IIT.... Need I say more?

I guess not.. at least not in India....
These three letters are more powerful than probably anything else to prove that "u r someone worthy"

How false it all seems to those in IIT! Ask any IITian and almost certainly he will say things..
Infrastructure: 0/10 Professors: -10/10
This is not about this IIT or that... it's the same everywhere.......

But I differ... right or wrong i dont know... but there's something that keeps us apart....

I seem to find a comparison to my school... the one and only "DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL R K PURAM"... Among 500 students who got admitted for class XI... I knew of no one with a board score of less than 90%.... Just imagine... Could it get better??? NO.... Today when I look at these friends of mine, I hardly find someone not doing well in life... Every second student there was a topper in his previous school....
So What's the point?
What this kind of competition(quality of students) does is that it takes away the (false ?) aura of being the best... It adds modesty to a lot of people... You will hardly find an IITian with the false show of being the best.... All the IITians know that there are a lot of people above them..... Some of them feel that they know nothing...

To me there is much more than that brand name that we carry... we may in general be the least sincere of the lot... but the 'output' is still much more than a general college guy..... come on... they study crap like vector algebra newtonial mechanics and matrices in their first year... (barring a couple of good colleges.. probably IIITs and ISIs)

What we study in a week is sufficient to pass the sememster exams... not just pass.. but get a good grades... and this is not because the papers are easy..... the standard of the paper is good..... (only some 'elite few' like me who dont even put in a week every semester end up with bad grades.... but even we pass (easily?))

About half the college is involved in some kind of fest or hall post.... does it help? not much.... then what's the point....
Then does doing all this extra acad helps? Yes it does... To me, a person with a good personality will end up much higher in his life than the ones who carries only good grades all his life.... One of my profs. had this comment... "You wont take your kid to school on your CG." How true indeed.

I fully agree that there is a lot missing in IITs... A lot of things could be better.... a lot of things need to be better... a lot of things need a lot of change and that too very sooon.... but then it isnt such a bad place after all....

PS: This post is for those who feel that the worst mistake was to join IIT.......
I am not trying to downplay the students of the other colleges... apologies for any inference of this kind......