so i was circling back to my previous journal session where i wrote that all my friends are headed in different paths — one is going to NIT, another one landed in a solid b. tech college and another one is struggling to land anywhere. the common ground here which i didn’t mention in that session but wanted to address here is that all are opting for CS and related programs. like the NIT guy dropped IIT for CS

and look i don’t mind what the other person is doing until a dumb f*ck proceeds to say “there ain’t no scope here“. girl? you literally scored highest in all semesters till now and still be saying there’s no scope? ok valid? what makes you say there’s no scope if its not scarcity mindset? just bcs you aint able to bag the best doesnt mean you’d be putting other’s down you’re just being a p***y about it

wtf did you even do all these semesters? study study study, be like im scoring 90+% fuck yea, and ong this mf gets the audacity to call me out when i mocked JEE aspirants jokingly and ask “what i did all these semesters?”, “tune kya hi ukhada?”. bro? you follow me on linkedin for the record and and i’ll leave it right there.

zoom out and think for a second

but enough ranting, what my point really is that its fine that ppl are opting for CS, its too much saturation so not every person will make it, even the good one’s. i’ve felt a paradigm shift in CS — teachers got their degrees years before major revolutions in the CS era, somewhere the teachers haven’t adapted and this is more prominent in INDIA, students following teachers’ mindset is a red flag, gone are the days when scoring marks was a wet dream for companies.

i remember watching varun mayya’s video where he said our parents focused on studies bcs they didn’t have “information overload” and knowing shit ton of stuff made sense bcs knowledge workers back then were actually about holding a lot of knowledge. knowledge is now available in all forms and in abundance, so zoom out and think for a second, whats the end result of studying so much? the more you study you’re gonna realise there’s more to learn and it’ll never be enough, its an “information overload” era that we’re living in, we’re swimming in info. drowning in it, actually

raj shamani in his book wrote “the ppl who get successful either know how to build or know how to sell” and thats what leads to most of the successful startups a combo of seller and builder, “you can just do shit”, thats what farza said and i mean an average teen of india who spends 17 yrs of their life in a system where he was told to adhere to the rules and follow roadmap can never realise that fact. maybe thats why so many ppl not just on internet but even irl are so obsessed with roadmaps, “whats the roadmap to become a full stack dev/bug hunter/ai engineer?”, why not just do shit? fuck around and then figure out if you want to?

my perspective (subjective)

my POV on the whole situation of ppl opting CS programs stands the same, “CS is passion driven”. are you passionate about building stuff not for the sake of chasing grades? you’re my friend without introduction. short-lived inspirations and motivations never worked out for anyone, do what you truly love, make yourself love what you truly do. chase your ikigai. someone im working closely with shared a similar story where he was a studious kid till 12th opted CS in VIT and boom thats how the character development arc started. him realising that the college is just bullshitting made him work for himself and position himself better in life, not everyone does that bcs we all are blinded by the system and society, gotta drop the “having sight but no vision is worse than being blind”

even i’ve realised that your college or professors are not liable for the 6ft pole up your ass, you are, take charge, do stuff that is distinct. college is a sick place for building social circles but maybe not the best place for building your dream life