Life in IIT || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Beyond Academics: Acharya Prashant's IIT Memoirs || IIM-Konversations (2023)
Transcript
00:00What was your living that IIT dream like?
00:02Very free, very liberal, an equally challenging environment and massive pool of talent,
00:09burstling energy, so much to do.
00:11When I picked up sports, I got into dramatics, debating, writing so much and competitiveness.
00:19Just when you thought that you had eased a particular course,
00:22you discover that there are 10 of them ahead of you
00:25and you think that you couldn't have done it any better.
00:28And then you realize what raw talent alone can do.
00:31So you saw that you might have been heads and shoulders above everybody
00:37at the school level or the district level, you know, in your own province.
00:41But when you come to a place like IIT Delhi,
00:43you discover that there are so many of them truly ahead of you in terms of pure talent.
00:47And then you also see what hard work can do.
00:50You saw many others who are not so talented, but just by dint of their diligence,
00:55they would make it into the top 10 in the department.