Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT

Five Point Someone is a story about three friends in IIT who are unable to cope. The book starts with a disclaimer, -This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. In fact, it describes how screwed up things can get if you don-t think straight.- Three hostelmates - Alok, Hari and Ryan get off to a bad start in IIT - they screw up the firs Five Point Someone is a story about three friends in IIT who are unable to cope.

The book starts with a disclaimer, -This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. In fact, it describes how screwed up things can get if you don-t think straight.- Three hostelmates - Alok, Hari and Ryan get off to a bad start in IIT - they screw up the first class quiz. And while they try to make amends, things only get worse.

It takes them a while to realize: If you try and screw with the IIT system, it comes back to double screw you. Before they know it, they are at the lowest echelons of IIT society. They have a five-point-something GPA out of ten, ranking near the end of their class.

This GPA is a tattoo that will remain with them, and come in the way of anything else that matters - their friendship, their future, their love life. While the world expects IITians to conquer the world, these guys are struggling to survive. Will they make it?

Do under performers have a right to live? Can they show that they are not just a five-point-somebody but a five-point-someone?