Hello, it’s saras here, before starting with the actual experience let me tell you guys a story.. I was in 8th standard when I first discovered coding through a movie. Those flashy green texts on black screens made me curious! And then to a coincidence in my school, I got a chance to learn C programming and that’s where I realized what programming actually is!! My interest kept increasing and I finally decided what I want to do with my career. And this time unlike previously I actually decided on one thing and continued with it; But there was still a small issue, I was really bad at Physics and Chemistry. I scored 67 marks in science in 10th. And if you know, In India you have to be pretty good at Physics Chemistry, and Math to get admission to a good college for computer engineering. But that’s where I got to know about this degree called BCA(Bachelor of computer application) You can get in this degree without studying science on the 11th and 12th. So after studying commerce for 2 years in which I had no interest by the way I finally got enrolled in the BCA degree and that’s where my University experience begins. Now as every fresher I was damn excited when college got started. Of course, it was online but I was excited. I thought that finally now I will study what I really love doing, I will impress my friends and teachers with my coding skills, I thought I will build different types of projects which will help the college, but nothing like this really happened. Instead, I was learning subjects like business communication, Maths, Organisational behavior, And even Financial Accounting!! Like seriously we were learning less computer-related subjects and more of these subjects which I don’t know how they are going to help in my coding career. Instead of writing code on a computer, I was writing assignments on paper for hours. I mean seriously what is even the use of those assignments, the only use is probably that college will get more and more scrap and their side revenues will increase by selling those large and long assignments. Even in subjects like maths we were taught the more long methods for solving a question for which already a short method is taught in schools. Like this felt really nonsense it’s like computer students are for making hard and long tasks easy and short but instead these people are teaching us the ways of making easy things hard! As per my knowledge, there are more than enough subjects to teach in computer science that 3 or 4 years, of course, can be filled with those subjects but still instead of teaching us what we want to learn and what we should learn universities are teaching us the things which we will probably not even use. But it’s not like there was no CS-related subject there were but even in that university is more interested to ask us long and long theory questions instead of actually focusing on practical. They just want to test our memory and not the problem-solving skills or any kind of actual practical knowledge. And this is where college degrees fail in giving good jobs. Because companies want the skills that college never teaches. Now after reading this article you may feel like I don’t have any good experiences with the university, well it’s not 100 percent wrong but maybe just maybe If I become an optimist I may find some good experiences. To count on a good experience, I can only say that because of university and college I developed a habit of self-learning because college faculties never teach properly, and all of this mess is happening in one of the top universities in India…
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