PROLOGUE: I have decided to write this after reading the book five point someone by Chetan Bhagat. Thank you sir for your inspiration.
Let me rewind the clock back 497 days back , the day our board exams got over. The date was 28th march 2007. We were really nervous that day as we were going to be told if we had a place in the school or if we had to search for a new place to study in. Luckily i got in.Then followed two months of pure enjoyment not. Students instead of spending their time relaxing and "doing productive work " were slogging in their iit coaching centres with mind boggling timings like 8 am to 6 pm. (even work timings are lesser). And why all this to crack one exam. I mean imagine wasting 730 days of your precious life working towards one exam and even if you end up clearing it you go to that place and ask yourself if u really should have slogged your *** off for such a place. I mean in my personal opinion iit is not worth all the trouble and all the coaching classes are just luring all the students and the students are running after them like little children. Now even the IIT'S are also finding the coaching classes cumbersome as of the total 4000 students who get in only 5- 10% have raw intelligence whereas the rest of them are just trained puppets and the difference is seen when both types of students enter the IIT's. IIT coaching centres make you practice the sum over and over again knowing fully well that that question will not come in the exam. As a student myself i fell that all this is useless and individual study can also get us there. But the question i ask every aspiring engineer is: Is IIT really worth it anymore? In today's world there are a lot many career options not to mention a whole host of colleges that offer the same course. So i urge all of you not to be overwhelmed by the IIT tag. It is a tag after all and will get washed away one day.
EPILOGUE: Ever since the book five point someone has released IIT has released a statement every year giving note of its toppers and all its results and IIT has decided to change the pattern this year due to increase in the number of coaching centres.
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Hmmm.. More than the coaching classes, I'd say the parents are also to blame.. The coaching classes do their job when they try to lure you - you're the one who gets lured.. But I'm sure if and when you do get in, you won't be asking yourself why, since its pretty awesome..
By the way, on the 28th of March, I knew I wasn't getting in.. No tension.. Just saying..
Hmm, I don't entirely agree with u.. IIT is still a class apart, and i think (no offence here at all) its a bit of a defeatist attitude if u think so.. I mean just because ppl dont get in, does not mean its not the best.. thats being a sore loser isnt it.. btw, this is very genral, n not ne person specific..
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