👋🏻 Everyone,

In this blog, sharing the second-year experiences of college life.

• We had decided to leave the hostel and then live in society (due to proximity to the college). Therefore, finally, we moved to the flat from the 3rd semester itself for the rest of college life.

So foremost, the first-year students always have this question:

Whether they should choose the hostel or live in the flats (i.e., leave the hostel)?

This question itself requires a lot of research and also our parents’ (sometimes relatives’) consent too, due to the environment, culture, and other factors which directly depend on this decision.

Here I will try to explain all the factors that I considered earlier before moving to the flat:

• Roommates
• Culture
• Coordination
• Interest
• Behavior

Here is a snapshot of our flatmates, and we named this group “B@aps”:

B: B@kul Gupt@
@: A…
A: A…
P: P…
S: S…

• During the 2nd year of engineering, I got to know about the LinkedIn platform from our mentors of the college cloud computing team (i.e., CCTIL {Centre For Cloud Computing Technology Innovation & Learning}).

• As mentioned earlier in the previous post, I had no idea about what to do during my engineering life except the college syllabus.

Now, this is the first time I started exploring various fields: competitive programming, hacking, etc.

Example: I started asking for guidance from various people on the LinkedIn platform and other online mediums.

Just like this, there are a lot of examples. Therefore, I learned a lot of things from the mentors available on various platforms such as LinkedIn, Medium, Quora, etc.

Do’s:

• Irrespective of the branch of engineering you are associated with, try to involve yourself in learning the principles of any programming language and automate various redundant tasks.
• Start involving yourself in competitive programming and learn DSA {Data Structures & Algorithms} as soon as possible.
• DSA plays a very important role in each phase of your career (during internships, interviews, placements, etc.).
• Various competitive programming platforms that one can use for learning as well as for practice include:

Spoj, CodeChef, Interviewbit, HackerRank, HackerEarth, CodeForces, LeetCode, GeeksForGeeks, etc.

• Start doing one thing at a time. Once you’re comfortable with the technologies (or programming language), slowly start involving yourself in multitasking, i.e., following your passions as well as learning things according to the current curriculum.
• Additionally, here are a few images of my study table, which I bought earlier during the second year of my college. It constantly helped me concentrate on one thing, irrespective of doing multiple tasks at one time during my initial phase of learning.

Don’t:

• Try to do only one thing during the initial days. This is the same mistake I committed earlier, i.e., involving myself in a lot of technologies and then being unable to give proper time to delve deeper into each technology.

Have a nice day!!!

Thanks for spending your precious time reading the post. Do me a favor, if possible: if any of my connections have stories/experiences to share with their fellows, please share them. It helps a lot for other members to avoid mistakes that have already been committed by us.

Thanks & Regards,
B@kul Gupt@