Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream - Season 1
Alumni of India’s elite academic institutes share the harsh realities, pleasant surprises and transformative journeys of their college experiences.
Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream: Season 1 - 3 Episode s
1x1 - Independent Variables
May 14, 2021
When the few lucky ones finally get into IIT, realization dawns it isn't engineering they had signed up for, but a generic notion of "success". This is the story of those at IIT KGP wondering what to do now that the dog has caught the car.
1x2 - Escape Velocity
May 14, 2021
The hallowed placement season at IITs, the time of 20-hour days, of borrowed suits and ties, piecing together a resume with a bullet point here and a bullet point there, plucked out of 3 years of life not particularly well spent.
1x3 - Young's Modulus
May 14, 2021
Students in IIT KGP are 100 miles from the city, with nobody except people exactly like them for company. Teamwork creates magic and loneliness kills. Friendship, like filtered air, is easy to get addicted to and takes a lifetime to quit.