Explaining the IIT Brand to a 11 yo Kid
All attempts to get my 11 yo daughter to indicate which profession would interest her get us nowhere – “I am too young to think about such things”, she will announce very sagely. Such wisdom is reserved only for such occasions, sadly. If she won’t pick one, we’ll pick one for her, we decided like true blood Indian parents. And our pick is engineering. Obviously. No, not just because both of us are engineers. The pay for engineers on average is between decent to good. Engineering courses are cheaper than almost all other professional courses. Engineering degrees are valid across the globe, unlike say medical or law degrees. And the world will always need engineers. Of course, once you start on the engineering path, the goal becomes IIT for all Indians. At which our daughter would shrug, “What is IIT? What makes it so great?”. Obviously, she’s too young to understand that. My wife tries explaining to her that the branded colleges get you jobs on campus, wh...