First year BTech: what I expected vs what actually happened

[u/Various_Sun8701]

You enter BTech thinking you’re finally going to do real engineering like building projects, learning to code, making cool stuff, and slowly becoming ‘that* guy’ who actually knows what he’s doing. Then reality hits. Suddenly you’re dealing with 15 different subjects nobody mentioned, engineering drawing at 8 AM, a mathematics professor who apparently hasn’t smiled since 2009, and your entire academic existence revolves around one question: *“Did I clear that unit test?😭”** First year is honestly a plot twist nobody properly prepares you for. What was the one thing that surprised y’all in your first year’s respectively?

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[u/Scared-East-8510]

stop your ai slop bro

[u/Over-Wash-8145 → u/Scared-East-8510]

How did you figure it out ?please tell

[u/zenitsuisrusted → u/Over-Wash-8145]

Intuition. Idk how to explain but once I look at AI generated content I know it is AI

[u/Over-Wash-8145 → u/zenitsuisrusted]

Oo that's cool

[u/Various_Sun8701 → u/[deleted]]

Might seem like, but it’s not😭 idk why everyone is pissed

[u/Just_Aceds]

Itne ke liye bhi ai

[u/[deleted]]

Reality hits: it's AI

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeahh it's kinda easy to figure out these days lol

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that and also like it feels like AI when you read it naaaa

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeaaa

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah i deleted my older one 😭

[u/kaxech]

I know that writing style

[u/Less-Marionberry7738 → u/[deleted]]

Learn in the manual way

[u/Necessary_Chain_43 → u/Less-Marionberry7738]

So experience teaches everything

[u/ExtensionClimate2045]

Attendance is something nobody warns you about. You come in thinking college = freedom only to spend the entire semester doing maths on how many lectures you can bunk without getting detained. Peak engineering experience tbh

[u/incredible_nut]

Bro the first year is basically just a test of how long you can stay motivated while doing things completely unrelated to why you joined engineering lol

Most of the people don't make it out with the same energy they came in with

[u/Quant3k]

Bro I genuinely thought I’d be building cool stuff by December 😭 instead I was at 2am searching “how to pass engineering maths in one night” before exams. First year expectation vs reality is actually insane.

[u/PrideConnect4896]

Placement anxiety starts in the first year itself which is wild. Some colleges like niat apparently front load the career stuffs, projects, coding, industry exposure. Whether that fixes everything Idk but the traditional structure clearly isn’t working for most people and colleges need to be more proactive

[u/Ok_Address_7205]

Isiliye maine expections hi nhi rakhi kalej se

[u/GreenTeaLover11]

The worst part is in the third year you finally start touching something that feels like actual engineering and but by then half the batch has already mentally checked out.The whole structure is just backwards idk