“Life’s fair if you don’t compare”
The basis of article is the above quote which has no known author. Yesterday, i was sitting with my friends and i was the only IITian sitting there. When these guys started talking about their university life, well I started to realize that the golden years of fun for them were the toughest years for me and my batch. To start this all out, lets go back to the end of 12th and then college life.
Most of the other university kids start their life in college looking out for opportunities to explore life and have fun, the consequences are very much secondary. But in IIT, to tell you the honest truth there is a lot at stake if you mess it up. Take for example attendance … IITs are very very strict (at least my dept. was) compared to Delhi University or for that matter any other. A lot of people have had a DISCO (disciplinary committee) sitting on them for reasons that could be argued as trivial / juvenile mistakes. Basically, fun is not something for the light hearted in our premier institutes.
Now why am i writing about this 
… the point i want to make is that the 4 years of slogging results in a conception of the world which is extremely utilitarian and to some extent makes you a cynic. Well, we all come out relatively rich in the process, but i do think in an evolving economy like ours making money is not as impossible as it used to be. I am trying here not to be a cynic 
and have fun writing this stuff … IIT has taught me a lot about people , thinking, and life in general, but maybe just maybe i missed out on all the fun my friends were having. As they say time is money, and i guess most IITians have it built in when they go into the battlefield of life.
I had to compare … even if it is an apple / oranges comparison … feel free to flame me .
great article.. i am currently going to JIIT (Jaypee), but we popularly call it Junior IIT… thats coz almost everything is same as the IIT’s.. including 80% attendence compulsary etc.
believe me, it is hard to have fun here too..that is, IF you care about the consequences
got your mail from indiblogger..ended up here..
Well, I hole that loss of “excessive” fun will be given to us later. I hope
We all hope …. we all do , trust me
. call it compensation for all the abuse meted out to us eh…
@abhinav
as long as u read my rant of yester years … its all worth it. I guess this is generically true for us engineers (and a subset of them who are the nerds) 
Just to say,I am a BITSian and the above is the only reason I never regretted nor repeated for IIT
Kewl, you don’t have kwippy in ur social networks’ sidebar
He he.. there is nothing to flame u for… this is a just rant.. and one that i m inclined to agree with.
@lukymurari well, my blog template needs a lot more work
… it will have the kwippy logo there as well soon (too lazy to modify the defaults he he )
So how many people you know who didn’t have fun in their initial years but are having it after crossing 30, 40 and by fun I don’t mean just driving in big cars and staying in huge houses.
@Mayank to be honest , i am guessing most of the Forbes 500 is like that ha ha ….
But I enjoyed my time at IIT