Y'all it's been so long since I've done one of these
Anyways a lot has happened. I've given like 3 interviews (even though I thought I'd get no interviews this sem) and got a decent internship for the summer. I'm not applying for other better options cuz this one is very near to where I live so I won't have to relocate to another city and cry etc etc
Also somehow finished all my practical exams. All went well except ML (which was just bad luck but eh)
But my 6th sem is basically over now. My end sems would start from 4th may and then after that I'd pretty much be a final year student.
---warning: placements panic+ rambling incoming---
So like any other loser cs student I was like yeah I need to lock in now (which is the very last minute) cuz I have placements from next sem and the job market is cooked and the companies that come to my campus don't care about the skills I have so it's all misaligned and the ones that are aligned only recruit like 1 student out of 300 applicants (who all have almost the same set of skills as me btw cuz it's 2026 and everyone is a carbon copy replica of every other person and I order to stand out you'd have to do the equivalent of lifting a mountain with your bare hands or something)
I can't do masters abroad even though I wanted to, cuz again, job market is cooked and I don't wanna work at McDonald's in some Western European country cuz no one would hire me yk. My seniors told me you'd have an advantage if you have atleast 3-4 years of work experience, so it would be easier to get jobs after masters. So that's my plan, I have to join the rat race and drown in placement hell.
(also I won't do masters in my country because the only good institutes here require you to have a really high national rank to get in their program, and that's another entrance exam rat race, and I will cry if I'll have to focus on 2 rat races instead of 1)
(this is a lie because I'm still going to prep for GATE, the entrance exam to do a MTech. In my country. Not because I wanna do MTech here but because many PSUs that pay well and govt organisations in defence security and space tech and stuff consider your GATE rank, and I wanna apply to those cuz private jobs are cooked and startup jobs feel like you're literally being burned alive slowly)
Anyways what I mean to say is, my focus these days is leetcoding (from scratch again cuz i am really bad at this I don't even wanna talk about it. Like you will laugh) technical interview prep, making atleast 2 decent projects with skills that'll actually help me get hired thru either on campus or off campus placements and uh system design stuff AND GATE prep. All while managing my 9-5 on site summer internship. Hurray
And yep I'm gonna be unsuccessful in doing all of this but what else can I do atp. Gonna try my best
