What do NIFTians do when they are stressed and they have exams on their head? They dress up, put on some music and do the Dandiya! Every year on the eve of Dussehra, NIFT comes up with various ways to get the students  working in creative ways.
The event starts with a traditional Aarti. Students dress up in their traditional best and the campus echoes with Garba music spun by our very own in-house DJ. The dressing up doesn’t go waste as a competition, declaring Mr. And Miss Ethnic, is conducted for those who dress the finest. Based on popular voting the titles are given to students.
Apart from the traditional celebration, there is something extra special about this night. Its the night where young entrepreneurs are born. It is a chance for these hidden talents to put their unique ideas to test. NIFT provides this opportunity of putting up stalls where students can sell anything from cakes to capes.
The stalls  do not go unseen as the faculties are very much involved in the entire process and awards are given to the best business idea, based on their performance on this day. The stalls include bakery and confectionery,
 street food, candles , henna, accessories, stationary, T-shirts and what not. The whole affair not just provides students with monetary profits but also exposes them to  the real market, on a small scale. The experience is unmatched.
To entertain the crowd small games and quizzes are also organised by the cultural club. There is active participation and attractive gifts are won.
As the night proceeds, the singing and guitar talents have a small performances which are thoroughly enjoyed by the crowd. The night comes to an end by people dancing their feet off and making the celebration quite an event to remember.
While choosing the career options for children, parents need to consider the child’s interest and aptitude, along with the scope and opportunities in any industry.
Generally parents are aware about conventional careers like engineering, medical, accounts, finance etc. But these fields are saturated today, as the supply of trained manpower is more than the demand. Whereas the unconventional careers in the design industry are much in demand with more than hundred specialization available for the students. Fresh design graduates earn between Rs 4 to 15 lakh per annum as a beginning, with a definite growth ahead.
To enter the design industry, one needs to test his/her aptitude, through a special design aptitude test. In this test, first the creativity quotient is identified and then the exact specialization option in design is suggested. This test should be ideally taken by students from class IX onwards.
NID (National Institute of Design) offers seven disciplines at graduate level and 17 disciplines at postgraduate level.
Various specialization like industrial design, communication design, textile and lifestyle accessory design, apparel design, IT integrated design, retail and strategic design management, etc are offered.
Other premier design schools are Symbiosis, MIT, Srishti, DSK, etc. Admissions to these design schools are purely on the basis of entrance exam of the individual school. There are 100 seats at NID and around 500 seats at the other design schools at graduate level.
NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology) offers specialization in apparel design, accessory design, textile design, footwear and knitwear design, fashion communication etc. There are 1,770 seats at the graduate level at NIFT. Pearl fashion school has 540 seats. There are around 3,000 seats considering all the fashion design schools in the country.
August is the month of new faces. After the hectic counseling sessions and orientation programmes came D-day of the much awaited NIFT freshers 2012. As things are always done in a different way in NIFT, so it was this year too. This time Harley Davidson was on fire sponsoring the fresher’s party of NIFT 2012. 
The first event was the Harley Davidson Stunt Show. Heavy motorbikes on display became very popular with the students who were fascinated by the crazy machines. There was a point of time when all the bikes were started together and gunned completely. The roar of these monsters could be heard in every corner of the campus. Crazy machines as I said.
A breathtaking gig by the rock band Dust Clinic left everybody pretty amazed. The band who was playing here for the first time was shocked by the great response they received from the students. The crowd was very supportive and went crazy singing and grooving to the beats of the band. The air guitars even left the band guitarists surprised.
Along with this , Hindustan Times sponsored fresh face2012. The talent pool that makes NIFT so proud came forward with its myriad colors. The challenges were accepted with a lot of enthusiasm, which left the best people with the titles of Mr. and Miss fresher. The winners were exclusively interviewed and became news the next day.
So, after a month of hard labor and no sleep, the new students at NIFT New Delhi campus finally caught the sight of NIFT fresher’s week. It is a big deal in the campus as it is the time for the junior-senior interaction. 
Juniors exhibit their talents through various events organized for them and in the end Mr. and Miss fresher is selected based on their performances in these events.
The theme for the first day was superheroes. One could see the all sorts of superheroes coming alive from comic books, movies and what not. 
Hulk, Superman, Batman, Wonderwoman, Catwoman, fantastic fours etc roamed around the campus in an amazing spree.
The second theme was Circus which had a lot of participants. Clowns, jugglers, ballerinas, ringmasters, dwarfs etc made the day really colorful. The whole college looked like some kinda fair and was only missing on the big rides and circus tents. The event started 6:00PM onwards where they were supposed to perform which was judged by the seniors.
After that came the big day of the fresher’s party. This day also witnessed the HT fresh face by Hindustan times that happened in the campus. There were a lot of quizzes and the winner of the fresh face was decided based on that. There were a lot of participants in this too who gave amazing performances. From mimicry to balancing a guitar on the chin, various talents were recognized.
Everyone also got free refreshment coupons from the canteen. The official fresher’s party was inside the college premises. There was awesome music and everybody danced their shoes off. 
Some of the teachers also joined in. it was all great. After the official party got over some people also went for the after party happening in the Hotel Ashoka. Not many people went because of a little expensive entry tickets and late timings.
On the whole the fresher’s week was a total blast. Everybody refreshed them selves after four hectic weeks. It was definitely worth remembering.
