From: lal@cs.arizona.edu (The New Sun)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Nobel Prize & IITs
Summary: really
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:33:20 GMT

In article <SHUBU.92Oct5160819@green.cs.wisc.edu>, shubu@cs.wisc.edu (Shubhendu Mukherjee) writes:
> 
> >>>>> In article <23379@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, lal@cs.arizona.edu writes:
> 
> TNS> The practical training and the equipment is vastly superior. Where in 
> TNS> India would you be able to work with Intel beta test versions of their
> TNS> products, Workstations, Vax clusters, IBM PCs, Macs, IBM minis, have 
> TNS> CAD VLSI design software, Digital and Analog circuit design tools, 24hr 
> TNS> lab access, get the newest products from the market to work with (Xilinx
> TNS> 4000 series FPGAs)?
> TNS> (In an Undergraduate program)
> 
> In IIT Kanpur (as well as the other IITs, I would guess).  
> 
> TNS> If you would get all these facilities in an Indian Undergraduate program,
> TNS> please tell me. I would like to transfer there to finish my education, if
> TNS> transferring is not possible then go for my Ms. there. Of course the M.S.
> TNS> program must have twice as many facilities and resources available as 
> TNS> compared to the undergraduate program.
> 
> The problem is IIT Kanpur is sort of picky about it's students :-).  However,
> you may try your luck!
> 
> Luck!
> -Shubu
> 

I am glad you have corrected my lack of knowledge of IIT. Unfortunately as you said about IIT Kanpur being picky - due to my extreme laziness, I will not be able to make it there. I was really looking forward to transferring to IIT when you mentioned that IIT reaches my standards, but as I continued reading and came to the part of IIT Kanpur being really picky, I was devastated to realize I could not get admission in IIT.
	Now I will have to finish my education here, always regretting when I use the equipment here that if I was less lazy I would have been able to use the magnificent undergraduate facilities at IIT.
	I feel like throwing in the towel, what is the point of undergraduate education if it is not at IIT Kanpur? My B.S. Computer Engineering here is useless - after all what do these people from Arizona and California know about computers? Not a thing. But those Indians with their IITs are the reall experts.
	I must go to India to become a true expert in the field, India will soon eclipse USA and Japan and become the leading producer of VLSI chips and computers. My time here is wasted - when all the leading developments in the computer field in the world are being made at IIT Kanpur and other IITs.
	Shubu, I am very embarassed to say the only IIT I had heard of before I started reading sci was IIT Delhi ('cause I'm from Delhi) - could you please tell me where Kanpur is and where the other IITs are and how many of them there are? Of course I had never heard of Caltech before I came to California.
	Now that you have opened my eyes, I am begining preparations for my eventual return to India, the land of IITs. I will make a pilgrimage to India to achieve true knowledge. Perhaps I will finish my undergraduate degree first but it may have no value in the face of all those indians with degrees from RECs and IITs, so I am very worried about going to India with a useless degree.
	Perhaps I can use my useless B.S. as a starting point to get admission for a real B.Tech program in India. This is my salvation! My path is now clear, and my mind is open to the truth for the first time in my life.
	I am ready now. I look forward to my return. I have been saved.

IIT be blessed.

Abhinav Lal:-)

P.S. I really think IIT is a great institution.

Thanks.

P.P.S. this damn thing won't let me post unless I have more new text - how do I get around this?

P.P.S. I still don't have enough text

 
	
	
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