Ethical Hacking advice

so i chose ethical hacking as my final project before graduation. i have 0 experience and have exactly 1 year to learn. any tips advice? tricks? books? what is obtains?

What course do you have in college?

hackthebox + tryhackme are fun (minigame like hacking exercises if you want to "try hacking" yourself)

Platforms like try hack me and hacksplaining would be a good start for fundamentals.
CEH by EC Council if you're looking to get a job in the field

there are websites for this wtf are u doing posting it here lmao

Try binary reversing microcontrollers if you studied ASM at any point in life it will be pretty eez for you.

You can get some really cool usecases and even "make up" new vulnerabilities and detect them for microcontrollers.

They typically use unsafe languages like C and generally the security from Hardware end is pretty weak as well.

Good luck trying to find anything new on web dev or general OSes like Linux cause they are already researched upon and its pretty unlikely for a newbie to find something significant.