The IITs: Damn them

[draftish post][rant]
Okay. I'm really angry with the IITs. Although I admit there are some really smart people there. Most of them are nothing but hard workers.

This is essentially a response to Prady'u't (:D) post and his comment there.

On Java:
exactly. It's a jack of all trades. It can't do anything right.And it's based on a VM for God's sake. I dumped Azureus because of it. I've disabled Java on my browser. It's just too slow for me. It may be easy to make programs with but they are rarely efficient. If Java is so great, why don't they use it for Linux? And anyway, there were many people involved in making Java, and the IITian was only one or two(I've never found how many actually).

MIT:
7 *7 = 49 + 11= 60 out of 4000? And how many of those say IIT was better?

Ceramic thingy:
When I said weird, I meant that it was an relatively insignificant thing. People keep discovering new ceramics and drugs and most are just trial and error. Besides, with thousands dying due to hunger and war, having the government spend lakhs on making an IITian isn't worth it to save hundreds and to exalt one.

Board of Governors have no power. Why doesn't the Board stop the Govt. from doing the reservation thing then?

//And statements like “IITians just go wherever the money is.” are outright disrespectful and based on false pretence of understanding.

[superrant begin]
Sorry, why do most of them choose to take MBAs then? They might have done a non-engineering course and let people who REALLY like engineering to take up engineering in the IITs. Honestly, most of them know that they can't compete in a real world where brains are required. Every self-respecting engineer knows that management requires almost no brains, only big mouths.
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Another thing is that IIT makes its admissions based only on merit(okay, and caste). But to become a real success, it takes more than that. It takes passion, ambition, determination, innovation, social skills and creativity. I believe that by focussing on merit, IIT is taking in a lot of dud heads who just want to be rich. I can't believe the number of people I'm seeing who just want to get some 'decent' degree from a good college and just want a good 'job'. IITians can't be any better.

The ones who can really make a difference are thrown in a non-competitive environment and they eventually rot. Sadly, most IITians don't do what they were meant to: make wonderful things that are hard to make. It's a completely unfavorable shift of balance.

Now before somebody jumps on me and slashed my face, let me make my point clear. IIT is wasting resources training people who don't have potential. Even worse, these people are raised to great heights. A lot of people who don't deserve to be there get in somehow(study 14 hrs a day for 2 years, okay smartie). They get undeserved attention. My main problem: they don't deserve it. They aren't that great and stop pretending like they are!

They are just normal people who are good at solving problems at a particularly unstable part of most peoples lives. They aren't that great at solving problems. It's not like they can solve the Millenium problems. Infact, if I had any money, I'd bet that none of the Millenium problems will be solved by IITians.

Before commenting for this post: If you have a problem with anything that I say, please provide a sensible reason. No lousy and vague stuff. Especially if you are from IIT, because then, you'll simply be proving me right.

EDIT: Okay. IITians are great. Neither does it mean that there is no non-IITian in India who isn't smarter than IITians.