BANGALORE, May 20 (DHNS) : When Bangalore University denied her hostel accommodation, she took it up as a challenge and travelled nearly six hours every day back and forth from her home in Doddaballapur to Jnanabharathi campus of the varsity.
Managing her studies while travelling, Shruthi D L, an MSc Physics student in Atmosphere and Space Sciences, has bagged the highest number of gold medals this year. She will be awarded seven gold medals for her academic excellence at the University’s 49th annual convocation on Tuesday.
“When I joined postgraduation, I was hoping to find hostel accommodation, as a lot of travel was involved (from home to the university). However, the hostels were full and I had no choice but to travel every day from home. I made the best use of time and studied everything that was taught in the class during the six-hour to-and-fro journey daily,” Shruthi told Deccan Herald.
Hardwork comes to her by nature. “I had promised my mother that I would get a gold medal, but I did not expect to get seven of them,” she said, adding that she had won seven gold medals in BSc, too.
Ahead of the exams, she slept for only one hour at night and during exams, she cut back even on that one hour and studied through the night, she said. She also spent time in the university library for extra references that were not part of the syllabus.
Shruthi aims to pursue research in remote-sensing and dreams of meeting former president of India Dr Abdul Kalam. “I want to meet all the celebrated scientists, Kalam being one of them.”
During MSc, the department had made all the students take a competitive test conducted by Isro and she topped that as well, winning a Rs 60,000 fellowship.