mysore parents paying college fee is pass earning pocket money and paying college fee by themselves is the new mantra of engineering students in the city even thought they dont have any financial crunch at home some students turned entrepreneurs are setting out to live life on their own terms by venturing into hotel web designing and event management businesses managing a business and academics simultaneously is not an easy task but they very students have set an example by scoring around 60 to 70 of marks in their exams kumar gaurav who came to mysore from bhagalpur in bihar is doing his 5th semester in electronics and communication in vidya vardhaka college of engineering vvce he is also the owner of apna mess a vegetarian and nonvegetarian food joint that serves north and south indian dishes while other students are hanging out in coffee shops cinema theatres or shopping malls during their free time gaurav is busy at his restaurant gaurav told toi he had opened apna mess one year ago by borrowing rs 40000 from his friends he said that he was proud because he paid this years admission fees from his earnings i am very happy because i havent taken a single rupee from my parents for the past year he added gauravs hotel sees around 150 people a day nikhil furtado a 3rd semester mechanical engineering student and eight of his friends provided printed tshirts for the mysore marathon which was organized recently as part of dasara he and his friends have designed posters brochures tickets flex printing various designs on tshirts based on the requirements of customers for various events and organizing music concerts in pubs for the past one year nikhil furtado said we started graphic designing as a hobby but for the past one year we took it up as a business we havent asked for pocket money from our families for the past six months as our business is going well in one years time nikhil and his team members have accomplished over 50 designing projects eight other designing projects are pending as they will be busy with their exams till december end nikhil frutado has already named his company hidden reflections a total print and media company and the registration of the company is under process the website of hidden reflections wwwhiddenreflectionscom has been completely designed by his team while chethan m a 3rd semester electronics and communication engineering student of nie college has already designed four websites he said we cant depend on our parents for everything so i took up web designing as a part time job six months ago my works have been appreciated by my clients and today i am getting some pretty good offers chetan who has designed websites for a gym a temple and two other organizations is already planning to open up a company of his own after finishing his engineering course