The other day I walked over to the Mohammed Sathak College of Engineering located just next to SIPCOT IT park in the Southern part of Chennai. My hope / wish was to have a chat with a couple of students and learn about how they learn.

When I walked in to the college, which has a really beautiful entrance area with plants, flowers and palm trees, I was greeted very kindly by a security officer as well as a receptionist. The receptionist said that the principal would be available in an hour. As it was lunch time, I went to the cafeteria to have a little rice and a cup of coffee and have a chat with cafeteria workers, a professor and a college bus driver who was there to eat before driving on. Afterwards, I took a little stroll around the campus to see the sports facilities.

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