Day 11- IsiM
This morning I got up early and tried going for a bike ride on the bikes they have available here. Then I met up with the group and we got a formal tour of the Infosys campus. Lou Anne and I walked around most of the campus the night before in our hunt for wifi or public computer access (there isn't any) so it was much of the same. We did get to meet the head librarian and tour the library which was interesting. The Infosys library is the largest corporate library in the world.
After the tour we heading to the University of Mysore to see the International School of Information Management (ISIM) school located on their campus. IsiM is the only ischool in India so it was good to get their perspective. The others go to the ischool at the University of Maryland so they knew about the system but as UB doesn't have it, which made it all new to me. We also had a meet and greet with the students there. A couple of the students are Iranian so since they're also new to the Mysore area they joined us on a tour of the museum of Kannada history. Each state in India has it's own language/culture and Kannada is what's spoken in Karnataka which is the state that both Mysore and Bangalore are in. The museum was ok. I think it would have been more effective if they provided more of a context of what artifacts we were looking at and their significance.
It's strange most of my friends like (or pretend well for my sake) history so it was an experience going with people who are more into engineering than history. Parakh asked me why he should care about the artifact he was looking at. He's an engineer who likes math and numbers and didn't get why history matter. I liked the challenge of trying to explain why history is awesome and why it is important.
After that we went to the Brindavan Gardens, walked around there and hung out in this amazing hotel over looking the garden and water. Then back to Infosys for dinner. While waiting for everyone to meet, Dr. Kanti, Lou Anne, Darrell and I were geeking out about the Briggs personality test. Turns out we're all introverts!
This morning I got up early and tried going for a bike ride on the bikes they have available here. Then I met up with the group and we got a formal tour of the Infosys campus. Lou Anne and I walked around most of the campus the night before in our hunt for wifi or public computer access (there isn't any) so it was much of the same. We did get to meet the head librarian and tour the library which was interesting. The Infosys library is the largest corporate library in the world.
After the tour we heading to the University of Mysore to see the International School of Information Management (ISIM) school located on their campus. IsiM is the only ischool in India so it was good to get their perspective. The others go to the ischool at the University of Maryland so they knew about the system but as UB doesn't have it, which made it all new to me. We also had a meet and greet with the students there. A couple of the students are Iranian so since they're also new to the Mysore area they joined us on a tour of the museum of Kannada history. Each state in India has it's own language/culture and Kannada is what's spoken in Karnataka which is the state that both Mysore and Bangalore are in. The museum was ok. I think it would have been more effective if they provided more of a context of what artifacts we were looking at and their significance.
It's strange most of my friends like (or pretend well for my sake) history so it was an experience going with people who are more into engineering than history. Parakh asked me why he should care about the artifact he was looking at. He's an engineer who likes math and numbers and didn't get why history matter. I liked the challenge of trying to explain why history is awesome and why it is important.
After that we went to the Brindavan Gardens, walked around there and hung out in this amazing hotel over looking the garden and water. Then back to Infosys for dinner. While waiting for everyone to meet, Dr. Kanti, Lou Anne, Darrell and I were geeking out about the Briggs personality test. Turns out we're all introverts!
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