Hi hello, future engineers and current caffeine-fueled survivors!
If you’re pursuing your BE, or have walked that slightly cracked, stress-paved path, congratulations—you’ve survived a journey that feels longer than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. BE isn’t just a degree; it’s a test of patience, perseverance, and your ability to write 20-page assignments on a topic you still don’t fully understand.
“In BE, you learn that real pressure doesn’t come from machines—it comes from a pending backlog and no signal during online viva.”
🎢 Semester Goals: Pass, Sleep, Repeat
The BE timeline goes something like this:
- Beginning of the Semester: New pens, new hopes, fresh notebooks.
- Mid-Sem: “Arre abhi toh time hai yaar.”
- End-Sem: Crying, coffee, calculator—repeat.
Every semester brings new challenges and fresh confusion—whether it’s a subject you can’t pronounce or a professor who writes faster than Siri can listen.
⏰ 8 AM Lectures: The Nation Wants to Know Why
The cruelest part of BE life is the existence of 8 AM lectures. Who decided that future engineers should be awake before the sun and fully functional before the canteen opens?
- Reality: You reach at 8:15 AM, sign proxy attendance, and pretend to listen while planning your lunch.
- Bonus: If it’s raining, the attendance drops faster than the Wi-Fi speed.
💸 Money Matters (Mostly That It’s Missing)
The monthly budget of a BE student is basically:
- ₹300 for stationery (but ends up being used for snacks),
- ₹500 for group projects (because someone always forgets printouts),
- ₹0 for saving (what even is that?).
You master the art of managing money by doing things like splitting one plate of pav bhaji three ways, and convincing yourself that a ₹10 chai is “self-care.”
🏃♂️ Project Panic and Submission Drama
Group projects during BE are where friendships are tested and patience is murdered.
There’s always:
- One who actually does the work,
- One who’s “coordinating” (read: forwarding WhatsApp messages),
- One who disappears till the viva.
And the day before submission? Laptops crash, printers jam, and everyone becomes a part-time philosopher wondering, “Why engineering, bro?”
🧪 Internships That Are 10% Learning, 90% Coffee Runs
Some get good internships. Others get “observation-based” ones where your job is to sit, nod, and hope someone forgets to ask you anything technical.
Still, you learn:
- Office behavior,
- How to look busy when you’re actually Googling “what is a microprocessor,”
- That free lunch tastes better than a lecture.
🏠 Home vs Hostel: The Tale of Two Timetables
- At Home: “Beta, kitna padha?”
- At Hostel: “Aaj kaun maggi bana raha hai?”
Whether you’re a hosteller enjoying freedom and chaos or a day scholar dodging buses and boredom, BE life is an adventure everywhere. And somehow, the common thread is that no one fully understands what’s going on.
🎯 Final Year = Existential Yoga
The final year is when the real questions start:
- “Job milega?”
- “Higher studies ya startup?”
- “Should I just run a chai tapri outside college?”
You’ll face placement rounds, aptitude tests, and soul-crushing rejection—but also the sweetest high when something finally clicks. Through it all, chai remains loyal.
🧠 What You Actually Learn in BE
Forget transformers and circuits for a second. BE teaches you:
- Time Management: Can complete an entire syllabus in one night? Certified.
- People Skills: Handling professors, teammates, and the photocopy guy? Skilled.
- Resilience: Got fewer marks than roll number? Still showed up. Respect.
Final Thoughts?
BE life in India is like an overstuffed tiffin—messy, unpredictable, sometimes overwhelming, but oddly satisfying when you reach the end. You enter as a clueless fresher and walk out as someone who’s seen failure, friendship, and more late-night group chats than healthy sleep cycles.
“BE doesn’t just prepare you for engineering. It prepares you for life—with a little less sleep and a lot more stories.”
