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Comparison of Indian and US education system

Education is means by which young minds try to accumulate knowledge, experiences, skills etc. learn t by society. Here I will first talk about High school education system and then at college level. High school, students in US are never burdened with facts and information. They do not learn much as compared to Indian students. But one good thing about this system is that students there are free to choose some courses. So, what it does is that it helps a dedicated student. Let us say some student is interested in Electrical Engineering, he/she can opt for some courses like basic electronics. In this way a US student is much more prepared than their Indian counterpart when they are about to enter college. In India, till high school, students are given basic knowledge of almost everything but not specifics and they are not allowed to choose subjects. What this leads to is confusion in their mind. They are good in almost all but not perfect in one. So, you can see a Indian student can perf

Lessons learnt during internship at Penn State

This post has been copied from the report on experiences and lesson learnt, asked by my advisor. This intern has been full of learning and events. I am going to divide this report in two sections, in first I will describe what I have learned as a researcher, and in second, as a person. Research: I just love doing research. I mean it makes me feel good. I always have difficulty in cramming stuff but in research you try to understand principles rather than mugging them. I had a mindset, before coming, about research and how to do research. This internship has made me matured and experienced as a researcher. I always used to think research as a task; so, it is like any other competition. I think taking part in competitions invoked such attitude. It had been winning and loosing that competition for me, and research used to be no exception of that attitude. So, winning this competition would have been getting a paper published. All my efforts were focused on achieving that very goal. But af