r/KJSSE

Survival Kit for First Year’s
For all the new admissions this year, since orientation is starting, here are a few things to remember before you guys start college:

1. Everyone’s joining after 2-3 years of JEE prep, so it’s going to be tough to settle into a new routine at first. But you’re going to be good in a month or 2 so don’t get overwhelmed too quick.

2. At the beginning you’re going to have a lot of mixers, events, and activities, take part in as many as you can, they’re genuinely going to make or break your next 4 years. You meet your best friends, batchmates, and seniors here so it’s very important.

3. Joining councils/clubs are very important. Seniors in councils are the best source of information and notes and that’s invaluable. Mega projects are a good experience but they take a LOT of time, and your pointer gets affected usually. In tech councils CSI is the best council, and codecell is completely into competitive programming. Non-tech councils are usually more fun and have way more diversity and exposure. In non tech Bloombox has the best people and is exclusive, then alumni cell, sahas/stuco, and then other cultural councils (dance, drama, music, etc.)
   I heard last year some 600 people applied to Bloombox and only 9 fy reps were selected

4. Maintain attendance as much as possible but don’t take it too seriously. We get a full month for December holidays, and almost 2 for summers. There’s also a Diwali holiday and college is more or less closed during fests.

5. Engineering canteen has the best vibe, sports canteen has the best food, and MBA is kinda overrated.

6. For notes go directly to seniors in councils, they’re the absolute best help. That’s all you need to study. You don’t really need to carry laptops to college in first year. You can make notes on regular books or tabs/iPads

That’s all you need, if you guys have doubts you can reach out to me!

I applied in round 4 with 80 percentile in jee, and I'm getting nothing in kj as cutoff has kept increasing in every round . My other options are tier 3 cse through CAP and muj cse . Should I wait for the spot round ? Will I have chances there ?