VJTI Freshy’s Starter Kit!
Welcome to VJTI!
After lots of studying and achieving a decent rank, you have landed here.
Now, what next? This blog will guide you through most of the fun parts of being in VJTI.
A Quick Campus Tour
First things first, you will be sleeping through online classes. Hence missing out on the gloriously ancient and equivalently vandalized campus’ tour. So let me give you your quick tour. (P.S- only significant locations from the eyes of a VJTIan are mentioned here). After entering the college through the main gate, the statue of Veermata Jijabai welcomes you.
Going down the left alley from the statue, you will see, har Sukh Dukh ka solution, Canteen. Yaha ka Ragda Samosa nahi khaya to kya khaya😋.
P.S. Canteen walls are repainted with a Fictional theme.
In the canteen is another door, bringing you into the heart of our college, Quadrangle aka Quad. This place is the best hang-out spot on any given day or time. Most of the events in every fest happen here.
You will see the stage on one side and steps on the other in the Quad. The last remaining side is the CCF(computer lab) and right above it is the college’s new library. The gate on the right of CCF leads the great place of chilling and doing almost anything, called the Study Space (so-called). Here you don’t study, you are either completing assignments or having fun with friends.
Around VJTI
The whole campus can be reached from Matunga, Dadar, King Circle, and Wadala local stations. The locality of VJTI is astounding. It is one of the four along with ICT, Don Bosco, and Khalsa College sharing a common road. Poddar College is also close to VJTI.
A funny fact, VJTI security guards will strictly humiliate you for ID cards, whereas ICT guards are chill AF and allow student looking persons to enter their campus. We usually go there for a better canteen and some greenery🤫. Hostilities often visit the ICT canteen for Raat ki Chai. For foodies, VJTI is surrounded by Naturals, HangOut, DP’s, Chai Sutta, Tanduri Frankie, etc but trust me you will like Anna’s Medu vada more. around the college always have weekly or so offers.
Fast Facts
Ragging in VJTI is strictly prohibited, Jann Hith Me Jari. Instead, you will never realize when your seniors became your buddies. VJTI has an unofficial Instagram Confession Page @vjticonfession. Visit it for the spiciest gossips. A thing to keep in mind is, the confessions though are not always true except for genuine proposals since they are often anonymous🧐. To know if the confession over you is genuine, you would have to be a detective.
Some great words from my friend-
Pyar Mohabbat dokha hain,
Majje karlo, Mauka hain.
Though localites are not allowed to stay over in the hostel, you can always hang out with friends in their room and get the fun part of being one of them.
For jamming with friends or bragging your talent to classmates, the Stage in the Quadrangle is the best choice.
Fests
Technovanza, the technology extravaganza is a technological fest with a footfall of about 80,000 people. With hosting amazing people for the famous GLS.
Pratibimb the cultural fest of VJTI has DJ nights, EDM concerts, and many more events.
Rangavardhan, मराठी संस्कृती, मराठी प्रथा-परंपरा जपण्यासाठी मराठी कलोत्सव — रंगवर्धन is a profound festival focused on Maharashtrian culture.
Enthusia, Asia’s fourth-largest sports fest is similar to Chhichhore’s GC where students across various colleges compete in around 30 different sports.
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Every fest lasts about 3–4 days but their plethora of events are carried out throughout the year. All of them have a very astonishing series of guest lectures.
Committees
All aforementioned fests have a student-organized dedicated committee, with minimal teacher influence. They work throughout the year hosting lots of events, but they are not the only ones.
In VJTI we have,
- Community of Coders(CoC)
- DSC (Google supported Developer Students Club)
- Entrepreneurship Cell(E-cell)
- Society of Robotics
- Automation(SRA)
- Vastra
- AeroVJTI
- Sthapathya
- Enactus
The members of these committees/clubs work every day for their betterment. All committees are driven by enthusiastic and interested students of VJTI.
Let’s get Coding!
Almost everyone wants to get into the CS or IT branch. Not being in these branches doesn’t mean you cannot become a developer. All the circuit branches (CS, IT, Tronics, EXTC, Electrical) end up giving interviews together to IT companies.
There is no rule to start with a particular language, but on preference, I chose C++ as my first language. Many people opt for Python (because it’s so easy without semicolons ;p), but C++ will give you an excellent hand over many concepts like basics including data types, loops, pointers, then the more advanced concepts of Object-Oriented Paradigms (OOPs), data structures, etc. Shifting from C++ to Python is easy but vice versa is terrible. Make sure your first programming language supports OOP concepts. After getting your hands on one or more languages, you can select a domain that fascinates you the most. Web Development, App Development, AI/ML, Blockchain, even Robotics and automation, Game Development, AR/VR… and so on.
To start learning, a beautiful blog written by my senior, Shreyansh Chheda about Coding is added below:
It has all the necessary resources and a complete guide to go from zero to hero in everything Software Engineering.
You can have doubts or feel stuck even after Googling. You can always ask seniors, friends, or put it onto your WhatsApp groups and someone will be there to help you. During the journey, you will face many many problems and it will feel intimidating at times. Hence motivating yourself persistently is the key to success.
Let’s discuss trade
Being a VJTIan you are supposed to become a good Engineer and a good person, not only a scholar student. At the end of your college life, you would potentially be pursuing your career opportunities. Looking back, you will find only memories and not marks. Marks are important but not over experience and fun. So be sure you make a lot of friends and create infinite unforgettable memories. Join the committees that excite you, work with them, and learn where you can. Everything in VJTI teaches you something, provided you decide to learn from it. Remember one thing, feel free to contact and talk to anyone you are interested in. Once I asked a random senior for a calculator, and then we ended up being nice friends.
So the moral of the story is to explore stuff, interact with everyone, participate in all events, create memories, and just Aag Lagado!
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