Tips to help you master the art of time management Be it Bill Gates or you, everyone has 24 hours a day. It’s no secret that Bill Gates has an insane work schedule. So how does he manage the responsibilities and stay at the top of the game? He schedules his days meticulously and uses every minute productively. If Bill Gates can do it, so can you. The truth is that you have all the time you need to get things done, and all you have to do is take your time seriously and step up your time management game with the following tips. Time audit Once you learn where your time goes, it is easy to opti ..read more

Five tips to make the transition to university easier Young and ambitious students leave high school and walk into the portals of universities with myriad hopes, goals, and aspirations. As with any life change, this phase can be challenging and at the same time exciting at every step of the way. While some students adapt quickly, others are overwhelmed by the changes and challenges. Here are a few tips to make university life enjoyable and memorable. Asking for help is a sign of strength.  While it is necessary to learn how to be self-dependent, there is no shame in asking for help an ..read more

A Whole New World I used to read a lot of books when I was younger and loved reading and listening to stories. As a child, I would sit with my grandmother and listen to her narrate stories for hours. After my grandmother passed away, stories held a special place in my heart. When an Indian Short Stories course was offered in the first year as an elective, I jumped at the chance to rediscover my passion for stories.  When I signed up for the course, I expected that we would read different kinds of stories and discuss them. What I did not expect, however, was for it to change my entire p ..read more

Remembering Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 147th Birth Anniversary Sai University is remembering Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 147th birth anniversary, who is commonly now as the “Iron Man of India”. Mr. Patel was a senior senior leader of the Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the Indian freedom struggle.  Mr. Patel was the first Deputy Prime Minister and the Home Minister of Independent India, playing a key role in the integration of about 565 princely states into the Indian Union, awarded the Bharat Ratna, the Highest Civilian Award in India f ..read more

The World and Its Many Challenges The Global Challenges course sheds light on the problems ailing our planet and the consequences they have on people in different regions and on the human race as a whole. It made me think about a range of issues such as liberty, human rights, women’s rights, nuclear energy, cyber technology and taxation.  Seldom are these issues discussed beyond their applicability or relevance in the context of development. However, such issues require in depth study to ensure that they are employed to indeed create a just world. The talks by the subject experts in Gl ..read more

The word ‘classroom’ draws different images for each of us. For those of us who have spent our childhoods going to school and college in a physical space, the words are usually ‘black board’, ‘ringing of the bell’, ‘canteens’ and so on. But for an increasing group of people, especially the youngsters of today, the word now draws up images of laptops, online tests, online PT classes and much more. The pandemic has brought over a sea change in all aspects of our lives. With daily lives and routines getting bungled during the lockdown, the internet has come to the rescue of many. And Education is ..read more

Of Liberty, Power, and Right — the ideologies we hold dear History classes in school have always felt sterile and monotonous to me. I am not one who would voluntarily enrol into one. My primary interest is in the sciences and that is what I look forward to studying at SaiU.  Liberty, Power, and Right (LPR) was offered as an elective in the second semester of the first year. When I signed up for it little did I know that it was a lesson in history and the evolution of some of our beliefs. But this was no traditional history class. Rather than focus on the dates, places, and other bullet ..read more

Five tips to make the transition to university easier Young and ambitious students leave high school and walk into the portals of universities with myriad hopes, goals, and aspirations. As with any life change, this phase can be challenging and at the same time exciting at every step of the way. While some students adapt quickly, others are overwhelmed by the changes and challenges. Here are a few tips to make university life enjoyable and memorable. Asking for help is a sign of strength.  While it is necessary to learn how to be self-dependent, there is no shame in asking for help an ..read more

Tips to help you master the art of time management Be it Bill Gates or you, everyone has 24 hours a day. It’s no secret that Bill Gates has an insane work schedule. So how does he manage the responsibilities and stay at the top of the game? He schedules his days meticulously and uses every minute productively. If Bill Gates can do it, so can you. The truth is that you have all the time you need to get things done, and all you have to do is take your time seriously and step up your time management game with the following tips. Time audit Once you learn where your time goes, it is easy to opti ..read more

Learning to think critically Ever wondered what it means to ‘think’? Is it the same as observation? If it is not, how does it differ from it? The course on Critical Thinking explains it all. From the very basic understanding of the difference, we moved onto the different kinds of syllogisms and arguments, the fallacies in those arguments that one might encounter, cognitive biases, statistical and probabilistic reasoning, and the idea behind knowledge.  We learnt how to think and not what to think. How different is that to what we normally learn in classrooms! The interactive classes we ..read more