The 58 percenter: The Indian co-worker from a tier 3 college

Through my college and career, I was surrounded by academically high-up-there kind of people. At Google, my friends were BITs top-of-class, IIT top-of-class, JEE digit rankers, on-the-way-to-being-VP friends, and friends with MBAs from Harvard, Stanford and all the fancy back-of-car-sticker colleges you can think of.