Monday, July 26, 2004

Breeds of IITians

One of the best thing about IIT is the exceptional people you meet there. They haven't all climbed Everest, or made lakhs in the stocks, or attempted some other Olympian feat - and even if they have, they don't seem to have the mountainous egos that come along with such people. Rather, they are intelligent and confident, capable and modest. Each and every one of them has some spark…some dash of brilliance within them.

Elaborating on the breeds…there are those who are full of energy, who know they can do it and who actually do it. They have a fire within them...a fire you don’t see but you know it is there. In fact, that’s how the media has branded IITians.

But there are other breeds too…a very colourful one includes those who know they can do it, who can do it…and still who don’t do it…who just don’t find it worth it. As if waiting for some destined moment to show their class…they are fired only by disaster. They have this confidence in their selves and a feeling of security within them…they are on the other end of the ‘panic’ spectrum. From this confidence they derive their biggest strength and yet it is also their biggest enemy as it makes them underachievers. Yes, they have their own lazy, sleepy way of achieving feats…but they are worth much more dime.

Okay, there are also those who can’t stop complaining about the system when they are in there at IIT…and I’ve a feeling that, they are also the ones who can’t stop boasting about the place when they go out.

One breed that is perhaps in short supply is…as they call it here…well-rounded, smooth talking type…those who know how to hold their own in social situations and express themselves coherently on subject matters outside of the work they do.

So much on IITians and some of their breeds…

2 Comments:

At 4:33 PM, Blogger Shashank said...

True!
But I somehow have always felt all of them have one common quality - of trying hard to not completly fuck themselves up.
Some of them realize it early and work hard in IIT .. others (esp. the lazy underachiever) look at IIT as a pit stop and blast off full throttle afterwards ... but they all desire to succeed and are ready to work hard for it.

 
At 2:52 PM, Blogger Kyubi said...

well....i asked one of my IITian frnd...why dont u start this project yaar,u hav to deliver it to xyz company and its been a week now and he replies... "yaar kam shuru hote hi khatam ho jata hai...mein itni jaldi nahi shuru karoonga!" and this project was a supposed 4G innovation for telecom communication... Phew! But most of them are like big time narcissists but one attribute i respect the most is their God like speed but it does not apply to all the IITians , i have seen the most dumbest IITians too. Gist is you cant generalize the IITians in anyway but some of them have the greatest potential i have seen...Hats off to those people.

 

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