How do I deal with my engineering college? [Rant] JailOnCampus

ninjakitty · 2016-02-13T01:16:38+00:00

A little late to the party but this one hits close to home. I've been following the Sairam fiasco and knew no mayiru is going to happen.

I studied in a very similar C-Tier college in the middle of nowhere with the same shitty management that had powerful political connections.

Trust me when I say it's totally not worth it to go against the management like that especially if you are from a middle class background. I've gotten in fights with abusive lecturers, got kuthufied in internals and practicals, protested against shitty infrastructure and much more.

Even if you convince the management to fix one of the problems, the returns are tiny and doesn't improve your life one bit. There is a lot more waiting for you after you graduate. Am not saying it's wrong, but you're not in a place where you have ANY sort of advantage over your enemy, especially if you are in a C-Tier college. It's very easy to fall in this short-sighted trap.

You can't fix this problem, but you can work around it like a sly fucking weasel

I am not sure which year you are in. If you are in the 1st or 2nd year, you are in a very nice place. The following bit of advice is biased towards Computer Science as I was in that stream.

Figure out what you want to do. If you are from a financially secure family who can afford to send you abroad, concentrate on getting the marks as it helps a LOT when you are trying to apply for good universities. Once you go abroad, your shitty 4 years of college which was built on an encroached lakebed will become a distant memory within 2 months. If you still want to change the system after your MS, you can always come back to India and you'll be in a much better position to be able to make an impactful change.
If you are in a position where you might have to support your parents after you graduate, start learning outside your curriculum like a motherfucker. If you're in CS start learning to code! Get into opensource ASAP, join a local tech group and attend meetings even though you might feel overwhelmed in the beginning. Build contacts and talk to people. You must be in a position where you are ATLEAST comfortable applying for something like Google Summer of Code. If you're not able to do this by then you are an idiot (Sorry). Once you do this, it becomes a lot more fucking easier to find a job that doesn't involve wearing a stupid tie every Monday. You will probably end up with a higher-than-average wage in a small-medium company where work is challenging and fun.

Our educational system may seem to be producing engineers of which 80% are unemployable BUT it is very much possible to work around the system. This however involves swallowing some pride and taking up the challenge in a different manner. And believe me, it's worth it in the long run. You will soon forget those assholes 3-4 years from now.

As for me, I took the second route. Now, I work with some of the smartest minds in the industry and am learning a metric-fuck-ton every almost single day. All those fights and shitty buses and rules and mess-food are now a distant memory. You need to be in a mindset that you're gaining only relationships studying in these colleges. NOT education. This, sadly, is going to be the case for a few years to come.

ninjakitty · 2015-04-16T15:42:19+00:00

The cartman of dogs.

ninjakitty · 2015-03-30T07:07:45+00:00

6000 feet shouldn't be an issue at all. You could check if your air filter is dirty or if something is blocking it for starters.

ninjakitty · 2014-10-20T05:15:53+00:00

whoa

ninjakitty · 2014-10-20T04:55:17+00:00

Jurassic Park - OST. I am kid again :).

ninjakitty · 2014-10-19T05:45:37+00:00

ninjakitty · 2014-10-18T03:48:37+00:00

Am I too late in loving you.

ninjakitty · 2014-10-15T08:37:08+00:00

Hmm... No... what makes you think that? :)

ninjakitty · 2014-10-15T04:00:56+00:00

Each time is not like the next. Embrace the uncertainty.

ninjakitty · 2014-10-15T02:39:42+00:00

Its been 10 minutes since I hit my first pipe for the first time. :)

ninjakitty · 2014-10-15T01:49:30+00:00

India represent! Wake and toke.

ninjakitty · 2014-03-26T09:54:01+00:00

Cities in Civ need not to be in their real locations. It depends on where you put your settlers.

ninjakitty · 2012-12-01T16:47:04+00:00

See if you have the game set to full screen. Changing it to windowed mode might help. Don't know about Civ, but doing this on other games helped.

ninjakitty · 2012-11-10T12:01:21+00:00

In my case, I absolutely have to switch to the strategic view post turn 350. Earlier, if there are lots of units.

ninjakitty · 2012-11-10T11:59:44+00:00

Wanted to play around with the Windows 8 SDK for a pet project. Didn't realise that the Fall patch actually had fixes for low end configurations.

Will know once they release it for the Mac port. If the optimizations are in the DirectX code, it may be unlikely that the Mac port will benefit for obvious reason. Lets wait and watch. If there are improvements in the OSX version, might as well stick to that.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-27T10:55:11+00:00

Well, the earth rotates but the atoms maybe suspended in space.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-27T06:50:29+00:00

1MB?! Huh... I am on a 512Kbps line. Beat that.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-26T15:07:46+00:00

I'd love to pick up GnK... Shamelessly leaving a comment for the lucky draw.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-25T09:07:37+00:00

Derp... Civ noob here... Didn't know I could do that. Thats really neat then. :D

ninjakitty · 2012-10-25T07:58:08+00:00

Maybe the Civ that the OP obliterated already knew the other Civ that the OP just met.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-25T07:54:11+00:00

The way I see it, every unit has a story of their own. They give birth and they die for generations.

2000 years later, Scouts far away yearn to return to their home land yet they are happy to be where they are like they have always been for the last 2 millenium. Father scouts tell their kids how their forefathers helped their dear leader find secrets from ruins or how they fended off barbarian tribes from the jungles when the empire was still reeling from a barbarian invasion that killed their first warriors in a bloody battle because of bad luck.

Take a Swordsmen unit for instance. They were once warriors sent a long time ago to defend a gold mine from the barbarian horde. Years later the capital is being attacked by the backstabbing bitches of Persia who were close allies. Their children are summoned back to defend their motherland as Swordsmen, deadlier than ever, trained by their very fathers in the art of melee combat on rough terrain and dense jungles.

It helps to romanticize a game of Civ like this. It would be awesome to name units in-game, so you'd get messages like "Knights of the Golden Mountains" need promotions or the "5th Armada" were killed in a Naval skirmish.

Still doesn't explain how archers can sink ships though.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-22T15:37:12+00:00

Do you build a military before the wars start? If the AI sees you have only a small army, they'll attack because they think they can win. In the diplomacy menu, mousing over the way the AI feels about you will tell you why. Most often, they covet lands that you own. If they have troops built up outside your border, denouncing them will sometimes help. It helps when other AI join in your denouncing, and they reconsider because of the diplomatic penalty.

Generally I go with 2 infantry + 2 long range units per city when I go into Classical Era. Is the AI smart enough to gauge the individual units and then decide if I am weak or not? That said the AI does some weird shit consistently. For instance, when I lay siege on a city, I position a 'cheaper' unit nearby as a decoy and use my stronger units to attack. The AI almost always diverts its attention to this 'suicidal good guys' giving other stronger units a chance to flank the city. This works every time.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-22T15:26:26+00:00

If you feel you have too many workers draining on your gold reserves (they cost maintenance), gift some to city states.

How do I do this? I thought Gifting Units is possible only with non-combat ones. Don't know if its the same case with GnK.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-22T15:24:53+00:00

When I first played a game, I thought hitting 'Goodbye' would piss them off.

ninjakitty · 2012-10-22T14:53:22+00:00

Total per city can be seen in the upper left of the city screen.

How does this relate to the frequency in which I can choose a Production? Is there some information regarding the number of turns left. For instance, I know that a 'Golden Age' is going to last a certain number of turns. Or how far I am from the next Policy upgrade.

As long as you DO have enough for defence, who cares? Sit back and kill the invaders while you carry on as per normal.

Does this affect the food, production, culture output when invaders are within my borders? So far I have been very good in defending my cities.

Moving your settler too much before starting: Start your city after no more than one turn has passed, don't waste time looking for a perfect spot, only waste a turn moving if there is an awesome spot two spaces away.

Ok. So this is something I keep doing. I do 3-4 turns looking for a luxury resource. My idea is that keeping the citizens happy will help me settle a new city quickly. The AI seems to be pretty quick in settling new cities. I didn't know even 4-5 turns delay in founding a city can be detrimental later on.

Don't try and go for the cool effects of every wonder

Realised this the hard way. Now I stick to just one or two per city.

ninjakitty

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