A RANDOM BLOG ----IIT A Year later

IIT is a queer thing.. a year has passed and it looks pretty much new to me.
I still feel pretty much lies unexplored at IIT ..
life passes so quickly here. so much to do , so much things to explore , that u never find the time to take rest and wonder- what keeps it going? why is iit as it is?

like everyone i came here with some dreams i had been dreaming of since 2 yrs..i thought that everything would be right here - great profs ,interesting courses,high tech facilities ,innovations happening round the clock. and on the top of it,i would get a high perk on getting out..

not all the dreams have kept true . its not that they should ought to have. but frankly my perceptions have changed now. i have been taught here that greatness lies not in not committing any mistakes but from learning from them .
iit's greatness lies in the fact that it is always ready for a change. It goes to the highest extent possible to serve students' interests- be it funding for cult and tech events, building of new infrastructure or the new flexible course curriculum.Even the extra maggi served and longer library timings during exams serve testimony to this fact.the pace with which a better thing is put in place is just mindblggling. its ability to blend according to the present scenario has taught me another great lesson of life. its not rigid -but flexible giving students the thing they aspire most for - freedom
We can do whatever we feel like . We always know someone up is there to help u in case u need something.that is why loads and loads of things keep going around here in iit.

IITs face fund crunch . I could feel it. Being forced to live in double room , taught in class of 500 students,finding only one computer in hostel computer room,waiting for a turn to play in the only badminton court ...these things irked me. i felt as THIS ISNT THE IIT I DREAMED OF ..but perspective has changed now.. now i see the other side too - i see the constant ,ever increasing efforts of iit in getting funds, its desperate attempts at organising alumni , coaxing the govt to shell out more. iit is not letting itself become a victim of the changed scenario and die a silent death but is trying to deal with the new circumstances in the most efficient way .it is fighting , it is the srk of chakdeindia in the real sense .

As another year beckons, i see myself moving ahead towards a clearer path of life. i feel lot many crazy things- i feel enlightened ,i feel the true sense of pride in being an iitian.
Thank you PT. NEHRU for creating IITs.