Some untold rules in IIT

Laws of Class Scheduling:

• If the course you wanted most has room for "n" students, you will be the "n+1" to apply.
• Class schedules are designed so that every student will waste maximum time between classes.
• Corollary: When you are occasionally able to schedule two classes in a row, they will be held in classrooms at opposite ends of the campus.
• A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the semester following the desired course.
• Eighty percent of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed about the one book you didn't read.
• Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor's course.
• If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
• Corollary: If you are given a take home exam, you will forget where you live.
• The clock in the instructor's room will be wrong.

Rules for Students:

• The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it.
• The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it later.
• Brains x Beauty x Availability = constant.

This constant is always zero.

Rules for Research Work:

• Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
• Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has a wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
• The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
• When all else fails, read the instructions.
• Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.
• Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.

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