Having to choose Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (Meta as is called here) in IITR out of compulsion, never did I think I would go on to love this branch to a great extent. As a wise man once said “Make the most out of what is given to you”, I decided to give it a shot and implausibly I loved it! The beauty of the course, however, lies in the fact that the experience just gets better with time, just like an old wine! Meta is a paragon of Physics with tits and bits of every discipline of engineering. Metallurgy, however, is growing redundant but Materials engineering is just the opposite. Frankly speaking, like Biotechnology it also is primarily a research oriented branch. Our department boasts of an erudite faculty, superb infrastructure and a motivated students society (METES)-the perfect recipe to develop solutions to the imminent problems in industry and daily life. We boast ourselves to be called one of the most ‘chilled out’ branches in the institution due to less academic workload, giving you ample time, and opportunity to work for your dreams. However, if you don’t like physics or fail to build your fundamentals strong then you will be struggling a lot in the subject resulting in everything bouncing off your head and frustrating yourself a lot. While many choose to be employees, there are many who choose to be the boss too! In the field of research, the sky’s the limit. So if you think you can take on the world and challenges, you would be the perfect fit for the branch. The catch is you can do this by staying in the branch as a scientist or pursuing other streams of your choice. One thing is for sure, though, you will be only come out wiser and better. - Gourav Ranjan Sinha

Applied Materials, Schlumberger, EATON