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Writer Sandipan Deb who has written a book on IITs says these students are
"exposed to a whole new world" when they arrive on the IIT campuses.
"The first thing they realise is that just because they spent their lives in
a village does not make them any less bright than the kids from the
metropolises. This is a huge confidence booster," he says.
Hi Guys,
I fully concur with the above observations of author Sandipan Deb. Future
legions of Stanislites who aspire to get into and graduate from the IITs -
should pay a visit to the IIT campus at Powai and then they will be morev
than motivated to get into IIT - they will not want to study anywhere else
for an engineering degree. I was given this tip by an ex-Stanislte Maurice
D'Mello from St. Peters colony who attended IIT Kharagpur, and it worked !
After visiting IIT Powai, I would'nt want to attend any other Engineering
College and was determined to get into the IIT.
I would recommend that the St. Stanislaus Ex-Students Association conduct
such trips regularly to the IIT campus at Powaii - they are huge motivating
factors are tremendous confidence boosters !
See Excerpt of his book "The IITians" (Penguin Books) below. I strongly
recommend that this book be kept in the St. Stanislaus library and that it
be made required reading for all Stanislites in Grade 5.
The IITians: The Story of a Remarkable Indian Institution and How its Alumni
Are Reshaping the World
IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) is Indias biggest and most powerful
brand, and arguably the toughest and most influential engineering school in
the world.
Since the first IIT was set up in the 1950s, thousands of initiates have
walked out of the campus gates in Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai and elsewhere
to become leaders in their chosen fields. In India they head many of the
biggest and most admired professionally managed companies. Abroad, they lead
giant corporations, and their feats figure in the folklore of Silicon
Valley. The power that the alumni of this one bunch of undergraduate schools
wields in business, academe and research is comparable to that of Cambridge
and Oxford in the heyday of the British Empire.
Sandipan Deb, himself an IITian, delves into his own experience and those of
scores of alumni to try and explain what makes IITians such outstanding
achievers. In part it may be that they cannot be anything else: only one in
every hundred applicants gets admitted. Harvard, in comparison, takes one in
eight. The unique village-like campuses peopled only by the super-bright and
the intensely competitive hone the IITians skills further. No wonder then
that when they leave the campus, IITians look upon themselves as special
people, capable of competing in their field with the best in the world. And,
as their record shows, succeeding.
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