Indian Institute of Students

We all have a tendency to believe in "Murphy's Law": that everything we do will turn out wrong. Jean Claude has an interesting story about precisely that feeling.  A man was quietly eating his breakfast. Suddenly, the piece of bread that he had just spread with butter fell to the ground. Imagine his surprise when he looked down and saw that it had landed buttered side up! The man thought he had witnessed a miracle. Excited, he went to tell his friends what happened, and they were all amazed; because when a piece of bread falls on the floor, it nearly always lands buttered side down, making a mess of everything.  'Perhaps you're a saint', said one friend, 'and this is a sign from God' Soon the whole village knew, and they all started discussing the incident: How was it that, against all expectations, the man's slice of bread had fallen buttered side up? Since no one could come up with a credible answer, they went to see a teacher who...

A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.” “Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was...

Most of the students and youth dread exams. The same demon that returns every 5-6 months. But few people realize the power of the demon... This demon is the one who promotes students to new classes, or make students repeat the class, hands over medals for outstanding performance, or perhaps even awards a Transfer Certificate for failing..We'll consider the name of this demon to be "Demon X". You'll realize that time flows away quickly during exams, just like water gushing out from porous cotton cloths. In this phase, young people tend to concentrate on studies to such an extent that they do not feel the value of time. They want this time to pass away, so that they can finally be independent from their studies. Students demand an Independence day, don't they? For most, the "Independence day" is the last day of the final exams. But don't forget about Demon X! He returns and inspects each and every answer one has written with blue/black ink on the ...

Here's the disclaimer: I was an active editor of Wikipedia some months ago. It has a vast community of users   - vandals, newbies, trolls, admins, and good editors wanting to make Wikipedia the greatest online encyclopedia. Often newbies find the articles which they want to edit are protected with either a semi-protection. Clicking on instructions templates, they are driven off to a page called "Requests for Confirmed Permission". They apply there and hope their request gets accepted. However, if you're an active Wikipedia user you are sure to notice something if you lazily hover over to RFP/C's page: Most requests are unattended, or they are not granted permission; or some administrator asks them some question which does not get answered. It gets messy at times because of no archiving by the bots- and I mean, it gets real messy. That is not what I want to say, so read on. In most cases, permission is not granted, right? So why do we keep the page? Okay, ther...

Having a blog can have a lot of advantages for your career life and personal life. However, this doesn't mean that it doesn't have disadvantages- I mean, when you write on a controversial topic and it gets viral, you can be in a lot of trouble, especially if you are dwelling in a country which censors the Internet. But don't stop! The number of advantages is well over the number of disadvantages! So here we start: 1) Having a blog can improve your writing skills: Perhaps the most important point. Writing a blog dramatically can increase your quality of writing, and over time you can see you are just getting better and better on writing. It can be very helpful in real life- when you have to write a research paper, or do some project work, or you're given an essay to write. 2) You can actually earn from your blog : If you are a good writer and have a good number of posts in your blog, you can actually earn from your blog. For this you need to get noticed: the ...