Welcome to the glamorous (read: chaotic) world of Bachelor of Engineering, where coffee is stronger than your Wi-Fi, and your sleep cycle has filed a missing person report.
Whether you’re in Mechanical, IT, Civil, or even the lesser-known but equally painful branches, one thing is guaranteed—BE doesn’t just stand for Bachelor of Engineering, it stands for “Barely Existing” for four years.
“Engineering college doesn’t teach you how to build bridges. It teaches you how to survive when everything’s burning and the attendance is 74.8%.”
🧳 First Year: Orientation and Disorientation
You enter wide-eyed, ready to build robots and apps, and within a week you’re building group chats to crib about assignments.
- You try to be the front-bencher for two weeks.
- You attend workshops you don’t understand just for the participation certificate.
- You start using words like “viva”, “internal marks” and “proxy” regularly.
And yes, half your energy is spent trying to decode professors’ handwriting and accents.
📐 Second Year: From Curiosity to Calculations
This is when the syllabus triples, but your willpower halves.
- Suddenly, you’re surrounded by “core subjects”—the ones that make you question your core existence.
- Your engineering drawing sheet becomes your blanket at 3 am.
- The class divides—some chasing CGPA, some chasing coding, and some just chasing attendance.
Also, the first signs of group project politics emerge. One works, three supervise, and the last one shows up on presentation day.
💻 Third Year: The Pre-Placement Jitters
Now it’s all about CVs, coding rounds, and learning to spell “entrepreneurship” correctly on LinkedIn.
- You join every club that might make your résumé look less lonely.
- You start saying “DSA” and “core job” more often than your own name.
- The canteen becomes your boardroom and chai is the new Red Bull.
Everyone is preparing for something. GRE, CAT, GATE, or just preparing to pass with minimal damage.
🎓 Final Year: The Emotional Semester
Suddenly, people who never submitted on time are winning “Best Project” awards. Life is unfair, but your patience is finally B.Tech level certified.
- Major project panic becomes the class anthem.
- You realize that friends are now family—you’ve survived the same labs and laptop crashes.
- Farewell events make even the most notorious backbenchers sentimental.
This is the bittersweet phase—where everyone is leaving, and you can’t decide if you’re happy, sad, or just hungry again.
🛠️ What You Actually Learn in BE
Let’s be honest. Apart from the technical jargon, BE teaches you:
- Time Management: Finishing a 30-page assignment 1 hour before submission.
- Crisis Handling: Giving a seminar on a topic you Googled 10 minutes ago.
- Networking: Becoming friends with seniors just to borrow their old lab files.
- Jugaad: Making non-working circuits “appear” functional in front of the examiner.
🏁 The Final Word
BE is not just about books and backlogs. It’s about becoming resilient. It’s a four-year bootcamp that upgrades you from student to survivor.
So if you’re in BE or just passed out of it, give yourself a round of applause. You’ve earned a degree in engineering—and in handling life when the server is always down.
