Life in an IIT: How an IIT Guwahati Student Overcame His Fear of Science to Ace JEE Physics
Aryan Sandeep Gupta, a final-year BTech student in Data Science and AI at IIT Guwahati, recalls how a teenage fear of science and a YouTube rabbit-hole nearly steered him toward commerce instead — until family and teachers pushed him back, and he went on to score full marks in JEE Main Physics before securing AIR 1001 in JEE Advanced. In this Indian Express “Life in an IIT” profile, the 21-year-old from Surat describes turning down Mathematics and Computing offers at IIT Hyderabad and IIT Kanpur to hold out for his preferred Data Science and AI seat at IIT Guwahati, and recounts four years shaped as much by the dramatics society Xpressions, inter-IIT cultural meets, and hostel life as by coursework. He shares hard-won advice on balancing health, academics and campus involvement, and reflects on picking up Assamese and Telugu from friends — a skill that unexpectedly came in handy during a Microsoft internship in Hyderabad.
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