Mr. Archit Gupta, student of Subharti Engineering College selected for IIT

Swami Vivekanand Subharti University takes immense pleasure to announce that one of our students from Subharti Institute of Technology & Engineering i.e. Mr. Archit Gupta (B.Tech. 2016 – 2020, CSE) got selected for IIT, Ranked 206 by scoring 62.98 in GATE 2021. He has chosen IIT Kanpur to pursue his M.Tech CSE. We congratulate him, his family and his faculty for his bright future.

During a conversation with Mr. Archit, we asked some questions which he answered beautifully and are bound to be inspiring for his juniors.

Q1. How was your experience at Subharti?

In one word – life-changing. Believe me, neither I am not exaggerating it nor saying it for advertisement purposes.

First, I dropped a year in Kota to prepare for IIT JEE 2016 and failed the exam terribly. Stress and depression took hold of my life and the financial condition of my family was also not good. So, I decided to forget engineering and pursue B.Sc. But Subharti University provided me with a huge scholarship and took my counselling to take admission in B.Tech and thus pursue engineering.

Second, Teachers here are very supportive. They provided me with every possible help. They started grooming from the first day itself. Moreover, It was when I went through the profiles of some teachers that I came to know about M.tech from IITs. There are so many opportunities, so much to learn, and whatnot. One just needs to see them with open eyes and seize the opportunity.

Q2. Why have you chosen IIT over any other prestigious Institute/University in India or overseas as well? Also, enlighten us why so specific to choose IIT Kanpur, I mean why not IIT Kharagpur or IIT Madras when south is India’s silicon valley?

For pursuing engineering in India, clearly, IITs are the best. No institute can beat them. And coming to universities abroad, IITs fall in rankings just because of some parameters like foreign faculty ratio, number of foreign students admitted which are not important to me. If we neglect these parameters, top IITs are within rank 50. Moreover, IITs are more aware of the Indian students than overseas Institutions.

Coming to the second part of the question, all top 5 IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur) differ on paper but in real life, they all are equivalent. Also, IITK is best when it comes to education in Computer Science. Moreover, I liked the faculty profiles at IITK and its curriculum more as compared to IIT Madras or IIT KGP.

Q3. What was your mission and visions over choosing your domain, what strategies you made for your journey, and what are your future plans? Do you aspire to work with a fat salary package or like many other techies you aspire to have a startup?

Mission and Visions- After getting admission into B.Tech and not into B.Sc (which I wanted at some point of time) and talking to faculty who themselves did their masters from IITs, I understood that I could follow my broken dream of studying at the best colleges of the country once again. I wanted to gain in-depth knowledge of my field (Computer Science) and what better opportunity can one provide than pursuing masters from top IITs and not just being a regular B.Tech

Strategies- First of all, I collected information about GATE and did self-study. Soon, I realized it is not possible for me and so I got enrolled in coaching. It was 2019, I was in my 4^th year and was preparing for GATE CS 2020, placements, projects. Though I succeeded in the latter two in GATE 2020, although I cracked it by a huge margin I got 47/100 marks (AIR 2477) which was not sufficient for getting into top IITs. I understood, I need to focus only on one area and for me, that was being a GATE topper and so I dropped a year to prepare again and left all the companies in which I was placed. In GATE CS 2021, I got 62.98/100 marks (AIR 206).

Future plans- I will be sitting for placements at IIT Kanpur, hoping to work in the field itself and get practical experience first.

Q4. Could you please give a message to all those students who do have some vision & mission of them but don’t get the appropriate guidance for their future?

Believe in yourself! you are capable of doing extraordinary things. Dare to dream!. And dream at such a level, people think you are insane (I was told by one of my classmates while I was studying in the classroom- “Nothing lies in Study and GATE, go take a long sleep daily and have fun in your life”).

If you have a dream/passion/mission. Prioritize it and just focus on it. Make it your top priority and work on other things according to it. I could not achieve my dream while focusing on 3 things at the same time, I emerged only when my dream was the only thing in my life.

For people who don’t get a proper guide, see I also didn’t have any guide. Search on youtube, web and you will definitely get some content there. This way you can enlighten your path. To stay motivated on it, remember external motivation works only for a few moments but be determined and serious about your goals and you will be internally motivated to do what you are required to do.