4Disadvantages of studying at IIT

IIT or Indian Institute of Technology is India’s premier technology institute (as if you don’t know). Word of mouth is back in the Valley (Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay), the world’s global tech capital, people utter ‘IIT’ with the same reverence as ‘MIT’.

Notable IIT alumni include Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Infosys founder N.R. Narayan Murthy, and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla. However, with fame comes pressure.

Here are some of the woes every average IITian deals with:

#1 Social Media hate for ‘wasting public money’
Scan social media, and you’ll find widespread hate and animosity because of the amount of money the government spends on educating IITians. They are supposedly a liability for the nation.

Comments like ‘Our IITs have swallowed 1000 Crores each year for 60 years and haven’t done any net real value addition to 1.3 billion people’, or ‘Ask for tenders from private people globally to operate and manage all govt run academic institutions under license for 30 years (without selling any real assets) and let govt stop interfering.’

Is it reasonable to hand over the country’s brightest brains to money mongers? Shouldn’t quality education be available to all?

Internet tolls, if you haven’t cracked JEE Mains and Advanced, it means you haven’t worked hard enough. IITians can be anything, lucky isn’t one of them.

#2 Bhai, tera package kitna hai? (Dude, what’s your package?)
The idea is ‘IITians mostly settle abroad. Those who remain draw annual salaries of over Rs. 25 lakhs.’

Reality is 80% of IIT salaries remain below Rs. 12 lakhs p.a. It’s easy to file an RTI and find this out, but spreading social media hate is just easier.

Also, if you’re cribbing they’re ‘taking away’ your job, people like Infosys founder N.R. Narayan Murthy and the Bansals of Flipkart are offering thousands of jobs. If you can’t land a job, you’re not good enough.

Work hard, and by the way, get a life.

#3 You must be Superman!
Not every IITian wants to go to an IIM or join the IAS.

The idea is that if you’re from IIT, you’re a master in everything. If your package is anything below Rs. 30 to 40 lakhs per annum, you spent your IIT days dating random girls, getting sloshed and smoking LSD.

My idea is that IITs should feel like the Navy Seals training program. So much stress. They’re 18 year olds right out of school for god’s sake. They’re in college to study, not in a mission to kill Osama bin Laden!

Bad parents, an IIT degree doesn’t come with a confirmed job offer from Google. Also, don’t salivate over the prospect of 30% hike on dowry.

That’s just sick…and a crime.

Love on Campus?
IITians are blessed with a 10:1 ratio of boys to girls.

If you’re a man, you may not find many girls to chat or date.

If you found love on campus…you deserve respect.

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