom with the materials provided in a limited time period of course. This task evaluates your communication skills and your organization skills. These skills are crucial for saving a patient's life during the time of an emergency. 
• Interviews: These are conducted to ensure you answer the same questions asked by different interviewers smartly. The most common question asked is “Why did you choose medicine”. 

Hope you make it to CMC Vellore, one of the best medical colleges in India.

My friend shared his first-day experience at IIT Bhubaneswar on which he was called for registration and other formalities. The accommodation procedure took place wherein they were taken to their assigned hostels. My friend was assigned a room in the Mahanadi Hall of Residence. Girls were taken to the Subarnarekha Hall of Residence. The room was decently spacious with a wall cupboard, a locked cupboard, beds, a study table, and a chair. After unpacking and setting up his room, he left for the hostel mess to taste the food. Here is a photo of the hostel building that stands tall.

Next came the registration for which he had to go to the Community Center of the IIT. He received constant assistance from the CST Team. Once everyone had submitted their documents, the freshers sat on the College bus and were taken to the Lab Complex -LBC. Here the ERP formalities took place. 

The students were asked to visit the temporary market to get essential commodities like mattresses, buckets, mugs, etc. Once they were done with the shopping they started setting up their rooms. The day ended with a celebratory dinner with parents in the mess. 

The first day at IIT Bhubaneswar will always stay close to your heart.

For branch change from mining to MNC in IIT BHU, one needs to consider the following points. 

As per the policy, a student of a 4-year program(Btech) can get his branch changed to a 4-year program(Btech) only and a student of a 5-year program(IDD) can get his branch changed to a 5-year program(IDD) only. Considering this, you cannot get your branch changed to MNC unless you are in a 5-year program (IDD) at IIT-BHU mining. IIT BHU offers only an IDD program in Mathematics and Computing.

Another branch change policy states that the total intake of a branch during branch change should be 10% of the total batch strength. Now, Maths and Computing have very few students, only around 20-25. This means only 2 students can get their branch changed into MNC. This results in tough competition and one has to score at least 9.7 CPI to be eligible for branch change.

No, AIIMS Bhubaneshwar does not permit its students officially to go to the US for clinical experience during the last 1-year internship. There aren't any separate or paid leaves that enable you to avail of this opportunity. However, if you are adamant about going abroad, you can go during vacations or extend your internship. However, one must bear in mind the fact that most electives are of a minimum duration of 1 month so you should balance both things well.

Most medical colleges in India don't allow their interns to take a paid leave for pursuing a thing like this so you should do more research on this. As for JIPMER, I have no information in that regard.