The semester is over, finally. Grades pour in tomorrow I guess, and though it's been academically a bad bad semester, at least I'm passing in all courses for sure( :P :D)! Yesterday when I submitted the final assignments of this semester, it felt a little relieving but surprisingly not light still. Work is light now, but there is still more or less a continuum with the Project (that's going to keep me here all summer, damn it's hot) work asserting itself. Especially after that horrible presentation on Monday. I cried almost an hour after it; my mood was already low and there was still plenty of work, but I'd nevertheless put in 8 hours for that presentation of which nobody saw a slide. I hate my department!
In fact most things I've seen happening in IIT since the majors have been ugly, something nobody will fall in love with IIT for. Millions of people outside this campus think this is the greatest place of all times, the best and all that crap. Lakhs of students dream about making it in here, but inside, there's so much filth at the wrong places and 80% of all students dream about getting out asap by the end of their term. This semester profs have had a field day with failing students. Sure, students have been at fault to some extent, but a large part has come without warning. Humanities alone has failed more than 150 students, most on attendance. There's a course where 33 of 44 students have been failed due to attendance, another in my dep has 28 casualties and there are a couple that have like an F at 65 or an audit at 80 or a C- at 75. Talk about being ridiculous. 75% of all people I know in the graduating batch currently are facing a serious problem in some course or the project. People will now have to forfeit IIM calls because some professor is heartless enough. And then they wonder why most IITians don't come back to their institute with love. Our batch was to take up a physics course in our final year, and some of us did it as extra credits, simply because our dep curriculum didn't have any physics courses in first year when all other deps had. And it was tough, more so because it used all JEE concepts and tricks which we haven't just forgotten, they're completely irrelevant to us today. It took me some scare and effort too, to pass it. IIT system is rotting, there are so many ills it makes me nauseous at times. But student say is limited, and the higher ups won't change anything. Plus, the attitude of mostly everyone sucks. Student politics is mostly a shame at the calibre of the students in this campus, but worse than that, even good hardworking people have this attitude for working for a post they want to hold next year rather than because they hold one at that moment. And since I'm blunt enough to say this ( and also refuse point blank a post in the next placement team), I get more than my share of brickbats. You know what, I'm cool with it. I've worked like a maniac four years, I want to try something different now. I want to just...disappear.
The sem's over, but the relief is not coming in. Most of my friends would be leaving soon. It's going to be a different life soon, one I'm not too relieved to enter into.
Still, so long and thanks for all the fish. And someone please magically cure this IIT system. It's gonna take a few lives more :(
In fact most things I've seen happening in IIT since the majors have been ugly, something nobody will fall in love with IIT for. Millions of people outside this campus think this is the greatest place of all times, the best and all that crap. Lakhs of students dream about making it in here, but inside, there's so much filth at the wrong places and 80% of all students dream about getting out asap by the end of their term. This semester profs have had a field day with failing students. Sure, students have been at fault to some extent, but a large part has come without warning. Humanities alone has failed more than 150 students, most on attendance. There's a course where 33 of 44 students have been failed due to attendance, another in my dep has 28 casualties and there are a couple that have like an F at 65 or an audit at 80 or a C- at 75. Talk about being ridiculous. 75% of all people I know in the graduating batch currently are facing a serious problem in some course or the project. People will now have to forfeit IIM calls because some professor is heartless enough. And then they wonder why most IITians don't come back to their institute with love. Our batch was to take up a physics course in our final year, and some of us did it as extra credits, simply because our dep curriculum didn't have any physics courses in first year when all other deps had. And it was tough, more so because it used all JEE concepts and tricks which we haven't just forgotten, they're completely irrelevant to us today. It took me some scare and effort too, to pass it. IIT system is rotting, there are so many ills it makes me nauseous at times. But student say is limited, and the higher ups won't change anything. Plus, the attitude of mostly everyone sucks. Student politics is mostly a shame at the calibre of the students in this campus, but worse than that, even good hardworking people have this attitude for working for a post they want to hold next year rather than because they hold one at that moment. And since I'm blunt enough to say this ( and also refuse point blank a post in the next placement team), I get more than my share of brickbats. You know what, I'm cool with it. I've worked like a maniac four years, I want to try something different now. I want to just...disappear.
The sem's over, but the relief is not coming in. Most of my friends would be leaving soon. It's going to be a different life soon, one I'm not too relieved to enter into.
Still, so long and thanks for all the fish. And someone please magically cure this IIT system. It's gonna take a few lives more :(
12 comments:
Student politics is a part of Indian student life.. these are the weird things you will miss when you step out into the corporate world or something similar!
(BTW how's u, been long since u dropped by at mah blog?)
Apni marzi se kahaan apne safar ke hum hain..
Rukh hawaaon ka jidhar ka hai udhar ke hum hain. -- Nida Fazli.
Making that physics course compulsory for you guys was really unfair. They should apply new rules to new batches only.
F at 65 was bad. Real bad. I could see it on the face of 2 such guys I know. And in the words they uttered.. Prof and profanity sounded so similar.
After meeting my BTP guide today, I was in a somewhat similar mood. Reading your blog felt nice! Feels good not to be alone.
Btw, we have a course on "Professional Ethics," a pass fail course, and they cupped 28 students of a final year batch in that.
Makes one wonder whether students really are to blame as much as they are.
It's become too much of a madness really. So much for a parting gift.
Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone was my first real insight into the IIT life. Then my cousins took up engineering in various colleges, and I learnt how different the reality was - there are hardly any colleges that provide good education in that field. Perhaps that is why I've seen so many tech students making a beeline for postgrad abroad.
And you, Phoenix, enlighten on a more saddening part. I was always proud of the IITs and IIMs of our country. But I guess some selfish, egoistic professors hardly care.
Hey! Its not all like that!Yup Ihave had my share of these kind of expereinces but I still feel the place is great and in general the Profs also....its supoosed to be tough...as its the best...but after we would probably ready to face any challenge in life!
[canary]
I dont hate the politics per se, but sometimes it gets so dirty you wanna go shake those people up and make them see the pointlessness of what they are doing. This is not DU; we neither have politics nor politicians of that genre, but in this arena of mindgames, people sometimes forget looking at the bigger picture and do elementary things wrong, without even liking it.
I know I'd miss it a year from now when I'm out of this place, for at least there is some kind of innocence in this...watever...
been reading ur blog, just hadnt commented on the last one.
[vik]
IIT admin has little sense when it comes to rules and implementations...kuch bhi karte rehte hain.,...profs have way too much power in iit, and that imbalance is a cause
of many evils.
[munnu]
You know it's always a two way deal. Students are always blamed for being careless and job shirkers and fraud, and a good part of it is deserved too, but there's also evil on the other side. Students are subjected way too much to the whims of professors, and when respect is not earned,obedience cannot be expected. Faults lie on both sides, but you'd expect them to be saner and take the initiative if they really want anything to change.
[vibhav]
Precisely my point. Ruins the last memmory of a student going out. A student who hasnt worked in 2 sems would not do a miracle in 2 weeks if u extend his degree. What do you expect anyway!
[anand]
thanks.Didn't find the pic u asked :(
[sarthak]
Loads of people have FPS as their only real initiation into a somewhat mysterious IIT life, and though I personally debate its accuracy quite fiercely, it at least shows iitians are only human too. And despite India being an engg giant, the quality of education is mostly a farce, even at IITs. The good thing abt IIT is that in its own way, it teaches us more outside the classroom and abt life than any undergraduate education possibly could. But if you really wanna study,you're gettting the MS abroad.
And there are ills, oh yes, some of them so heartbreaking that you'd be sorry. But then I think of the hundreds of other colleges in India.
[aditi]
Well, it's good at least someone is loving it. Plus you;re the hardworking types, and in arguably IITD's best department. :)
@phoenix
Hey am not over hard working but easily satisfied types...
You will also miss the place when you go finally....loving also depends a lot on people around you!
There IS no magical cure. I guess more students will have to return as profs and board members to work out the chinks they experienced first hand.
Sad to see that situation is getting worse.
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