What are the different habits you have adopted after joining IIT?

I am currently in second Semester of first year at IIT Roorkee and have developed many habits after coming here , so I believe that I am eligible to answer this question.

IITs are one of the premier institutions of the country and boasts many opportunities and facilities . Students here have high degree of freedom and they can take part in different activities.

Due to this they develop new habits which was not there before coming to IIT. I myself have changed a lot . Some general changes that IITians encounter in them are:-

Waking up late in morning . Late sleeping is common to everyone here (sleeping after party or movie or GPL or chaapo or Laptop or chatting) . Hence everybody wakes up 5 minutes before lectures. Skipping breakfast is one of the aspects of waking up late in morning .


Procrastination . This is the worst quality that I have developed after coming here . Postponing assignment and tutorial for next day is now very commom (after saying ?Kl kar lenge yaar (I will do it tomorrow )but this is actually a myth because this never happens and this sentence is said everyday ..(:-)).

Bunking classes . Before coming here I could not dare to skip even one class of coaching but here this happens everyday . If attendance criteria were not there then nobody would attend class (most of us rely on self study) .


Group discussion (in fact Backch*di , not GD ) . Before IIT , we used to keep quiet for larger part of the day and tried to study as much as possible . Here , if 45 students are there in hostel room then the GD (backch*di) occurring there would be eternal .

You will come to know the importance of your family (especially your mother ) after living in hostel here . When you will have to do your everyday chores on your own (food , bathing , cleaning clothes , taking water yourself , bed making , maintaining almirah , missing especially the love of your family (mother) and many more ) then you will realise how salient your family and mother is .


Engaged in sports never played before . One of the good habits that I have developed after coming to IIT . I did not even see the snooker before coming here but here I play snooker everyday . I also play Foosball , table tennis and Pool seldom.


Gaming . One of the things that we do here regularly is playing game. PUBG , CS:GO , mini militia , Subway surfers are installed in mobile phone of almost every student.

Not concentrating on lectures . Professors here are quiet boring (we think so) and you will find majority of students using there mobile phone during lectures (as I already said , we mostly rely on self study).


Criticising Proffs . Praising coaching teachers and criticising college professors is very common here . Although , proffs are omniscient in their field and have great knowledge but we still find their lectures boring .

Not studying regularly . Before IIT , our time table of study was fixed and we used to study accordingly . Here , after leaving room for lecture in morning we return for dinner . 12 hours of study is enough (we think so ..).

No Bathing . Hygiene is one of the aspect that one should be serious about . But here it is not the case . See , how can one bath if he is waking 5 minutes before lectures .