Booker's Law
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Came across this - A ranking of world universities while going through Aderemi's Notebook. This ranking was done by Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Institute of Higher Education. Their exact quotation being

We rank universities by several indicators of academic or research performance, including Nobel laureates, highly cited researchers, articles published in Nature and Science, articles in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index, and academic performance per faculty. Read more here.

Why would they affect me that much? - Well, because of this fact : Only one Asian university is in the top 20, the rest are American universities. With IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur being ranked between 451 and 500 and IISc in the range of 251 to 300. They also stand pretty low in the Asia Pacific University ranking - about 27 - 36. To top it all, my univ isn't even there.
Mind you - IISc and IIT's are world class universities with standard equalling or even surpassing those of Stanford, MIT, Harvard. Many of you mite have even seen the documentary that glorifies the image that is IIT.
Is it a big deal? YES, it is for ME. And probably for all IITians, even for Indians, maybe. Read this and this for starters. The IIT Org contains all that is to know of IITians around the world.
Seeing this ranking now enrages me a lot more. It hurts the prides that resides in every student when he steps into this dream institution. It wouldnt be wrong to say that the brand name of IIT is one of the most well known ones all over the world. IITians still lead over many prestigious companies over the entire globe.
And this puny ranking system tries to decry it all.
If I was not so restricted on my vocabulary here, there wouldnt be enough space here to depracate all of their rankings.
We'll show them what it is to be IITians.
PB : If I have been extremely biased/boastful/inclined towards IIT's in this post, pardom me. I felt that this was needed