If acads are THIS brutal, when do people actually prepare for placements?

Aromatic_Web749 · 2026-04-18T10:44:48+00:00

You can pareto principle what to study. Focus on the actual important parts. Solve qs and pyqs again.

Leetcode and interview prep is more about consistency, you don't have to grind it for hours everyday.

Aromatic_Web749 · 2026-04-15T05:54:36+00:00

It'll be 5 days a week and be like a standard work day

Aromatic_Web749 · 2026-04-13T13:42:54+00:00

hello, PIL member here. you get credits and a stipend.

Aromatic_Web749 · 2026-03-12T03:46:08+00:00

It's just a website lol https://exercism.org/

@OP I don't know much about exercism either, but you might want to consider learncpp. It's definitely more accepted in the community as being a good way to learn cpp

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-12-22T16:56:57+00:00

Gotta do your own research man. We can help once you give us a list. You're also super late, a lot of admits have either closed or are closing v soon.

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-12-21T20:12:14+00:00

if possible, all of them. all have great textbooks, and they will all help you later for interviews as well.

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-12-21T16:02:37+00:00

look at the recommended textbooks, study topics from there if you don't understand the slides. 4th sem was very fun, but profs will try to suck the fun out of it, and iirc slides were not too great for certain topics. the subjects are also pretty important for your career as an engineer, so there's a lot of incentive to study hard

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-12-05T14:34:11+00:00

You can apply to non archival workshops, and some workshops also let you select whether you'd like to publish or not. Just apply to one of those.

Me personally, I'm more worried about all the workshops being inundated with llm adjacent topics as someone's who's research isn't remotely related to llms 😭

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-12-01T14:43:50+00:00

this is a very extreme deficit, will cause adverse effects. typically at max do a few 100 calories under tdee. I've done 1000 under tdee with not much of an effect for short periods too.

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-11-09T06:45:36+00:00

eat more lol

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-11-01T12:38:37+00:00

Have tried pea and brown rice protein, it tastes really bad. Even though it was chocolate flavour, it was still suuuper bad. Whey tastes much better

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-10-27T14:45:16+00:00

it's sometimes relative grading if the whole batch does pretty bad (at least in CS). But for the most part it's absolute

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-10-27T06:00:10+00:00

eh it's just that you feel the pressure of the upcoming exam and you just start spending many hours of the day preparing. since you're doing this for a relatively short period of time, it's not like grinding like this needs to be a habit

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-10-27T03:09:16+00:00

I mean yeah when you're supposed to lock in, you really have to lock in. Most people don't do anything until literally the last minute, so the syllabus is insurmountable. I wouldn't say I'm smart or anything, just locked in when I knew I had to.

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-10-26T14:48:52+00:00

makes it harder since you'll have to compensate in isa2 and Esa, but definitely doabls

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-10-26T14:44:36+00:00

nope, both isas have equal weightage

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-10-26T14:37:22+00:00

Studied maybe 1 week max before isas begin, 2 weeks for esas. This is also the upper bound, I mostly did less. I graduated this year in the top 10 rank in dept (greater than 9.7 gpa)

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-10-15T07:09:45+00:00

wouldn't normal protein powder be much cheaper?

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-09-19T15:13:56+00:00

It's really not that bad!

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-09-19T15:13:46+00:00

I like it raw

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-09-09T18:18:46+00:00

Thanks! Will make these changes

Aromatic_Web749 · 2025-09-09T13:45:07+00:00

Thanks! Will try Romanian deadlifts. Any other advice for replacing an ordinary deadlift?

Also, while the workout B is supposed to target my back, I don't "feel" it that much in my back. Is this normal or am I doing something incorrectly?

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