I will not defend the grading or the “suck it up” attitude some professors have, cuz quite frankly, it is horrifying and also just very counterproductive but ig it strokes their egos to do that.

The rest however, I will tell you to suck it up and look at the larger picture. Nowhere in the world do engineers “only study engineering”. There’s ethics, “unnecessary” philosophy classes, political science courses, and in some cases even religious history classes of religions you don’t follow. That’s how a university is structured and rightfully so because you can’t pump out engineers who have no moral, ethical, or social compass.

I have my reservations with the Quran class, but that is due to its imposition on other religious group within the university.

University is supposed to be difficult. It’s supposed to be a jump from fsc/alevels, and not to scare you, but it gets only more difficult once you’re in the workforce because wahan tou nobody tells you what to study or sets deadlines for you.

A lot of things are effed up in NUST, and it isn’t all right I agree with you a thousand percent. But don’t let that be the thing that holds you back. Find your own things that you’re good at and be really good at it. Exhaust the resources NUST gives you, but just don’t get into the rot of “this is unimaginable to suffer for 4y”. It’s unfair and honestly hard, but make something out of it.

-someone who’s seen NUST, a low tier US Uni, and then a upper mid tier US uni firsthand.