Gujarat: Indian Institute of Technology - Gandhinagar (IIT- Gn) has organized sessions, in order to shape up life skills in students. The series was organized with the intension of teaching the students and even faculty and staff the art to manage their time and prioritize, besides developing other skills.
As per sources, last week, the first workshop of the series was held and authorities said one workshop would be conducted each month. Future topics may include “managing you money” and “stress management”. Earlier, the institute had organized interactive sessions called “viva voce” where students sat individually with two faculty and a counsellor to talk about their problems and their aspirations. These sessions had revealed that some students were hooked to social networking sites and online gaming, which were eating into the time they had for other, more constructive activities.
Nidhi Kush Shah, the institute’s senior executive for training and placements who conducted the maiden workshop last Monday, said it focused on managing time and prioritizing things. She also added that many students who said they had those habits attended the workshop and we got substantial feedback from them. Besides, Sharmitra Lahiri, an English professor at the institute who is also the coordinator of the series, said that lot of the topics (in the life skills series) are inspired by issues the students expressed during viva voce sessions.
Furthermore, Shah informed that the the next session on life skills would be on “following you dreams and aspirations.”
