What if not IIT?
Today graduates from Indian Institute of Technology's and several Indian engineering colleges are holding top positions in Google, Microsoft, and several IT giants.
Every now and then, we come across some architectural marvels around the world. Just imagine the pride associated with the architects of Burj Khalifa! There are many students who want to share this pride and prestige. IITs allow students to bring these dreams to reality. The high quality of faculty and exposure is unparalleled.
But this is also a sad reality that the seats are limited in IITs. So, when the not so lucky kids fail to clear JEE, they begin to lose hope as if their world has ended.
Do you think Mark Zuckerberg needed a degree from MIT to create Facebook?
He had passion and he followed his dreams. He did not get bogged down by the academic requirements. And he won!
So, when you realize that you failed to clear IIT Joint Entrance Exam, spare few moments and introspect. Try to find your real calling. And if you realize that engineering is not the one, then work towards your real calling.
You can appear in Entrance exams for NIFT, NID, Law Colleges, CA, CS, allied medical fields like biomedical engineering, lab technicians and so on.
If you are really into computers, you can consider doing BCA and MCA. As a matter of fact, people with MCA are paid the same as Engineering graduates from any of the IITs.
And if you are passionate about being an engineer, then look at the other engineering colleges. We have got several National Institute of Technology's and IIIT’s that offer equally good education and environment.
Along with the NITs and IIITs, we have got a number renowned State Run or Private Engineering colleges like PEC, BITS Pilani, BIT Mesra, KIIT and Thapar Engineering college etc.
You have 4 years of engineering course to make a concrete road towards your success. Utilize the chance.
Was Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose having an IIT degree? No! IITs were not even established in his time.
And who can forget our own missile man, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam! Even he wasn’t an IITian.
We are not saying that the IITs are bad in fact they are damn good Institutes of technology but we are emphasizing that IITs are not the end of the world for engineering aspirants.
You can even pursue your career in interior designing. They have a huge demand these days. We have buildings all around us and at the same time, we are facing space crunch. A good interior designer knows how to utilize the maximum space.Along with all these options, you should really give it a nice long thought if you really want to be an engineer?
Talk to your seniors, teachers or friends. We need to accept that Indian parents can’t see anything beyond medical and engineering streams while the world is bubbling with opportunities.
If you are taking admission in some private engineering college, always inquire about the placement. There are tech colleges growing like mushrooms in our country. Majority of them don’t even have a permanent faculty, let alone proper infrastructure.
If your economic status allows, you can go for engineering abroad.
And if you really want to study in IITs, then you can apply to them for post-graduate and doctoral programmes too. Your dreams can be fulfilled this way too albeit for a higher degree. But even for that, you need to qualify Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering(GATE) Or Joint Admission Test for M.Sc (JAM).
Take your failure as a learning step. Embrace the halt and find your shortcomings. Work on them. Work hard. Work smart. Utilize all the opportunities available to you. You will be surprised to see that your failures have taught you lessons to succeed. You will be better equipped to deal with rejections. Not only that, with passing years, you will know the exact ways to succeed. Trust us, that is how great and successful people are made. They know how they had failed and ensure not to repeat the same mistake. Just never lose hope. Always be optimistic.
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