This is me in front of the Academic Block at IISER Berhampur.
Among all other things that a research institute provides, this one does indeed come with nice aesthetics and a beach.
However, it is not very ideal to stay in an under construction campus and life is indeed hard here as we are cut off from the main city (which is 20 kilometres away) and there are no local nearby markets to visit, no professors to interact with when you go for an evening walk (they stay in the transit campus which is in the Berhampur city) or for that matter, any PhD students either as their labs as well are in the transit campus.
So why am I smiling here in this picture?
Is it simply because I thought of making this LinkedIn post? Well, not really.
Me and my friend Pratyasha Tripathy attended one of our old professor's (who took our introductory course on quantum mechanics) last lecture that he was giving to the junior batch.
It was one of the most fun things I did in a while.
This post is not to promote or demote one's ambition to join the IISERs but to simply reflect on the fact that life isn't straightforward anywhere and it sure as heck isn't the same here, infact even worse (I'm not mentioning a lot of detail here haha, officials might read this sometime), but to some extent, I enjoy the empty campus and hate it sometimes and that gives me the motivation to get around this section of life with a nice smile and "do it" attitude.
All in all, this is NOT the last post about the state of #student / #research life at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur and more will be there when there's a stable internet connection here (I finally, officially ranted about it) :) .
PS: Thanks to Archana Mondal for clicking this picture :-)
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