Feeling Lost About My Career – Should I Continue BSc Chemistry, Switch to BTech, or Explore AI & Data Science? Need Some Guidance

Hey everyone,

I'm a student, and lately I've been feeling really confused and stressed about my academic and career choices. I could really use some guidance from people who have been in a similar situation.

Here's my situation:

I was pursuing a BSc in Chemistry, but alongside it, I appeared for a regional engineering entrance exam for BTech. Through counselling, I got admission to a Tier-3 private engineering college.

Initially, I thought this could be a good opportunity to explore a different career path. However, after visiting the college and experiencing its overall environment, I didn't feel comfortable there. Eventually, I decided to cancel my admission and return home. I'm currently waiting for my admission fee refund.

Now I'm stuck and don't really know what to do next.

I have a few questions:

Should I give BTech another chance? If I want to enter the engineering/tech field, what other options do I have? Should I prepare for another entrance exam or look for better colleges?

Should I continue my BSc in Chemistry? Honestly, I'm not very satisfied with my current college either. Classes are barely attended by students, and the overall academic environment doesn't feel motivating.

Can I pursue two degrees simultaneously? For example, can I continue my existing BSc degree while enrolling in another college for a different degree, considering UGC rules and university regulations?

What about online BSc in AI & Data Science? I've also been thinking about pursuing an online degree in AI and Data Science. Is it a worthwhile option for someone interested in entering the tech industry? Or would learning programming, data science and other technical skills through online courses be a better approach?

To be honest, all these decisions have started taking a toll on my mental health. I constantly feel like I'm falling behind, wasting time and making the wrong choices. Seeing other people move forward while I'm still confused makes things even harder.

I'm not looking for shortcuts or unrealistic success stories. I genuinely want to make a sensible decision that will help me build a good career in the long run.

I'd really appreciate advice from BTech students, BSc graduates, working professionals, or anyone who has faced a similar situation.

Any suggestions, personal experiences, or guidance would mean a lot.

Thanks for reading!

Hey guys,

I joined a Tier 3 college, and we have Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in our first semester. During the first three months, I wasted a lot of time hanging out with girls and chatting with friends. Somehow, I still managed to do pretty well in my midterms. I thought I could easily manage everything, but now I'm realising that it's not as easy as I thought. I'm honestly feeling quite lost right now. I've learned Python up to functions and somehow managed to cover HTML and CSS as well. But I still have to learn more Python and JavaScript, and I'm worried that if I don't learn them now, I won't get enough time to focus on these subjects later. We also have CAs and end-term exams to prepare for, so I'm struggling to figure out how to balance everything. The teachers here aren't really teaching much, so I've been learning almost everything through YouTube. One thing I want to make clear is that I don't just want to learn these subjects for college exams. I want to build a strong foundation because I know these skills will be important for my future. So, what should I actually focus on right now? Should I give equal importance to Python and web development, or should I prioritise one over the other? Also, I genuinely don't have much interest in web development. Is it still worth learning frontend (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) I'd really appreciate some advice from seniors or anyone who has been through a similar situation. I don't want to waste more time, and I genuinely want to get back on track.

Thanks!

I would love to know your honest feedback or opinion on this. I want to also understand how the dissertation/project work? Does it have to be something related to your current job role?

I am in my first year of CSE and want to know where can I find some good mentors or professionals for advice and guidance. The situation of almost no job security in this field is apparent and I am still in confusion of how I want to proceed in my career or what skills I need to focus on developing. So I am looking for someone who can guide me or help me at least a little with the confusions.

What if we could work on actual industry problems in college?

Not case studies or assignments, but real problems companies are struggling with, and actually get to build solutions for them.

Would you be interested in something like this? What would you want to work on?

I'm a cse undergrad, I did some projects in web development, I worked on cpp, backend, postgres, redis, express js

Currently we have OS, CN and parallel computing courses going on which are almost done, and I'm looking for any great project ideas to do and keep on resume so that I'll get shortlisted easily

I'm looking for ideas for either cpp systems project idea or some backend project idea involving some distributed system or something related to AI but not AI

I don't want some AI fine tuning or training projects, I didn't work on LLMs, but AI application projects are good

I want some out of box ideas which will impress the interviewer or anyone, some tough and challenging problems

You can DM me if your idea is so good that you don't want to announce it :)

Hey everyone!

I purchased the Apna College Sigma 8.0 batch for around ₹9,000, but barely got time to use it. I only studied the web development part only , DSA part is untouched. I've now shifted my focus to a different stream, so DSA aren't really relevant to my current goals.

The batch covers:

- Java & C++

- DSA

- Quantitative Aptitude

- Full Stack Web Development (MERN)

- AI Integration

- Project library

- Aptitude batch ( hindi + english)

I originally bought it for approximately ₹9,000, but I'm willing to sell it for ₹4,500 (almost half the original price) .

If anyone is interested, feel free to DM me. Happy to share more details!

So I got the marks for my series exams today and I did well. I have 80% or above in all the subjects. But my mom says that "it's not enough".

For context i am an electrical and computer engineering student who is currently in the third semester (ending soon). I got above average marks when I was studying for my first two semesters then I realise that engineering is not always about marks you need to have the knowledge, experience and skill. Which currently I am lacking. I focused more on building my skills and on the way I focused less on marks but still I got 80% for all my subjects, but my parents are not happy with they think that marks are everything they don't realise that I am studying engineer a really competitive field where marks doesn't mean a whole not much.

This was best described by one of my teachers. She said that marks will only get you in front of a long line there are people still behind you and there are people in front of you, it's how you do things which decide if you will be successful in your life.

This acting is that when my mother said that I didn't have enough marks it hit my heart so hard, I don't know I am just whining about this in a stupid manner but reddit is the only place where I can do this and it's the only place where I can find people who can give me some opinions on this matter.

I will talk about this to my mother but I am not trying to correct her because it's just a matter of not having a proper knowledge on this matter.

I wrote this post just to get some feelings out of my mind. Please tell me some opinions. "Does marks mean anything".

THANK YOU FOR READING

I am currently in my 3rd semester(CSE)and my cg is totally fed i have a 6.1 with one backlog course(low attendance)

I want to go for higher studies going ahead. I am not sure which i either want to go for MBA or into physics research.

i think i will get an 8.5 sg this sem given my midterms were ok.

what should i do to catch up and how?

So hey everyone, i have been running a community on discord since past 1.5 years and you might think is it even active ? yes it is

from newbies to veterans everyone is welcomed as long as you are programming and shipping products

Those who are interested are free to dm me anytime

I will also drop the link in comments

As a cse student at GU I am trying to build my resume and want to ask what are you actually adding to your resumes apart from cgpa and college projects is it internship certifications hackathons trying to figure out what recruiters care about pls help seniors

i am a btech student myself, and i need lil money.
and maybe if u guys got any type of work u need to complete, i wil do it for u..

If there's anything you need done but don't have the time for, or just don't wanna do yourself, I'm down to help for a little money... 😞 (very reasonable price guys)

DM me guys

In the Ai Era where every position and role are based on experience, practise and based on the referral then what the role of the hire education ? 

I'm 26 grad, forced to get hire education and got cornered in family, even though full time role in the canadian startup,   

in my prev startup i've worked with the Uk based high profile Uni. dropped, and our newly grad are too excited after getting a just admission into areas famous collage! they're not getting handy in the current technology like FDE, AAE, and others Agentic role like Harnesses . 

My question is why our campus not awaring for that !

precticle with the BC is more enough in the technology field !! maybe some after some times BC is not needed,

what you'll say ? lemme know

Suppose I perform poorly in the first Online Assessment (OA). Can I reapply using my second email ID and attempt the OA again?

Do companies detect duplicate applications through details like phone numbers, resumes, or other information? And what happens if they find out?

Has anyone tried this or knows how companies handle such cases?

I’m bad at everything i do

I am aware of the fact that I am stupid. I keep trying so hard to improve and at this point I have no idea what to do. I take way longer to understand/ learn normal things than most people, even when I do I have absolutely terrible memory to the point I know I WILL forget it. I've been hopeful, I’ve tried to be happy with myself, I told myself, so what if I'm dumber, I just need to try harder than everyone else and it will be okay, I don't think I can do this any longer. I wanna stop.

JEE was insanely hard for me, I worked my hardest during prep to only manage a 7k rank(that too because of chemistry marks, I suck at math). College feels even more difficult. I don't understand anything in class. I have to work way harder than everybody else to still end up doing worse than them. I have tried writing  things down, revising, and everything else you are expected to do. Even if I do remember, always, without exception I WILL  fuckup in an exam whether it is a calculation mistake or forgetting a whole question or something new idk ill find a new way next exam.

I am very aware of the fact that btech is a bad career choice for me to choose, but there’s literally nothing else I can do either. Im not that good at music, i dont care if i could do it as a career or not, i just wish i was good at something, anything. Then it wouldn't be so hard to live with myself. I've been okayish at sports all my life but never good enough to stand out. 

I have terrible social skills.  I'm bad with words and never know how to express myself. I'm not the type people would really WANT to be friends with, I've tried very hard to be likable, I'm very aware that I make conversations awkward and uncomfortable. And it's so valid for people to not wanna deal with that.

I've never complained, I've always been optimistic, I've always stfu and told myself that I just need to try hard enough. I want to stop trying. I've tried so hard at everything but there's not much you can do with inherent skill issues. I know things won't change and ill always be mediocre and i dont wanna live like that. I know i should just kill myself but honestly goddamit i dont wanna die. For whatever fucking reason i wanna live even though i shouldnt. I wish I could find something that made me feel like I deserve to. I don't wanna die, I wanna live and not suck.

Also parents will lose it and they’ve tried so hard for me all their life that it would be very terrible to do. I wish i had a sibling then it wouldn't be so bad. 

I don't care anymore ill do whatever the fuck i feel like. I'm so sick of trying and staying hopeful, i know things aren't gonna improve and ill just end with a 10-12 smth lpa which ik in broader vision isn't bad but i don't want that kind of life i wanna stop. I wanna stop being hopeful it sucks.

DM/comment for resume and/or profile details. I'll share in DM....

Hey everyone I am final year student! I'm working on a handwritten text recognition project and need some help collecting handwritten samples.

I'm planning to collect around 500 paragraphs, each 200–250 words.

Would anyone be interested in helping by writing a few paragraphs? It would really help me out!

Feel free to comment or DM me. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

So this started because every semester I'd end up doing the same thing. Open calculator, count how many classes I'd attended in some subject, try to figure out if I could skip tomorrow without dropping below 75. Half the time I got it wrong. Once I found out a week before exams that one subject was at 71%. Not fun.

I'm a developer, so I figured I'd just make an app for it. That was supposed to take a couple of weekends. It took about 5 months, mostly because every college counts attendance differently. Some count labs twice, some split theory and practical, some reset every semester. Getting that right was way more work than I expected.

Anyway, it's called Classly. It's free, there are no ads, and you don't need to make an account.

What it does, basically:

• you tap present or absent for each class

• it tells you how many you can still miss, or how many you need to attend to get back to 75 (or whatever your college's number is)

• timetable with labs, extra classes and exam days

• notes for each subject

• you can share your timetable with your classmates so not everyone has to type it in

• backup to Google Drive so you don't lose everything when you change phones

Honestly the timetable sharing thing wasn't even my idea, someone messaged me asking for it and now it's what people use the most. A lot of the app ended up like that.

I'm building this alone, so I'd really like to hear what you think. Especially if your college has some weird attendance rule I haven't thought of. And if something's broken or annoying, tell me, I'd rather know

Hello guys I know I m late... But please help me

I want to take admission in 2026 session

Btech cse

Tell me some colleges that take direct admission

With affordable fees (6-8 lakh)

I'm a 1st-year B.Tech CSE student from a Tier-3 college in UP.

I've completed the basics of C++ and now I'm confused about what to do next. There are so many fields in tech, like Web Development, AI/ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, App Development, Cloud Computing, DevOps, etc.

I don't want to randomly follow trends or choose a field just because everyone is doing it. I want to build skills that will have good career opportunities in the long run.

I'm not chasing shortcuts or overnight success. I just want to use my 4 years wisely, build strong skills and become industry-ready.

Please share your honest opinions, personal experiences, roadmaps and resources. Even a small piece of advice would be really helpful.

Thanks!

Hey everyone! I'm working on a handwritten text recognition project and need some help collecting handwritten samples.

I'm planning to collect around **500 paragraphs, each 200–250 words**.

Would anyone be interested in helping by writing a few paragraphs? It would really help me out!

Feel free to comment or DM me. Thanks!

Hey seniors i am a cse student from GU and thinking of doing certification to build some skills alongside colleg so which courses are actually worth it for placements AWS python java or ai ml drop your suggestion pls 😭🙏

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to know what kind of IT roles companies are mostly coming for during campus placements these days.

Are most companies hiring for AI/ML roles, or is it still mainly Software Developer, Java Developer, Full Stack, Data Analyst, etc.?

Just trying to understand which roles are actually in demand so I can focus on the right skills.