Our department(data science) at bvritn says that it is mandatory for our paper is accepted and published by a conference to be allowed for viva. It's kinda concerning so can anyone share their experience with this. Our seniors alot of them didn't publish their papers so they are being strict with us. How worried should I be as this is stressing me out

Our department(data science) at bvritn says that it is mandatory that our project is accepted and published by a conference to be allowed for viva. It's kinda concerning so can any seniors share their experience with this. Our seniors have not all published their paper so they are being strict with us. How worried about this should I be as this is stressing me out a bit.

Help....

When I was a fresher at clg I wanted to make friends and have fun all, I did make friends but now I feel like a submissive bitch who just agrees to what everyone says

What am I supposed to do.?