I Donno What is IIT..??!!??

This was way back during my undergraduate days where if anyone of you have asked me 'do you know what IIT is?' or 'did you try to get into IIT?' I used to wonder what is IIT? and why the hell everybody wants to be there? Let me tell you my thoughts about IIT before I actually got to know what it was.

> Initially I thought It was some diploma course like 'ITI' courses!

> This IIT course is meant for CBSE and NCERT syllabus people and not for people like me who have state syllabus background and passed pre-university exams.

> Its just like any other colleges

many a times I didn’t even know what was its importance. One day it so happened one of my classmates during undergraduate told me, at any cost before i complete my 1st year in college here I wanna get into IIT. so i told him.. what is the big deal in getting there? is it so special?

that guy told me "Praveen, I guess you donno what is the importance to get a seat at IIT..! IIT's are

India's premiere institutes. anybody would want to get their engineering seat at IIT and get an B.Tech from there.

Now, I wonder sometimes, what kind of jackass I was..!! That I donno what IIT was..!!

If I had known what it was during my high school I would have slogged my ass to get in there. Hmm.. but its okie.. I was not destined to be an engineer..!! ;-)