Seva Lamberdar wrote:KOLKATA: A month away from final placements, IIT-Kharagpur students are being flooded with pre-placement offers with a 20 per cent increase this year.

IIT officials said already around 125 students have been extended pre-placement offers and interviews, where most of the companies have increased the package offered by around 20 per cent as compared to the last batch.

The highest offer made till date stands at a staggering Rs 91 lakh, they said.

The upcoming season is certainly looking very bright for the students. The response has been absolutely overwhelming with numerous companies expressing their willingness to hire KGPians. A unique curriculum clubbed with courses on financial engineering and engineering entrepreneurship gives a lead to the students of IIT-Kharagpur unlike any other institute," said Punj Rajan, vice-president of Technology Students' Gymkhana, IIT-Kharagpur...................

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/IIT-Kharagpur-student-offered-Rs-91-lakh-salary-package/articleshow/45036249.cms

Kris wrote:

>>>can't open the link for some reason. Is the job in the financial sector and outside India?

nevada wrote:What are the chances the same student will start an organic farm after getting disenchanted with the corporate world? I would say very high.

truthbetold wrote:

nevada wrote:What are the chances the same student will start an organic farm after getting disenchanted with the corporate world? I would say very high.

why do you say that? are there others before him? or is it just an opinion from a sucher?

nevada wrote:

truthbetold wrote:

nevada wrote:What are the chances the same student will start an organic farm after getting disenchanted with the corporate world? I would say very high.

why do you say that? are there others before him? or is it just an opinion from a sucher?

Yes, heard about a few IITians starting their own ventures after just a few years in the corporate world. Heard about an engineer(don't know if IIT or not) who is now a very successful carrot farmer in Ooty. And about an IIMite(is that correct usage? haha) starting a dry cleaning business. 
I don't have "official" facts, figures, percentages, etc to "prove" anything one way or another. So yes, you could categorize this as "just an opinion from a sucher".

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

nevada wrote:

truthbetold wrote:

nevada wrote:What are the chances the same student will start an organic farm after getting disenchanted with the corporate world? I would say very high.

why do you say that? are there others before him? or is it just an opinion from a sucher?

Yes, heard about a few IITians starting their own ventures after just a few years in the corporate world. Heard about an engineer(don't know if IIT or not) who is now a very successful carrot farmer in Ooty. And about an IIMite(is that correct usage? haha) starting a dry cleaning business. 
I don't have "official" facts, figures, percentages, etc to "prove" anything one way or another. So yes, you could categorize this as "just an opinion from a sucher".

Great...MIT dropout starts FB and IIM/IIT graduate starts drycleaning business.

Sabash...not that there is anything wrong with that.

goodcitizn wrote:Talking about success in farming, here's a poem by e.e.cummings, one of my favorite humorous poets.

nobody loses all the time

i had an uncle named
Sol who was a born failure and
nearly everybody said he should have gone
into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could
sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which
may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle

Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable
of all to use a highfalootin phrase
luxuries that is or to
wit farming and be
it needlessly
added

Seva Lamberdar wrote:

goodcitizn wrote:Talking about success in farming, here's a poem by e.e.cummings, one of my favorite humorous poets.

nobody loses all the time

i had an uncle named
Sol who was a born failure and
nearly everybody said he should have gone
into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could
sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which
may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle

Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable
of all to use a highfalootin phrase
luxuries that is or to
wit farming and be
it needlessly
added

My late grandmother often used to narrate the following adage (in Pahadi) in favor of farming / agriculture as the best thing to make a living.

"uttam kheti, maddham bappaar,
nikhidh chaakari, bheekh naddar."

(the best is the farming, the trading / business comes the next,
service (working for others) is really low, and begging is a hell.)

Kinnera wrote:

Seva Lamberdar wrote:

goodcitizn wrote:Talking about success in farming, here's a poem by e.e.cummings, one of my favorite humorous poets.

nobody loses all the time

i had an uncle named
Sol who was a born failure and
nearly everybody said he should have gone
into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could
sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which
may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle

Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable
of all to use a highfalootin phrase
luxuries that is or to
wit farming and be
it needlessly
added

My late grandmother often used to narrate the following adage (in Pahadi) in favor of farming / agriculture as the best thing to make a living.

"uttam kheti, maddham bappaar,
nikhidh chaakari, bheekh naddar."

(the best is the farming, the trading / business comes the next,
service (working for others) is really low, and begging is a hell.)

Thumbs up to that!

PS: http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/dec/23slide1-an-engineer-from-iit-now-a-farmer.htm