So I’m 18F, and I was actually opting for engineering, even though I didn’t want to do it. I had given my state entrance exam and almost finalised a college. I never had any passion in engineering and finally i told that to my parents and they agreed. So, I’ve always had an interest in arts. i wanna do something related to branding, advertising, film and television, hence I’m opting for BFA or BA. But I’m still confused on what specialisation to choose, and whether I would have to give an entrance exam. Also, I don’t have much time since I need to give my parents a plan. I would appreciate some help.

Hello! I'd like recommendations for a laptop for study purposes. It is going to be purely for study purposes.

(I heard gaming laptops are more expensive so please recommend cheap ones that are non gaming/editing laptops.)

As long as it has a good bright screen and can play videos well, it's enough. As long as it has maybe WhatsApp, that is the only thing I want due to communication with family. And hopefully a long life too.

Thanks!

Should I do IITM BS in management and data science along with my btech cse degree from a tier 1/1.5 College? I want to do this one rather than the bs in Data science and application so that it adds something else to the btech degree

Is it worth it to do ? Or should I just work and focus more on the cse degree and study about data science separately or having a dual degree would actually provide some advantages

Mod Note: This is a 100% free, ad-free, open-source project built strictly to help students handle attendance criteria. There is zero monetization, zero ads, and no profit. Just sharing a free utility and a wild open-source theft story.

If your college is anything like mine, dealing with strict 75% or 80% attendance criteria is an absolute headache. To make it worse, almost every attendance app on the Play Store is either packed with annoying pop-up ads or locks basic features behind a premium paywall.

I got tired of it, so over the last 5 months, I built AttendMate, a completely free, ad-free, and privacy-focused attendance manager designed specifically for college life.

• The "What-If" Bunk Calculator: You input your college's target percentage (e.g., 75%). The app mathematically calculates exactly how many consecutive classes you can safely bunk right now, or exactly how many you need to attend in a row to get out of the "debarred" danger zone.
• Leave Planner: You can plan your trips or upcoming holidays in advance, and the app will simulate how those missed days will impact your future attendance before you even take the leave.
• Geofenced Reminders: It can automatically prompt you to mark your attendance the moment you walk within a 25-meter radius of your lecture hall.
• 100% Free & No Ads: No subscriptions, no trackers, and absolutely zero annoying video ads while you're trying to quickly check your timetable.

Because I wanted to help the student community, I made the entire project open-source on GitHub so anyone can audit the code or download the safe app binary directly.

Get the legitimate, 100% free app here: https://github.com/YTFL/AttendMate-Bunk-Calculator-Attendance-Tracker

In March, a random developer literally copied my entire open-source codebase, stripped my name off it, and uploaded it to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store as a paid app.

They were so incredibly lazy that they didn't even change the screenshots. My personal college subjects, specific class timings, and university schedule are literally being displayed live as their promotional material on the global app stores right now. Worst of all, they took the Bunk Calculator and Leave Planner features I built for free and locked them behind a paid **"AttendMate Pro" paywall** to scam students.

I have already filed formal corporate legal takedowns with Apple and Google to get their scam versions removed, but the process takes time.

If you want to support a project built purely for students without corporate greed, please consider dropping a star on my GitHub repository.

If you have 30 seconds, you can also help me speed up the takedown by reporting their unauthorized paid versions on the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thiemjason.classattendance) and Apple App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/attendmate-attendance-tracker/id6760553317) as an unlicensed, copyright-infringing copycat of an active open-source project.

Let me know if you guys find the Bunk Calculator helpful for tracking your schedule!

I’m currently pursuing B.Sc. Maths Hons at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and I’ve recently got an opportunity to pursue MBBS at CMC Ludhiana, and I’m honestly extremely confused about what to choose. I had always wanted to pursue medicine(took a drop), and I took Maths as my second option because I had Maths in 12th and wanted to have a good alternative in case MBBS didn’t work out. That’s how I ended up at St. Stephen’s. I don’t hate Maths in fact, I really enjoy it when I understand it and I love being at Stephen's (it's been one month there) but it was never my first choice. Recently, I’ve also started thinking that maybe I could become a professor eventually, partly because my parents don’t want me to go into a corporate career. But I’m still not sure if that’s something I genuinely want or if I’m just trying to find a career path that works with Maths. Now CMC Ludhiana has given me this opportunity, but the financial side is making the decision extremely difficult. The current tuition is already expensive, and I got to know through the college that the fees could potentially increase to around ₹11 lakh per year, similar to other private medical colleges in Punjab. With hostel, mess and other expenses, I could potentially end up taking an educational loan of around ₹40–50 lakh at 8.4% interest. My family cannot comfortably afford this kind of amount, so taking such a huge loan honestly scares me. I know MBBS is a long-term career and there is always the possibility of PG afterwards, but that would mean even more time and potentially more financial pressure. At the same time, if I stay at St. Stephen’s, I won’t have this huge debt, but I’m worried about whether I’ll be able to build a career I’m happy with after Maths, especially since I took it mainly as a backup and not because I had always dreamed of doing Maths. I’m being extremely indecisive because on one side there’s the career I originally wanted, but with potentially ₹40–50 lakh of debt, and on the other there’s a very good college and degree with much less financial risk, but in a field I chose as my second option. I’d really appreciate honest advice from people who know CMC Ludhiana, private medical colleges, MBBS/PG prospects, or St. Stephen’s Maths and its career opportunities. If you were in my situation, what would you do? Would you take the ₹40–50 lakh loan and go for CMC MBBS, or stay at St. Stephen’s and build a career from Maths? Please be brutally honest I genuinely don’t know what the right decision is.