18th August,
Sharon, Boston,
My Dear Kush,
Sharon, Boston,
My Dear Kush,
How you feel by realizing that you are residing near Harvard University which has ranked again first in the list of 500 world universities. If you are visiting Boston and told that you are near to Harvard University and MIT which are located to nearby place-called Cambridge ,what will be your reaction ? . Knowing this fact, no one- either a tourist like me or one coming to reside in Boston or nearby town , can resist temptation to visit the place and have a look to Harvard University Therefore, on this Sunday, we planned to visit Cambridge where the two world famous institutes are located .
When we crossed Boston, we were going through the banks of Charles river and witnessed boys and girls running nearby foot path ; some doing exercise while others , I think were practicing for their athletic games. After crossing the bridge over the river , we entered Cambridge town and from Cambridge crossing , Harvard university campus started. It is not one building but many buildings scattered ; there are different colleges under the university . Both boys and girls were visible on the roads , in the restaurants ; on the road side, at one place, we could see a temporary stall ,depicting some books.
After passing Harvard university and adjoining to it, we observed Massachusetts Institute of Technology - this has also ranked 4th in the world list of universities. This ,MIT ,in contrast to Harvard, is a compact huge building .This world famous engineering institute was showing various departments.
As you are aware, America was first inhabited by the Britons and Boston is the place from where they entered to this new geography (I have attached Columbus statute from where he is supposed to get down to America ). As is normal , its difficult to erase previous memories so quickly hence these first migrants start naming the towns similar to that of United Kingdom .That's why there are the names - Cambridge , Manchester, Charles river ,New England -a repetition of old memories .Not only this, the architect of these two prestigious institutes is also manifestation of European architect . Whereas, Harvard is constructed with Bricks , MIT is totally constructed using stones. Student facilities were existing everywhere like road side meters for parking cars, bus stops and moving buses ,restaurants claiming cuisines of different countries.
We took a round of MIT and when we reached to its right side, we could see the flowing Charles river and on other side of the river was our Boston city as the attached photographs testify.
By taking such type of round, no one can confirm ranks of any institute. It is not the building or campus, but criterion set aside for determining ranks and how a institute fare in that criterion will determine its status . One of our colleague ,who did MRCVS from Britain was telling that ordinary rooms of Cambridge university will never testify to an outsider that the place had witnessed the academic works of noble laureates. The important criterion in present case is the number of noble prizes won by its faculty or alumni , research papers published in Nature and Science, citation index etc . And this is the reason why these two institutes consistently maintaining their place among world universities . If you ask me the status of Indian universities in this regard, I will say you are fortunate that you are residing in Bangalore whose institute- Indian institute of Sciences- have found its place (the only institute from India ) among 500 top ranked Universities.
Obviously, every meritorious student should aspire to get admission in Harvard or MIT where he can learn under a distinguished faculty .But here annual expenditures are exorbitant . As per a recently published news , studies in USA is costliest with $ 40,000/ ( about 24,00,000 Rs ) expenditure per year, increasing as per institute while Germany is cheapest with annual cost of about $ 6,200/ . Naturally , its difficult for we Indians to study in USA without receiving any scholarship/ fellowship which is not unusual for meritorious students . I hope you best and wish that your hard studies will eligible you to get admission in prestigious educational institutes in USA ; please also remember , it is not the institutes but your passion which lead you in your life.
When we crossed Boston, we were going through the banks of Charles river and witnessed boys and girls running nearby foot path ; some doing exercise while others , I think were practicing for their athletic games. After crossing the bridge over the river , we entered Cambridge town and from Cambridge crossing , Harvard university campus started. It is not one building but many buildings scattered ; there are different colleges under the university . Both boys and girls were visible on the roads , in the restaurants ; on the road side, at one place, we could see a temporary stall ,depicting some books.
After passing Harvard university and adjoining to it, we observed Massachusetts Institute of Technology - this has also ranked 4th in the world list of universities. This ,MIT ,in contrast to Harvard, is a compact huge building .This world famous engineering institute was showing various departments.
As you are aware, America was first inhabited by the Britons and Boston is the place from where they entered to this new geography (I have attached Columbus statute from where he is supposed to get down to America ). As is normal , its difficult to erase previous memories so quickly hence these first migrants start naming the towns similar to that of United Kingdom .That's why there are the names - Cambridge , Manchester, Charles river ,New England -a repetition of old memories .Not only this, the architect of these two prestigious institutes is also manifestation of European architect . Whereas, Harvard is constructed with Bricks , MIT is totally constructed using stones. Student facilities were existing everywhere like road side meters for parking cars, bus stops and moving buses ,restaurants claiming cuisines of different countries.
We took a round of MIT and when we reached to its right side, we could see the flowing Charles river and on other side of the river was our Boston city as the attached photographs testify.
By taking such type of round, no one can confirm ranks of any institute. It is not the building or campus, but criterion set aside for determining ranks and how a institute fare in that criterion will determine its status . One of our colleague ,who did MRCVS from Britain was telling that ordinary rooms of Cambridge university will never testify to an outsider that the place had witnessed the academic works of noble laureates. The important criterion in present case is the number of noble prizes won by its faculty or alumni , research papers published in Nature and Science, citation index etc . And this is the reason why these two institutes consistently maintaining their place among world universities . If you ask me the status of Indian universities in this regard, I will say you are fortunate that you are residing in Bangalore whose institute- Indian institute of Sciences- have found its place (the only institute from India ) among 500 top ranked Universities.
Obviously, every meritorious student should aspire to get admission in Harvard or MIT where he can learn under a distinguished faculty .But here annual expenditures are exorbitant . As per a recently published news , studies in USA is costliest with $ 40,000/ ( about 24,00,000 Rs ) expenditure per year, increasing as per institute while Germany is cheapest with annual cost of about $ 6,200/ . Naturally , its difficult for we Indians to study in USA without receiving any scholarship/ fellowship which is not unusual for meritorious students . I hope you best and wish that your hard studies will eligible you to get admission in prestigious educational institutes in USA ; please also remember , it is not the institutes but your passion which lead you in your life.
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