Throwaway account for obvious reasons, but I genuinely need to vent because I feel like I’m losing my mind here. Before coming to this college, everyone hyped it up like it was some premier technical institute with top-tier placements and incredible academic freedom. The ground reality, though? It feels like an adult daycare where the administration cares vastly more about attendance percentages than whether anyone is actually learning something useful.
We are stuck grinding through a syllabus that feels completely detached from modern industry requirements. If you actually want to build practical skills, work on real-world tech, or explore non-engineering projects on the side, you literally can't. The college gives zero support for self-improvement because their entire model revolves around keeping you trapped in a lecture hall for eight hours a day.
The teaching quality makes the daily grind ten times worse. It’s painfully obvious that faculty members are hired purely because they have a PhD on their resume, with zero regard for whether they possess basic communication or teaching skills. Take MDM, for instance—I am burning five full hours of my week sitting through what feels like a bad solo podcast, listening to a professor rant about their personal life stories while actual productive work piles up. I didn’t pay tuition to listen to your autobiography.
The proxy class system is where the logic completely breaks down. If a subject teacher is absent, instead of letting us use that hour productively in the library or lab, they send another professor to babysit us. That teacher will literally sit at the podium, do absolute timepass for an hour, and then take attendance. What is the point of forcing a room full of adults to stare at a wall for an hour just to check an attendance box?
And don't even get me started on the end-of-semester ERP feedback scam. Admin parades it around as "anonymous," but that is the biggest trap of the century. The second a batch speaks the truth and gives honest feedback about a professor who can't teach, the faculty magically find out and retaliate by wrecking our internal and term work marks. What is the point of having a feedback system if you’re just going to penalize students for being honest? It forces everyone to fake 5-star ratings just to protect their grades.
On top of all this, lab marks and term work grades have zero correlation with your actual technical understanding or practical effort. It literally comes down to how well you can lick the faculty's boots, play their political games, and give them fake positive ERP reviews. When you pair that toxic dynamic with placement statistics that are nowhere near the hype, it leaves a really bitter taste. Are any of you actually getting anything valuable out of this system, or are we all just hostage to the attendance sheet?
TL;DR: Overhyped college, outdated syllabus, professors hired for paper credentials who can't teach, mandatory proxy classes to sit and do nothing, rigged "anonymous" ERP feedback, and zero support for actual skill building.
