Foriegn colleges vs IIT......my perspective

Okay so here i am sitting in front of the screen, thinking about my next post. I am probably the only guy in this entire country, who is exceptionally happy after IITJEE. And considering i attempted all the questions without the slightest idea of what they were asking about,and guessing most of my answers, it would be safe to assume that i have a wondrous cheerful personality. Some might even assume that i have no seriousness whatsoever, but i would still like to stick to the earlier version of my character.

Now being in an Indian society for most of my life, apart from the times when i find myself online surrounded by African cannibals and Indonesian tribes mostly, I should divulge this fact that getting into IIT is the dream of 90% of Indian students. The remaining 10% students are already in IIT and there dream is to get out of IIT in a single piece with a sane mentality. Numerous coaching classes, countless hours of ass-itching rigorous upright sitting on wooden benches, probably 12 packets of techno-tip or pinpoint, a major boost to the paper industry, freelance swearing and abusing HC VERMA, OP TANDON and ML KHANNA, getting orgasmic after having successfully tackled an IRODOV question, nearly wetting the pants after realizing chemistry broke up with you, etc. etc. etc. these are all part of the famed yet feared disciplined IIT preparations. Of course, the hot girls in the tuition classes, dreams of affairs in IIT, and the I-TAKE-A-BREAK-BY WATCHING-PORN are a part of it, but that is limited to a few exclusive and worn out war-time heroes of IIT preparations.

Now an immediate question that pops out, is it all worth it ?...does the Indian Institute of Technology actually fulfill all the hype that surrounds it ? What are its pros and cons against reputed foreign colleges ?
I am having mixed thoughts. So lets take a look at a few details and find out.
Reasons why you should read on :-
1) I applied for foreign universities, and got through three of them.
2) I nearly uprooted my masculine feature during erotic night outs with HC, OP and ML
3) I seriously had prepared for IIT for about 15 minutes.

First of all, lets go for a slight look at the rankings. Different websites offer different rankings. But having researched it for one full year of human life i came up to this conclusion. The ranking for engineering colleges on the world map would be as follows:-
1) MIT(the one and only)
2) Stanford
3) Berkley
4) Caltech
5) Georgia Tech
6) Cornell
7) Illinois Urbana Champaign
16) Princeton
20) Harvard
25) Purdue
27) IIT D
35) IIT M
100908097128740120912908712489) Other Indian Colleges with hoardings on roadside

Going by rankings, it can be clearly seen that those foreign universities would be a better option than IIT's

Secondly, lets go for placements and pay-cheques
1) Last year, there were certain guys in IIT who didn't get jobs. The Indian companies at this present state are having a bit of a downfall. they will undoubtedly bounce back, but at this present state things look a bit dizzy.
2) The foreign universities that i have mentioned in the list, the top ten at least, the students passing out of it are the highest paid freshers in this entire earth. For a starting salary they are a clear winner. One might argue that being based in a costlier society there pay-cheques are bound to be higher. But that's just baseless. In the end the truth is that they earn more. But of course there work load is also much much much more.

Thirdly, ease of entering.
1) IIT requires hard work. Foreign colleges require brilliance.
2) IIT requires two years of break neck study. Foreign colleges would require you to do that right from childhood.
3) IIT has 10,000 seats for 3.5 lac students that appeared this year. Foreign colleges hardly take more than 100 international students out of nearly 12000 international applicants. So competitiveness remains the same actually. Colleges like Caltech, select less that 50 international students out of more than 35000 applications. Now that is competition.
4) Apart from being highly apt at your studies, foreign universities require various other characteristics.
- Extracurricular achievements(debate, quiz, MUN's)
- if you are a sportsperson it helps your chances.
- any form of music, dance or art is appreciated.
- leadership and stuff
- a shining, spotless academic record from class 8-12
- high SAT and TOEFL scores
- research activities and projects.
Compared to it IIT requires
- disciplined hard work for two years.
- physics, chemistry, maths
- physics, chemistry, maths
- physics, chemistry, maths
- physics, chemistry, maths
- physics, chemistry, maths
- and the list goes on like that forever.


And the last point, financial status of family...
Now here IIT clearly wins over foreign colleges. The tuition fees are almost incomparable. The foreign colleges require you to fork out the savings of five generations of your family and three of your neighbor. In short, foreign colleges are shortly. So anyone who is applying for foreign colleges must have to get scholarships or student loans. Scholarships are available in limited quantity to highly deserving students. Though it wont cover all the expenses, it would pretty much cover up the tuition fees, food and hostel and living charges have to be borne by self. If one takes a student loan, then all the charges get covered up, but the student has to repay it back to the bank after he/she gets a job.
So if a student gets a scholarship, then it would be same as paying for IIT.
Or else, IIT comes out the clear winner in this department.

Then the final score comes to : Foreign colleges 3 IIT 1
But since I am an Indian I would even it out keeping in mind the Indian society at large.
So the score becomes : Foreign colleges 2 IIT 2


So now, the question pretty much arises, what must a student look for ? Based on my personal experience, I would recommend a student to pursue them both simultaneously. Maintain a good record from junior classes, lose your virginity with HC verma, get raped by ML khanna, make up with chemistry, get good scores is SAT and TOEFL, apply for foreign colleges, work for IIT, get into both, if you get scholarship get the hell out of India, if not make yourself comfortable at IIT. Luckily for me, I got the scholarship so I don't have to worry about IIT now.

IIT is arguably the best in India. And until the next millennium it will remain so. Of course I am discounting the fact that India will be consumed by civil war, or AIDS breaks out in IIT's with rampant unprotected sex among the student and teachers. But, the foreign colleges I mentioned above, they are the best in the world. And as far as education is concerned I believe in the best.

And for all you loser patriots, no one is asking you to get settled away from India. You can always study there and then come back to show off in India, would be highly good for the ego. Plus, if you cant resist the girls there, then its your fault. Place country above girls, place education above anything else, and soon you would be on your way to a celibate life of enormous success.

DrDrunkDonkey signing off.