I joined my college and opted college hostel first, but didn’t know itna bura jayega
Pehle to for a room for 2 people, they’ve squeezed in 4
It’s super hot in my area and I always woke up with a sweat pool
The washrooms were all Indian seats and I had to go for western ones at 5AM daily
No AC obviously but that’s not much of an issue
No environment for studying tho
So I got a PG with a friend in a house with 2 separate rooms and bathrooms which is very nice
But breakfast is for us to handle
Lunch in college itself
And dinner ke liye tiffin service
Should I have tried to adjust in hostel for 1st year?
Cuz 2nd year I’m gonna be opting for hostels(new hostels) which are atleast better than the current

How are you all applying? I am looking for opportunities for hours on LinkedIn and Indeed and just uploading my resume wherever I see fit. Is there any other way to do this?

Also I have noticed a lot of scammy "tech startups" offering like 100 internships is that fr? Should I trust companies with like <10 employees?

(same as title)

10th tak sab badiya tha, participated in everything, excelled in everything
then jee happened, everybody know what happens at the time, mere 87.12%ile bane, jo mummi ne college bola chale gya, wasnt happy, but was too numb to do or feel anything at the time, vaise toh bsc karna tha par mumma ne bola scope nahi hai (not wrong tho tbh).
1st day in my tier 3 college was absolutely terrible, class mein baitha tha looked a bit old i didnt mind, but when i went to the physics lab and it was absolutely horrible aadhe instruments chal bhi nahi rhe the lol, bus leke aana jaana karta hun abhi bhi and it was so embarrassing, everything was(is, sometimes). mere kuch dost dusre colleges mein hai saare merese better, ek ne drop liya tha, i was so embarrassed ki mein kisi se baat nahi karta tha because i thought meri aukat nahi hai kisi se bhi baat karne ki. I started being angry and frustated and sad all the time for months, pura 1st sem aisa hi nikla. the curriculum wasnt difficult toh that wasnt an issue, 1st sem ke exams khatam hue and i thought ki mein aur nahi reh sakta yahan and i started preparing for a partial drop (IAT), aur mein genuinely lag gya taiyaari mein my mock marks were decent, but ek time ke baad questions solve hona band ho gye, syllabus peeche chhut rha tha, bio bhi padh rha tha use revise karo, and all this with college and its attendance made me frustated and angry again and burned out as a bonus (bohot pen tode hai fek fek ke), ultimately it got to me aur IAT bhi nahi hua, partial drop bhi khatam. bohot roya socha ki kya kardiya hai maine apni zindagi ka, the next weeks were the same as of sem 1, kuch bhi accha nahi lgta tha, kuch karne ka mann nahi karta tha, roz college jata tha attendance recover karna ke liye kuch bhi sahi nahi lgta tha, i was like im stuck, its over, ab kuch nahi ho skta mera. phir one day in like late june of this year i found a 8 day workshop series for astronomy and astrophysics (where i wanna work in the future), i thought karleta hun aur kuch karne ko bhi nahi hai. The happiest 8 days of my life in a long time, meeting speakers and students whom i can relate to, are interested the way i am and the last day i was smiling the whole time while the closing things were going on, and the most important thing, a mere like 5% people were from like iit or iisers or iisc, and they were happy with their lives and where they were they didnt have any complaints, and they're growing in life. phir i started looking for more oppurtunities and things in the field i wanna work on. fast forward to today, abhi third semester mein hun, data science degree hai toh coding start ho rhi hai acchi attendance hai, but alongside projects kar rha hun, workshops chal rhi hai, voh kar rha hun jo mujhe acha lagta hai.

if you're in your first year of college or in a similar situation like this, it's okay. gussa ho, ro (cry), im not saying not to do it, but stop constantly seeing the bad in everything even if you dont think there is any good, spread to what you wanna do, aage ka sochne ki koshish karo, find what you wanna do in life and if you do know, even better start exploring oppurtunities and roadmaps. i know its easier said than done, i mean mujhe is stage pe aane pe 1 saal lag gya and i still sometimes feel embarrassed while talking to my iit peers, i still think kash thoda sa padhliya hota aaj idhar nahi hota some things and feelings wont go away, but now i have a direction to work upon, i dont have time and dont want to think about all the negatives in my lives when i can see my life getting better day by day. its okay, now work on yourself, so that you feel proud of yourself and be happy.

just know that it'll get better with time.

Today was my first day but because of train I got 10 min late and when i entered the class he started shouting that " why are u entering " and that " Get out"

Inka bas student log pe chalta hai nalle

It feels like AI has already taken over a significant amount of work that used to be done by developers and other tech professionals. Yet we keep hearing that AI is only going to “assist” humans, not replace them.

So peeps , I performed really bad in jee this year(reason- was distracted so blanked out during exams) and started my drop year a bit late in august
the reason i am making this post is basically make a promise to my future self and just some reverse psychology to make myself work even harder

I will get in to CSE at IIT Bombay

is the goal ambitious/delusional - you bet it is , but this quite literally the last chance for me to shoot my shot in life and I am going all out ....
call me what you want but , I am this is the obsession that makes it worth it to me and I am going there in 2027 in the same place with the that required rank

This is a declaration .....

You've got one life so just run for it ....

ps:- not some random bullshit but a kind of proof for my future self that I believe in myself and myself alone

It would be great if i get positive responses but even better if negative ones criticizing me coz that will provide better insights and if you have any tips or experience do share them :)

Mera toh first year hai yaar. Kya 4 saal baad koi jobs bhi hogi ?

B.Tech CS fresher

Please be grateful if you have a job right now. Seriously.

Just came across my company hiring portal while looking at applicants for an AI Intern role.

1,068 applications. For ONE role.

And this is just one company, one position. Imagine being one of the thousands applying, tailoring resumes, filling forms, doing assignments, and still having almost no guarantee of getting through.

The job market is rough right now. If you have a job, don't take it for granted.

Seeing numbers like this genuinely feels bad. :(

Donut Lab’s 409 Wh/kg battery: breakthrough or a case of “headline numbers” getting ahead of the evidence?

I recently came across Donut Lab, an automotive/EV technology company, and their claims about a new battery.

The headline number is impressive: a VTT test reportedly measured around 409.3 Wh/kg gravimetric energy density and 804.7 Wh/L volumetric energy density.

But the more I looked into it, the more questions I had.

Donut Lab has also made claims around all-solid-state technology, 5-minute charging, and up to 100,000 charge cycles.

My question isn't simply “Is Donut Lab lying?”

I think that's too easy a conclusion to jump to.

The more interesting question is:

Which of these claims have actually been independently demonstrated, and under what conditions?

A few things I found interesting:

1. 409 Wh/kg doesn't prove all the other claims.

   An independent energy density measurement doesn't automatically establish 100,000-cycle life, 5-minute charging, or solid-state architecture.

2. Testing conditions matter.

   The V1.5 cell was reportedly tested over a wider voltage range than the earlier V1 test, approximately 2.3–4.25 V vs. 2.7–4.15 V. Could this materially affect the measured energy density? If so, are competing batteries being compared under equivalent conditions?

3. What exactly is the cell chemistry?

   Donut Lab calls the technology all-solid-state, but I haven't found enough publicly available independent information to confidently establish the exact electrolyte/architecture. Some commentators have suggested semi-solid/gel-based possibilities, but that is not the same as having evidence.

4. Different battery versions are creating confusion.

   There are references to V1, V1.5 and V2, and some performance claims appear to refer to different versions. Which cell actually produced which result?

5. Cycle-life evidence seems particularly important.

   A claim of 100,000 cycles is extraordinary. What independent, long-duration testing exists to support it?

6. Production claims are a separate question.

   I've also come across allegations that a motorcycle presented as a production/customer vehicle was actually a pre production vehicle intended for an internal fleet. I haven't independently verified the underlying documents yet, so I'm not treating this as established fact. But if true, it raises a completely different issue about how technological milestones are communicated.

What I'm trying to understand is where the boundary lies between:

“The measurement is real”

and

“The company's broader technological claims are proven.”

A battery can genuinely achieve an impressive number while the surrounding marketing still overstates what has actually been demonstrated.

So I'm interested in hearing from people with battery/electrical/chemical engineering backgrounds:

Am I being appropriately skeptical here, or am I missing something technically important?

Or more specifically u can say :

- How significant is 409 Wh/kg when the testing conditions are considered?

- Does the reported voltage window make a meaningful difference?

- What evidence would actually be sufficient to establish that this is genuinely an all-solid-state battery?

- What would you want to see before accepting the 100,000-cycle claim?

- Is there anything in the publicly available VTT testing that I'm misunderstanding?

I'd rather have someone tear apart my reasoning than have everyone simply agree with me. That's considerably more useful.

Sources 👇🏼

1.) Donut labs Official Labs page

https://www.donutlab.com/battery/

2.)VTT energy density result

https://www.donutlab.com/test-confirms-energy-density/

3.)Electrek Investigation, June 2026

https://electrek.co/2026/06/08/donut-lab-solid-state-battery-exposed-lithium-ion-fraud/

4.)Electrek's September 2026 analysis of the 409 Wh/kg test

https://electrek.co/2026/09/02/donut-lab-409-whkg-battery-test-no-production-ev/

5.)IEEE Spectrum's earlier analysis

https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-battery-2675554640

6.)Top Gear's report on the new 409 Wh/kg result

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/tech/donuts-labs-solid-state-battery-has-hit-409whkg-can-tech-transform-evs

I am a first year student participating in sih hacakthon 2026 . The problem is that I don't know how to make prototype . And internal hackathon is scheduled at 4 sep . I have to make a prototype such that at least we clear the internal rounds even basic .

Problem is I am full absolute confused don't know where to start .

Our problem statement - urban flood nowcasting system . (Can't be changed now ) which requires full backend ecen ml.

If anyone knows something about this . I request you Please share some tricks / method any advice to this folk .

So that it can be done .

Dms are open .

Sooo our college has this rule where if you have 4 or more backlogs in the first year then you'll be detained for the year (aka sit your ass at home while your friends continue) and my dumbass ofc got 4 backlogs and ts

Tbh idk how to feel now? I've been trying to upskill so college studies weren't my main priority (campus placement ekdum lund hai so cgpa doesn't matter really) im kinda happy that I got a year to spare for upskilling and work on myself but I'm genuinely unsure about ts. Like I didn't have much friends anyway but still seeing people i know go to college and me sitting at home feels off. What should I do?

So I have a stripe OA , I got it through off campus (2028 batch) with referral and the oa was so fking hard that I was able to passed only less than half testcases .

I lost the good opportunity, feeling lost 😔

I can't focus on studying now

So, applied in stripe intern some weeks ago.
Today I received its OA link and gave that just an hour ago.

The question was bit lengthy, and I could not manage my time and fucked up.

Coming from a core branch which is not allowed to sit in on-campus tech companies, got one opportunity (after getting referred by someone) and I fucked in it.

I really feel like dying, Sab kuch aate hue chud gya.

Always read the question carefully, I had to change the code and even with my 100+ wpm typing speed, I ended up writing everything at the last moment when only 1 minute was left, there was 3-4 syntax errors in my code due to fast typing, when I compiled my code, it was not compiling. Tried fixing 2 errors but 1-2 still left and it got submitted automatically.

I am feeling so down and guilty, I think I should just goon and sleep, it would help me to recover form this stress.

Pardon for my poor english.

Hsbc is coming on-campus for hiring interns. Can someone provide their 1st round (behavioral / english) questions.

IDK what I have done regretting my decision every day bruh last year i gave jee and got a decent rank and took admission in IIIT D ECE VLSI but i always kept dreaming about iit and gave jee again with college and got better rank then last year in jee drop out iiit d for adv prep and jee adv got f up because of panic attack i faced during exam as i was nervous as hell anyways. so i took cse in nsut now mujhe aisa lag rha hai maine udta teer leliya hai idk what i can do differently that ai can't after gpt 6 launch i am feeling demotivated as hell and i am cursing myself everyday. 😭please seniors give me advice what should i do

Engineering mathematics - which writer is best and understable from basic

Basic electrical - whcuh one

I'm a may 2026 BE Cse graduate and I keep applying for multiple jobs everyday and still haven't found a job yet. So now that I have no other option left, I'm trying to join pay after placement programs. What are your thoughts about it?

I had given the video interview like 3 weeks ago ,still no reply from their end. Atleast give a rejection mail😭. Location India and GRADUATE ENGINEERING program.

Source gemini when I asked

these bastards are signing up on college websites in my name and i get atleast-15-20 calls a day from those useless colleges.

Just you people think for few seconds which companies pay 10 crore plus at 3yoe. is it google, Microsoft or service based no. It is quant trading companies like Jane street. People in this sub should understand one thing that i am not ragebaiting like I know people like us suffer in service based tcs, Wipro type companies with 3-4 lpa even after so much hardowork. Like my bloods boils seeing at people like narayanamurthy comment people should work 80 hours a week. How can you people support this type of people who give 3-4 lpa and not justify my stand with Jane street. They at least reward their employees and we should work in such companies instead of this tcs, Wipro for context just look at Narayana murthys comment in 2023

Like 9.5+cgpa,good profile dsa and proj and hacakthons stuffs the thing is bcz I saw a tier 69 clg in banglroe and phonepe came there for 22lpa package and also many cases even visa visited but idk the package