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Here is the flip side to the life at an IIT from a fellow blogger...
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After almost 3 years of engineering, we’ve learnt absolutely nothing out of the crap. Here’s my summarization of engineering life, particularly IIT life.
What our parents expect.
- Being an IITian, we’re some of the most enlightened beings in India(read the world!).
- We’re the pioneer of the future researchers.
- All we’re supposed to do after getting into an IIT, is study.
- And we’ve to actually study to get a job outta here.
- The professors are like Gods.
But actually the scenario is quite a lot different. What we actually are/do.
- We’ve just cracked JEE entrance after studying the same old stuff for a couple of years. Any sane human being can, with the rigorous amount of coaching he’s made available to.
- We’re just a bunch of lame, lazy, aimless morons, waiting to complete our quota of 4 years. (Sorry IDD guys!)
- All we worry about is a placement.
- People employing you don’t give a damn about your CGPA.
- Professors too think they’re Gods!
Seriously, I don’t find a good enough reason, why I’ll look forward to enrolling my kid into an IIT, after going through all of this. Maybe among all, there’s just one that stands out of the lot, fat pay cheques.
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Girls. One thing rare in IITs and guys here are particularly crazy about. All that anyone dreams about is getting laid with a hot girl.
Free Internet. All IITs have allowed students free internet access. Although sometimes there are restrictions over the time, but hardy anywhere close to constraining.
Facebook. Quite accessible because of the above mentioned point, and an easy, cheap, tried and tested medium to get girls, sometimes far across the seas and oceans!
Late night chats. The ones with girls, flirt with them, and win over them. You’ve already got this inherent advantage of being an IITian. But sometimes it works against you too. I’ve seen umpteen number of girls who indistinctively just hate guys, just because they’re from IITs. A lot more would after reading this post!
Porn. Inherent among guys, sometimes girls(I guess!). This being a derivative of free unlimited internet,
Fests. People are mad about fests, waiting all-round the year for them, maybe because of two reasons. Firstly they can hang out with their girlfriends in and around the campus unrestricted, and secondly because they can hope of getting laid with outside girls who come to participate. The key point here is girls again. And this trend is seen more obviously in 1st yearites, for as they grow up, they realize, there’s nothing as such.
So, as you must have realized, anything and everything in our life is as sparsely, as largely connected to girls. Quoting someone’s facebook status, ”All the money in this world would be useless if there were no girls!” Why DUDE?! Why can’t you be as selfish as me?
So if you’re aspiring to come into engineering and dream your heart out of being in these reputed Indian Institutes of Technology, there is no more than solace for you.
P.S. Forgive me thou for the utter disgrace of this life of yours, Oh IITian!
Sidhant Panda
http://sidhupanda.wordpress.com/