Pan IIT 2008

This might probably come as a surprise, since I used to be among the first to get irritated with the way the PanIIT Summit was being organized, esp with an hour worth of work taking a full day. To add to that, it appeared as if it would be just a 3 day reunion/social networking gala while pretending to be a show of certified biggies discussing seemingly serious stuff. Well ,the shows over and, for a change, I admit, I was wrong. Sure, the summit is more about bringing together alumni and current students affiliated to the 7 campuses of the Indian Institutes of Technology, to have fun and they definitely do discuss who eventually married who after having dated whom, there is more to it that that. The 3 days are a means of meeting some really really amazing people. They do not all have to be high flying MDs and CEOs (though most of them are), whoever they are, there is something really endearing about each and every one of them, something to take home from every single encounter. The thing that really warmed my heart was probably seeing the likes of Santhanam, Sarath Naru and others, who, in spite of having been excessively busy in their professional lives, still wanted and managed to invest time and effort into organizing the show and pulling it off, really well, all out of the sheer attachement for the insti, something I'm probably beginning to feel, now that the time for most of my close friends to pass out draws near. IIT isnt just about being the toughest college to get into, there's something really positive and undescribeable attached to it. Have a feeling I'm gonna miss this place after all.