Alumni Blog

Deens Academy is buzzing with activities in the new academic year starting in January – 2025 .

These activities are captured in an interesting manner by the students and presented in our Bi-monthly edition of Deen-a-logue. Do take a look.

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Gaury Daga graduated from Deens this year (2024). She is currently pursuing design from BITS, Design school, Mumbai.

The Chancellor’s Dinner for BITS Design School Mumbai and BITS Law School, Mumbai was held on Sep 25, 2024.

Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani led a conversation with the Deans and students, discussing leadership, innovation, and the future of design and business. Students had the opportunity to ask questions about entrepreneurship, design, law and the culture at the Aditya Birla Group.

Mr. Birla encouraged students to embrace challenges and highlighted how design can shape the world.In response to students’ questions he shared that he was inspired to start schools of Design, Management, and Law by the opportunity to leverage the legacy and reputation of BITS Pilani to create a transdisciplinary ecosystem.

Later the roles were reversed with Mr. Birla asking students about their aspirations. After the formal event the students got to interact directly with the Chancellor.

The event also saw the Chancellor scholarships awarded to four students from BITS Design School Mumbai
–   Gaury Daga
–   Geisha Khatwani
–  purvi ramtilak
–  Sampoorna Krishna
The evening was surely a moment of privilege for students.

Hardik Agrawal Batch 2020-2021 Topic: JEE Preperation – My journey to IIT Kanpur I joined Deens Academy in first grade, and before I could notice, I passed 12th grade and now I am studying Computer Science and Engineering at IIT-K. Let me take you on a roller coaster ride of my journey from Deens to IIT-K. I spent twelve years at Deens, and it was a matter of time before it became a second home for me. The several years I spent in this school truly shaped my thought process and developed me from a shy boy to a confident and deeply motivated teenager. I received a very open and healthy environment which helped me bloom. Shanti ma’am was always approachable to the students, and she gave me the best guidance and support to achieve new heights. In fact, all my teachers in the school always gave me the proper guidance, love, and affection throughout the years. After going through the entire preparation for clearing JEE Advanced, I decided to share my story with my juniors and give some tips to help them make their dreams come true. Till 10th grade, I had not attended any formal coaching and entirely relied on the school. I had never prepared with marks in my mind, and my main focus was always to have conceptual clarity. This clarity was achieved not by spending any extra time but by having rapt attention in class and troubling my teachers with all the doubts I possibly had. With just a week of preparation, I cleared NTSE in 10th, and it was possible because of the conceptual clarity I had gained in the classroom. Then I wrote the board examinations intending to score decent marks. After the result came out, I was surprised to know that I had topped in Deens. I chose engineering for my career as I have always been passionate about physics and mathematics. I joined FIITJEE coaching in class 11th and began my preparation, keeping JEE in mind. This was a notable change for me, and it took me some time to adapt to a new learning system. During this stage of learning, the time management skills of a student are put to a complete stress test as the student has to manage both school and college entrance examinations. Many students believe that they need something different to prepare for these exams, but that is not true. On the contrary, things are still the same. You need to gain conceptual clarity in a class by maintaining child-like curiosity and doing daily practice through a good question set. Developing an interest in the subjects is very crucial, as this interest would automatically guide the student towards a deeper understanding. Many students have a myth that school and NCERT are unnecessary. No doubt, NCERT alone might not be sufficient for in-depth knowledge of the topic, but school and NCERT are essential. They are the stepping stones for our preparation and give us a basic understanding of the topic. Such exams check the sincerity of the student and the student’s confidence in the subject. With this strategy, I was able to clear BITSAT (CSE), KVPY, NSEP, JEE Mains (AIR 560) and JEE Adv (AIR 166). So friends, this was a milestone achieved by a student just like you. You may be an average student or a genius but what matters is your persistent hard work and dedication to achieve your goal. With the proper guidance and ideal strategy, even you can make it to IIT. Good Luck to all my aspiring juniors! P.S. If anybody else needs more help from me, you can contact me personally. I would love to help you in any possible way. Hardik Agrawal (Batch of 2020-21) Ph no.: +91 96671 20817 Email ID: Hardik.agrwl03@gmail.com

Saniya Mohiuddin
Batch 2016

Research Topic: Age Difference and the Quality of Mother – Child Relationship: The Child’s Perspective

Our research seeks to understand how the relationship between mother and child differs with relation to the age gap between the mother and child. Our hypothesis states that the lower the age gap between the mother and the child the closer will be the bond that they share. It may be seen that there has been a trend that women are choosing to become mothers at a later stage (after 30s) in life. This is intriguing and thus our study aims to find out whether there will be a difference in the relationship that they share with their children in comparison to women who become mothers at an earlier stage. Also, the population of emerging adults ranges from ages 18 to 25. They share a very close relationship with their parents as they start to relate to the position of their parents. Therefore, this is the perfect group of people to be a part of the sample. This topic has been chosen as an attempt to understand more about this relationship and which age of mothers share a closer bond with their child.

Christ (Deemed to be University) gave us the opportunity of participating in the Psychology Research Fellowship competition which would allow us to take our research to a next level and conduct it in a larger scale. As participants we were first required to submit our research proposal to the psychology department, who then shortlisted 7 proposals for the next and final round which was the presentation round. This round required us to put forth our points regarding the research, the topic, hypothesis, rationale and methodology that will be used to conduct and analyze data collectedthrough a ppt presentation. Our presentation skills along with the validity of our research to the current times were judged and also the methodology and data collection methods, scales used were intensively analyzed. As winners of this fellowship we were awarded a sum of Rs.10,000 to fund our research along with other benefits and finally the completed research would be published on the college as well as other journal websites.