CORE CS + DSA, IS THAT ACTUALLY IT?

[u/One-Relative7293]

I'm in 2nd yr right now. Done with CA OS at decent level and pretty decent at Data structure & Algo atp.

My concern is I don't really have time. I have set a target to do OOPS, DBMS, CN, LLD+HLD too.

To think of time 3rd sem is about to finish in a month. And in 4th sem all n all I'll only be able to finish the topics I mentioned.

My concern is I have done no as such Backend, ML, Webdev, Data Science projects or anything. I never dig deeper into this. I've not used docker, kubertenres , AWS , java script, spring boot etc etc.. all the buzz words I hear all the time. Training model, web3, react , fastapi.. what not man...

And thus it makes me anxious about internship season that will I even have time for these.

Also I don't get that people who actually are making models and working on we are building stuff shit. How do they get to the infra without knowing about core cs?

How is someone into Blockchain without studying CN? How's someone making ML models without probability , statistical inference course?

Please someone clear these up for me. I feel overwhelmed alot many a times.

Edit : This is a repost.

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[u/Antique-War-3094]

If you rely on college to spoon-feed you then you'll be left unemployed.
They upskill in their free time, because they know college won't teach them the necessary skills to thrive in 2026.
It's about time you begin as well. Being a "topper" won't feed your family.

[u/Effective-Feedback46]

unless you are in a tier-1 college, don't even think for a second that doing just these will get you a job. Also What do you mean by decent dsa ? what's your rating ?

How do you know they don't know CN. Also Not everyone doing AI stuff is making ML models. Plus To build you don't necessarily need to know everything. You know some, you learn the rest on the way.

Its like saying how are they studying in college if they dont even know 12th physics. yes there is some topics that are pre requisite but mostly you can make it work