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What do IIT TOPPERS do in life ??

"If they were so intelligent why didn't they start some company, earned a lot of money" I am not sure if you value 'starting some company' for itself or just as a means to earning a lot. It is clear though that earning money is the ultimate aim that someone should have according to you - it is not the case for me. Research pays well enough for one to lead a comfortable life. After the basic requirements are met, I am sure what determines how happy you are is how much you love doing whatever it is that you do for 12 hours a day and not how many cars you buy in a year . "Why didn't they do good to society" Oh, this part of your question is so valid because no researcher ever did any good to society. Everything around you that you use was just god's gift to humanity and researchers never played any part whatsoever in any development. "Why didn't they do good to themselves" Again, a very valid point you raise, because peo

My First Day at IIT Kanpur

As any fresher, my mind was bubbling with many questions. How tough will be the studies, How strict will be IIT professors, Who will be my batch-mates .... But the most frequent and most puzzling question was how many and how beautiful girls will be in my class. In IIT girl to boy ratio is very bad. In batch of around 500 we had only 50 girls. With this statistic we roommates discussed the possibility to have a beautiful girl in our class. With very good control over probability we easily calculated very rear chances of this favorable outcome but human mind always try to rationalize and hope for positive outcome, no matter how impossible the outcome is. With crossed fingers, with hope for favorable outcome I started the journey for my first class. There was a clear instruction from seniors, not to use lift but use only stairs. My class was on 4th floor. We gathered near lift and discussed we should use stairs or lift. Some of us feel that climbing 4 floors is itself a pu