{"id":7565,"date":"2015-04-29T19:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:38:04","slug":"iit-tag-win-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/iit-tag-win-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Would IIT Tag Win Me a Girl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1212.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7567 alignleft\" title=\"Would IIT Tag Win Me a Girl?\" alt=\"Would IIT Tag Win Me a Girl?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1212-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"387\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Indian parents often seem to fish for IITians for their daughters and tell their sons that IITs are the most-trusted route to find a lovely rich wife for themselves. But is this true? Let\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s see what how People reacted to the question:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Anushree says<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI think most girls would love to have a smart IITian brother.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d \ud83d\ude1b<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Sachin smirks<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know about girls but aunts in the range of 40-50 years of age are certain crazy for IITians.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Sofia<\/strong><\/em> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">throws in,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe three magic words that girls want to hear are NOT \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m from IIT!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2. There are things like charming personality, inner beauty, talent and humour that takes precedence when it comes to winning the heart of a girl.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Sriraman Jha<\/strong><\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">coyly says, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cDuring Mood Indigo 2008 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 much famous cultural fest of IIT Bombay, two good looking girls kept snigger me throughout the evening. But as soon as they learnt I was an IITB student, they went out with me for some booze and joined me in my room at night.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Then he warns us not to fall for his version of story as it is what he only dreamt about. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cTo get a real girl, you have to be presentable, a good conversationalist and really need to care for her. Being an IITian might be a redeeming quality for your in-laws (as Chetan Bhagat says) but not certainly for a potential girlfriend or wife\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d, he adds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Few Ex-IITians admitted that the qualification never worked in their faour to score a point in their love life. One of them, Anurag Mehra, advised, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIf you are an aspirant, you won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t get too far by believing that you can score girls with your \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153IIT\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 status. You should really be interested in what you are studying and be passionate about what you want to do in future. IITs have a rigorous system to keep you out of gates otherwise. So, keep your hormones in check and focus on your studies!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Joy Mukherjee<\/strong><\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">agrees. He says, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt is an illusion just like rare IIT feats like foreign internships, over-a-crore salary packages, and that you won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t need to study once you crack your JEE Main and JEE Advanced exams. You don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t get girls as an incentive of being able to manage an IIT seat for yourself. In fact, odds are that good-looking girls probably will think that you are too nerdy or geeky, and\/or proud. But if you do find a girl who is in love with you because you are an IITian, hard luck man! I think she will be too shallow for you to waste time with her.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are looking forward to marry the girl in which you fallen in love with, you will need to be more than IITian and be a good human being for her. In cases of arranged marriages though, being an IITian with a high-profile job does earn you brownie points with the match-makers and all your potential in-laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>What do you think?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian parents often seem to fish for IITians for their daughters and tell their sons that IITs are the most-trusted route to find a lovely rich wife for themselves. But is this true? Let\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s see what how People reacted to the question: Anushree says, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI think most girls would love to have a smart IITian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}