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.

Everyone knows about the multinational consulting firm that blacklisted our campus for 2 years. What actually happened: A senior was giving the online technical interview for his roommate using a second monitor and an external Bluetooth microphone. Midway through the coding challenge, the webcam mirror reflection on the hostel window clearly showed the second guy sitting on the bed frantically typing code into ChatGPT. The interviewer asked: 'Could the gentleman on the bed please explain why he chose Quicksort over Mergesort?'. The silence was so loud you could hear the ceiling fan squeaking.

When I entered Mechanical Engineering, I was the sole female student in a classroom of 69 boys. In the first year, every move I made felt scrutinized. If I scored high in Thermodynamics, people whispered it was favoritism. If I made a mistake on the lathe machine in workshop, people claimed 'girls can't handle machinery'. It took 2 years of proving myself, staying back after hours, and getting my hands covered in grease to earn mutual respect. Now I am graduating as department gold medalist and heading to an electric mobility R&D center. To every girl entering core engineering: take up space unapologetically.

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

Duolingo's primary engagement moat isn't language lessons — it's loss aversion tied to the 'Streak' counter. Features like Streak Freeze, Double or Nothing wagers, and widget alerts on iOS home screens trigger dopamine loops that maintain daily active usage even when learners are busy. Great case study for student product managers.

Items you will desperately need in your first week: 1. Good extension board with surge protection 2. Electric kettle with auto-cut 3. An umbrella that can survive monsoon winds (cheap folding ones will snap) 4. Mattress topper (hostel coir mattresses feel like solid concrete for the first month) 5. At least 6 passport-size photos and 10 photocopies of Aadhaar/12th marksheet 6. First-aid pouch with paracetamol, antacids, and band-aids. Save this post!

To the girl with the red highlights in IC building 3rd floor at 2 PM with the oversized vintage beige blazer who was speedrunning Linear Algebra while listening to Mac DeMarco... you're an absolute polymath and I was too intimidated to even breathe. Can I please buy you an iced mocha at the cafeteria tomorrow? ☕✨ #CampusCrush #ICBuilding #Polymath

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.