๐ญ Professional Survivor of Academic Horror Stories
"What doesn't kill you makes you a better debugger... and trust me, my college is really trying." ๐
๐ก A "metropolitan" area where the population of street dogs outnumbers the human residents 3:1
๐บ๏ธ So remote that even Google Maps asks "Are you sure?" twice before showing directions
๐ถ Signal strength: Somewhere between "emergency only" and "send smoke signals"
Pillai HOC College of Engineering & Technology
๐ GPS Coordinates: Middle of Absolutely Nowhere
๐ณ Campus Motto: "Why build in civilization when you can educate in the Amazon?"
- ๐ฟ Location: Jungle campus where monkeys have better coding skills than half the students
- ๐ก Internet: Powered by carrier pigeons and pure determination
- ๐๏ธ Buildings: Concrete blocks that make prison architecture look aesthetic
- ๐ Transportation: Buses that break down more often than our college servers
- ๐ฝ๏ธ Cafeteria: Where food goes to die and students go to cry
- ๐ฆ Primary IDE: Turbo C++ (Vintage 1990 - because why evolve?)
- ๐ฅ Philosophy: "If it was good enough for dinosaurs, it's good enough for AI engineers!"
- ๐ Curriculum: Teaching us to build ChatGPT using MS-DOS commands
- ๐ค AI Course: "Machine Learning with Floppy Disks: A Comprehensive Guide"
- ๐พ Lab Equipment: Computers that boot slower than my grandmother's Windows 95
- โ Master the art of time travel (back to 1995)
- โ Learn to code LLMs using stone tablets and smoke signals
- โ Develop Stockholm syndrome for obsolete technology
- โ Perfect the skill of crying in 16 different programming languages
- ๐ง The Intellectuals: Still trying to figure out why
Hello Worlddoesn't print "Goodbye Cruel World" - ๐ฎ The Gamers: Think HTML stands for "How To Make Ludo"
- ๐ฑ The "Influencers": Spend more time on Instagram than IntelliJ
- ๐ค The AI Enthusiasts: Believe ChatGPT runs on Windows XP
- ๐ญ The Confused Souls: Enrolled in Computer Engineering, expected to learn about fixing laptops
*๐ Achievement Unlocked: Being the only person who knows what GitHub is
- TypeScript + Next.js ๐ (Self-taught because my college thinks TypeScript is a type of script for theater)
- React โ๏ธ (Learned from YouTube University)
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript ๐จ (The sacred texts that PHCET considers "too advanced")
- Responsive Design ๐ฑ (Unlike my college's website, built in 2003 and never updated)
- DSA in Java โ (Because apparently self-torture is a graduation requirement)
- Existential Dread ๐ตโ๐ซ (Why Java? Why DSA? Why this college? Why existence?)
- Impostor Syndrome ๐ญ (Hard to feel like a real developer when your IDE is older than TikTok)
- ๐ฅ Debugging: Code and life decisions simultaneously
- ๐ฏ Problem Solving: How to learn modern tech while being taught ancient history
- ๐ช Resilience: Surviving educational systems designed by sadists
- ๐ง Patience: Waiting for Turbo C to compile "Hello World" (ETA: 3-5 business days)
- 6 AM: Wake up and question life choices ๐ค
- 7 AM: Commute through actual wilderness to reach campus ๐
- 8 AM: Arrive at college, immediately lose will to live ๐
- Professor: "Today we'll learn cutting-edge AI!"
- Also Professor: Opens Turbo C++
- Me: Internally screaming while externally nodding ๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ
- 6 PM: Return home, immediately open VS Code to cleanse my soul ๐งผ
- 7 PM: Learn actual programming from internet tutorials ๐บ
- 11 PM: Wonder if I should've just become a farmer ๐พ
- ๐ฅ First Place: In "Most Confused Student" (3 years running)
- ๐๏ธ Survivor Badge: Completed 6 semesters without using Turbo C (except when forced at gunpoint)
- ๐ป Secret Agent: Teaching classmates what VS Code is (underground operation)
- ๐ Detective Work: Successfully convinced 2 professors that Google exists
- ๐ช Circus Training: Performing modern web development while pretending to enjoy ancient C++
Built with blood, sweat, tears, and zero help from my "educational" institution
- ๐ผ Various TypeScript/Next.js applications (Evidence that I've evolved beyond cave paintings)
- ๐จ Responsive web designs (Unlike my college's website which was built when dinosaurs roamed)
- ๐ง Full-stack applications (Created using tools invented after the invention of fire)
๐ Note: All projects built in secret because using modern tools is considered "cheating" at PHCET
- ๐ข Internships: Where VS Code isn't considered "futuristic technology"
- ๐ค Mentorship: From humans who've seen a computer made after 2010
- ๐ผ Opportunities: To work somewhere with WiFi and running water
- ๐ Therapy: For PTSD caused by Turbo C++
- ๐ Advanced Web Technologies (In hiding, like a coding speakeasy)
- ๐ง DSA in Java (Because masochism is apparently a core subject)
- ๐ญ The Art of Pretending: That my education is worth the paper it's printed on
- ๐ง Meditation: To cope with the sound of dial-up internet in labs
- ๐ช Can write modern code while being taught ancient hieroglyphics
- ๐ง Self-taught everything useful (because college certainly didn't)
- ๐ฏ Highly adaptable (survived 3 years in educational purgatory)
- ๐ง Problem-solving expert (main problem: my college choice)
- ๐ Fast Learner: Had to be, college wasn't teaching anything relevant
- ๐จ Creative Problem Solver: Like figuring out how to code without proper tools
- ๐ป Modern Stack Enthusiast: TypeScript, Next.js, React (the forbidden technologies)
- ๐ Research Skills: Expert at finding actual educational content online
- ๐ค Patience: Waiting for Turbo C to load has prepared me for anything
- ๐ช Adaptability: Can work in any environment (literally survived a jungle college)
- ๐ Humor: Developed as a coping mechanism for academic absurdity
- ๐ฅ Determination: Still coding despite every educational obstacle thrown at me
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};Slide into my DMs if you have:
- ๐ผ Job opportunities that don't require Turbo C experience
- ๐ฏ Internships at companies founded after the internet was invented
- ๐ค Networking opportunities with people who know what GitHub is
- ๐ Emotional support for survivors of tier-3 college trauma
- ๐ฅ Enthusiasm: For working with technology newer than my professors
- ๐ป Skills: Actually relevant ones (learned in secret)
- ๐ง Fresh Perspective: On how NOT to teach computer science
- ๐ Entertainment Value: My college stories are better than Netflix
"In a world where my college teaches C++ like it's a religious doctrine and treats VS Code like forbidden fruit, I choose to rebel through modern web development and the occasional existential crisis." ๐
"They say education is the key to success. In my case, self-education is the lockpick." ๐
This README is a work of dark comedy based on true events. Any resemblance to actual educational institutions, living or dead, is purely coincidental and definitely not grounds for failing me in any subject. ๐
- ๐ YouTube University: For being my real alma mater
- ๐ป Stack Overflow: My spiritual guide and emotional support system
- โ Coffee: For keeping me awake during 6-hour "Introduction to Mouse Usage" lectures
- ๐ The Internet: For existing despite my college's best efforts to hide it from us
๐ "Built with love, tears, and an unhealthy amount of sarcasm | Powered by pure determination and the dream of working somewhere with proper IDEs" ๐
๐ช Current Status: Plotting my escape from educational purgatory, one commit at a time ๐
