Time: 9:30-10:25 am
Location: Lecture hall, Aerospace department building
Why I am here?..I m sure this question befuddles most of the NASA (Non Academic Students Association) fraternity quite frequently while sitting in the classroom, staring at the prof who seems to speak some alien terminology. C’mon that’s a lecture going on in IIT.. we r “supposed” to b brightest budding technocrats in
Except few maggoos there are not many ppl who are mentally present in the class. If given the option I think most of us won’t even attend the lectures at all. I can’t figure out that how come the students change so drastically after coming to IIT. Sometimes its hard to believe that these are the same students that toiled hard and burned mid night oil before JEE, some were toppers at their schools. So how come these same ppl, after coming to IIT, lose the drive to excel??...what happened to their hunger?.. are they too much contended by their rare feat?..Does the society makes them feel so ? the feeling of contentment bounds them from being more hungry and work hard..the sense of secured future, in term of jobs and placements, checks their personality skills and they rarely care about it. There is not much that can keep them as hungry as they were before coming to IIT thus performing much below par with their real potential. Most of the students when they come to IIT are clueless about their future and its fair enough at that point of time. But the thing is they somehow gets lost in the sudden exposure to everything and a plethora of views they get from bathchmates, seniors or very rarely the faculty. The students starts loosing interests in the subjects and the most of the studies they do is self study only and it becomes a habit for them fo the rest of their stay in IIT. Its amazing to c almost 80% of the students just mugging a night before and passing the course. The whole acads part of a student’s life seems to b a second priority. The whole picture of IIT looks very gloomy from this angle and everyone seems to be shamming. This is not the case that its some kind of dark secret that only the students know. The amazing thing is being aware of all these things IIT has never taken it seriously. Only introduction of XX grades don’t change things much. I mean it looks silly to make students sit 80% of the classes or else he is not allowed to take up the exam. And the result is a student who is not interested at all (and sorry to say but the hard fact is IIT is never interested in knowing the reason for that!) goes to class sits in the last bench ..puts his head down and njoi his dreamworld OR just sit and do something else ( like m writing this stuff ). I think the problem s much deeper than wat the administration thinks, only forcing students to attend lectures wont help in neway but they should think how to raise the standard of teaching so that a student himself feels like attending lectures he should feel like there is some benefit …there is something to grab.. that’s the only way out. They have to think taking the big picture into account.
