The biotech experience at IIT Roorkee will diversify your outlook at different levels. The stream entails all the aspects of life sciences, but frankly it just summarizes them. Students will be 'taught' almost everything in the syllabus, but it does not guarantee that they 'know' it or have 'learnt' it. Getting into the depth of these aspects is their own call. It is not just all biology and chemistry; a part of biotech B.Tech syllabus is similar to chemical engineering courses too. However, it may also happen that a student might not feel the need to connect with the excessive biology or mathematics in it. In such a case, students can work on honing your extracurriculars and the college offers a lot of these eg: fests, NSS/NCC/NSO, cultural groups, startups etc. And even otherwise, students make most of their friends here and how to organize activities in the campus via the institutional setup. Internship wise, an average student can easily get a great research project in universities of repute. As a matter of fact, a lot of pass outs have worked on Parkinson's' disease, cancer therapy and genetic engineering labs in India and abroad during their internship! As for scope, if one ends up loving life sciences, they can plan to study until PhD from a reputed university after which they can work as a post doctoral researcher at labs in organizations. After 2-3 real good researcher positions, they might become a group leader, principal investigator or an assistant professor, which have a well-settled life but limited increments in income. ‘ Research’ and ‘ package’ are two different things, and it’s something students should be clear about from the 1st semester itself. One can also combine both, by working in the industry as a research scientist. It’s a great branch; make the best of it.

- Geetika Nehra

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