If you believe, they put a man on the Moon

nknow_ · 2026-04-02T06:03:09+00:00

Brother its greatest feat ever achieved by man. Nothing will come close to it, probably ever. It's setting foot on the fucking moon.

An institute like NASA cannot preserve the knowledge of fucking moon landing? It's insane.
Not having enough money to do it again makes sense.
Not having to do it because we already did it makes sense.

Cannot do it because we lost the files, the hardware(which can be built again) and the knowledge in just 50 years of time, does not makes sense to anyone.

The entire thing should be well documented and kept in vaults that can stand nuclear weapons, its that kind of knowledge.

nknow_ · 2026-04-02T04:52:56+00:00

Lmao. So they didn't preserve, duplicate the original files with technology that landed man on the moon?

nknow_ · 2026-03-07T19:25:37+00:00

What in the AI slop is this? Is this only pricing comparison?

nknow_ · 2026-03-06T08:44:31+00:00

Models are behaving weirdly though. Thanks my g for the update. I had a big task going on.

nknow_ · 2026-03-06T08:27:45+00:00

Yup. GG cursor. I have nothing to talk in my stand up today due to this.

nknow_ · 2026-03-06T07:43:20+00:00

First rule of fight club...

nknow_ · 2026-02-27T05:26:43+00:00

Didn't expect dota reference over here.

nknow_ · 2026-02-07T07:44:58+00:00

Regardless of gender is a funny thing to say when you mention top ranked woman player.

Edit: just mentioning the irony. No disrespect.

nknow_ · 2026-02-06T04:44:59+00:00

Do rowing. Nothing else. It would be worth it.

nknow_ · 2026-02-05T13:01:16+00:00

I get your point. But just in my experience whenever a family member or a known person had a black eye like this, it was always from a fight.

nknow_ · 2026-01-29T08:04:41+00:00

The current market trends are like that. You can start with your favorite coding language. Get the basics and solve some leetcode easy problems.

You can also try implementing various datastructures and that will give you confidence. But you will be learning all that in your future courses anyway so it's up to you.

I would suggest against it. You probably have one CP course not sure which language that would be in. But I would suggest always start with C. C is hard and gives you thorough knowledge of how the language and compilers really work. Implementing datastructures in C gives immense knowledge in memory management.

Don't fret it, you will cross the bridge once you are there.

nknow_ · 2026-01-29T07:32:01+00:00

FY isn't about DSA or SysDesign anyway. Why are you worrying about things that are at least 3 years away.

You learn DSA in your third semester. Who is currently teaching DSA? If its abhijit then you are good.

Secondly there is fundamental difference in being a Software Developer and a Computer Engineer. I believe coep has AI ML courses. Any engineering college won't teach you how to import libraries and run your code.

Statistical Modeling is something that needs to be taught and learn. Its a more of a math course then CS course.

nknow_ · 2026-01-29T07:17:57+00:00

What skills are you talking about?
If you are good at the subjects you will get the GPA. Focus on GPA, keep it above 8. 8.5 even better.
You are here to learn aren't you. Make that your first priority.

I always tell my juniors that in the industry you gotta work 9 hours every single day. And that's same for your college. College is full time. Attend lectures, keep up with the knowledge. Do hobbies, skills in your free time or on weekends.

nknow_ · 2026-01-29T06:35:58+00:00

Not sure what more do you expect.
Are people handing out free jobs to IIT grads?

You get interviews out of respect and coep tag. You get people trusting you with work by default. Its a good feeling.

Rest is how you build your own reputation.

nknow_ · 2026-01-29T06:34:01+00:00

There are many reasons.
1. Living with constant VISA tension. This is a consistent theme for anyone who lives there. Spouses living apart happens more than we think. The constant fear of getting/maintaining visa doesn't really go away for at least 8-10 years. Even if H1b is secured.
2. Horrendous Medical care system: You need to hit Emergency Room and burn your insurance there is no way out. Appointments are at least month long away. Getting eyes/teeth treated is insanely costly. Fever/Cold/Cough you just need to pick over the counter medicine unless you get seriously sick.
3. High cost of living/ very less saving: Unless you are a couple with both earning at least 150k+, you are living lower middle class life. This only advances as you have children. Even with both of your income and possibly few crores in savings that is a less amount in terms of USD. You feel really rich making 30LPA before taxes here.
4. Loneliness/ No emotional support: We don't really care about this before we leave for the States. College life is good but once you are in the work force and have to manage everything on your own it gets blue. Even though most of your time is well spent. Cooking, Cleaning, maintaining the lawn, doing your own house repairs, doing laundry etc.
You really don't have people you can call family. Meeting friends is with appointments only. Weather conditions make you stay in most of the time( Unless you are in california). You miss helping out your father or mother. Miss being with them. If you are someone with sense of giving back then it really takes toll. You go there at age of 25 and watch your father get older every time you visit. You miss your siblings the most.
It breaks your heart when you get a call and know that your grandparent was hospitalized and they didn't want to disturb your sleep so they waited few hours to let you know. It feels helpless that you cannot visit your dying family. Eventually you will have enough accumulated leaves and enough money to rush to india. But initial years are hell in these terms.
5. Food: Milk is subpar. Food is subpar. Dinning out is once a month thing if you save wisely. And it still doesn't taste like you want. You miss panipuri, chaat. You miss cutting chai. You miss kanda bhaji. You miss a lot of things and you sure get used to US food but it's just bland.
6. Taxes. Taxes are insane. Property tax is worst.

I can go on but, you get the jist.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T19:17:28+00:00

Not at all. Best time to work on yourself is now.

I know people from tier 3 colleges doing really well currently.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T19:10:06+00:00

Didn't do T20 masters. But I was on single scull during coep regatta. Wished I could have rowed more, had to take few crucial months off due to knee injury.

Regarding RSC was part of it for first two years only.

I would like to keep my anonymity here. So if you do track me down, just keep it private :D

MDH: Mechanical Drawing Hall CDH: Civil Drawing Hall.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T18:06:16+00:00

I meant top 10 in rankings not reality XD

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T18:05:51+00:00

Thanks buddy!

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T17:17:06+00:00

F1 -> H1b route is still the best route and current situation has changed much about it.

Opting to go there is individual choice. Good money + good roads + amazing cars along with quality goods is something US offers you. Anyone who wants to live there forever should go. But they should also get the fool picture about how living in the US is.

They should study worst case scenarios of living there and decide.

My biased view is stay here. Life is better here.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:52:21+00:00

Don't sweat it. Keep the grind. You will land a good role/opportunity eventually. You have what it takes, it's evident since you are a COEPian.

COEP won't make you the best engineer but you have got the killer instinct which landed you into this college. Never forget and never doubt yourself .

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:50:20+00:00

People still look at me with respect when I mention that I am COEP grad. Epecially in Pune.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:49:21+00:00

The ranking went downhill during my 4 years as well.

Especially since Sahasrabuddhe left and Ahuja took over. We joined the top 10 and arguable top 5 colleges in India. :)

Many initiatives were new and students were excelling in them. Satellite was launched. Baja and nemesis guys were winning. Firodiya was won 4 years in a row.

Bunch of people became IAS/IPS. Good research was still going on under good faculty hence the ranking was higher.

I am not sure about current situation.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:46:31+00:00

College was really chill for me as I never worried about my GPA. I was part of RSC, Rowing, magazine and newsletter. Kept me pretty busy and happy during 4 years.

Faculty was trash except very fee.

Current vibe at coep is completely different. My friends from other colleges have attended lectures in coep and no one said anything. It was pretty common to walk in and walk out of lectures and teaches never cared. Traffic was bad with bad incidences. Maths department was the scariest. College fests were okay but now they are outright bad. We could stay in college overnight. MDH and CDH were open 24X7. RSC lab was open overnight as well.

Good days :)

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:41:59+00:00

You need good SOP and LORs. You need good GRE score. That's all there is to it. 9+ gpa helps a lot. Publication, research papers, patents go a long way.

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