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(‘A Lesson from IIT’ is a weekly column by an IIT faculty member on learning, science and technology on campus and beyond. The column will appear every Friday)
A lot of the decisions that engineering students make these days are guided by the FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) factor rather than any technical reasons. Most of the IIT aspirants also want to walk the same beaten path. They want to study computer science in a particular institute and land a particular job immediately after BTech. This mentality is hurting innovation and depriving talent for research programmes. The sooner our youth get out of this FOMO phobia and gain some confidence for taking independent decisions, the better it will be for the nation and for themselves.
