One of the best things about being here in IIT Roorkee (or
for that matter, in any good institution) is the people who are around you. You
come across all sorts of brilliant (and sometimes twisted) minds who create an
impact on you. Everybody is better than you at something or the other and you
are amazed by how quickly people become good in something they had no clue
about before coming to college, except, of course, in the matter of interacting
with the female population. But we can be allowed a few quirks i guess.
Initially arriving you get humbled by the amount of stuff
people already know, even amazed. You might have an NTSE scholar living in
front and a 95% CBSE scorer living right beside you. People know all kinds of
stuff from sports to software programs and music instruments that you didn’t
even know existed (ba dum tsss). You gape. And then the bonds start forming.
The bakar sessions start and you realise how people have a lot in common with
you. You start sharing stories and drawing analogies. The amazement transforms
to respect and friendships. More of such coochie coo in other articles though,
for now we are focusing on more inspiring things.
Then there are groups where people with similar interest
come together. Each group seems to be a small rainbow nation with people from
all over India. But the barriers, be that of language or culture start falling
in the face of genius and expertise. A few brilliant seniors are set as a
benchmark and journey begins.
Being around such people you can’t but explore new things
which you hear of be it related to humor, great conventions, brilliant people
who are lesser known or great people who were once where you are now. Even
passing your time will consists of brilliant competitions be it poker matches
or shooting the other team down. Ah! And of course you’ll find people in
conversations about life, human nature and various other philosophies once in a
while. You are exposed to so many brilliant things if you just keep your eyes
open and absorb like a sponge.
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| seniors will be there to help with everything: studies, masti, chapo. |
The thing that tops all the above is the zeal to learn and
the ambition with which people enter the college. Maybe you can feel it in
yourself right now. It may be a bit of a hindrance at the beginning as you see
people designing, playing sports, programming, dancing, acting, singing,
managing events, competing in quizzes, gaming, foosball, designing robots,
working with startups etc. That’s about half
of it. There are so many things it take a whole blog post to only name them. You may get confused in the beginning and
don’t know what to do and what to leave. A lot of what people around you are
doing and what you knew earlier determines what you achieve. But this limit has
its root in the students, not the opportunities.
And the icing on the cake is that the peers are a helpful
lot. You can learn designing or squash from the guy who lives next to you and
he’ll happily teach you. The seniors will help, rather push you on working harder for the car you
are making for the next Pan India competition (or maybe even abroad). You get a lot of help during the exams as
well, without which, i ensure you, the grades will not be what they are.
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of people i can label plain stupid. You’ll find pretentious idiots trying to screw things up for others and many others such but what will be life without somebody making you cringe every now and then eh?
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| this breed exists as well |
At the end a lot of it depends upon you. How hard you can work, how persistent you can be and how you learn from the others around you.
Wish you luck.
Nishant Chandra
IInd Year
B.Tech. Production and Industrial Engineering
Wish you luck.
Nishant Chandra
IInd Year
B.Tech. Production and Industrial Engineering
