Many students, give up on being a passionate engineer without even trying, after the disappointment of not getting into an IIT. 

They do not realize that scoring marks in a competitive exam is not the same as being a good engineer and being valued for solving real problems creatively. 

If you're in a tier two college and you want to be at par with an IIT pass out at the end of four years...

if you are in mechanical, because you did not get computer science and you want to be ready for a software engineering job at the end of four years...

You can do so by forming a community of like-minded passionate friends in your college and moving forward as a group. Together, you can do much more.

We have with us Kaushik Balasundar today. He's just finishing his engineering. While studying, Kaushik formed a community around learning ROS (robot operating system). It is a bit tough to get started on. Then they participated in the international conference on intelligent robots and systems and other competitions by building many different robots.

They won awards and it reinforced their confidence. Now Kaushik is headed to Carnegie Mellon university for his masters in robotics. 

Above all Kaushik is a great engineer right out of college.