It has been over three years staying and learning in the premium institute of engineering. The experience so far has been enthusiastic and contaminated with moments of joy with a steep learning curve. By learning, i mean grasping, sharing and developing new techniques in all walks of life ranging from engineering to economics to law.Our alumni has proven to the world that we are better, smarter and faster than many and we have huge responsibilities on our shoulders when we are called the "cream of the nation". We share reviews on national level policy making while having food in the night canteens, talk about new technological know-hows while chatting back in the room. Everyone is busy in some or the other research/term papers. It is this remote place where we (the students) organize the best and the largest symposium of events across nation.
The only question i ask to all of you is 'do we have the right pace?'
Sorry for being too dramatic, but after seeing Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense Technology, Dr. Stephen Thaler's Imagination Engine, a 12 year old girl's speech in UN on Environment and many more such examples like this, i feel the fastest pace in current world is very much ahead of us.
Are we lacking with the pace? Is there something needed for a change amongst us? Or it is just another big talk we are having here with no solution?
Let us sit for a while away from the speedy (ironical) life of our campus and re-think on this issue.
3 comments:
we have the talent, but we need to take the game to the next level. We have done well in many areas, but the students of top global universities are playing for much greater bets. In Stanford students start hedge funds from their internship earnings, in Berkeley majority of students have one or more start-ups, in Shanghai even mediocre students get to work on world class infrastructure projects.
One might say that these people are exposed to the best the world has to offer, while we are insulated. But globally the attitude towards education has changed from monotonous didactic to an opportunity to leadership. So, while a majority of KGPians spend time watching dud TV series like HI-Fucking-MYM or Spitsville after classes, students at MIT make ppts to VCs for funding.
IITians outside India are like frogs out of the well and into the main road. Wake Up!
Don't Really discuss national level policy, not at least in IIT Delhi.. But one thing I have realized is that there is much more out there than what we are exposed to during our undergraudation.
But the skill set that we require in our respective field, we have the ability to learn that fast.. And that is where our adaptability is tested.. Therefore, if u forget about start ups and all for the discussion that I am presenting, I think we are well equipped to adapt, understand and gather the skill set required to do whatever we need to. The only thing is that most of us do that when the stick is close to our ass!!
Ady, my point is that i am not under-questioning ourselves. I am under-questioning our pace to know the current world and developing faster than it however small the technology/process/algorithm it may be. Do you never discuss that we are studying 10-20 year old technology while we never make efforts to study the latest one ourselves.
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