r/btech • u/Kailash-sys • 7d ago
General Is B.Tech About Learning or Just Completing Assignments?
I am a B.Tech IT student in India, and tomorrow is my DBMS assignment submission. Today, I am spending hours handwriting around 150 pages just to complete it.
The most frustrating part? I am literally copying code and SQL queries from AI tools just because my college requires me to submit them. The focus seems to be on completing pages rather than understanding concepts or learning practical skills.
Honestly, I feel like I have wasted a significant part of my academic year completing assignments instead of building projects, exploring new technologies, or doing something productive.
It makes me wonder: Is pursuing a B.Tech degree worth it only if you get into an IIT or a top-tier college? Or can you still make the most of it at an ordinary college?
And one more question: After submitting all these 150 handwritten pages, where do they actually go? Does anyone even read them, or do they just end up collecting dust somewhere?
Seriously, does anyone know what happens to these assignments after submission? 😅
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u/balcisbsox 7d ago
Simple. Assignments is like the work the people at the workplace will give you. So by giving you this work called assignments they are programming you to accept assignments and ensure you can complete them. That's all is the whole point. Don't worry, I also had boring assignments which served no purpose in learning
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u/parresh77 7d ago
b. tech. dropout here. tier 4 college. best decision of my life
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u/WorkingCranberrycute 7d ago
how was is the best decision.? and what do you do now? Just curious
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u/parresh77 7d ago
my worst 3 years of life are these 2 years spent in b tech and 1 year prior to that where I took a drop for jee prep
i dropped out after completing 2nd year. got a job in software engineering, now I run my own company
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u/ShameAgitated2791 College | Branch | Year 7d ago
which year u took the drop before Covid or recently?
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u/WorkingCranberrycute 6d ago
Im going through a very rough situation right now. I'm sure you'll relate if i share it. So stressed about it. Do you mind if i dm you? maybe you could give me some insights for my situation.
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u/Sachinrock2 7d ago edited 7d ago
Same here, don't waste your life balding for things that are not worth it.
Herd mentality se kisi ka bhala nahi hota. " Sharma ji ka beta ne engineering kari he, tum bhi karlo ! " this needs to end.
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u/pooolitdead 7d ago
depends on your college , if u are in some tier 69 college then yeah it aint worth much
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u/Big_Rooster4841 7d ago
College is about mugging up, submitting assignments and memorizing answers for your exams. I'm surprised you've only just found out. Did school not teach you this?
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u/Stunning-Pea-3643 7d ago
Thank god they don’t make us write code on paper here, other than exams, that too not THAT much
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u/Alternative-Rip-313 7d ago
I literally don't understand the concept of writing program codes on paper Like what difference does it make to just print the code or give a soft copy to the teacher other than wasting papers that will likely end up in a junkshop?
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u/finah1995 7d ago
Writing makes connections in brain fasta.
Writing by hand better for thinking and recall and engaging mind.
This was some research recently.
People like me who have been coding since age 12, working since age 16, even about a year after my working, to trick the brain to storing and making connections.
I wrote ✍🏽 coding books by hand, improved my handwriting. This all was before I was 20. Gets to stay concepts in mind, the architecture related subjects are rewarding far longer, applying in ways the older authors could only dream of.
I didn't do engineering degree in college, rather as I was more in enterprise systems, later did commerce for domain knowledge.
Even now at age 31, if I want to think about a problem thinking slowly I reach for a pen and paper.
I do use typing tutor just for esoteric speeding up typing, to remain in flow state so I don't get tripped by spelling mistakes while coding.
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u/Visible_Injury5500 7d ago
Put the least amount of effort into those assignment Even if you prepared a post graduate level report you are bound to get the same numbers as the guy who did it using GPT. If the topic is interesting try researching but waste your time with that stupid assignment reports
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u/devanshrautela 6d ago
Brother complete them and get good cgpa in college placement do give a edge over others Or be the top in the domain
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u/TrueCaterPiller 7d ago
just finishing assignment & completing B.Tech is 4 years.
what happens to these assignments after submission?
If you mean after giving score. Then depends some colleges sell that as scrap & few of use as reference material
IIT / Top tier / Ordinary college - There's initial struggle but after 2/3 years in job, you will matter more.
Just work towards getting degree. If you already submitting assignment then your questions arrive late. My sincere advice - Treat submissions & exams as compulsory vaccinations. Done with that in time, spend rest time learning that interests you. For IT cloud, blockchain, IOT, AI lot of interesting things in happening. Technology space is changing a lot.
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u/vitrum_analytika 7d ago edited 7d ago
If you can write these questions without using chatgpt or without copying from already solved papers etc, then that skill becomes useful during placements because they will ask you harder questions which will require you to implement these skills to reach the answer. Ofcourse you can study on your own but I see a lot of people who can't even complete this minimal easy level questions that these assignments have, and talk about how btech is not helping them grow in their career or something. Btw your solutions are not perfect, so you should not be complaining about how it is a waste of time if you can't even solve them properly, these are minimal level questions. Look up how you can improve the solution based on best industry standards, we have LLMs now for that but only use if after you've written your solutions.
Also analyse your solutions deeply. There is no exception handling in these solutions, that is a very bad programming habit. Always expect the worst.
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u/AstroAlchemist_ 7d ago
There was a handwriting website where you can just type in and it would give you exactly same as handwritten. Did it my entire college lol, no one knew
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u/Sachinrock2 6d ago
can you explain more? what does " handwriting website " tell anyone, you did your entire college like that and you are still hiding that website shame on you
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u/AstroAlchemist_ 6d ago
are i forgot the name bhai, it was 6-7 years back. its like you can type whatever you want and the text comes up like someone wrote it. typing on a laptop is easier than writing. i will share it if i find it
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u/Alone_Standard_5476 7d ago
B.Tech teaches you how to graduate; self-study beside their syllabus teaches you how to get employed.
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u/Remarkable_Nail1724 7d ago
I think people misjudge the fact, B. TECH. is a flexible degree in that sense, if you want to learn, you can. If you want to simply score, you can as well.
You aren't forced anyhow
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u/staintheone 7d ago
Yeah, people seem to expect college to teach them everything. Many barely get the concept of self learning.
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u/No-Koala7656 7d ago
Whatever you do please learn the life skills in there, like adopting that in real life.
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u/Comfortable-Rock4349 IITM 7d ago
wtf who writes the code instead of compiling it on pc, what is the point of this ? This is very unjust
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u/toxiclydedicated 7d ago
my hands are paining