A sneak peak to my memorable college life

In a nutshell, our college might lack some practical implementation of the subjects being taught here but the vast campus and its greenery along with the college management overpowers all the faults. Our university has also got NAAC accredition and is one of the top universities of the world.

Way back in April 2013, I appeared for the jee mains exam and I scored 160 marks out of 360 with an AIR of 44k. Unable to get a good course having a good scope, I estranged the option of doing biotechnology in NIT jalandhar and chose Computer science and engineering(cse) in my city Amritsar. I got the seat quite easily in the first round of counselling here and the course began in mid july 2013.

The course curriculum offers you electives only in the third year. Before that, all the subjects are compulsory and carry credits for the tutorials, practicals if any and lectures. These credits along with the marks decide your sgpa of a semester and hence, the CGPA in the end of the degree which is cumulative average of all the sgpa.

Our college doesn't provide any internship for the computer science students. However, the students in electronics and communication engineering have a training at the end of 2nd semester.However, the placement cell keeps on updating the students if any company offers an internship.Coming to the placements, major companies also known as the mass recruiters like TCS visit our campus on the first day of placement session. Other companies like nagarro, capegemini, infogain, amdocs, tech mahindra etc also visit our campus.

As per the results of this year, TCS placed over 300 students from the university. It offers a package of 2.8 lacs approx. Capegemini offers 2.7 lacs and placed about 145 students. Nagarro placed 7 students with a package of about 4 lacs. And so on.

Every year, our university organises youth fest for all the department's and it is an inter college competition having cultural events and craft events only.Another fest named jashan is an inter department fest organised by the university and it also has cultural events and other debates and painting events.Apart from that, technical fest IRIS is organized in every alternate year by the computer science department.

Since its a semi govt. Institution, so it's fee structure is quite feasible.For the odd semesters in btech degree, the fees is around 59k whereas for the even semesters, it sums to 42k.

Our university provides a 50 percent and full fee concession (depending upon the case) to the students hailing from economically weaker backgrounds after proper verification of the case. Apart from that, it rewards the precocious students who have done a remarkabe job in some project or any creativity of their own.

There is no such thing in my class that boys exceed the girls in number because it's an engineering degree. In fact, girls number exceed the boys.The hostelers get a hostel night to attend which is a mesmerizing experience for them every year. (Alas! Not for the localities.) Workshops are also organised by our department's HOD from time to time on topics like cloud computing, ethical hacking etc. We have a cultural and technical society named CESS and is managed by students entirely. It organises technical and literary events every week.

Being a localite, I cannot tell much about the hostel facilities and mess food. Although, my friends living in the hostels complain a lot about the ill infrastructure of the old hostel. But since now, they live in the mega hostel, they are quite satisfied with the food and facilities both.

Most of the teachers in our department on contract basis are the alumni of our campus. They guide us well, so it's like a teacher cum senior junior relationship with them.The alumni who are placed in various big firms have also formed a TURING MACHINE SCHOLARSHIP club which appreciates the meritorious students for their commendable projects in various fields like web development, coding etc.

Candidly speaking, not much heed is paid towards the practicals of any subject in our university. The infrastructure is well equipped as compared to other regional campuses but it is not maintained properly.The exams are held thrice in every semester. There are a total of 8 semesters, 2 semesters in a year, thus, making it a 4 year degree. The first 7 semesters comprise of 2 minor exams of 20 marks each for every subject and 1 major carrying a weightage of 50 marks. Rest 10 marks are kept for assignment, quiz etc.

Besides the permanent faculty, we also have ad hoc teachers and teachers on a contract basis. The classrooms are well equipped with projectors which the teachers use in their lectures.