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Saturday, June 2, 2012
My Favourites: Man Made Marvel:- Bandra Worli Sea-link
My Favourites: Man Made Marvel:- Bandra Worli Sea-link: The Bandra–Worli Sea Link officially the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, is a cable stayed bridge with pre-stressed concrete viaduct approaches, whic...
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
FACEBOOK a curse or a boon...
Facebook is a social networking website, launched in February 2004, which is operated and privately owned by Facebook.Inc, with more than 500 million active users in July 2010, which is about one person for every fourteen in the world. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be aged 13 or older to become a member of the website. I myself have more than 1500 friends on Facebook. I have been using Facebook since the past 4years. I have a few teachers as well as the Principal of Vidyalankar and also have a lot of senior students in my Facebook friend list. You don’t have time to meet all your friends especially when you are doing engineering, Facebook allows you to chat, message, share links & photos with your friends.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerburg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.
Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Pakistan, Syria, the The People’s Republic of China, Vietnam, Iran and North Korea. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Everyone will agree with me when I say that Facebook causes addiction.
It has now launched so many games like Mafia Wars, Poker, Crazy Cabbie, Farm Ville and many more attractive games that the users keep on playing for hours.
One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photo application, where users can upload albums and photos. Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, compared with other image hosting services such as Photobucket and Flickr, which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. During the first years, Facebook users were limited to 60 photos per album. As of May 2009, this limit has been increased to 200 photos per album. User can tag his friends in his photos, can share links on various pages and groups.
Facebook has now become so famous that many multinational companies have started advertising on Facebook.
You will find almost everyone on Facebook; its far more user friendly than Orkut. A user has the liberty of making Fan pages & Community groups.
I own and run 4 groups and 15 pages on Facebook, one of them is called “Scrap Exams Save Paper, What an idea Sirji”, which has more than 9000 members.
Facebook's privacy has also been an issue, and the safety of their users has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property. The site has also been involved in controversy over the sale of fans and friends.
Anything in this world has two sides, the good and the bad. We have already discussed about the plus points and utilities that Facebook provides to its Users above but, the bad point is that the User easily gets addicted to it.
Students keep on chatting or playing games and neglect studies. Employees keep on chatting on Facebook while they are working in offices. There have also been a few cases of kidnapping.
On the whole, it’s on how we use Facebook, whether we use it for doing constructive things or we use it just for time pass.
"How on earth would we stalk our exes, remember our friend’s birthdays, bug our friends, and play rousing games without Facebook?"
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Cloud of smoke over the lives of engineering students!!
Cigarettes & Hookah have become an important part of teenage life. We all know the effects of smoking but still people smoke. At this young age, lots of students are addicted to it. If you go to any college, you will find students smoking. Its not about Vidyalankar alone, its the same case in junior colleges.
Tobacco smoking is the practice where tobacco is burned and the vapors either tasted or inhaled. The practice began as early as 5000–3000 BC. Many civilizations burnt incense during religious rituals, which was later adopted for pleasure or as a social tool and religious ceremonies.
Tobacco was introduced to Eurasia in the late 16th century where it followed common trade routes. The substance was met with frequent criticism, but became popular nonetheless.
German scientists formally identified the link between smoking and lung cancer in the late 1920s leading the first anti-smoking campaign in modern history.The movement [clarification needed What movement?] failed to reach across enemy lines during the Second World War, and quickly became unpopular thereafter. In 1950, health authorities again began to suggest a relationship between smoking and cancer.
cientific evidence mounted in the 1980s, which prompted political action against the practice. Rates of consumption from 1965 onward in the developed world have either peaked or declined. However, they continue to climb in the developing world.
Smoking is the most common method of consuming tobacco, and tobacco is the most common substance smoked. The agricultural product is often mixed with other additives and then pyrolyzed. The resulting vapors are then inhaled and the active substances absorbed through the alveoli in the lungs. The active substances trigger chemical reactions in nerve endings, which heightens heart rate, memory, alertness, and reaction time.
Dopamine and later endorphins are released, which are often associated with pleasure. As of 2000, smoking is practiced by some 1.22 billion people. Men are more likely to smoke than women, though the gender gap declines with younger age.
Many smokers begin during adolescence or early adulthood. Usually during the early stages, smoking provides pleasurable sensations, serving as a source of positive reinforcement. After an individual has smoked for many years, the avoidance of withdrawal symptoms and negative reinforcement become the key motivations to continue.
I had taken my own survey on how many students from Vidyalankar smoke. There are atleast 6 to 10 students from each division who either smoke cigarettes or hookah or chew tobacco. Its the same case in VSIT.
When I asked why they smoke, "I smoke because it helps me reduce stress & study pressure." said a student of FE.
"I smoke because I am addicted to it." said a sudent of VSIT. Most students had the same answer but a few students said, "My friends some, so I smoke."
What is the possible solution to all this. How will the youth find its way out of this smoke cloud?
This question is worth thinking. Is the exam pressure really so bad?
Are Cigarettes the solution to all problems?
Statistics show that in the recent past the number of students smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco has almost doubled.
Meanwhile, a ray of hope emanates from the fact that more than three-quarters of the current smokers want to give up the habit, and 55.5 per cent have tried to do so at least once.
Tobacco smoking is the practice where tobacco is burned and the vapors either tasted or inhaled. The practice began as early as 5000–3000 BC. Many civilizations burnt incense during religious rituals, which was later adopted for pleasure or as a social tool and religious ceremonies.
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| Picture Edited by:Aaditya Masurekar |
German scientists formally identified the link between smoking and lung cancer in the late 1920s leading the first anti-smoking campaign in modern history.The movement [clarification needed What movement?] failed to reach across enemy lines during the Second World War, and quickly became unpopular thereafter. In 1950, health authorities again began to suggest a relationship between smoking and cancer.
cientific evidence mounted in the 1980s, which prompted political action against the practice. Rates of consumption from 1965 onward in the developed world have either peaked or declined. However, they continue to climb in the developing world.
Smoking is the most common method of consuming tobacco, and tobacco is the most common substance smoked. The agricultural product is often mixed with other additives and then pyrolyzed. The resulting vapors are then inhaled and the active substances absorbed through the alveoli in the lungs. The active substances trigger chemical reactions in nerve endings, which heightens heart rate, memory, alertness, and reaction time.
Dopamine and later endorphins are released, which are often associated with pleasure. As of 2000, smoking is practiced by some 1.22 billion people. Men are more likely to smoke than women, though the gender gap declines with younger age.
Many smokers begin during adolescence or early adulthood. Usually during the early stages, smoking provides pleasurable sensations, serving as a source of positive reinforcement. After an individual has smoked for many years, the avoidance of withdrawal symptoms and negative reinforcement become the key motivations to continue.
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| Picture Edited by:Aaditya Masurekar |
I had taken my own survey on how many students from Vidyalankar smoke. There are atleast 6 to 10 students from each division who either smoke cigarettes or hookah or chew tobacco. Its the same case in VSIT.
When I asked why they smoke, "I smoke because it helps me reduce stress & study pressure." said a student of FE.
"I smoke because I am addicted to it." said a sudent of VSIT. Most students had the same answer but a few students said, "My friends some, so I smoke."
What is the possible solution to all this. How will the youth find its way out of this smoke cloud?
This question is worth thinking. Is the exam pressure really so bad?
Are Cigarettes the solution to all problems?
Statistics show that in the recent past the number of students smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco has almost doubled.
Meanwhile, a ray of hope emanates from the fact that more than three-quarters of the current smokers want to give up the habit, and 55.5 per cent have tried to do so at least once.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Vidyalankar Institute Of Technology
The campus is located in Wadala (East), in Sangam nagar, a central suburb of Mumbai.
The Institute of Technology shares the campus with Vidyalankar Polytechnic and Vidyalankar School of Information Technology. The campus comprises 3 buildings, 2 gardens, a football field, a volleyball ground and also a cricket pitch. The canteen in the BSC building, called as X block, serves a wide variety of food at very affordable rates and there is also a cafe in the Engineering building. Also, separate parking lots are available for students and faculty members, for both 2-wheelers and 4-wheelers. A new building called the VSB is also under construction, which has already been featured in an international architecture e-magazine.
The college infrastructure is so beautiful that it looks like a mall. The first time i entered the building, I kept staring at the artistic infrastructure. I asked myself, "Have I come to
the right place?" I had never even thought that an engineering college would be so beautiful.
There is an amphitheater where the events take place. The amphitheater is designed in such a way that people can get a view of it from any where in college.
This college has Friday Paath-Shala, Friday Paath-shala is a platform created for students to indulge in their non academic passions & pursuits. This ranges from dance workshops to screening thought provoking movies and debates to musical jams where students bring their favourite musical instruments. The allotted time is every Friday between 4.30 pm to 6.30pm and the venue is the amphitheater. Vidyalankar Group of Educational Institute’s ‘Friday Paathshala’ earned recognition nationally by bagging a silver in the ‘college contact programme of the year’ category at the 1st WOW Event and Experiential Awards.‘Friday Paathshala’ is a non-academic interaction for engineering students in Vidyalankar Institute of Technology. Every Friday is turned into an exciting and fun-filled evening for students in the form of workshops, movie-screenings, sports, dance and jam-sessions.
The teaching staff is just too good. All teachers and professors are highly qualified. A few have also written books on engineering. They are always ready to help students. The Principal and other staff members help the students to solve there doubts through social networking sites like Facebook or www.vidyalankarlive.com. Vidyalankar Live is a site that has been developed & moderated by the senior students of Vidyalankar. This site has been designed in such a way that it helps the students to download useful softwares, discuss their queries, one can even add friends, edit their profile, chat,etc. This college provides everything, from studies to entertainment. What more do you want?
The college atmosphere is so good that it does not let the engineering pressure get to you. The seniors are helpful and all at Vidyalankar Work as one unit, the seniors have helped us a lot till now & we consider ourselves lucky to be a part of an Outstanding college like VIT.
We at Vidyalankar have become a family, which we proudly call as the VIT FAMILY.
The college atmosphere is so good that it does not let the engineering pressure get to you. The seniors are helpful and all at Vidyalankar Work as one unit, the seniors have helped us a lot till now & we consider ourselves lucky to be a part of an Outstanding college like VIT.
We at Vidyalankar have become a family, which we proudly call as the VIT FAMILY.
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