{"id":8169,"date":"2015-06-01T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=8169"},"modified":"2015-06-01T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:10:23","slug":"bitter-truths-life-iit-fun-tid-bits-new-iitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/bitter-truths-life-iit-fun-tid-bits-new-iitians\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter truths about Life at IIT: Fun tid-bits for new IITians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JEE Advanced 2015 is over and soon about 10,000 of the lucky bookworms will now be allowed inside the hallowed gates of the IITs as the 2015-2019 batch. Here are some of the major disappointments &amp; bitter truths you might face at the IITs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/asg.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8171 aligncenter\" alt=\"asg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/asg.png\" width=\"411\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IITs do employ world-class Professors but they delve in \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Research\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 rather than \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Teaching\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<\/li>\n<li>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Unlucky\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 IITians are still praying for Girl to Boy ratio to perk up.<\/li>\n<li>World wakes up at 5 am. It is the time for IITians to go to sleep!<\/li>\n<li>The day you dread at IIT is your \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153birthday\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2! A BPL in this context means \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Bum Pe Laat\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<\/li>\n<li>Job offer of 1 crore per annum is \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153rare\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2. However, placements at IITs have really shone in the last 2-3 years.<\/li>\n<li>1 suicide per year has almost become annual sacrifice for Brand IIT.<\/li>\n<li>Considering average\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0IQ\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0of students is much than the rest of the world, average output is too little to boast of.<\/li>\n<li>Despite good marks in exams, you can still be held back because of \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153attendance\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<\/li>\n<li>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Fasting\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 and \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153dieting\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 is preferable to mess food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEE Advanced 2015 is over and soon about 10,000 of the lucky bookworms will now be allowed inside the hallowed gates of the IITs as the 2015-2019 batch. Here are some of the major disappointments &amp; bitter truths you might face at the IITs: IITs do employ world-class Professors but they delve in \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Research\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8169","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\/8169","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=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}