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First Year · B.Tech CS · IIIT Hyderabad

Pranay
Mehtta

I write C and occasionally understand what I wrote. Currently in second semester, trying to keep up with assembly, Python, and linear algebra all at once. Cricket is the only thing keeping me sane.

2 Semesters
3 Projects
98% 10th Boards
4 Languages

My Story

Hi, I'm Pranay — first year at IIIT Hyderabad, currently in my second semester and not entirely sure how I got here this fast.

Before this: two years of JEE prep in Bangalore. Physics derivations at 11pm, mock tests every weekend, the whole thing. I didn't love it but it worked, and when the IIIT offer letter came I didn't really process it until I was already on the way to Hyderabad with two bags.

First semester was C. Pointers, memory management, segmentation faults I couldn't explain. There were nights where I genuinely couldn't figure out why my code was crashing, and the answer turned out to be something embarrassing like forgetting to free memory I'd already freed. That kind of thing stops being funny around 1am. Second semester showed up immediately after — now it's Python, Data Structures, Linear Algebra, and RISC-V assembly. Assembly especially is a different kind of hard. It's not that the concepts are complicated, it's that everything takes five more steps than you expect.

When I close the laptop it's cricket. Watching Virat and Rohit bat is the most reliable way I've found to stop thinking about code for a bit. Works better than it probably should.

Quick Facts

  • Degree B.Tech Computer Science
  • University IIIT Hyderabad
  • Semester 2nd (First Year)
  • From Bangalore
  • Interests Solving, Cricket
  • Currently Data Structures

Skills

Languages

C Python JavaScript RISC-V Assembly

Tools

Linux Bash Git

Hardware

ESP32 Arduino IoT Sensors

Web

HTML CSS JavaScript

My Journey