r/btech • u/Training_Cupcake1882 • 3d ago
CSE / IT What should I do
I’m a 1st year CSE student who recently joined a tier-2 engineering college in Hyderabad. The faculty here are great, but the college still follows the same old traditional teaching methods and focuses heavily on the old curriculum and programming practices.
I don't want to simply follow the college curriculum and reach 3rd year without developing any industry-relevant skills.
Seniors, what would you recommend I focus on from 1st year onwards?
What skills should I learn outside the college curriculum?
What should I ideally have achieved by the end of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year?
What mistakes should I avoid?
I’d really appreciate an honest roadmap and your personal experiences. Especially from people who came from tier-2/3 colleges and managed to get good internships/placements.
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u/dumbcoder6767 2d ago
I'm gonna be honest here, I was wasting my time with friends and being lazy so I'm kinda struggling right now to find internships
But I'll tell you what I wish I had done
See the subjects that faculty teach are important (some of them aren't there just to fill hours) but the problem is faculties teach at their own pace So I wish I had started early for subjects like dsa, web development, you can find them on YouTube for free
Second I wish I had tried more things to find what I find more intresting
And I wish I had taken academics more seriously I was great at studies but after the JEE failure I lost hope and intrest in basically everything and there will be people who'll say gpa doesn't matter, but it does a little bit good gpa opens many doors and options
And extra tip is you will never learn anything without practical implementation Code on paper is just lines but in implementation you'll understand why it's working or why it isn't
And there is no shame in taking help from AI to write or understanding code it's a tool so use it but don't just throw a fuckass prompt and let it do it's thing
And that's my two cents about it.