The Plethora Of Ignominy : my education at IITM

This place is supposedly the best at engineering education in a country of one billion people. The toughest exam, screening the best brains amongst 2 lakhs students. But is there satisfaction amongst the ones studying here, is there anyone who can proudly say “I learnt what I wanted to”.

The problem is not with what is being taught but the way it is being taught. The ego of these dim witted faculty overshadows their ability to realize that the reason why the students do badly (or maybe not up to the mark) is not because they find its difficulty to do so but because the content is uninteresting. Everyone here has minimum required intelligence to excel. And it will be stupid to assume that after 2 yrs of tough rigorous preparation one will lose interest in education.

What drives them back is the way the courses are taught. Does mugging up definitions and facts and results teach you engineering?? It’s completely ridiculous!! Where comes the application of fundamentals?? Once a person is in an industry he has to apply the principles. Then what’s the use of developing a parrot like memory?

An ideal course will be our MT*** “@#@#@#”. The content lacked depth and coherency. Just an imprudent way to waste my 4 credits. I didn’t learn anything out of those 40 hours and that’s the story with the maximum of the courses here. No one can exemplify what I have described as common characteristics of a professor better than my MT*** professor. (I will refrain from calling out name on this forum.)

Unfortunately he is oblivious of the fact that everyone from the 70’s batch to 2005 considers him a complete “Chut”(an analogy for a complete stupid person, trying hard to act pseudo and having a completely wrong notion that he is smart.) . What has he done in his entire life?? Any research?? And he thinks he is great. Phew!!

I believe these professors are burden to IIT. Place where engineering brains are nurtured and blossomed, people like him are spoiling the whole spirit of learning.