Under-graduate programme is the most vital period in a student's life as this is the time when a student has to exercise a choice of subjects to study - a choice that will determine much of the student's academic future. Yet, at the end of intermediate studies one's ideas and opinions about the options available are naive. Baits of biotech courses with lucrative futures are aplenty and clueless students and parents fall for that - line, hook and sinker.

When I had joined the B.SC (Microbiology, Genetics and Chemistry) in Aurora, I must admit, I had not much idea about the first two subjects. Yet, when I look back I realize that those basic science subjects helped me in a long way. Basic science subjects always should be of choice. I must also admit that when I had joined Aurora's in 2000, I had little knowledge of the college. But, what awaited me were rather pleasant surprises for three whole years. We were fortunate to have an erudite yet affable faculty, assiduous yet debonair fellow-students, and most importantly an overarching yet compact curriculum. Co-curricular activities like workshops and seminars help a student grow intellectually while enjoying every moment of it.


Though I left college six years back, I often get to hear of the many more feathers that keep getting attached to its August cap. That makes me proud indeed.

That the college has stood out markedly over the years is because of the incessant efforts of the pole star of Aurora, the honored Principal - Dr. Ravi Paturi.

I wish him, my other respected teachers, and my dear friends all the success in their future endeavor.

This I add NOT for the brochure but as a feedback:

I have increasingly realised and continue to do so, that our genetics curriculum direly needs to include 1. mathematics, 2. statistics and 3. computer programming. This is my earnest suggestion. Lest, 'geneticists' like us get continually sidelined by statisticians and computer programmers especially in human genetics.