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After reading all this you might be led to think it was all work and no play at the NU. However, you would be completely wrong. Study hard and play harder is and has been the motto and winning mantra of the zesty M-Tech bunch.
Take the instance of Sumit, a project manager and enthusiastic pool player who can be heard calling out to his friends and inviting them to a game late at night, when they’re back, tired after the classes.
Or what about Vijay, the quiet project manager from ELS, who exhorts his peers to take a walk up to jal pilu (the landmark tree at the NU campus) and freshen up before studying.
And there are the much talked about super treks to the Aravalis that are regularly organised by Captain Rohit Saxena, an ex-army man and a customer delivery manager from Liqvid.
Basically, the “students” at the NU, have been eating together, playing together and even studying together. Often a few are tutored by Vimal, a senior employee from Wipro Bangalore, who’s working towards a Ph.D  in Educational Technology. There are times you can spot others receiving tips from Pallavi, a business analyst and an eager educational technologist in the making, or sitting together for combined studies in the room of one of the students.
Recently, students at the campus participated in a visit to the Majra Kath government school, as part of their ICET (Information, Communication, Entertainment) curriculum. M-Tech and B.Tech students watched the children being mentored by their peers and observed them as they used the Hole-in-the-wall kiosk set up by NIIT.
It was amazing to see the B.Tech students—a noisy bunch, singing and shouting during the bus ride to the school—magically transform into responsible, serious adults as soon as they entered the school!
They spent time with the children whom they were individually mentoring and helped them revise concepts, work out mathematics problems and even engaged them through quizzes. The faces of the children simply lit up when they met their ‘older brothers.” The bonding between them was amazing! According to the M-Tech students, the one hour that they spent with the school children was “an enlightening and humbling experience.”
“We were very impressed and will ensure that our employees also participate in some volunteer work when we get back to Bangalore,” said Shagufta and Sreekala, two M.Tech students and senior managers from Wipro, Bangalore.
According to them, their stay at the NIIT University campus had been a big change in every way. As working professionals who had long forgotten what it felt like to be students—to be on time for meals in the cafeteria or even write with a pen on a paper—it was a huge transformation! They admitted however that they were learning slowing and enjoying student life and the diversity of learning.
“I never thought I’d ever do soldering or make electrical circuits!  I will definitely miss NU when I leave campus,” remarked Richa, a learning design consultant enrolled in the programme.