How is Life At IIT?

The best part of life about life at IIT's isn't about lucrative placements which all media channels brag about once a year and neither it's about the "cloud 9" feeling when you're introduced as an IITian first.

The most exciting part of IIT life (and in a way one of the most important) is the ecosystem where you spend your 4/5 years.

**Ecosystem** = Students + Professors/Curriculum + Campuses + Misc. (Misc will be taken at last)

*Students*

Okay JEE does has some serious issues but at the end of the day what it does is that it brings out a whole different breed of homo sapiens coming from some parts of India you never knew and talking on phones in languages you never heard.

The fact that India is such a huge country + the fact that 8 out of 10 engineering aspirant sits for the JEE (now may be JEE Advanced), every single room in IIT's hostel has a story/facts/food/movies which if explored in a true sense would take your complete 1 year.

Enter the second year and a Ludhiana hometown guy would probably have a couple of friend from Guwahati, one from Tamil Nadu, another from Jodhpur and other from Jammu, other from Surat and the list goes on and on.

Since every branch in every IIT has an almost fixed opening/closing rank band, what it means in reality is this: Out of 65 students in a branch - 55 would never study before the exams; 55 would never remember anything after the exams; 55 would laugh off together even on the thought of a Professor giving them "homework" and lastly but most importantly all those 55 (in fact in some cases all 65!) would like to date the same girl.

*Professors/Curriculum*

Here is a typical scenario: A seemingly new question appears in an exam from a repeating topic (Now all P&C's are done even before starting the preparation that which topic/questions have to be attended and so it's your dharma to study repeated topics) and everyone attempts it or else whole passing mathematics will get disturbed.

You come out of exam hall (after all the bc's and mc's) a group of 6-7 discuss their answers; every single answer of the six is different and in some cases to an extent that it's hard to believe all 6 sat for the same exam! Results come and every 6 of them passed and I can bet you no one knows which answer was correct.

The course currently still dates back to First World Era where you study about the structure of bridges which were inaugurated by Nehru and Shastri or you are taught about the technology behind India's early satellite Aryabhatta. So what it does that the questions appearing in end items are so old that even if you write something directly from the "Preface" page of the book related to the question, it would probably fetch you half the marks!