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​I've been following and reporting on the debate of the role of women in the military since 2011, when I wrote one of my first articles Women in Combat Operations. I've made it clear in the past that I want stellar and driven females to have the ability serve alongside the boys delivering much needed punishment to America's enemies in whatever manner suits their talents and abilities. That includes service within the infantry. I've never wanted the Marines to be a boys only club. I've expected for a long time that women would be a part of the future of Marine infantry, and in fact, a major part of my novel about Marines serving in the year 2025, The Next Warrior, revolves around it.It's a future that I personally would like to see, but having read from many differing accounts, I have many concerns. I've attempted to voice many of the problems and conflicts such a decision would bring about for the armed services. What I, and many Marines, have a problem with, is the way in which this process of inclusion was done. I find that the manner in which this decision was made was in such a way as to serve as a great disservice to the military as a whole, the Marines who took part in the studies, and even the women in question. Frankly, there has been a great deal of evolution and debate, but most of the key issues I've had since the beginning have been completely ignored by recent policy enactments. The question isn't being asked, "Is this a sound policy for the future of the Marine Corps and American national security?" Instead, we are promoting women in the forces not because it helps the nation's military, but because it helps the cause of women. While I am supportive to the cause of women, as a veteran of the Marines, and knowing that their struggles are not of equal pay in the workplace, but of the chance of death or living a life of dismemberment and trauma, my loyalty in this regard goes to them. If the cause of women can be helped, that is a wonderful thing, but if such a policy harms the chances of mission success overall in the military, or the survivability of any of the Marines, both male or female, it shouldn't be supported.Right now, we still hang in the balance of not knowing what women in the infantry will mean. We simply don't know, but the gavel has fallen anyway, and those who question the ruling, are currently facing the hangman's noose of social justice. This, I feel, was a detrimental failure in the administration, whereby an attempt to force the matter prematurely was made, not in an attempt to better the forces, but due to political pressures aimed around promoting equal rights, but in a realm where equality rights was never the issue to begin with.​To qualify that statement, I'll say this first about the other services that were invoked in the details to the question. The Army, Navy, and Air Force are not about infantry. They have infantry roles, such as the Navy SEALs or the Air Force's Pararescue and TACP combat liaisons (who call in airstrikes from ground positions.) The Army, obviously, has many infantry units. All of these services, however, are intended to perform other duties and infantry varies from being only a small part of that, to important supporting actors for their overall functions. The Marines are very different. There is a saying in the Marine Corps: all other jobs are in support of the infantry. The helicopters are designed to support front line troops. The fighter planes require VTOL landing and takeoff to work with the infantry. They've even created their own martial arts system to aid the infantry in their jobs. To say the least, their existence centers around infantry and infantry support. They will not take well to outsiders forcing changes upon their system, one in which they have mastered far beyond any other branch, and arguably, beyond any other modern force in the world.​Secondly, this is not an equal rights issue. Many are forcing this in the same category as when African Americans began being integrated into the service. This isn't. There is nothing structurally different about the African American body than of that of a White person or any other race. Given equal training, I can say from personal experience, that race is not a determinate of martial ability. This also doesn't relate to homosexuals in the military. I can also say from personal experience with a fellow Marine in Iraq, that being gay in the military does not affect military performance since, once again, sexual preference does not affect the way in which your body fundamentally does its job. The question that exists today, is on women. Women's bodies are obviously very different from those of men. Annika Schauer's answer to what are your opinions on the results of the U.S Marine Corps test regarding women in the new integrated combat units? demonstrates one of the built in physiological burdens women face that would limit their functionality in a combat environment. The question is, "Are the physiological differences between men and women so great as to put undue risk on unit success, and unit survival, in a military which has evolved to suit males for thousands of years?".It's a fair question that should be treated fairly. The military, and the infantry in particular, is a field where a marginal decline in unit performance, even so much as 1-3% in key roles, can cause the deaths of thousands of people and overall mission failure. Now, however, the actual risks of inclusion are being ignored, and all those who question if female inclusion is good for military are being reprimanded as bigots, sexist, or at the very least, "maybe too conservative in the subconscious, thereby unknowingly skewing the results of studies made." No, as my writing in the past will show, I want there to be a future where women can contribute their talents to the fighting companies of all military occupations, but it isn't about what I want, and it isn't about what any of the rest of us want either. It is about what is best for the Marines.As for recent remarks by many claiming that the Marine Corps' tests were flawed, so too were their analysis. For example, an article by Military(dot)com, New Details Question Validity of Marine Corps Gender-Integration Study, cites problems that some have had with the study, of which I'll list here:"Flawed methodology" - many have echoed the Washington Post interview by the Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, and his dismissal of the Marine Corp's study as "flawed methodology". This "flawed" word is showing up more and more, particularly in google searches on the study, but I've seen little evidence in what is flawed about the study. For example, the piece states that unit cohesion was lacking and that the females selected were all young and inexperienced. If we take into account Mindy Vuong, who has stated herself to be a member of the task force which did the experiment, then the Secretary's statement doesn't seem to hold up. According to her topic bio, she is a Marine Corps Sergeant, and therefore, a seasoned Marine with several years of experience under her MCMAP belt. She may be inexperienced as an infantry person, but to state that she shouldn't be is nonsensical. Of course the first generation lacks experience. To say that women who are transitioning into that role from other fields lack experience is an obvious point. What wasn't mentioned was that many of the men were new in their roles, as well. The SECNAV's statement would lead many to believe that raw female recruits were competing against seasoned and grizzled warrior veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Considering that Mabus made his statements to throw mud on the Marine Corps for a lack of scientific rigor, Mabus' statement was intellectually dishonest, at best.To continue, and what I considered the most egregious point, was that Mabus based another large portion of his dismissal by attacking the individual women involved in the exercise. One of his comments was to the effect that the system that allowed the women into the experiment was unfairly weighted to bring in unexceptional women. Women volunteering for the effort had to meet the minimum male score for passing the Marine Physical Fitness Test and the Combat Fitness Test. According to the argument presented by SECNAV, this means that the women selected were only functioning at the bare minimum requirements and not actually suited to the tests. Had they set the bar higher, the Magus implied, they would have got better women who could have passed the test.​There are at least three things wrong with this statement.1) First, the United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test is not something that these women would have been working toward meeting only the "minimum standard". This doesn't relate to personal drive, but career performance. The PFT is tied to a Marine's promotion scores, so if a Marine were to only be capable of achieving the minimum score, then they would be in effect, showing themselves to have no interest in their career in the military by not training for the highest score possible. This is a universal truth throughout the Marine Corps, no matter what job you hold. I've described this in detail in Is it difficult for a U.S. Marine to make sergeant in his first 4 years of service? Through minimum effort, one can attain far better than the minimum score on that test. For example, I never considered myself the fittest of Marines, but I never scored less than 6 pull-ups, one of the tested exercises, and finished my enlistment doing 18. The minimum is 3, and not achieving that is showing someone who lacks completely the drive to succeed in the Marines. Admittedly, this is harder for females, but not so much that meeting the minimum score does not still indicate a Marine who doesn't seem to care about ever being promoted. Since the PFT is also a part of all Marines' promotion metrics, saying that it was a poor indicator of performance was nonsensical, since they should have been training for their best anyway.2) The minimum set is the minimum necessary for men, and is considered so because it is based on decades of research and experience, perhaps looking back to more than a century, of what the Marine Corps believes are the necessary minimum strengths of a field soldier expected to perform expeditionary warfare duties. To argue that this should not apply to women on the basis of their differently formed bodies is failure in perspective. The measurements by which the Marines Corps set its standard infantry performance were never established to filter women from the pool. In fact, these are measurements never factored for women at all; they were designed to filter people from the pool of prospective infantrymen. I say infantryman to remind others that far more men have been turned away from infantry duty, through no fault of fighting spirit, but that of a body too weak to be relied upon for performance in the demandingly physical team environment that combat demands.To change that now, for the purposes of allowing more women in, is to lower the standard for all infantry Marines. The Marine Corps cannot allow it, as the basis for the military is not to serve as an instrument of social reform within the nation, but as a tool for the winning of wars. Likewise, the opposite is also true.3) To change the metric to only allow women who are exemplary in physical ability would do something else; it would drastically limit the pool of potential women who could enter the infantry. No matter what the rationale may be, when it is seen that the pool of any minority is drastically cut by policy, where others are not... that has always been labelled as prejudicial on some variant or another. In this case, to change the scoring system to be of a higher standard than of the men, would be sexist.According to Mabus, the exercise would have been more fair had they raised the bar to a higher threshold, perhaps to a male's first class PFT. While this would have undoubtedly produced a more physically fit crop of female Marines, that would have invalidated any legitimacy of the test. It would have, in effect, been testing a group that will not apply to the final result. ie. women who do make the minimum requirements, and still wish to be part of the infantry. One does not enter into a study with the intent to prove something, in this case, that some women can complete the training. The point of science to find out what happens, such as this experiment which asked the question, "Can the average women who wants to be infantry, cut the minimum requirements to do so?"What these points amount to was that the Secretary of the Navy dismissed the findings because he outright dismissed the women who were involved. Being selected under a fair metric, rather than looking anywhere else for inspiration, he blamed the women themselves. No one has decried this more than the Integration Task Force senior enlisted leader, Sergeant Major Justin Lehew.In a publicly visible post on his personal Facebook page, Sgt. Maj. Justin LeHew said Mabus was "way off base" to suggest that female Marines of a higher caliber should have been selected for the service's integrated task force experiment and that officials went into the test anticipating the women would not be successful.Mabus' comments run "counter to the interests of national security and [are] unfair to the women who participated in this study," wrote LeHew, who played a key role in the service's nine-month experiment as the top enlisted leader with Marine Corps Training and Education Command.In his post, he repeats states his sentiments.We selected our best women for this test unit, selected our most mature female leaders as well. The men (me included) were the most progressive and open minded that you could get. The commander of this unit was a seasoned and successful infantryman. The XO of this unit was as good as they get, so good the USMC made her the CO of the Officer candidate school.The "Her" in that last line, indicating the task force's Executive Officer (XO) or the unit's second in command, is Colonel Julie L. Nethercot. So far, this is the first I have seen mentioned that the second most important officer of the command was, in fact, a woman along with being a seasoned Marine officer up to to the point of commanding a battalion in Afghanistan and holding a position as a deputy director under the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon. I'm disappointed that with all that I have heard of the "subconscious bigotry" of the study, a facebook post of the the Unit's Sergeant Major was the first I have heard that it was in a large part planned, organized, conducted, and commanded by an accomplished female officer. I can't speak to why Nethercot's existence in this study has been so quiet, nor can I explain why Mabus and others have made the study out to be a male dominated Marine corps boy's club trying to oppress women, but it seems very clear that this is what has happened.Along with this, he rejected the findings and added another critique of the study. When it was noted that the average performance of integrated teams was much lower than that of the all male teams, he attacked the study for basing its results on the average, rather than the performance of a few stellar performing individuals. What he wanted, was anecdotal evidence to prove a position that women could serve with the infantry and succeed. As I said before, that isn't the question the study. To assume there weren't at least a few stellar women in the study, as well as the Corps as a whole, seems to be the more preposterous notion of all.​But this isn't a matter of individuals. It is about averages. The women were averaged to see how they performed, which gave troubling results for the cause that so many following the story want to hear. The reason this is relevant is that the military doesn't operate on an individual basis. They operate as a collective of millions of people. While it would be a good thing if the military could select and vet each individual member based on his or her performance or potential, such as in the Special Forces, it doesn't. There are simply too many people in the infantry for it to recruit like this. The questions have to be asked, "Does the average woman with the willingness to perform this job, meet the qualifications necessary? Will she be able to be relied upon when the time comes to do that job?"I want to be completely clear. In my experience, I have worked with exceptional women, who I am sure would succeed and thrive in the infantry roles. One in particular was a Captain by the name of Dienhart.I want to talk about an officer I knew while in the Marines. She was one of the best Marines I ever knew. Seriously, top 3, including men. Her name was Capt. Dienhart. She was a company commander for an engineering support squadron I worked for. She was in command of over 120 mostly male Marines. Even here in the Marines, the most famous boys club in the world, she had respect. Why? She could out do any one of us. She made it a point to be able to do more pushups than us (and not girl push ups either), she could do more pull-ups than any of us ( and I am not talking about flexed arm hangs) and she ran the 18 minute 3 mile. And when I say us, I mean the group of 450 19-24 year old male Marines in the squadron, not an easy group to beat, but she did almost every time.The only time I really got to know her was when I was a marksmanship coach for the squadron. I was her pistol instructor and helped her through her annual qualification. I used “instructor” and “helped” loosely because she was, on top of everything else, one of my best shooters ever. She had the form down, was very patient and methodical and had the strength to hold the weapon with control that and delivered precise and accurate shooting. In the Marines, marksmanship is kind of a big deal, so for her to deliver precise, consistent shooting, not just a few good shots was impressive for myself and the other Marines.The woman rewrote the book for me on what women in the military are capable of. I don’t know if she has any inclination to be part of a combat MOS, but I feel that the leadership and professionalism she showed while in a non-combat roles shows that women have the capability and potential to serve in such positions in the future.Women in Combat OperationsDienhart was something special and made it clear to me that there are exceptionally performing women in the Marine Corps who are more than capable of performing in the infantry roles. To ignore her existence and assume there are none like her is ridiculous. That's why this study should never have focused on if there were any amazing women in the Marine Corps, as Mabus suggested. Of course there were. Equally so would be to ignore the efforts of the first female Marines to graduate infantry training as well as Marines such as Vuong, mentioned earlier, who took part in the study. What it comes down to, I believe, Vuong summed up well in her answer to What are your opinions on the results of the U.S Marine Corps test regarding women in the new integrated combat units?The DRIVE is key here because without it, you get individuals of both genders who will fail to perform or contribute to the success of the unit regardless of their job. Many people tend to forget this in their knee jerk reactions to the idea of women in combat. Personally, I would rather work with the person has a drive to succeed rather than the one who's sitting around feeling sorry for themselves. Never mind who I want in combat with me.It does come down to drive, and more importantly, can you maintain your drive over the span of years? It is easy to be driven when you are a young eighteen year old, gung-ho to join up and prove yourself to the accolades of friends and family back home. A few years later, and a few deployments under your belt though, and that passion to prove yourself fades. You have nothing left to prove. If you aren't one of those people who can continue to push yourself for a lifetime, or if your goals simply change as you grow more into adulthood, then the life of an infantryman simply isn't for you anymore. I'm not really talking about women here. I am talking about me. I was eager and wanted to make a life of the Corps when I was young. As the years passed, I grew very tired of the deployments and never being home with my family. While I believe I could have made a life of it, I simply no longer wanted to. While I loved parts of the Corps very much, my time had come to move on. It's important that people consider the statistical reality, and it is that most people move on, rather than move up, in the Marines.​For women, this desire to move on can be very significantly different in how it affects them, then how it affects men, as well as the rest of the team. What we are talking about here isn't so much what men can do that women can't. It is quite the opposite. The most important element of whether women should be a part of the infantry is what they can do that men very specifically never could; have babies.Part of the argument about how unfair the testing was centered around the lack of time available to build unit cohesion. Unit cohesion is the bond formed between a group, large or small, where each member learns the strengths and weaknesses of all other members of the group, and thereby, learn the limitations of the unit and also, how it excels. Unit cohesion is formed through group training, shared experience in operating environments, and in sharing recreation with each other. Most of all, it is built through time.Now, consider that you have been training for a deployment to a region of extreme tension where your team's infantry skills will likely be required. Say you have trained for the better part of a year. You know your team and each of them is integral to the mission's success. Now say that within weeks of deployment, one of your team suffers a catastrophic injury, like mountain biking, and will not be able to deploy. It is common to expect that a unit will only deploy with 95% of strength. Stuff happens. In your team, though, you have lost a vital member. The Marine Corps isn't going to just send you another. You will be required to do the same job, take the same risks, and engage in the same fighting, with or without that fourth man. Statistically, your chances of doing well decline exponentially with every person who is lost to your team, for whatever reason. There are no Rambos in the Marine Corps. You don't rise to the occasion; you fall back on training and you trained for having four people to do this job.Now consider that this had nothing to do with a mountain biking accident. Say that instead of an injury, death, disease, or some other event, the thing that took one of your men out of the fight, was pregnancy. This isn't a hypothetical question. It is a very real experience I endured that isn't part of the debate currently centered around women in these important roles, but so that it is, I would like to share another of my experiences.I was part of a battalion sent to do security for one of the major bases in Al Anbar province in Iraq. Our unit had transitioned from being one that maintained base operations to one that provided security. It was like infantry duty, but far from what is expected of the actual infantry. Since our unit was mostly an engineering squadron before the deployment, we had many women before the transition. This would serve us well, as we could have females to search females and avoid the troubles that one deals with when one has a male Marine pat down an Iraqi woman. All in all, the platoon I joined consisted of around thirty Marines, nine of whom, were women. While in the beginning I didn't look at the women any different than the other guys in the platoon, eventually my view changed. What disappointed me was when one of the women prior to the deployment had found out... that she was pregnant. I say found out loosely, because I don't believe in accidental pregnancy. That was that, she was staying home. We were already a man down and still more than a month from deploying. This isn't really that big a deal. People can still be happy for her. It's a special time, if not bad timing. Sure it is harder on the rest of us, but it isn't like it was on purpose and people got to live their lives.But what if it happens four more times? That is exactly what happened during my second deployment to Iraq. In a platoon with nine women, four became pregnant within weeks of leaving. One was actually sent home from Iraq in the first week of the deployment when what we believed was a mild case of mono, turned out to be a severe case of pregnant. Now the platoon was down to just four women left of the original nine. That's a lot of burden split among the Marines who remained, especially the four remaining women.This wasn’t an isolated issue either. This freak epidemic of mass pregnancy happened throughout the squadron both times we were deployed. Around twenty percent of the women in the squadron became pregnant in the few months before we deployed. Others were sent home in the middle of an Iraq deployment because they became pregnant in Iraq. (please trust me when I say that it is not a romantic place, so it is curious to me that this could happen, at all.) This wasn't a coincidence, nor an accident.Freakonomics is a book series by two economists who want to explain all things weird though statistical analysis and finding what incentives exist to cause the behaviors behind odd phenomenon. Here, we can see a series of incentives that could theoretically explain why what I saw occurred, and so predictably. For many, the drive to prove themselves was spent once they had completed boot camp. This is the same for men as it was for the women. Beyond that, the reality of a combat deployment is one that most people don't wish to embark in, if for no other reason than the sheer inconvenience of it. Most importantly, pregnancy it must be understood, is a semi-honorable out from fulling your military obligation in overseas duty, of which there are very, very few alternatives. One is even welcome, upon becoming pregnant, to take full advantage of military healthcare and all other military benefits including a pay system which rewards one based on the number of dependents within your care. Female Marines who are or were recently pregnant are also given different fitness and performance standards to uphold than their non-pregnant counterparts. This makes sense within limits, being that it is assumed at some point they will be deployable and fulfill the obligations they signed on to do. However, this too can be manipulated. I had a Sergeant who was very much overweight and never took part in scheduled physical training. The reasoning was, as I was told, because she had recently had a kid. “But wait, her kid can talk.” The question remained as to when exactly were we supposed to start upholding standards again for her? She is being paid, and receiving benefits, but under no stretch of the imagination deployable. I had no answer to that question, but quite honestly, the incentives are so great by some points of view, that one should expect at least a few to take advantage of these loopholes.​I liken it to a college where you don’t have to take finals if you are with child. In fact, you still get an A. Then two weeks before finals you have 45% of the women in a particular class arrive at one point or another with a pregnancy waiver and then leave the class, never to be seen again. On the day of the test, another shows up with her slip and the class slips to 55% of the women absent. Would you think it was an accident? Would you think they were all accidents? Now consider that the test is a group presentation, and that last person who left the class had an important role in your group. Your team is still responsible for the results. How do you feel now?The reality is that all women are not created the same. Dienhart really defined for me how a female's body was more than capable if her mind and spirit were willing to make the long term dedication to service. I will never argue that women can't do any job that the men are currently doing because of her. In fact, because of her, I want to see a future where women are free to join the men, because I know there are those few who will add valuable strength to the Marine Corps fighting capabilities. However, when we lost our fifth women to pregnancy in just over a month, from literally inside the nation where we were at war, that left a bitter taste in my mouth toward truly believing that all women are created equal and that the Marine Corps was ready to let them into the fighting units. There are some who simply do not have the drive.Of course, my unit could handle it. We were non-combat and were only severely inconvenienced. A fighting team however, where one is lost due to her own personal choices, one where mission success rides on the efforts of each member of the team, one where losing a vital member could mean that other members never come home, simply can't suffer that sort of risk in the months before war. This is why studies like the one performed by the Marine Corps need to be taken seriously, why averages must be respected and anecdotes of excellence taken with due weight alongside the examples of mediocrity. On average, will any random woman who says she wants to be an infantrymen be able to fulfill that obligation two, four, or ten years down the road? I don't know the answers to this question. I don't know. No one does yet.I am not one to say, "It is about time." I want it to happen, but it simply may not be the best time yet. For all I know, there may never be a right time. I do know, though, that if I have a daughter and if she wants to follow her father into the Marines, that she would be free to do whatever she wants, and give everything she can to fulfill that role. Most of all, I hope that her being there, is what is best for the Marines.​_______________________________________________________I'll say this of my opinion on whether women should be in the front line infantry roles; I believe there are many women who will add greatly to the fighting strength of the United States Marine Corps. I am glad they now have a route to do so. I am also very afraid for many others who only have something to prove, because eventually they won't, and by my personal experience we won't be able to rely on them when the time comes. When it is planned on them being there, when they are needed, it is a statistical eventuality, that terrible things will happen to good Marines. For that reason, as much as I want it to be open for the Marines who do well, I fear for the risk of those who will take the easy way out. Part of me believes that infantry Marines will be different than those I served with, that the camaraderie and sense of purpose they share will be enough for no one to shirk their duties, but the realist in me is skeptical.What I can say is that I don't feel that the way in which it happened was correct. Blindly ignoring the studies and experience of the world's most lethal organization in the area they excel above all others was a failure. More so, I don't think this had much to do with what is best for the Marines, or the military as a whole, but of political expediency to further the political aims of a few politicians. The manner in which the rug was pulled from beneath the Marines was one that will leave lasting conflict within the service. Instead of welcoming the women into their new roles, they will forced into it artificially. The manner in which this decision was made, quite honestly, was too soon, for all the wrong reasons, and a disservice most of all, to the women who will be first to enter this role.​_______________________________________________________Mindy Vuong's answer to What are your opinions on the results of the U.S Marine Corps test regarding women in the new integrated combat units?Women in Combat OperationsUpdate: Women in Combat OperationWhat would be the pros and cons of raising a predominantly female infantry battalion?First Female Marines Graduate Infantry TrainingNavy to Open SEALs to WomenNew Details Question Validity of Marine Corps Gender-Integration StudyMarine war hero: SecNav 'off base' on women in combatThanks for reading!For more answers like this check out On War by Jon Davis and follow my blog War Elephant for more new content. Everything I write is completely independent research and is supported by fan and follower pledges. 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Hey Everyone !A brief Intro about me - I am currently a second year ECE student at IIIT Allahabad. I’m from Allahabad only, so I knew about IIIT Allahabad since my childhood. After my JEE Main, I chose IIIT Allahabad ECE branch, as that was the best college and branch combination that I could have got from my JEE Main rank last year.So, I’ll be talking about all the campus life, current academic pattern, societies - Technical and Cultural, College Fests etc. Therefore, this will be a really long answer but worth a read if you want to opt for IIIT Allahabad for your engineering career.But This answer is not for newcomers only, everyone who’s been a part of IIIT Allahabad currently or in the past can go with this.So, Let’s get Started !!!Welcome to IIIT Allahabad, one of the best government colleges that you can get through JEE Main.Reaching IIIT Allahabad - The IIITA campus is located at Devghat Jhalwa (Peepalgaon Road), which is on the outskirts of Allahabad. It is 10 km from the town center, 7 km from the main railway station and about 3-4 km from Allahabad (Bamrauli) Airport.The Allahabad city is well connected by air, rail and road to nearby metros.Railway services to this city from all the megacities of the country are excellent and quite comfortable.Main Entrance Gate (Gate No. 2) :(Image Source : Google)Campus TourLet’s start the campus tour from the Boy’s Hostel for first year students, which was built recently and is the biggest and best of all 5 boys hostels.Here is a view from freshers hostel (BH-5) top floor :First year boys live in BH-5 hostel, which is a separate building from the other 4 boys hostel. BH-5 is exactly opposite to the main entrance gate of college. Here are few pictures of BH-5 hostel :Outer ViewInside ViewMessRoomThat’s my room during my first year in BH-5: 5304 (Hostel 5 - 3rd floor - 04th room , in case you want to know naming convention :P ), other rooms are almost similar to this. Most first year students are provided with 2-sharing rooms, however there are single rooms as well. One may opt for them (costs 2x more than double room) or few students that come slightly late, i.e., after CSAB Special Rounds are given single rooms if all double occupancy rooms are assigned (they don’t have to pay extra for a single room).There is a gym too inside BH-5 just above the mess on the first floor, in case anyone wants to use it. Timings are 6-8 in morning and 6–9 in evening, as far as I know.Night Canteen - The real savior in college !BH-5 has its own night canteen.For BH-1 to BH-4, there’s a night canteen in BH-2 and BH-4. All four hostels are located inside a single premise, so 2 night canteens does the job. Also, BH-2 night canteen is the best, in case anyone wants to know :) .Further, there are few snacks & food shops like King’s, Malik and Delicious that come to rescue in case you don’t like night canteen food or want to try something new.(Note - I don’t have any images for other hostels (BH-1 to BH-4) rooms, as my first year is not fully completed in college (thanks to COVID-19). I’ll update this answer with more images when things get back to normal and I shift to 2nd year hostel.)Here’s a short summary though of how students are divided into 5 hostel (for freshers- BH-5 is fixed; other senior students, hostels may vary depending on batch and branch strength. So it is just rough analysis just to give a brief idea) :BH-5 : for 1st year B.Tech boys. Also first year Ph.D, M.Tech and MBA students live in BH-5 (5th and 6th floor mainly).BH-4 : for 2nd year ECE boys and some IT boys, if BH-2 is fully occupied.BH-2 : for 2nd year IT boys.BH-3 : for 3rd and 4th year IT boys.BH-1 : for 3rd and 4th year ECE boys and seniors of M.Tech, Ph.D and Dual Degree.Coming to the Girl’s Hostels : (Thanks to Ananya Agarwal for providing info and pictures for first year’s girls hostel)First of all, the rules and restrictions for Girls Hostel :Timings for being inside the campus is flexible - for first month, in-time for hostel is 10 PM. After that, there is no restrictions in roaming/staying inside campus.For going out of college - Girls has to write an application to caretaker to inform them. In-time is 8 PM. Consequences of being late depends on Caretaker/Warden mood. For first year girls, they have to arrange for an approval mail from their parents for permission.There are 3 Girls Hostels, inside the campus (The distribution mentioned here is fixed and unlike boys hostel, it doesn’t depend on branch or batch, as far as I know) :GH1 - For M.Tech & Ph.D Girls (single occupancy)GH2 - For 1st year B.Tech girls (double occupancy)GH3 - For 2nd year Girls (double occupancy) and 3rd, 4th year girls (single occupancy)Here are Few Pictures of GH-2Outer ViewInside ViewRoomMessThere is only one common mess for all three girls hostel in GH3.There is also a gym for girls in GH3, in case anyone wants to use it. Timings are similar to BH5 gym timings that I mentioned above.(Gym in BH5 is kinda similar to this only, so boys can also take this pictures as reference)There is also a Night Canteen for Girls too.Now moving to the campus, There are few main buildings one must know :Main Admin BuildingFront ViewBack ViewThe building can be broadly divided into 3 wings -Left Wing - It has mainly the Council of Wardens (COW) office and DUGC office.Central Wing - It has the board room and admin auditorium where all the important college meetings and official presentations take place.Right Wing - It has the Admission, Assessment & Award (AAA) department office and finance office.Main AuditoriumThere are 3 buildings for conducting classes and labs in Campus - CC1, CC2, CC3.CC1 - Here, most of the advanced labs for ECE Department are located like Electronic Workshop Lab, SMT Lab, Microwave Lab, VLSI Lab, Robotics Lab etc. (as far as I know; Correct me if you are from IIITA). Also, most ECE and Robotics department professor’s offices are in CC1.CC2 - The New Gen IEDC Lab is located in CC2, where student can work on their Start-Up Idea and Projects under College Guidance. Innovative and Great projects/ideas are approved and funded by college after presentation (as far as I know). I haven’t been there for any class or lab in my first year, so don’t know much about it.CC3 - Here, most of our classes and lab goes on during the first year. Also the computer labs in CC3, are open for all students 24x7.CC3Class in CC3 looks like -View from CC3 5th floor :Also there is a Lecture Theater, where most of the Management Studies classes take place.LibraryInside View of LibraryThen we have the Main Campus GroundAlso, There is a Clock Tower in IIIT Allahabad whose construction was finished recently.(Image Source : Google Maps)There is an Students Activity Center (SAC) where rooms of all cultural clubs are there and also there’s a gym, table tennis room and billiards/snooker room for recreation purposes.Also, We have Amul and Nescafé outlet on campus, apart from a few other shops like Old Canteen, a stationary shop, a fruits and juice shop etc.There is a Cafeteria in college, but it’s tender is not renewed for the last 1–2 years. So, it has been temporarily closed since then. :(We also have a Health Center and NCC Office within campus.For other sports, there is a basketball court, tennis court and swimming pool, apart from the main ground.For stuff like Xerox, print out, etc. there are many shops just outside Gate-4 (just besides CC3) in Jhalwa market.Here are few more college images :Pavilion (Main Ground)Rock Garden (in front of Main Admin building)CC-3(These 5 Images are taken from Thunderbolt AMS Album - EXPLORACION'19, a campus photography contest organized by College Photography Society last year. You can check out them for more images here - EXPLORACION'19 | Facebook)IIIT Allahabad Tower (Water Tank)CC3 Side ViewTemple in CollegeFaculty Area RoadSmall Ground (in front of Clock Tower)Campus LifeStarting from the academics, the pattern followed here is IIIT Allahabad is slightly different than most colleges. Here we have CCLCAA Ordinance which refers to the Credit Based Continuous Assessment and Award Ordinance of IIIT Allahabad for B. Tech and M. Tech. Each semester is divided into 3 components C1, C2 and C3. We are evaluated continuously over the course of the semester through multiple assignments, group assignments, labs, quizzes, viva etc. So it is slightly hectic initially but you’ll get used to it eventually (It’s even more hectic if you are the only studious guy of the group, so it’s your responsibility to complete group assignments). Now coming to exams,C1 - has a weightage of 30% of semester marks. It is kinda like the mid semester exams but the weightage of the exam is about half of the total marks of C1 (about 15 marks of 30). Rest 15 marks are given from Lab evaluation, assignments, viva, quizzes taken before exam. Duration of the C1 period is about 8 weeks. Half of the syllabus of the semester is covered in C1.C2 - has a weightage of 30% of semester marks. It is like the pre end semester exams, as It happens just 2 weeks before C3 exams. Evaluation procedure is similar to C1. Duration is also about 7-8 weeks. Other half of the syllabus is completed in C2.C3 - has a weightage of 40% of semester marks. It is like the end semester exam. Half of weightage is of the exam paper and Half weightage is of a major semester assignment/project or Lab Evaluation. Duration is about 2 weeks. No classes take place after the C2 exam, there are just evaluations after the C2 period. Entire Semester Syllabus is covered in C3, i.e. , both C1 and C2 Syllabus.You can refer to this post by Manthan Surkar Sir on IIITA counselling facebook group to know more about the new curriculum here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/comejointhefam/permalink/2171685642880930/?app=fblNow coming to competitive coding, the most famous aspect of IIIT Allahabad, for which many people join IIIT Allahabad. The members of Competitive coding society and 4th year seniors take our competitive coding classes after our normal classes during night time to teach us various topics of competitive coding throughout the first year, which is very helpful in learning under their guidance. Also many coding contests are organized : team-wise and individual, and prizes are given to winners.Coming to the Development part, the development culture of college is also getting better year by year. This year 6 students of 2018 batch & 1 student of 2019 batch cleared Google Summer of Code (G-SoC). From the 2019 batch, almost every student is doing development and project in at least one of the sectors like Web Development, Android App Development, App development through Flutter, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Graphics and UI/UX Designing, etc. GeekHaven organizes IIITA Open Code competition every year at the starting of 2nd Semester for freshers to learn and develop more skills in development and also learn Open Source contribution.Coming to Cultural Societies, we have 6 cultural society here in IIIT Allahabad :Music Society - VirtuosiDance Society - GeneticX CrewDrama Society - RangtaranginiLiterary Society - SarasvaFine Arts Society - NirmitiAcoustics and Media Society - Thunderbolt AMS(Note - During the first year, Volunteers are selected through interviews and auditions. Then based on the performance in society throughout the year, few volunteers are selected as members of society for second year after another interview).Now coming to the Annual Fests of college, there are total 4 fests that take place:Effervescence - The annual Cultural Fest of IIIT Allahabad, takes place during the odd semester and is one the biggest attractions of IIIT allahabad. The Fest spans a total of 4 days from Day 0 to Day 3. There are various fun events like Treasure Hunt, Game Events, etc. , events under every cultural society of college and flagship events like - Kavyom and EDM night on Day 1; Comedy Show, Ala Mode and Band Night on Day 2 and Celebrity Night on Day 3. During my first year in 2019, we had Ritviz for EDM night, When Chai met Toast for Band Night, Anubhav Singh Bassi for Comedy Show and Neeti Mohan as Celebrity. Further, there are DJ night and midnight movie screenings in auditorium on all four days to make the nights truly memorable.IIIC E-Summit - Held in the second week of February, E-Summit IIIT Allahabad brings a platform to celebrate the history and the spirit of entrepreneurship; and to inspire the leaders and problem solvers of today and tomorrow. This 3-day event has students, corporate, entrepreneurs and budding enthusiasts on a common stage. This event in IIIT Allahabad will surely prove to be the home of extensive networking, inspiring stories and a breeding ground for future solutions. Also Comedy Show and Band Night was organized on Day-1 and Day-2 respectively.Asmita - Held in the Third Week of February, Asmita is the Annual Sports Fest of IIIT Allahabad. As one of the largest sports fests of India, it is a medium to promote sports and inculcate healthy sportsmanship, organized under college sports society - Spirit.Aparoksha - Aparoksha is the Annual Technical Festival of IIIT Allahabad, organized in late March every year. A collaboration of, for and by tech enthusiasts, Aparoksha is a platform for technocrats to code, design and build innovative solutions to transform India into a digitally empowered society and a knowledge based economy, all while providing a venue for self-expression and creativity. There are many great technical events, for Coding there are events like : C-Fresh (exclusive coding event for freshers), CodeRed, The Humblefool Cup, Blind Code, etc. are the main center of attraction. Also events like TEDx, Confab, Comedy Night, Poetry Night are great to watch.(Note - During the first year, Every Fest Team select Volunteers through interviews for every department. Then based on the performance and contribution in fest, few volunteers are selected as members of Core Fest Team for next year after another interview).Lastly about the Technical Societies, there are three technical societies in college :GeekHaven - This is the technical society under the IT department of college. There are various wings under this society -Web Development WingApp Development WingFOSS Wing (Open Source Community)Competitive Coding WingCyber Security WingDesign WingArtificial Intelligence WingAlso, Google Developer Student Club was introduced in GeekHaven IIITA recently.Tesla - This is the technical society under the ECE department of college. There are various wings under this society -EDA WingIOT WingRobotics WingGravity - This society is introduced this year only in IIIT Allahabad, under the Applied Science Department of College. There are various wings under this society -Aeromodelling WingNanotechnology WingComputational Biology WingInnovations and Instrumentation in Healthcare WingICT Technology - AI, ML, IOT, Big Data Wing(Note - Workshops and contests are conducted throughout the first year by Technical society Wings. Just before the end of first year, interviews and contest are conducted to select members).There is also a Community for up-liftment for poor small children from village areas in Jhalwa - Prayaas. Students of IIITA teach them daily from 5–6 pm after classes and organize events for them on Holi, Diwali, Republic Day, Independence Day, etc. ; so that they learn something even after being under privileged.Further, There is absolutely no ragging here in IIIT Allahabad. I have been a volunteer during my first year in AMS society and Effervescence Fest, interacted with seniors and had fun with them. I have even gone to Senior’s Rooms (both 2nd and 3rd year) and enjoyed with them. All of us here interact with each other freely.Edit(1) - (Forgot to write about the Sports Society, thanks to Chaitanya Joshi for suggesting) The Sports Society Spirit regulates all the sports activities here in IIIT Allahabad. Several sports like Cricket, Football, Badminton, Tennis, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Athletes, Swimming, Carrom, Chess etc. are played under the Society and several friendly matches are organized from time to time between Seniors & Juniors, B.Tech & M.Tech and IIITA and Other local Colleges are held in various sports. The college also organizes Asmita, the annual Sports Fest in February and multiple colleges participate in it. IIIT Allahabad also participates every year in the Inter IIIT sports meet every year. So, Sports Facilities and Culture is also great.So, that’s all about the Campus Tour and Campus life of IIIT Allahabad. Hope you enjoyed reading it.I’ll update this answer further with more details throughout my college life from time to time with more details and photos.Do Upvote if you found it helpful and please leave any feedback in comments.Best Wishes !Edit (2) - Thanks to Anupam Dagar & Ganesh Ayyappan | கணேஷ் அய்யப்பன் sir for the information about Cafeteria, Boys Hostel distribution and Robotics lab.Edit (3) - Added More Images of College places that were missing earlier and Info about Girls Hostel.Footnotes :IIIT Allahabad Official Website - IIIT-AllahabadThere is a handbook created by IIITA students to know more about college, you can check it out here - The IIIT Allahabad HandbookEffervescence Website - Effervescence'20IIIT Allahabad Counselling Group 2020–21 - Facebook GroupsCheck out more College Event Images at Thunderbolt AMS Flickr Page - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ams_iiita/