Why IITians should be trained in a different way

The thought of giving counselling to depressed students is a noble one and one in the right direction. When IITians enter the campus they bring with them a lot of apprehensions which need to be cleared. Most of the students are from humble backgrounds and tier-II cities. And sometimes the families they belong to may not be radical as the IIT life expects them to. Pressures of performance and expectations can burden them. Also a sense of achievement engulfs a student when he clears JEE after couple of years of rigorous hardwork and he is very naturally in a state of burnout. So the tendency is to relax and enjoy and free yourself from the burden and live a college life (probably the one shown in movies) which is visualized to be much better than the life you left behind. But more often than not the students are disappointed. Now they are competing with people who are like them or probably better than them. Students from small towns or tier II, III cities generally do not match the education that students from metros or top schools bring along with them. Naturally the students are more or less similar in their levels of IQ but skills they possess can be quite different. A very simple case would be two students entering into computer science department one from say a DPS and one from say a small town like Harda in MP. One might have an access to best computer education in his school available in India, may have had a trip to a US school, may be the editor of his school magazine, participated in programming contests internationally etc etc and the other unaware of these worldly affairs a simple yet intelligent student seeing his counterpart and overawed by him/her. What it leads to is questions which his mind never asked before. He feels deprived and senses a inferiority complex which he hasn't before. He sees no other boy from his school around, not many to share or understand his thought process and feels depressed. He might even neglect or deny it but there's something that he feels which is different and troubling and trickling his mind all the time. Its change of worlds for one and its quite simple for the other. In no time their performance differs and confidence for one starts shaking. Make no mistake, it takes a lot of emotional balancing before your mind however sharp it may be performs upto its limits. IIT life exposes these differences to the hilt as clashes take place between similar IQs and different exposures and skillsets. Add to it the stubborn attitude of professors whose teaching theories and beliefs are not only outdated but also rigid. Its something that you live to learn with in IIT life. Yes, life is somewhat similar and people are exposed to different environment but IIT life is exceptional is some ways to bring that out and flash on your mind. I think the points discussed are applicable more to institutes in Delhi and Mumbai maybe Chennai as well. I think IITs should focus on behavioral differences of students and have light courses in the first semester to give breathing space to students and to adjust to a newer environment for better emotional stability of all students. I know they have huge expectations but its also important that maximum output is extracted out of the bunch or should I call the cream there.