There are always 4 people in an engineering group project: 1. The Overworked One: Writes 100% of the code, creates the 45-slide PPT, and sets up AWS credentials. 2. The Emotional Support One: Buys samosas and chai for person #1. 3. The Phantom: Attended 1 meeting in January, never seen again until 5 minutes before evaluation. 4. The Presentation Guy: Didn't write a single line of code, but speaks fluent corporate buzzwords and gets an A+ from the external examiner. Which one are you?

To the girl in the olive green oversized hoodie who sits on the 2nd floor of Central Library at Table 4 every evening between 5 PM and 8 PM reading Operating Systems concepts: You have the most radiant focus I've ever seen. Whenever you get stuck on a difficult algorithm problem, you bite your pen cap and tilt your head. I've wanted to bring you a cold coffee from the Nescafe kiosk for 3 weeks straight but my heart races every time I think of walking up. If you see this and smile, leave a green sticky note on Table 4 tomorrow.

We were playing corridor cricket in Block B with a taped tennis ball at 1:30 AM. My roommate hit an accidental lofted straight drive that sailed right through the hostel warden's open kitchen window and landed directly into his pressure cooker whistle. We had 10 seconds to decide whether to flee or retrieve the ball. We ran. The next morning at the notice board, the warden put up: 'Whoever hit the sixer into my dal, come collect your ball and pay 200 rs for broken spices'. True story.

Never charge hourly when starting out — clients will question why a bug took 3 hours to fix. Charge per project milestone: - Milestone 1: Wireframes & visual designs in Figma (30% upfront) - Milestone 2: Functional staging deployment (40%) - Milestone 3: Production domain launch & handover (30%). Never deploy to their live domain until the final payment is cleared in your account.

Include this sentence in your initial proposal contract: 'Project includes up to 2 rounds of design revisions. Additional revision rounds or changes to approved wireframes will be billed at ₹1,500/hour.' The moment revisions have a price tag, clients suddenly become remarkably clear about what they actually want.

We were paying $18/month for an idle t3.micro EC2 instance just to run a lightweight campus dining API that only receives traffic at lunch and dinner. Porting to Cloudflare Workers (V8 isolates at edge) reduced cold starts to 0ms, eliminated server maintenance, and stayed comfortably within the 100,000 free daily request tier. Serverless edge is perfect for university projects.

As a graduating 8th semester student with a great offer and zero regrets, here is the master checklist I wish someone handed me on Day 1: 1. Maintain a CGPA above 8.0. It keeps 95% of company and MS shortlist gates open without needing you to be a bookworm. 2. Pick ONE deep engineering stack in 2nd year (Cloud, Backend, ML, Mobile, or Systems) and build 2 non-trivial production systems. 3. Make friends across different departments. Your circle of designers, finance people, and civil engineers will be your future startup cofounders. 4. Travel with your hostel friends on long weekends. Work will always be there, but your college youth won't. 5. Don't be afraid to fail early. The best projects emerge from crashed prototypes.

I can’t take it anymore. People outside think NIT Warangal is a top-3, Tier-1 institute, but living here is an absolute nightmare. 1. Basic Infrastructure Failures (No tables, no chairs, broken toilets) No Basic Amenities: We haven't even been provided basic study tables and chairs in our hostel rooms. How is a student supposed to study or sit comfortably in their own room? Sanitation Crisis: The hostel toilets are biohazards. Flushes don't work, jet sprays are completely broken, a

I can’t take it anymore. People outside think NIT Warangal is a top-3, Tier-1 institute, but living here is an absolute nightmare. 1. Basic Infrastructure Failures (No tables, no chairs, broken toilets) No Basic Amenities: We haven't even been provided basic study tables and chairs in our hostel rooms. How is a student supposed to study or sit comfortably in their own room? Sanitation Crisis: The hostel toilets are biohazards. Flushes don't work, jet sprays are completely broken, a

Slide 1: Gathering 4 people to contribute 1 packet each Slide 2: The illegal electric kettle humming under a blanket so the warden doesn't hear Slide 3: Realizing nobody has a bowl so we are eating it with an ID card ruler Pure hostel engineering. Best meal of the entire week.

Classic computer architecture experiment: Iterate over 100,000 integers and conditionally sum elements > 128. If the array is unsorted, the CPU's branch predictor misses 50% of the time, stalling the instruction pipeline. If the array is sorted, branch prediction accuracy is ~99%, and execution runs 6x faster. Understanding hardware mechanics makes you a dramatically better programmer.

Question: 'Estimate the number of cups of tea consumed daily on your university campus.' 1. State clarifying assumptions (campus student population = 6,000; hosteler vs day scholar split = 80/20). 2. Segment by user personas (non-tea drinkers = 30%, light drinkers = 1 cup/day, heavy exam grinders = 3 cups/day). 3. Add faculty and canteen footfall. 4. Sanity check with canteen vendor batch sizes. Interviewers care about structured logic, not the exact number.