iit and beyond

            ENGINEERING..A DREAM?

well its been a long time since i wrote a blog.. now that i think of it i realize that i was small then.. maybe 5 years from now again i will  be thinking that i was so small then.. it is just the worst time to make a comeback of a sort in this huge blogging world..at a time when the jee mains( thanks to kapil sibal ) and the boards are just round the corner..
but as i was reading a shobha de's blog i realized or should i say that the lost love for blogging just once again rekindled back.. a big thank you to her..
i just dont know what to write about because its all studies at the moment..( do not take me for a pessimist)
uuhh... well about engineering in india.. maybe. yeah that will be it for today

in india... especially in the northern regions engineering in kind of synonymous with iit. (feels awkward to see them in short forms).. the very idea that a bright kid is not taking up engineering is indeed unbeleivable kind of stuff... there have been people who have showed great potential in them towards other fields but have oftn ended up being a part of this rat race where there are hundreds of thousands  ahead of him and hundreds of thousands behind him... and to think that none of the IITs rank in the top 200 among the best engineering colleges is amazing( falling short on words.. i guess i need a rogets thesarus)..
and what amazes me all the more is that getting a good score in sat ( to study abroad) is a much easier task than getting into iit.
attempts are being made to reduce the stress among the friends cum competitors  and the pressure of expectations.. not to much avail.. just like some medicines have cause more problems than solving them.. the same has happened with jee mains idea.. what it has basically done is that it is making the students go another extra mile to achieve the goal.. and its just that the timing has been just perfect ..5 months before the exams.. i guess that is it for us.. but looking at the optimistic side of it .. it is evident that at least efforts are being made to make it easier for the students
there is one more point that i would like to point out that it is high time people learn to judge.. it is important that the student , the parent and the teachers understand what the student is capable of doing and have expectations accordingly.. (now i would hear people saying where there is a wish there is a way.. well for them doesnt everybody wants to be an einstien.. lets look how many do we have with us?) .. actually when i think of it .. i realize that it is not the competition but the expectation that i killing the child's creativity..
it like iits are machine who convert normal people to big earners..( no wonder there hasnt been a nobel laureate from the prestigious iits)..its time to look beyond the iits and encourage talent.. in fields other engineering for once and look what this 1 billion populated country has in store for us..