Seniority

Zonked out after a long night out, as I walk through the corridors of CSE building, I realize that a sense of seniority has started to creep in me. I have always been under the impression that my seniors are much more brilliant than any of my batch fellows, but wonder if we stand upto the mark. Delving into that thought I kind of concluded that, probably the juniors always typically tend to find their seniors smarter in most cases, and probably the hierarchy follows. Actually, I know couple of other people have thought about htis and discussed, like shiva was offlate nicknamed Senior in his lab as he seems to be the person to reach out for in case of any problems in his lab. Totti, getting numerous number of calls from all his juniors for getting fundaes on research etc...
In any case, I think many of us would certainly agree from atleast IITM's culture and intellectual level point of view, that we certainly saw a decline in the intellect level over time in IITM. I wonder even if that was because we always used to rate any batch compared to their senior batches. It just a compliated thing that always takes me by surprise, how we typically form impressions about people across generations.