I will be a mechanical engineer passed out from IIT Delhi after 2 years. It is heard that there is a lot of craze of IIT. It has produced world class engineers and entrepreneurs.It may be true. But I have a different perspective. After 2 years in IIT, my experience says that IIT is not something that I had thought of. The IIT system puts a huge pressure on students, holds international seminars, organises some "famous" festivals and attract MNCs saying that our students can do very much in very little time.
I personally feel that freshness in studying under this system has gone. People are hungry for getting only good jobs in any way. The illusion of managment learning by working on a post, the illusion of knowledge by doing internship in a company, the illusion of dedication and committment by getting an above average CGPA, people here have so much illusions. The funny part is that everyone is making fool to every other one.
The name of IIT has remained till now only because of making students sloggers by minors, majors, quizzes, term papers, assignments, reports and of course by creating environment in which students are obliged to feel that they are nowhere without much prestigious "extra cirricular activities". Everyone tries to be co-ordinator of Rendezvous and collect a number of posts and also having one night stand with books before exams so that one can feel comfortable at the time of resume-making.
Grades, CGPA, Post, foreign intern have become crying out "stereotyped" primary and foremost motives. Suicides in IIT indicate the immaturity of IITians.There is hot discussion that students are no longer interested in core engineering job and prefer i-banks or consultancy job. A section thinks that this shift is wastage of government money as motive of IIT is to produce 5000 quality engineers (now even more due to reservation) every year. Also, people go to foreign countries and do not do anything for mother country. But we do not have any solution as people are free to work where and what they want. So what is the conclusion? IIT is failing to achieve its objectives. Why? Because it has failed to motivate students towards engineering job.
There is lack of quality teachers here. If a teacher is good in teaching and able to develop the interest of students in the course, students will attend the class for sure but we have to force the students by attendance rule. I have seen many professors who have vast knowledge but are unable to communicate well to students. They consider their work completion by just coming to class and writing on the board. There are many professors who that do not feel good when student raises finger for doubt , they just keep lecturing. Their only motive is to complete the course in time. They can not take extra class if course remains. They are just not happy with students and try to de-motivate them. People get good grades by showing impression. There are many professors like that. If we talk about teacher assistants then situation is even worse. Some do not know for what they are sent. All professors are not like that, of course. Some of them are really committed towards their work and love students from heart.
If a teacher does not love students how much can he give forcibly and for how long? Students also simply do not know to respect the teachers. They just can not stand up for a while for the teacher who teaches them knowledge, serving institute for whole of his life, gives them good job. They just do not know how to say Good Morning when they happened to meet the teacher at some place. Students think that professor is not doing any favour to them, it is his job. Professor thinks that students just do not want to study and learn so force them to learn. When a relationship is based on the typical rules and forces without having slight touch of love and affection, you can not blame any one for any thing wrong that happens. We all are creating our own spaces that conflict with the others’. We just can not dare to think long. We just can not dare to be left out of the race.
In hostels, students just do not know how to behave professionally. Hostel politics has worsened the situation. They are very arrogant and selfish in nature. Everyone tries to take bigger piece of small cake. We can not tolerate that our friend is doing good. We can not motivate anyone to do great work. From the very first year, we are caught in the stereotyped way of doing things in IIT with the help of our “helpful” seniors. We are affected the most by our seniors, not by guardian or teacher.
