Hi facchas!
Transitioning to college life can be a confusing experience. Therefore we have carefully selected this compilation of articles to give you a flavour of life here at IIIT.
Hope you enjoy reading this!
College, for me, wasn’t just a new place, it was where I finally met people who didn’t ask why I was different. They just… let me be. If you’ve ever felt out of step or different in a way you can’t always explain, maybe this will resonate. And if not, maybe it’ll help you understand someone who does.
Because the number 4 is blue.
And that’s not wrong.
It’s just true.
An Idiot’s Guide to IIIT
“IIITH is just academic pressure” LMAAAAAO.
Slap this wherever you heard that. Just like life at college for me, this article ain’t that deep. Clubs, fest, campus life, timepass, everything.
Welcome to the real genuinely happy side of IIITH chat.
The Toilet Review
Given that toilet seats are where IIIT-H students spend 91% of their pre-class morning routines* and toilet find 75% of their most elegant research ideas**, we bring you the definitive guide to the campus’s finest thrones.
From OBH to Vindhya, don your zen pose young faccha – and let your thoughts and bowels go.
*Allegedly
**Allegedly
IIIT Lingo
“chat istg we be cookin’
with ts”
Ping!’s version of Urban Dictionary to get you up to speed with college convos…
The Ping! Radical Empathy Project
When we were first years, me and a group of friends released this series of articles. We call it the Ping! Radical Empathy Project (or PRE for short). These articles follow our conversations with different students on campus about life, ambition and much more. I hope it makes you feel warm on the inside, like it did us <3
Dogfather
Humans aren’t the only ones on this campus. The dogs were here before you.
IIIT has rules.
Not all written by humans.
Learn who to pet. Who to leave alone…and who really runs this place.
Mama, Put My GPTs in the Ground
Here’s something for you, if any
point you’ve felt seen, or at ease
with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Like with any other relationship,
where do you draw the line?
The last thing you want is to
worship your AI as a God.
The Ping! Food Tier List (aka GolGapPing!)
Having too many choices is always a good thing, until you are in the spotlight and are asked
what you want. That’s why we let IIIT pick an unbiased list of the best foods to try in the canteens!
About Us
Ping! is a young newsletter of a young institute. With being young, comes love, passion and a yearning for etching one’s name in the history books.
With Ping!, we strive to give the community a voice. Not just a voice that is heard, but a voice that is listened to, understood and given its due consideration. Ping! wants to be the platform that says what everyone thinks, but no one says out loud.
Ping! aims to reiterate to the campus community that awareness is king. There is power in numbers and awareness is the way to get those numbers. Awareness is the first big step to bringing change, and Ping! wants to be part of that big step that people take.
Ping! wants to target apathy. And it wants people to have fun while doing it.
Designed with <3 by Ping!
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