The administrators of India’s elite IIT universities know how to prepare their students for tomorrow’s high-tech future — take away their Net access. From Stop surfing, make friends, students told:
One of India’s top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its hostels, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students’ performance, making them reclusive and even suicidal.Authorities at the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socializing and many were late for morning classes or slept through them.
Not that I don’t think they’re right…