Rating breakdown: 1. Flavour & Seasoning: 9/10 (rich roasted paneer with tangy green chutney) 2. Crispiness of Paratha: 8.5/10 (flaky without being an oil slick) 3. Portion size: 9/10 (fills you up after a 4-hour lab) 4. Value for Money: 10/10. Conclusion: Undisputed top 3 comfort meal on campus. Always ask bhaiya for extra onions.

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.

We spend four years learning how to optimize compilers, balance chemical equations, and design reinforced concrete beams. Yet, the moment someone picks up a guitar at 1 AM on the hostel lawn, or starts writing poetry in the library gazebos, security guards blow whistles as if a crime has occurred. Engineering is fundamentally about creative problem-solving. When you kill artistic expression, music, and philosophical discussions, you produce robots instead of visionary creators. We need more open mics, hackathons that celebrate art and tech fusion, and campuses that stay alive under the stars.

Our department computer lab has an ancient audio speaker wired to the central teacher console that nobody has touched since 2018. Yesterday during our 2-hour dull Solid State Physics lecture, someone found the open Bluetooth receiver named 'LAB_AUDIO_SYSTEM_01' and connected to it from the last bench. Instead of playing a joke, they queued up the lofi instrumental version of 'Kun Faya Kun' at 10% volume. The entire lab went dead quiet, and even the professor paused mid-equation, smiled, and said 'Chalo, mahaul accha hai' and kept writing.

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.

1. The 3-5 close friends who will pick up your call at 3 AM ten years from now. 2. The ability to learn a completely new domain from scratch in two weeks without getting overwhelmed. 3. Your health, emotional resilience, and communication skills. Keep your GPA above the eligibility cutoff (usually 7.5 or 8.0), but don't sacrifice your youth and friendships chasing a 9.8.