The only drawback of having a full fledged campus having all facilities within a campus is the fact that if you are too lazy to wander outside the campus you tend to have no interaction with the outside world and eventually in case of IISc the final result is evidently clear-students having very little knowledge of Kannada language as they move out of IISc even after a long duration of 3 or 4 years.
Hence it is also important for us to interact with the outside world of the majestic city of Bangalore, which is a hub for various other great institutions like IIA, NCBS, BHEL, etc.[Citing my own example, I have spent almost a month in Bangalore, still I don't know even 10 words in Kannada, which is shameful for me. I can't imagine the day when after 4 years one of my relatives will ask me about the amount of Kannada I have learnt during my stay and I will answer-"Kannada Goti Illa", that means that "I don't know Kannada".] So as a part of my visit to an acquaintance of mine I actually got to see a great institution just beside IISc, which is known as the Advanced Woodworking Training Center(AWTC), an integral part of the Institute of Wood Science and Technology(IWST), a collaboration of Indian and Italian advanced woodworking institutions. Though my visit lasted for a very short time, I was amazed a great deal when I saw the enormous number of gigantic machines in their workshop. There were computer-automated devices for accurate wood cutting. There was a huge machine of the size of a washing machine which was just used to drill a 1 cm hole into wood, a task which would seem trivial and uninteresting to us. Students were learning to use that machine, for which they first studied the physics behind accurate and perfect drilling. This indicates the fact that even trivial things have a lot of science and technology going into their making and the continuous efforts by experts in those fields; which was evident from their extraordinary woodwork as seen in their prototypes and models and the variety of machinery used by them.
Hence it is also important for us to interact with the outside world of the majestic city of Bangalore, which is a hub for various other great institutions like IIA, NCBS, BHEL, etc.[Citing my own example, I have spent almost a month in Bangalore, still I don't know even 10 words in Kannada, which is shameful for me. I can't imagine the day when after 4 years one of my relatives will ask me about the amount of Kannada I have learnt during my stay and I will answer-"Kannada Goti Illa", that means that "I don't know Kannada".] So as a part of my visit to an acquaintance of mine I actually got to see a great institution just beside IISc, which is known as the Advanced Woodworking Training Center(AWTC), an integral part of the Institute of Wood Science and Technology(IWST), a collaboration of Indian and Italian advanced woodworking institutions. Though my visit lasted for a very short time, I was amazed a great deal when I saw the enormous number of gigantic machines in their workshop. There were computer-automated devices for accurate wood cutting. There was a huge machine of the size of a washing machine which was just used to drill a 1 cm hole into wood, a task which would seem trivial and uninteresting to us. Students were learning to use that machine, for which they first studied the physics behind accurate and perfect drilling. This indicates the fact that even trivial things have a lot of science and technology going into their making and the continuous efforts by experts in those fields; which was evident from their extraordinary woodwork as seen in their prototypes and models and the variety of machinery used by them.
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