Some of advice you want to give yourself as a friend if you are a undergraduate college student in 2024 as 16- 20 year old in India as information technology or computer science student ?

1.) Doing the basics things, really well is most important : Assignments ,Projects,Notes,Books Communication skills and maintaining excellent grades. 

2.) Doing a Project or Internship a acadmic block is beneficial give practical exposure. 

3) Health is important, it's long term wealth, I would treat tooth cavities right away , eye checkups , health checkups, nutritional food instead of junk . For example I would buy peanut namkeen instead of aloo bhujia.

4) Going for walkin interview on Indian job portal such as naukri, LinkedIn even for non technical profile 2 - 3 times whenever possible gives practical experience which came handy

5) I would get touch with my professers for help. 

6) Sites such as udemy, coursera, stack overflow ( for online courses) or just learning, C++ , Java Python or language or skill in demand is important as well as for gaining technical  experience. 

7) 1 internship a academic block of course is good . 

8) NCC and NSS in college gives experience. 

9) Doing thing Nicely and slowly but focussed is good way of doing. 

10) Google Search : Advice, career path for undergraduate student and sticking to one goal at a time is good. 

11) Having a to do list in each morning came handy. 

12) Learning Quotes of high achieving person build focus and gives experience. 

13) Behavior , Manner and Quality are valuable than Quantity.